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by fooey 1y ago
Court filing here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.53... Quote is from the top of page 5
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In court filing, Google admits "the open web is already in rapid decline"(theverge.com)
7 points by fooey 1y ago|2 comments
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by fooey 1y ago
They're using state of the art obfuscation that makes them indistinguishable from malicious botnets. It's an arms race with billion dollar companies vying to consume the most content before it all collapses the open web is dead an
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by fooey 1y ago
Modern AI crawlers are indistinguishable from malicious botnets. There's no longer any rate limiting strategy that's effective, that's entirely the point of what cloudflare is attempting to solve
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by fooey 1y ago
workspace accounts always seems like an unsupported mess at google, which is a very strange strategy
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by fooey 1y ago
anecdotally, the status pages have been taken away from engineering and are run by customer support and marketing
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by fooey 2y ago
The fun tradeoff here is since the courts determined the feds can't regulate it, the states are allowed to instead, with California and New York already taking the lead, and are much more consumer oriented than anything that could be
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by fooey 2y ago
the NYT article links to the same PDF you provided https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/technology/net-neutrality...
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by fooey 2y ago
The full circle of course is MS will end up acquiring it.
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Microsoft just delayed Recall again(theverge.com)
70 points by fooey 2y ago|77 comments
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by fooey 2y ago
yeah, it's basically impossible to compare regions right now they need a table that's a human readable name and an average/range for the cost modifier as compared to the baseline
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Microsoft's all-knowing Recall AI feature is being delayed(theverge.com)
3 points by fooey 2y ago|0 comments
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by fooey 2y ago
This is something nearly on par with the xbox launch debacle Mind bogglingly tone-deaf and out of touch with what users want
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by fooey 2y ago
They're paying out an excessive dividend that completely empties their cash reserves and makes operating the company unsustainable https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/12/oregon-ag-files-court...
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by fooey 2y ago
Were they legitimately in financial straights? or was it the thing where they want to force regulators to allow the deal by blowing up their own company? For example, Albertsons is blatantly doing this so Kroger can acquire them.
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by fooey 2y ago
Provo built a municipal fiber network and then sold it to Google for one dollar, so I'm not sure that's a great counter example > Provo taxpayers still will have to make $3.3 million in bond payments on the system each year for
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by fooey 2y ago
only destroys their ad revenue if you assume the results it gives you are unbiased by monetary considerations
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by fooey 2y ago
Nice! Thanks for the tip on a thing I love I didn't know existed!
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by fooey 3y ago
According to the Tesla bylaws, you can only leverage 25% of your stock, so that's going to be a problem for him too https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459021... > In order to m
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by fooey 3y ago
The problem with allowing an acquisition to proceed just to save the company being acquired from failing is you end up with deals being structured to intentionally to cause harm if the deal collapses Look at what Kroger is doing with Albert
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by fooey 3y ago
The Beeper vs Apple battle is already getting the attention of US legislators https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/10/senator-warren-calls-out-a...
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by fooey 3y ago
Yup, classic Thundering Herd Problem
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by fooey 3y ago
> Update, 5:35PM PT: A source close to Altman says the board had agreed in principle to resign and to allow Altman and Brockman to return, but has since waffled — missing a key 5PM PT deadline by which many OpenAI staffers were set to re
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by fooey 3y ago
Or killing your company because you never wanted it to start with and have no idea what to do with it now that you're stuck with it?
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by fooey 3y ago
RIF has now announced they will also be shutting down on June 30th https://www.reddit.com/r/redditisfun/comments/144gmfq/rif_wi...
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by fooey 3y ago
Obtaining Reddit API keys is an application process, it is not automated
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by fooey 3y ago
none of the 3rd party apps are real companies with resources they're passion hobby projects that'll disappear rather than turn into a job
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by fooey 3y ago
Yeah, reporting abuse on reddit is a minefield The lesson I learned is not to report anything because trying to be helpful is not worth the risk of blowback
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by fooey 3y ago
The banks financed about $12b, which was probably an optimistic valuation on their part, and that was at the absolute peak
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by fooey 4y ago
also javascript - https://github.com/tc39/proposal-numeric-separator

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