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Technology•OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for FreeEnglish
26·1 year agoSo…. not a legitimate business then.
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Technology•Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in FranceEnglish
1354·1 year agoThis shit is why end to end encryption is so important.
All platforms, no matter how trustworthy, can be corrupted. No e2e, no privacy.
It’s pretty crazy to watch enshittification play out in real time.
iT waS aBoUt StATes rIGhtS ᵗᵒ ᵒʷⁿ ˢˡᵃᵛᵉˢ
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News•MAGA world is really mad that Trump is no longer running against BidenEnglish
32·1 year agoDo they think the dems didn’t spend a bunch promoting Biden?
He won’t though…
Reading this gave me benereal disease in my computer parts.
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World News•Why the far right is surging all over the world: The “reactionary spirit” and the roots of the US authoritarian momentEnglish
527·1 year agoIt’s been clear for some time that centrists are sick of being screamed at and called nazis by an increasingly noisy far-left contingent.
If you genuinely think the Republican Party are fascist nazis… I mean there is simply no discussion that will be productive.
Not American, but “less worse than the other guy,” doesn’t seem like a winning argument to me.
I don’t know much about this person, but I do know the media code-word “embattled” is only used when you’re circling the drain.
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Technology•Google and Microsoft consume more energy than 100+ countries | Windows CentralEnglish
101·1 year agoAre we talking consumed for their own use? Or consumed as part of delivering cloud services to their customers?
These are very different things. The former would be horrifying the latter would be misleading in the extreme.
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Technology•Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employeesEnglish
61·1 year agoWhy would Valve produce their own GPU’s?
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Technology•Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employeesEnglish
102·1 year agoHint: none of those companies need all of those employees.
Truly the worst possible system apart from all the other ones we’ve tried.
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Technology•Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourcedEnglish
66·1 year agoThis doesn’t seem like a big deal?
The fact the code is open sourced is much less significant than the fact now the Swiss government will need to negotiate complete ownership of any software they commission.
That’s going to make things more expensive for them, and limit the vendors prepared to work with them.
Their systems, their call 🤷♂️
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Technology•US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin MiningEnglish
11·1 year agoFor years crypto investors were warned that it was the wild west, and after everything that’s now happened do people still actually believe this?
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Technology•US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin MiningEnglish
41·1 year agoWe all know the answer - too damn much.






Good.
The extra hour of sunshine cannot be good for global temperatures.