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Alphane Moon

@ Alphane_Moon @lemmy.world

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That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it's the nature of life to be hazardous—it's the stuff of living.

  • Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates

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  • I agree with you, I may be even more cynical than you with respect to senior executives' public statements and corporate PR.

    I just don't see a clear motive for the DDG CEO to inflate the valuation of Chrome. The examples you cite seem a bit far fetched (to me), I could be wrong of course.

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  • That is a possibility.

    However, I think in this particular case, the DDG CEO is better qualified than me or you to evaluate the value of Chrome. I can't think of any reason for Weinberg to promote an inflated valuation for Chrome.

  • Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates

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  • It's not only about the brand, it's about the installed base. You have hundreds of millions (billion plus?) of users who use your application every day for a wide variety of tasks.

  • Chrome is worth around $50 billion, DuckDuckGo CEO guesstimates

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  • Weinberg described his estimate as a "back-of-the-envelope" calculation, based on Chrome's vast user base and global reach – a figure that far exceeds previous estimates, such as the $20 billion valuation offered by Bloomberg analyst Mandeep Singh last November. Weinberg added that such a price tag would be well beyond DuckDuckGo's financial capabilities, remarking, "That's out of DuckDuckGo's price range."

  • Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down

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  • The UI/UX has always been absolutely atrocious.

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    War is not the only reason some Muslims are ditching the Democrats

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  • This is from October 2024

  • Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters”

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  • Corruption, American style. Americans love their elaborate and borderline-tiring corruption schemes and PR propaganda.

  • Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

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  • Also depends on your taste in gaming. More niche games and some retro games can be really hit or miss. But I do agree that in the last ~5 years there has been a revolution in gaming on Linux.

  • Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

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  • I still have to move away from Windows (by far the biggest issue due to line of business applications and gaming) and Android with Google.

    I have experience with Linux via a headless Raspberry Pi home server, but desktop/laptop is whole different level of complexity.

  • Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers

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  • Let's just hope that this has a noticeable impact on the hyperscale CSPs bottom lines in 4-6 quarters. Europe has a very a very bad habit of kicking the can down the road and not rocking the boat. Now is not the time for such meekness.

    If you don't live in the US, you're asking for trouble if you use American tech. Doesn't matter if the provider is sane or not, they are still subject to the whims of a proto-facist regime. But even beyond the regime, the American business community is extremely corrupt. They might not see it as corruption (corruption is what happens in some shithole), but that's just an excuse.

    And with all due respect to sane Americans, unless there is a massive change in their risk tolerance, it is unlikely there will be any movement away from proto-facism in the short to medium term.

    Things aren't going to magically sort themselves out.

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  • Do you not understand the difference between a press release and an article? Are you being serious? The authors literally have apple email accounts.

    How is what I said a strawman? What exactly am I "strawmanning"; could you please be clear and specific on this?

    There is no bias. This is common sense. Corporate messaging around sustainability (and there are different brands of this) by definition cannot be trusted.

    Can you show me how they define “gross emissions - Manufacturing (purchased goods and services)”, surely if they added it in their emissions table and it's really the only piece that's important (because it ties back to the "60% of 2015 claim", everything else in the press release is fluff), you should be able to find the definition as per Apple?

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  • This is not an article, this is a press release. It is written by Apple employees.

    I didn't say they were lying. If anything the much more likely scenario is that it is framed in a duplicitous manner but without explicitly lying (in the strict pedantic sense).

    Here is a simple question one for you. Find me where Apple provides a clear explanation of their definition of "gross emissions - Manufacturing (purchased goods and services)"; this is the line item that's key to their press release, everything else is fluff and holds no value when it comes to the bigger picture.

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  • Keep in mind, there is a very large probability that much of the content in the press release is misleading and de facto untrue.

    Why would you ever take a corporate press release at face value?

  • OpenAI is building a social network

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  • [PSA] If things start feeling too toxic around here, remember that the 'block' button is your friend and always there for you.

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  • Isn't lemmynsfw automatically blocked on LW? I don't see any posts from lemmynsfw.

  • There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now

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  • PaintDotNet is perfect if you only need some commonly used "pro" features. It's a relatively easy transition from paint.

  • OpenAI is reportedly developing its own X-like social media platform | TechCrunch

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  • OpenAI x Digg 2.0 is a bit too unwieldy so how about OpenDiggAI?

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  • Sure, and people like quick solutions to problems and largely don’t think about long-term consequences. And then they’re all “surprised pikachu” when that thing inevitably morphs into something they don’t like.

    Again, that's on the given members of a society. Surveillance and blocking social are not inherently (in a physical sense) good or bad. These are social tools that can be used for good (and sometimes must be used to protect the lives of your fellow citizens) or can be used for bad.

    This is a bit of a hyperbolic example, but let's say you have a CSAM-focused social network, even without an imminent danger to society it is reasonable to block such a social network if it's hosted in another jurisdiction.

    In the US, we have a concept of an “enemy of the state,”

    American concepts of "enemy of the state" and "imminent danger" don't map one to one in the global context.

    A country (Albania or otherwise) has the right to counteract influence for foreign nationals/entities on their political process. But that's just one example.

    There is also the FB and genocidal Myanmar and more recently FB and Ethiopia.

    A media org is committed to journalism and communicating accurate information and good faith debate. These are not the priorities of Chines social networks (subject to control of the CCP) or Americans social network (subject to control of local oligarchs and criminal groups).

    I think we've had a good discussion and it's clear we have our own perspectives.

    At this point, I am just trying to point out that there nuances to my OP and it's not a matter of merely supporting government censorship. The world is a complex place and absolutes are not a viable approach.

  • A federated bittorrent tracker

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  • Something along the lines of being able to access seeders for dead torrents on your tracker from other trackers (with some sort of accounting for economy).

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    GenAI more buzz than biz as tech barely dents jobs

    www.theregister.com /2024/06/19/genai_workplace/