matlag 6 hours ago • 100%
So you admit that Israel just carried out a terrorist attack in Lebanon? Or is bombing and killing citizens is terrorism when "they" do it, not when "we" do it?
matlag 2 weeks ago • 100%
Yep, that's textbook big tech strategy: -Build up the hype -Get the product out there, make sure as many orgs and people start using it as possible. Make it free or sell at loss if necessary -Oh yes, we broke a few laws for this. If we don't get a waiver, we'll have to close the service for everyone, do you realize the impact?
That's Facebook on privacy, Uber on workers rights, etc. Now N+1th: OpenAI on copyright.
matlag 2 weeks ago • 80%
Oh, no, it's not about being sensitive to propaganda, it's about having a small group, in which they would belong and vet other members, deciding what's true or not for the rest of us.
matlag 2 weeks ago • 100%
Ted Cruz is Canadian???
It's not that we're downplaying it. It's just that we wouldn't want the USA to deport him back here...
matlag 1 month ago • 100%
In these companies, does anyone check the licenses in details to make sure using them is ok for the company?
Meta will get at least the metadata: meaning they will record who was in which call connecting from where.
For example, if one member is visiting a client, Meta may be able to infer the relation between the 2 companies.
If any of the people in the room click "report", then the discussion is sent for review without the encryption protection
I'm pretty sure their user agreement translates to "you agree to let us do whatever the f*ck we want with the data you're purposely disclosing to us".
And last but not least: if Meta decides to wipe the archives, any info get lost?
There a reasons large companies ban unauthorized apps to talk about work.
matlag 1 month ago • 100%
XMPP is so bad it was the baseline for Whatsapp. You know: that minor platform that feels like IRC and never took off. A lot of the techno around you are old stuff that evolved, "new" techno usually comes with new unexpected issues. Then they mature, get better and... old?
matlag 2 months ago • 100%
Hollywood used to be concerned about climate change awareness, and we could hear superstars actors making poignant speeches about it.
Then they figured that being serious about it meant stop flying private jets and helicopters, stop over consuming by building 4 mansions for themselves and collecting cars and what not, and it became a sensitive topic.
Climate change is something most people are willing to fight for only if the solution is OTHERS will have to make changes.
matlag 2 months ago • 100%
You wish. Orban controls all the media there now. You can be sure the narrative is "Ukraine is just punishing them unfairly for calling for a ceasefire and negociations" or anothe nice story that will make them look bad.
matlag 2 months ago • 100%
I'm responding to
Meaning all Israeli civilians that ever served in the IDF suddenly count as military targets.
matlag 2 months ago • 28%
If you do what "they" do as a way to retaliate, are you any different from "them"? We need to be better than that.
matlag 3 months ago • 100%
This is the wrong aporoach.
You should build a mockup site, use it to raise 2M$ for the startup behind it you just created arguing you're about to collect personal data about the age, education level and place, curiosity, etc. with overinflated numbers on their real values.
Then you hire a bench of students, or better: launch a competition for the best "fact you were told that turned out wrong" with a 1k$ prize that you eventually give to some biz angel's investrent adviser's child.
Once data are acquired, claim the company is now worth 10M$ and raise that much in a new round.
Finally, sell the company for 20M$ either to a tech company that will enshitify, paywall and crater it.
You still don't have your website, but now you're rich and you no longer care about these things.
matlag 3 months ago • 100%
Am I the only one who thinks that you could really please a lot of gamers by just taking old popular games with updated graphics, music, sounds and release as they were?
matlag 4 months ago • 100%
The beauty of it is they seem to mix a bench of definitions and forms they don't understand and assume they can mean whatever sounds convenient to them.
They quote dictionaries definitions as if they were legally binding to their interpretation.
Such a mix of abysmal ignorance and supreme confidence is incredible!
matlag 4 months ago • 100%
At last constant surveillance is deemed a problem, which is why ultra-rich have their privacy protected, while you, peons, keep being monitored.
matlag 5 months ago • 100%
Unfortunately, you need to add this about all of us supporting them: "buying the cheapest product over buying the fairest produced", therefore comforting them exploiting labor to reduce the cost is what we collectively want.
matlag 5 months ago • 100%
So first kill Trump, then kill some of the SC judges, so that they won't oppose you when you move to make the president bound to uphold the law.
matlag 5 months ago • 100%
Make sense. In its inception, capitalism was putting work as the source of value creation. Rental is about asking money while nothing is produced.
The message is all confusing today because the people talking about the value of hard work are actually the ones who want to get huge returns from investment while paying as little as possible for the work done. Their end goal is to avoid working themeselves. Smith would despise them just the same.
matlag 5 months ago • 90%
They're not "defeated". They got exactly what they wanted. People leaving without having to lay them off through attrition.
Now that they think they have "right-sized" their workforce at no cost, they nicely offer to concede hybrid working to keep the rest of their employees.
matlag 6 months ago • 100%
Alternative answer: "We understand your issue and will fix it as time and priorities allow. Please note that customers paying for support always get higher priority. Given MS contributions to the project, this ticket was ranked 42nd in our priority list.
