“The fact that it’s so inexpensive would destroy every other car company’s investment in electric vehicles.”

Double mermaid all the way

Using a tool versus helping develop one is a very strong distinction. It’s not great that they’re paying for Anthropic, obviously, but they’re also not contributing to Anthropic’s code base. If they were? They’d absolutely be complicit.

The actual product Mozilla is building is still a net positive, or at least not negative, product to put into the world.

Meta developers can make NO such claim. What they are actually MAKING is negative and destructive and they know it. It could not exist without their efforts. The fact another office decides what specific addictive algorithms to use is irrelevant.

It’s the company they keep and the crimes they enable with their support. You don’t have to be running the gas chambers to know what managing the punchcards is doing.

I was a 6 figure FAANG level employee in the early aughts doing consulting/development, realized I was contributing to predatory lending, quit, and took a 15k a year teaching job overseas instead. If I’d not made that choice, I wouldn’t consider someone who held me personally responsible at some level for the financial crisis to be out of line.

Major watch dog

They were evil but constrained and minor. Their current power is the direct result of the anti-immigrant flames social media like Facebook have been fanning with their algorithms for years.

If you’re willing to defend Meta employees on those grounds you’ve got to be willing to give ICE employees a pass too.

Facebook and the other meta companies have done AT LEAST as much damage to society. MORE when you consider they’re ALSO partly responsible for ICE.

It helps with the chicken’s hunger.

It would help if reality weren’t also currently a toxic pit of despair.

Even if it were true, I have more respect for someone who gets ahead using sex than making PowerPoints. At least with the sex presumably at least one of the people involved is having a good time.

We’re good with technology, so we’re VERY easily able to find our EXACT preferred porn for our EXACT fetishes. That snowballs.

Also, forget ALT-TAB. We Linux users LOVE having keyboard shortcuts for completely different desktops… for reasons.

Sorry, my eczema says “no”.

I mean… it’s enterprise software. That’s the MO for most of it.

Just did a quick look…

Need to use Chrome for work (No, UserAgentString changes don’t work for whatever fingerprinting nonsense they use). Trying to preempt this issue. Apparently when it downloads, it downloads into a folder called

~/.config/google-chrome/Default/OptGuideOnDeviceModel/

OptGuideOnDeviceModel directory doesn’t exist yet.

I created it, made root the owner, and removed all its write permissions. Ought to do it.

They can rent out or sell the building and recoup a measure of that investment. It’s nothing compared to the windfall they’ll get from selling snake oil on a military procurement contract.

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As soon as people stop looking, Google will shut down the whole office. It’s how tons of huge companies get around “can’t lay off union workers”.

It doesn’t…

But the kind of people who are impressed by a vibrating knife are also likely to be impressed by the ability to update firmware. They don’t know what firmware DOES, they just know it’s modern.