matlag 1mo 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 1mo 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 2mo 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 2mo 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 2mo ago • 31%
To summarize: they had a happy life until a terrorist group took them during a massacre.
Then they lived a short horrible life in the hands of their takers, while there is a war outside where one side claim to fight to liberate them without actually negociating their release and the other claims to use them as hostages while not really negociating their release either.
And somewhat, they end up dead because let's be real: neither side gave a f*ck about them.
matlag 2mo 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 3mo 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 3mo 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 3mo 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 3mo ago • 100%
I'm responding to
Meaning all Israeli civilians that ever served in the IDF suddenly count as military targets.
matlag 3mo ago • 25%
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 4mo 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 4mo 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 5mo 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 5mo 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 6mo ago • 100%
That's why you get "don't put living animals in the microwave oven" in the instructions.
If Tesla didn't explicitely wrote "don't put your f***ing finger in the way on purpose after multiple attempts to close it!" he may have a chance.
He will plead a trauma from the loss of trust in his beloved car brand and the credibility damage on his Youtube channel and ask for M$.
matlag 6mo 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 6mo 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 6mo 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.
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?