Have a pleasant day! FFMPEG support team"
matlag 6 months ago • 100%
I kind of wonder if he realizes abandoning his citizenship means he'll become instantly an illegal, having no document authorizing him to stay in the country.
matlag 6 months ago • 100%
Ah, it was always only a matter of time before fake news makers would create a fake fact checking agency to go with it.
matlag 6 months ago • 100%
Was he not describing his fundraising as donations so far? You donate money you don't think you need at all. But you should be able to lend money you don't need in the near future. I would bet some of his "loyal" supporters would start to doubt if they were asked to lend too much of what they own.
matlag 6 months ago • 100%
He should borrow vast amounts of money from his loyal supporters: "Empty your lifetime savings accounts, I promise I'll pay everything back with interests!".
Then we'll see how much his followers really trust him when they need to put their own future on the line...
matlag 6 months ago • 80%
Let's be real: who would work hard to make ONLY millions instead of billions? Most people would obviously rather stay poor.
matlag 7 months ago • 96%
I'm sorry if that's harsh, but my feedback would be: drop that chart!
It's daunting, it's going to freak out many newbies. Too much choice kills the choice.
You have one "default" at the bottom, Mint, so stick to that. Tell the newbies they can switch anytime to something else once they're a bit more comfortable with the Linux-world. And if I'm not mistaken, you can install and try the main DEs with Mint also. Or you can recommend Ubuntu, or any other newbie friendly distro. Just pick one and don't lose them over what they could see as an important difficult decision before they even get started.
matlag 7 months ago • 100%
Maybe we still have a shot with blockchains validated Visas?
matlag 7 months ago • 100%
I'm more thinking about starting a 5-stars passport business online. Something tells me this pays much more than any sales taxes. The world never seems to get short of idiots.
matlag 7 months ago • 95%
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI drops multiple products and layoff 60 so that its current budget can accomodate the stratospheric compensation of its new CEO.
matlag 8 months ago • 100%
The government, of course! Right before giving it to you free of charge because why not?
matlag 8 months ago • 100%
What's interesting here is they no longer need to hack and crack devices through loopholes and backdoors schemes.
All the data they need are already collected by private corporations with the pro-active collaboratron of the users themselves ("Click here to agree to the terms and conditions").
matlag 8 months ago • 100%
Now I'm tempted to start an online service to issue visas to all destinations for World Passports owners...
matlag 8 months ago • 100%
Assume the communication with the app it through Internet. The car must have a 4G chip (too early to see 5G in cars, I think?). So no matter what you pay, it won't work when 4G is retired. With marketing pushing to get new standards always faster, 4G may not last another 20years.
Anyway, bear in mind that once you subscribe, they will most likely collect detailed data about how you use the features and sell that as well...
matlag 8 months ago • 100%
In theory, yes, you could make a mess, and any firmware is supposed to be certified to allow the device to be used.
In practice, this has been a convenient excuse to keep a whole chip with a separate OS in every smartphone, and it is very difficult to isolate from the rest of the system (see Graphene OS efforts).
I say all firmware should be opensource. Whether you're allowed to change them or not is a separate question... for now.
matlag 8 months ago • 100%
Half of the job is to fix issues with existing suff, the other half is to make working stuff more complicated and problematic (aka "upgrade"), so that we're still paid to do the first half.
matlag 9 months ago • 87%
I kind of hope it's real. Down that path at some point they'll decide the whole Internet and all modern technologies are satanist and leave Internet for good. They can embrace the Amish lifestyle, it's a win for the rest of us.
matlag 9 months ago • 100%
This might be an unpopular post but so'll be it: Mastodon is the existing proof that Meta could kill Mastodon any time.
Mastodon was using a protocol compatible with GNU Social: OStatus, but some features were quickly added without consideration for other implementations.
So when per-post privacy were introduced, for example, they were very public on GNU Social, because their devs had no idea this was coming. And GNU Social was blamed for it.
Instead of having more users, GNU Social is now (almost?) dead. Of course it's not just because of the above. But it wouldn't have been set back so much without Mastodon.
Now, Mastodon is opensource, has more features and some compatible implementations. I run Pleroma myself. But why would one think Meta could not cripple them both?
matlag 9 months ago • 100%
I use to say "all extremes call for their opposite". Since almost no information ever transpires about this whole scandal, the opposite is to release all the names to the public. It was to be expected. If we were trusting the justice system, this would seem inappropriate. But we have what we have, and making the whole list public is the only guarantee we have that not one of the "bad" guy can escape public's attention. That of course, is valid only if the list is comprehensive and some names have not already been taken out.
It is indeed unfortunate that a lot of people who didn't deserve and didn't want any bad attention will get some.
I'm not saying I agree with the move. I'm saying it was to be expected.
[Edit made: grammar & missing words]
matlag 9 months ago • 100%
Should we let mommacusses know how old Internet is?
I'm using Duolingo to improve my Mandarin and learn to read, and to learn Spanish. Does anyone have some recommendations of texts for learners to practice reading? My wife suggested me to use kids books, but I'd like a more motivating content than teddy bear's adventures...
So it's been a while now since the leaderboard's challenge is Match Madness every day except on Saturday, when it's the Ramp Up. I don't know if it's just me but that's getting me pretty disengaged. I quickly hit my limit on the Match Madness, then it has no interest to me. Previously, I would use these challenges on a daily basis, as a way to review past lessons. Damned, I would use them over and over to score high in the leaderboard too. Now I've completely lost interest in the leaderboard, but worse: I'm wondering if I'm moving back by lack of practice on past lessons vocabulary and grammar. I don't feel like going through some past lessons and pick some randomly. How do you make sure you do pick randomly? Am I the only one who thinks that "all Match Madness" thing is a regression?