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cousinofjah,

The cellphone. Some sort of next-gen version of the Humane AI pin, Oura Ring, Smartwatch, and Google Glass in a thing, or in several things.

cousinofjah,

I recently had to figure out how to un-ARJ an archive that originally spanned 5 floppies!

cousinofjah,

Wow mp3 files on floppies??

ajsadauskas, to technology
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Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

@technology

cousinofjah,

Wish I could upvote this 1000 times.

cousinofjah,

100% agree. They were never going to implement it and if they did it would be poorly to the benefit of only them, not the rest of us.

cousinofjah,

Right, and when Old Reddit dies, so does my account.

cousinofjah,

I wouldn’t put it past Meta to flood the zone with some of these “Fediverse is ultimately flawed” articles to try to wear people down.

Tumblr says it’s going to “fix” its “core experience” to appeal to new users (www.theverge.com)

Tumblr plans to make changes to appeal to new users and improve growth. The post states that Tumblr is currently difficult for new users to use and curates content poorly. Tumblr aims to improve how users discover and sign up, encourage frequent engagement, and boost creators’ ability to attract audiences. Specific changes...

cousinofjah,

Well of course Wonder Woman can.

cousinofjah,

I’m surprised there’s not a lot of votes for Fastmail. I was considering moving my low-volume domains to them.

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