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flop_leash_973 ,

This meme does not contain enough toenail chewing.

Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)

The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....

flop_leash_973 ,

Nothing turns me off of a product or service like the maker begging and trying to trick me into using their wares. Once they start doing that I will usually end up using technically inferior things to avoid them a lot of the time.

flop_leash_973 ,

I would go so far as to say Google Chat today is better than Google RCS.

flop_leash_973 ,

It is likely because Israel vs. Palestine is a much much more hot button issue than Russia vs. Ukraine.

Some people will assault you for having the wrong opinion in the wrong place about the former, and that is press Google does not want to be able to be associated with their LLM in anyway.

flop_leash_973 ,

If most companies didn't get so horny for "open floor" plans and/or cubicles maybe nearly everyone wouldn't hate their fancy expensive real estate holdings so much.

flop_leash_973 ,

Someone needs to make a note to check back in with him when that leak does happen. Bonus points if the data leak includes some freaky things he is into.

flop_leash_973 ,

Jesus, talk about getting rat fucked.

flop_leash_973 ,

I'm sure throwing more money and contracts at Musk and SpaceX is going to help solve the problem any day now. /s

flop_leash_973 ,

I think a lot of them, like the Google doorbell camera use rechargeable batteries. So you don't even need the power cable. Just take it off of the mount every few weeks to charge it back up.

Then throw it in the trash in 2-3 years once the battery sufficiently degrades and buy a whole new one of course.

flop_leash_973 ,

"The stock market is booming". Fixed the first part of the title for you.

As for why all of the layoffs? Because in the short term it usually causes the quoted bit above.

Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?” (www.theverge.com)

Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”::During a recent TGIF all-hands meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed what sources describe as a growing morale crisis inside the company.

flop_leash_973 , (edited )

Why do the employees bother asking him questions that they already know the answer to in the pit of their stomachs?

I hate to think so many in the field of tech could be so naive of the world around them.

flop_leash_973 ,

That I did, lol. Corrected.

flop_leash_973 ,

All that talk about the punishment fitting the crime in the justice system, unless you ruffle the feathers of some rich corporation.

flop_leash_973 ,

I almost completely stopped going to the movies once the pre-roll stuff was ads for cars, food, etc instead of just movie trailers.

The more inconvenient Google makes avoiding ads on their platforms and services, the less of Googles platforms and services I will use.

For now I have a third party launcher setup on my CCwGTV in my living room, but the Apple TV 4k I have in my bedroom sure is looking nice these days with how well it performs and how much less trouble it is to setup and reset should I need/want to do that.

Going the HTPC route is less desirable to me since services like Amazon and Netflix go out of their way to restrict resolutions offered to things like a Debian box running Firefox. I could use Windows and Edge, but that would mean hitching myself to another company that seems more interested in selling me to advertisers than selling things to me.

flop_leash_973 ,

My hardware supports it and I am paying for the premium Netflix tier for the extra screens, so I like to use the 4k resolution when I can.

flop_leash_973 ,

Amazing how when the argument is coming from the bottom up you have to have evidence, facts, numbers, etc. But when it comes from the top down “just knowing” and “a feeling” is more than enough.

flop_leash_973 ,

Hope the weather forecasts around there are very accurate.

flop_leash_973 ,

And here I thought I had a lot of hdd platter coaster's.

flop_leash_973 ,

Not that I am a fan of the current implementation of copyright in the US, but I know if I was planning on building my business around something that couldn’t exist without violating copyright I would surely thought of that fairly early on.

flop_leash_973 ,

This sort of thing is why I dislike legislation that mandates the use of something very specific. Things change and it is better to create laws that don’t become outdated as fast as tech tends to.

flop_leash_973 ,

Yep. Recently saw it at my employer. It happened fast too. One day there was a lot of chatter on Slack channels and the day after the general noise was almost nothing that was not required.

Former CEO of Google has been quietly working on a military startup for “suicide” attack drones. (www.forbes.com)

Former CEO of Google has been quietly working on a military startup for “suicide” attack drones.::The former Google CEO has been quietly working on a military startup called White Stork with plans to design “kamikaze” attack drones.

flop_leash_973 ,

Yes, but ones that his company makes and he gets to profit from. It is the classic "tech bro" play. Come to market with some overly complex solution to a problem that has been solved to most peoples satisfaction for decades, claim you are disrupting a stale market that is not meeting the needs of the consumer, ignore any and all existing rules and regulations so you can undercut the existing competition, then bitch when those rules and regulations catch up after you have driven out the existing competition and made obscene profits.

flop_leash_973 ,

This sort of thing is what keeps me away from Samsung phones.

flop_leash_973 ,

I can't say I am surprised. Apples view is that since they made the device and provided the software they are entitled to a cut of anything that happens on it, because that software makes use of something Apple created.

I don't agree and think it is a crazy view. But that sort of corporate mindset is one of the reasons I have never been big on Apple products.

flop_leash_973 ,

Jesus, I hate that word, “shoppable”. It just sounds dystopian.

flop_leash_973 ,

Unless you change the launcher on your Android TV box, Apple TV is the most ad free now. Unless you want to just hook a PC up to the TV anyway. Which can introduce codec and DRM issues if you want to use Netflix and Prime video from the PC.

flop_leash_973 ,

Given how LLM's work and how nearly everything of value is under a copyright until at least the old age of the creators grandchildren LLMs would probably be pretty useless if they can't disregard copyright for their purposes.

Not that I have any sympathy for the likes of Meta and OpenAI in any of this.

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