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- Comment on Micron locks in historically high memory prices for five years 1 week ago:
Mob cartel charging you a floor price you’d better pay, or else
Micron has signed 16 SCAs, most of them covering 2026 to 2030, and that they involve a commitment to buy a certain quantity of product and pay for it in a pricing band that has a floor and a ceiling price. The floor price covers the historically high gross margins mentioned above, and the ceiling price means those who commit to an SCA are insulated if memory prices go even higher.
- Comment on Four out of five Australian children still use social media despite ban, study finds 1 week ago:
Australian lawmakers hoping that 1 out 5 children are LGBT
- Comment on Windscribe VPN CEO warns your favourite Facebook quizzes are actually stealing your bank details 1 week ago:
We needed a CEO to say this?!
- Comment on Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in — and they’re not good 2 weeks ago:
It’s a good thing these people’s skills aren’t crucial for training the input and verifying the output of these AI systems! /s
- Comment on Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month 2 weeks ago:
Companies have a long history of funding their competitors to avoid looking like monopolies. Microsoft did it for Apple. And while the Trump administration has been allowing more mergers than ever before, two competitors in a single space collapsing into one would be very unprecedented.
But even in a scenario worse than if Google stops contributing to Mozilla, they’ll have three years worth of stored money to draw upon
- Comment on Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month 2 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong unfortunately. Being an ethical alternative doesn’t make something automatically better, and if it does, Firefox ethics has been eroding in front of the eyes of anyone who dares to look since roughly 2017 (when they partnered with Facebook to start pushing in telemetry)
- Comment on Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month 2 weeks ago:
Do you have hardware acceleration enabled?
- Comment on Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month 2 weeks ago:
The deprecation of Manifest V2 is almost guaranteed to kick off a glut of advertisement systems that exploit the intentional weaknesses of V3. Outside of building a uBlock Origin compatible filter system into the browser, which is what Brave did (and Mozilla copied into Firefox recently), there’s not really a way to get around this.
- Comment on Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month 2 weeks ago:
Mozilla’s funding is provided by Google. It’s not going to dry up while Google needs to maintain the appearance of a non-monopoly.
- Comment on CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20 years’ 4 weeks ago:
The original post mentions them as things that demonstrate bad journalism - I was indeed facetiously mentioning them here because I’m impressed this article is excellent because it avoids every one of them and does the exact opposite (e.g. “don’t quote an expert”, immediately quotes an expert to rebut the claims)
- Comment on Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal 4 weeks ago:
From a business standpoint, this doesn’t sound like the worst idea. OpenAI figured out how to make people addicted to their chatbots, after all, and they successfully implemented the strategy of “harm people, apologize later.”
- Comment on CEOs blame AI for layoffs, but an MIT professor says it fits a long-running pattern to find a cover story. ‘They’ve been saying that for 20 years’ 4 weeks ago:
This article breaks almost every rule of proper "CEO said a thing" journalism!
There are, in my mind, a few rules for “CEO said a thing!” journalism if it’s to qualify:
- You can never directly challenge anything the CEO said, even if the CEO has a long history of false or misleading promises and claims.
- You can never include any useful historical context about the company or executives’ past statements, even if they’ve been proven repeatedly wrong. The CEO’s comments should always exist in a magic vacuum.
- You should never, under any circumstances, actually take the time to talk to, and quote, an objective expert or academic in the field you’re writing about, especially if they’re inclined to criticize the CEO. This can slow down publication time and impact the quest for news-cycle ad traffic.
- You can never return back to the claims to inform your readership whether they were actually true (this is especially true of CEO promises made before giant, pointless, disastrous mergers).
- Comment on A Value Critique of AI & Tech Worker Opposition 5 weeks ago:
Open source tools are neat and all, but in my personal experience they always deliver inferior audio and video streaming.
If the ethical superiority of these tools is truly paramount, you can always simulcast onto them. I don’t think anybody’s stopping you from bridging it yourself.
- Comment on Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes 5 weeks ago:
Ironic that the only phone that will support Graphene OS will be a Motorola.
You know, if that materializes, and if it’s available outside of business customers.
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- Comment on The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times 5 weeks ago:
One of the AI tools, called DX, advertises itself as an engineering productivity tool that lets companies track employees’ output, generative AI use, and efficiency
Burn tokens to determine how many tokens the people have burned
- Comment on HP customer claims firmware update shoved printer off support cliff 1 month ago:
“Buy a Brother printer” was bound to only be good advice for so long. If I’ve learned anything from watching competitive tech markets, it’s that the best competitor eventually starts diluting their own offering in favor of profit.
