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by bad_user 3y ago
What opposing letter, how many people are we talking about, and what was their role in the company? All companies are monocultures, IMO, unless they are multi-nationals, and even then, there's cultural convergence. And that's good
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by bad_user 3y ago
You could say that, except that people in this industry are the most privileged, and their earnings and equity would probably be matched elsewhere. You say “group think” like it's a bad thing. There's always wisdom in crowds. We h
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by bad_user 3y ago
What's wrong with profit and wanting to maximize it? Profit is now a dirty word somehow, the idea being that it's a perverse incentive. I don't believe that's true. Profit is the one incentive businesses have that's
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by bad_user 3y ago
> Google never paraded itself around as a non-profit acting in the best interests of humanity. Just throwing this out there, but maybe … non-profits shouldn't be considered holier-than-thou, just because they are “non-profits”.
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by bad_user 3y ago
The environment in a small to medium company is much more homogenous than the general population. When you see 95%+ consensus from 800 employees, that doesn't suggest tanks and police dogs intimidating people at the voting booth.
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by bad_user 3y ago
Monopolies aren't illegal.
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by bad_user 3y ago
That's not true. Most contracts are negotiable, and this is legal. Of course, this may change in the EU due to the “Digital Markets Act”, but this is new. Bigger companies getting better deals has always been the reality, due to volume
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by bad_user 3y ago
Torrenting apps are allowed on Google Play. Search for LibreTorrent. But yes, if you have a look at Fortnite, the 2 methods they provide are (1) downloading the APK, or (2) Samsung's Galaxy Store: https://www.fortnite.com&#x
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by bad_user 3y ago
The real problem with the 30% is that it's far too high. It could have been 0%. Why do you care about what deals with Spotify they have? Is this resentment? > You're paying for that slush fund. Google is probably getting the
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by bad_user 3y ago
You can say that, but at the same time, whenever people complain about technology changing, leaving them behind, they usually mean tech by Microsoft. The reason Java and JavaFX survived is that they went Open Source, with a large FOSS ecosy
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by bad_user 3y ago
Output by ChatGPT :-P
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by bad_user 3y ago
The law you're mentioning is the “Digital Markets Act”, and it's a new law that will apply to Google, Apple, Amazon, Samsung and others, not having to do with any enforcement of “antitrust” laws upon Microsoft. https://
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by bad_user 3y ago
I am not getting this behaviour in Firefox 120. Tried it, logged out as well. > setTimeout(function() { c(); a.resolve(1) }, 5E3); The code looks like a silly concurrency bug fix, i.e., a lazy way to force ordering.
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by bad_user 3y ago
Google, Samsung, Apple, and others have to abide by the same law, Microsoft isn't special. I also don't understand what this law has to do with the topic.
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by bad_user 3y ago
This is factually not true, and you can easily see it in the correlation between waves of immigrants and the crime rates going immediately up. We aren't talking about just organized crime, but also petty crime, rape, etc. Usually, afte
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by bad_user 3y ago
I don't know about the others, but Greece tends to be a transit country, not a final destination. It does get immigrants, but those interested in crime tend to migrate to higher-GDP countries. I can see the same trend in my country too
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by bad_user 3y ago
Did you also experience bomb attacks? Apparently, there were over 100 bomb attacks in Sweden this year. Our Eastern European country has twice the size of Sweden's population, and we had zero bombs going off, possibly since the 90s, as
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by bad_user 3y ago
You keep throwing examples of weapons of mass destruction, meant to evoke emotions. For better or worse, nuclear weapons have been democratized. Some developing countries still don't have access, but the fact that multiple world powers
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by bad_user 3y ago
If YouTube blocks your player due to your ad-blocker, they are clearly telling you that they no longer want you as a visitor, and you can rest assured that your client did not download any ads. Using your argument, this is a win-win situati
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by bad_user 3y ago
I'm pretty sure I spoke plainly: > You don't need a Facebook container, at least since “Total Cookie Protection”. It's theater because it does nothing in addition to what Firefox already does without use of containers. B
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by bad_user 3y ago
Freedom 0 is the most important one, otherwise the program is just old fashioned freeware/shareware. And yes, that means granting that freedom to AWS as well. The purpose of the GPL and other copyleft FOSS licenses wasn't to make
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by bad_user 3y ago
This is precisely what I'm ranting about. At this point, the Facebook container is privacy theatre . You don't need a Facebook container, at least since “Total Cookie Protection”. Which itself it's just a better way to “disa
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by bad_user 3y ago
OK, I'm typing this comment on Firefox for Android BTW, so I keep trying to like it. Here's my current annoyances: – on Android, scrolling and performance is very poor on certain websites, on a high end phone; this including Masto
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by bad_user 3y ago
Firefox still sucks though.
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by bad_user 3y ago
DNS-level blocking is very easy to circumvent. Honestly, the reason most ad-blocking works is because publishers haven't bothered with banning it. And that's because power is concentrated with Big Tech that makes a lot of profit a
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by bad_user 3y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the correction.
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by bad_user 3y ago
Not sure what the folks at Epic are smoking, but Android devices without Google Play are failures, and it's how Google forced their other apps on device makers as well. Google may have paid $8B to Samsung, but I wonder what the effects
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by bad_user 3y ago
> Doesn't the EU require a selection screen? No, that was for Microsoft, in the past.
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by bad_user 3y ago
> Microsoft was stopped from playing favorite with its own Internet Explorer. And how's that working out? Samsung doesn't have a monopoly with its Android devices, and doesn't stop alternative apps from being installed.
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Also, in big corporations, getting approval for spending $20 is as hard as getting approval for $200 or $2000. Which is why FOSS software took off in big companies, because it's easier for developers to sample things out and then ask f

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