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Redbox’s owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll (www.theverge.com)

informed employees of the filing late Friday [...] that it had filed for a debtor-in-possession loan — a way for companies that are reorganizing after filing for bankruptcy to secure additional working capital to meet payroll. [...] employees have been waiting for paychecks since June 21st [...] it’s not certain that the...

Wispy2891 ,

wait they paid 325 millions in 2022 for Redbox???

Why???

How they thought they could have a return on that investment??!

Wispy2891 ,

i wonder how is the experience of searching between millions of emails client side

Wispy2891 ,

They’re testing to embed the ads in the stream and not the usual switch to a different video

It definitely affects third party client if now they get a file of a video that now has 30 seconds of ad content at the beginning

Wispy2891 ,

How and why should Mozilla get money from Russia?

I’m guessing via search engine defaults for that region

(I Don’t actually know if they have a monetary agreement with yandex)

Wispy2891 ,

I imagine that suddenly all the co2 stored as gas underground could suddenly come out and being odorless, kills the whole neighboring town

Wispy2891 ,

Methane is lighter than air and goes up while co2 is heavier than oxygen and stays down. I don’t know maybe in case of some disaster where water leaks in the well and then pushes out the co2

I wouldn’t want to live nearby in both cases anyway

Wispy2891 ,

Surprised that they didn’t remove it earlier

At $42k per month I would have removed/disabled it immediately

Why would I need to pay that kind of money to let my users to post on your social where you’re monetizing it with ads and using the content to increase user engagement? Should be the opposite! The social network paying the game console maker in order to get preferential treatment and prominent share buttons

Wispy2891 ,

Twitter as a login doesn’t need api access and it’s still free

They need to pay the absurd fees when they post screenshots on behalf of users. So, since it’s not a very important feature, it doesn’t make sense to pay at least half a million dollars per year for that

Wispy2891 ,

I’m also be seeking for a 1 billion payout

At least my product is working as intended

Wispy2891 ,

HP is reportedly one of the companies that Humane was in talks with over a potential sale

They didn’t learn the lesson with webos? They lost billions even if that was a good os with good phones.

Can’t imagine anyone wanting to buy this company for more than 1million and that’s just because of patents and devs (acquihire - where the buyer is only interested in ip and devs and doesn’t care at all about the actual product)

Wispy2891 ,

I didn’t read the article but it seems off. With only 1/20 of energy used by the world in a single year we could undo the damage of 300 years?

Seems too low. If that’s true we could shut down completely for just two weeks to undo

Wispy2891 ,

Wasn’t panda buy also recently targeted by a joint investigation from Nike and the Chinese government which led to the seizure of many warehouses for counterfeited items?

Wispy2891 ,

Big difference: on android you can stay 6 version behind and you probably find any incompatible app during real life use. Browser and framework (google play services) continue to get updates

On iOS once your device stops getting updates it becomes ewaste as almost every app becomes incompatible after 1-2 years . Browser stops getting updates at all so your browsing experience will degrade fast

Wispy2891 ,

most of them if not all are mitigated by google play services. otherwise there would be 2 billion of infected android phones and there would be many alarmist posts like when ten years ago stagefright happened

Wispy2891 ,

You apple fanboys are exaggerating that. On the 2.5 billion android devices, 88% of them aren’t running the latest version and probably would never get it. Yet I don’t see any widespread hacking.

Wispy2891 ,

It happens the same on android for some reason

Like 5-8 years ago the google assistant app was able to select and copy text from any app when invoked, I think it was called “now on tap”. Then because they’re google and they’re contractually obligated to remove features after some time, they removed this from the google app and integrated it in the pixel app switcher (and who cares if 99% of android users aren’t using a pixel, they say). The new implementation sucks, as it does ocr instead of just accessing the raw text…

It only works fine with us English and not with other languages. But maybe it’s ok as it seems that google’s development style is us-centric

Wispy2891 ,

Imagine how easy is the life of law enforcement now.

Before if they seized a laptop encrypted with bit locker they could not do anything.

Now they just need to ask Microsoft the encryption password, which is automatically and silently saved in the Microsoft account (now mandatory) and they can have all the history of what the subject of the investigation did in the past years

Wispy2891 ,

They changed it, in the beginning it was using the text and not ocr

For example this app could be set as assistant and get the raw text https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.weberdo.apps.copy

But only the app set on system as assistant can do it

I was very disappointed when they changed it around 2018 as it produced garbage in my language when it was working so good…

Wispy2891 ,

So it’s not a new feature. Since windows 95 print screen can’t screenshot videos for technical issues. Instead of fixing the bug they’re promoting it to feature

Wispy2891 ,

I remember that in the windows 9x age I tried taking screenshots of the matrix avi and all I got was a black rectangle. I assumed that it was how the graphics worked as when pasted in paint it would act like a “hole” where if you moved the window it stayed in the place of the video player. Like if it’s not in the graphic buffer because it’s an accelerated directx video or something like that. Not an expert and also more than 20 years passed and my memory is wonky

Wispy2891 ,

But my company with 20k employees use it. It's kind of interesting in our context

I wonder what we're going to do. Don't tell me that the reason that the MDM has installed MS teams on my work phone is related to this news...

Wispy2891 ,

It pisses me to no one end when i think to all the trash factories. Items designed to look good for e-commerce but they are poorly designed and unusable. Directly to the landfill...

Wispy2891 ,

Save a few thousands for incorporation fees also some bs experience that you can use to boast to vc investors

Wispy2891 ,

Oh no I saw a video where it chopped a carrot without stopping

I don’t have the courage to click the link….

Wispy2891 ,

So that's incredibly stupid, lol if it crushes and cuts a carrot why couldn't do it with a finger

Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)

When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...

Wispy2891 ,

Tesla should pay the CEO that 56 billion bonus. It would immediately improve the situation

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

Wispy2891 ,

Something that can also happen: require Facebook login with some excuse, then blackmail the creeps by telling "pay us this extortion or we're going to send proof of your creepiness to your contacts"

Wispy2891 ,

i hate TikTok but also Instagram and YouTube shorts should be in the same list

Wispy2891 ,

sucks to be the insurance in this case

Wispy2891 ,

Ai bros couldn't just use ai faces? They really had to steal identities?

Wispy2891 OP ,

i placed the two screenshots side by side using the freeform app 😀

Wispy2891 ,

From the article a screenshot shows that the project is going to be discontinued with immediate effect

Wispy2891 ,

I really hate this kind of headlines

Wispy2891 ,

If i remember right it was also "free to register but insanely expensive to renew once they start to see traffic"

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