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squirrel , 3 days ago to 196 in We wish you a merry notification bell

A little long maybe, I assume it won't be long until it's just "likensub".

squirrel , 1 month ago to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

Seems like Elon thinks he can use Teslas as compute resources without the cars being charged...

squirrel OP , 1 month ago to 196 in rule 📏

The original article that went with the picture spoke of "a new race of amazons" and calls the woman on the right, "Diana", which may be a reference to Wonder Woman (AKA Diana, Princess of the Amazons).

squirrel , 2 months ago to Lefty Memes in [META: serious and constructive discussion thread (radlibs will be yeeted tho)] You can both criticize the lackeys of capital *AND* vote for the ones slowing down the degeneration into fascism a bit

One of the keys to strategic success is picking your battles. When you have the chance to choose the enemy you'll face, don't let fate decide for you. At the end of the day, you are going to fight, so pick the fight with the enemy you think you have a better chance of defeating. Take this whichever way you want.

squirrel , 2 months ago to Technology in is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia?

It's a cult. Altman is one of the TESCREAL devotees. He truly believes that he can build the electronic messiah.

squirrel , 2 months ago to Technology in Facing reality, whether it's about Apple or the EU, is a core requirement for good management

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

In that regard, you cannot make a manager understand a thing that may detrimental to the profits of the company. Because the profits decide upon the size of the manager's bonus - even if the profits are entirely fictional, only exist as a plan, a power point presentation or are pure hype for investors. So managers have a vested interest in insisting that they can circumvent regulations/disregard laws/lobby for exemptions/... in order to make more money, no matter what reality looks like.

squirrel , 3 months ago to Technology in Musk's Neuralink brain implant company cited by FDA over animal lab issues

I am shocked to hear that the company which needlessly and cruelly killed animals with their experiments, did not bother to keep records of the cruelties they committed. SHOCKED!

squirrel , 3 months ago to Technology in Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service

The week after: Google introduces AI Mail that will receive and automatically respond to all mail. This will happen without the users' consent or knowledge. In fact, users won't be able to access their mail anymore at all "for security reasons".

squirrel OP , 3 months ago to 196 in Archie rule

flips table

Thanks. Corrected.

squirrel OP , 3 months ago to 196 in Archie rule

Thanks. Corrected it.

squirrel , 3 months ago to Technology in Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media

Yeah, I am in the same boat: I really don't understand what the outrage is all about. First off, because Mastodon is built on open standards which are 100% intended to be interoperable. Second because everyone can read a Mastodon feed that isn't private and the same goes for BlueSky accounts. Hell, BlueSky supports RSS for its feeds, so people with an RSS reader can follow BlueSky accounts without the user knowing about it.

Personally I do not trust the people behind BlueSky, but neither do I trust all the admins of Mastodon servers. There are a ton of questionable Mastodon servers out there, operated by people with very dubious motives, if not outright malicious intent.

squirrel , 3 months ago to Technology in Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says

This is incredibly funny for people who followed this. Everybody and their grandma told the European Commission that there was no way that breaking end-to-end encryption was compatible with the law. Yet they constantly pushed for it anyway and now look at this mess.

I am almost certain that the European Commission will claim that there are still ways to break end-to-end encryption, only to defeated in court yet again. Like they tried with data preservation for law enforcement purposes. They just can't stop themselves.

squirrel , 3 months ago to Technology in TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out

The enshittification continues, until morale profit improves.

squirrel , 3 months ago to Comic Strips in News

100%! First step to organize the required worker solidarity for further change.

squirrel , 3 months ago to Comic Strips in News

Unionization is the only possible answer.

USians can find relevant/local unions here.