- Comment on Laid off workers at Meta contractor Covalen to mount strike action following loss of 700 jobs 1 month ago:
It is also seeking the removal of restrictive ‘cooling-off’ periods that prevent workers from accessing future employment within the sector.
wtf, why is this a thing
- Comment on Samsung reportedly set to distribute up to $26.6 billion to staff in AI-driven semiconductor bonuses after last-minute union deal — average payouts could approach $400,000 per chip employee 1 month ago:
Samsung had planned to pay generous bonuses to 27,000 staff making memory chips – at least six times more than its workers making other chips, and electronics. The union said that 23,000 workers who were making less advanced chips… should not be left behind.
Thoughtful worker solidarity.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Recording is what Flock cameras do to you, citizen, not what you do to the local Lord.
- Comment on Google Chrome Might Have Installed an AI Model Onto Your Device Without You Knowing 1 month ago:
Thankfully many FF forks prevent you from dealing with these shenanigans and annoyances to begin with. The easiest one is probably Waterfox, but there are several others with their own benefits.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The wheels are supposed to disconnect. This is so it can turn into a boat. Liberals don’t want you to know this.
- Comment on AI Assistants Are Leaking Your Conversations 1 month ago:
I wonder how close we are to getting our details leaked to LLMs because rubes with our contact info are just dumping them on those servers. Kind of like how Facebook maintains a social graph of you even if you don’t use it.
- Comment on OnlyOffice invokes AGPLv3, says Nextcloud must restore removed logos in Euro-Office fork 2 months ago:
I agree with the FSF; I’m just a little worried Onlyoffice will seek some vindictive retaliation. I don’t know what that’ll look like, but I certainly wouldn’t have predicted this response from them either.
- Comment on OnlyOffice invokes AGPLv3, says Nextcloud must restore removed logos in Euro-Office fork 2 months ago:
It’s pretty funny on its face ("If you want to use a different logo, then use different code too"), but I have the feeling that this schism is just going to make open-source office projects worse in general.
- Comment on ‘An element of exploitation’: the world of TikTok child skincare influencers 2 months ago:
Interesting how this flies in the face of Techdirt’s “Nothing to see here on social media!” article from just yesterday
- Comment on Thousands of CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity—and it has economists resurrecting a paradox from 40 years ago 2 months ago:
What was at the 1862 World Fair then? That pesky word you used…
Your beliefs rest on
- This clearly conceived thing not being conceived
- An implied assertion Marx wouldn’t be aware of specific large events
If you could prove either, I guess you’d be in the clear, but for some reason you’re insisting upon both.
- Comment on How The U.S. Will Track EVERY Vehicle from Space: SAR GMTI/AMTI 2 months ago:
Anybody got a FOIA request template set up for people to request their vehicular movement?
- Comment on Africa pours $2 billion into controversial Chinese surveillance tech 2 months ago:
American surveillance companies upset they didn’t get there first.
- Flock Goes Global: How a $7.5 Billion Surveillance Company Found Its International Partner in South Africa’s Most Controversial Camera Network
- Palantir co-founder invests $11.8m in Nigerian drone firm
At this point Chinese companies are winning the surveillance imperialism race just because they’ve got more competent leadership.
- Comment on The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: New Pew Study Deflates The Social Media Panic 2 months ago:
This is a really weird article about social media. I’m sure there’s some panic, and I definitely don’t want regulation to jump to unnecessary conclusions where there are problems, but it’s also worth noting that TechDirt’s editor-in-chief is on the board of a huge social media company.
With that in mind, take this section:
Separately, Pew also asked parents how much time their teens spend on these platforms — and the disconnect between what parents believe and what their kids report is massive:
28% of teen TikTok users report spending too much time on the site, and that jumps to 44% when parents were asked about their teen’s use of the platform.
Parents think their teens are spending too much time on TikTok at a rate nearly 60% higher than the teens themselves report. That gap is the entire moral panic, distilled to a single data point: worried adults constructing a portrait of a crisis that the people supposedly living it mostly don’t appear to recognize.
If somebody has an addiction, like an addiction to drugs or social media, people around them may be more able or willing to point it out than the person with the addiction themselves. But for some reason, TechDirt takes this as a smoking gun of moral panic, that children are inherently the reasonable ones self-reporting correctly, while adults are unreasonable and over-involved.
