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   by alex1138 5mo ago

   Actually occasionally fastmail initially loading seems to hold up for a while for me for some reason
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   by alex1138 5mo ago

   EU has different things going on though. Some good regulation, some bad
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   by alex1138 5mo ago

   I'll add that Meta doesn't actually physically work on top of that What do we want from companies? Companies tied to a real identity, social networking. You want a way for people to message you - ...oops https://news.yc
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   by alex1138 5mo ago

   ...yeah, but its CEO is also who he is. The guy who refers to people using his products as "dumb fucks". That's kind of important
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   by alex1138 5mo ago

   But I was told that when Zuckerberg bought IG, it wasn't to murder competition in its crib. Instagram "only had 12 employees" so it must be ok
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   by alex1138 5mo ago

   So not to hijack this thread or anything but there's one good metric (if nothing else... the fact FB overwrote your email while Google seems to believe in data liberation, and fewer breaches) to tell apart the difference between those
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   by alex1138 5mo ago

   20 billion dollars to steal people's phone numbers Anything Zuckerberg needs antitrust immediately
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   by alex1138 5mo ago

   Actually it... is but not (just) for the reasons people give (social utility) You delete a FB acct? It reactivates. Fun! Almost like the company is built off fraud
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   by alex1138 5mo ago

   Followed by him overwriting people's email addresses and constantly fucking around with privacy settings Ohhhh but he was young! Be easy on him (/s)
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    What reality? The reality is almost nobody likes using Facebook (and many people can't anyway because they get banned while the racist thing or whatever they report never gets taken down) because it doesn't work, messages are hit
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    Basic conflict of interest stuff MS owns GH. It's tonedeaf and criminal
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    I don't know how much control Goog has over Youtube despite owning them but I do note in passing they removed dislikes, removed upload dates (apparently?), removed 5 stars. Easier to trick people into ads The platform has been various
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    If the AI causes people to get banned in huge numbers like apparently happened to Facebook then what is the fucking point? Apparently Metaverse > account security
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    I get annoyed at Whatsapp and see it as a case for antitrust but apparently Google is just as guilty of this
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    But does Google actually 'own' the index? Have they acted anticompetitively as far as that goes?
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    People are allowed to joke. We don't always need 'substantive comments'
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    I'm reasonably information wants to be free. I think the copyright cartels have enacted a lot of damage Having said that Facebook has to be one of the worst offenders. They don't even allow links to Anna's Archive, they seemi
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    There has been a bit of a trend. I do appreciate dissenting comments on HN even when I've gotten a bit defensive over them
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    I don't know the list of everything they've complied with but contrary to Google who once(?) refused to remove pirate bay results, Facebook blocked it even in private messages Zuck doensn't care. His motto is 'dumb fuc
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    I like Claude a lot. I hope it continues to be good
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    BSDs are interesting projects. As I understand it there's a broad difference of them all doing things reasonably well but a) Free is general-purpose, b) Net is especially portable/many architecture and Open is security focused
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    It's actually kind of amazing that (apparently, but I'm willing to be wrong) AI has resulted in more people getting banned (rather than less, which you would think. You would think AI makes this easier to filter out, search for pr
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    About what
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    I almost want the people doing the mandatory VPN product placement ("This video is sponsored by NordVPN!") to do Mullvad for once. My jaw would hit the floor from unfamiliarity
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    Ok "A" dumb thing Ignore dumb fucks What about "if you need info on people at Harvard just ask" Or "I'm going to fuck them in the ear" (Winklevosses)
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    Myanmar to me is damning because a) if you read Sarah Wynn's book things were reported to the company and nothing was done about it b) possibly the algorithm, you're not getting a chronological list of posts; FB favors "engag
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    "Dumb fucks" Arguably hacking Crimson reporters when they tried investigating him for activities at Harvard Buying Whatsapp so he can have a monopoly Copying Snapchat multiple times I mean, I can go on
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    AI probably can be useful but not used like this Of course Zuckerberg has no idea what he's doing
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    It's funny because this should be a non-issue Consider the grammar Hey Alice, did you see the event for Chris's band? No It was on Facebook, publically posted (audience set to public) I'm not on Facebook Like... you post some
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    by alex1138 5mo ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122