100%. You wouldn’t hire right-wing “celebs” internally and to the board if you just want your own posts to do better.

You mean you don’t see the synergy between Firefox and an AI landing page generator? /s

Yeah. I use DNS-level blocking too, but it’s not something I can roll out to my non-technical family members. They understand turning off the browser extension if things don’t work, but not adding a DNS whitelist and then waiting / clearing DNS.

Reddit expects to finish this year with ad revenue … slightly over $800 million… Reddit had said two years ago it aimed to exceed $1 billion in ad revenue by 2023…

So they missed their two year goal by 20%. They had forecasted a 2.9x growth and achieved 2.3x

When it comes time to IPO, they’ll just blame the economy and ad blockers, while showing how many users they forced into their app where ad blocking is harder.

Reuters has temporarily removed the article “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with a preliminary court order issued on Dec. 4, 2023, in a district court in New Delhi, India.

Reuters stands by its reporting and plans to appeal the decision.

The article, published Nov. 16, 2023, was based on interviews with hundreds of people, thousands of documents, and research from several cybersecurity firms.

The order was issued amid a pending lawsuit brought against Reuters in November 2022. As set forth in its court filings, Reuters disputes those claims.

There’s no counterpoint in that article. The article says that things should change. At no point did I say I agree with the status quo.

You’re conflating my statement of “this is how you should expect companies to act” with “this is morally right” – which was literally the point of my original post. You’re either deliberately trolling or unable to engage in a respectful conversation. Have a day!

Edit: Oh and CircleCI is a US company, so you once again tried to change the topic to fit your point. Please learn to converse in good faith. Cheers!

“Within the limits of their discretion, directors must make stockholder welfare their sole end,” Strine wrote. “Other interests may be taken into consideration only as a means of promoting stockholder welfare.” – Chief Justice Strine, Delaware’s Supreme Court, 1985’s Revlon v. MacAndrews

It isn’t a shock. Right or wrong, if you call out your boss/board/investors, you should expect to be fired. Corporations are required to protect their shareholders, not make a moral stand. I hope the gentleman here understood that – when you choose to take a moral stand, it isn’t going to be without consequences. It’s one of the reasons we generally admire people who took a stand (and ended up judged “correct” by history).

Sure, but Windows 11 is a pain in the ass. My Internet was lagging the other day so my start menu wouldn’t find a locally installed program because it couldn’t search the Internet too.

It’s also disingenuous because they already decline to host sex workers newsletters. So if the censorship angle was true, they’re already censoring.

The “Sync Contacts” setting is weird. You can toggle it on, but it doesn’t gain or ask for the OS permissions on Android. There’s a brief message saying you have to give it the permission. No idea why they didn’t just use the built in SDK to ask for the permission.

The go community is strongly opinionated in unique ways. For example, using libraries is generally frowned upon. You either use something included in the language itself (standard library) or copy/paste the code you wrote in another project. There’s also advocacy for shorter variable names which generally seems counter to the normal “write descriptive variable name” mantra.

All in all, I hope the ideas / opinions came from a good place and then some people took them as black & white rules. But they also come off as one or two people’s pet peeves who got to build a language around them.

I’m going to have to print out the Go version for all future “it’s idiomatic” and “but the community!” debates at work

The npm package has about 4000 weekly downloads. I don’t know what that means in terms of popularity.

These people don’t even read their own literature. The Catholic church’s ban on alchemy is about falsely claiming something is a valuable metal in order to pay for debts. It has nothing to do with the occult – the ban was because it’s a sin to lie / cheat / steal. A saint is even on record saying that alchemical gold is ok if the end if product is real gold.

With that context, of course God doesn’t give a shit if you use SQLAlchemy as long as you aren’t using it to defraud people. If you were defrauding people, it wouldn’t matter what tool you used.

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Absolutely. And they push bundles that don’t make financial sense but look attractive because we’re conditioned to think bundles are good. $30 to check a bag OR $72 to check a bag and board in Group 2 lol.

It shouldn’t be OK and Media Matters will surely file for a change of venue. They’re located in DC and Twitter in California. Heck, Twitters own TOS says that your use of the service is governed by California law, so any claim that they fraudulently used the service should be handled in California.

But activist judges are also known to deny motions for made up reasons, so Twitter starts in Texas in hopes an activist judge keeps the case there to “stick it to the liberals.”

Nope. It’s fully a marketing term and always has been. Worked at a firm that used a very, very basic bit of machine learning. But you better believe our marketing and investor pitch decks said “AI” a ton.

The Internet: “If you’re not paying, you’re the product, not the customer.” The Internet: “Ads suck! We’re going to block them.”

Content Providers: “OK, we’re going to charge to pay for our bills then.”

The Internet: “HOW DARE YOU?”