If we could function like ants… Sacrifice 10% to save the 90%, that would be a net gain for the species. But nobody is voluntarily signing up to be in that 10% 😅

Perhaps that’s both a feature and a bug of humanity

I think he had as much impact as anyone in his position could possibly have, if not way above average for a whistleblower.

The problem is that the public quickly turned on him, in no small part due to the PR strategy of those who DO have the power to change this. And most of the public shrugged and said what are we gonna do?

His contribution was proof that suspected domestic spying under the guise of homeland security was being widely misused. Which is a violation of YOUR constitutional rights. Of course anyone paying attention suspected it before, but he brought receipts. Many people think he should be in jail or worse because of this.

Unless he’s lying, and I don’t think he has been shown to lie, he did attempt to use proper channels. The media has historically been called the 4th branch of government for a reason - and ultimately that’s where he turned.

The man effectively lost much of his freedom and the people he did it for were unable to take it any further.

The unchallenged winner of capitalism. Wow. Now let’s restart the game.

This is um… Very CCP-like

Facebook probably isn’t the one to do it. But paid social media, if it worked like social media from 1999, would probably be worth a few bucks a month.

Somehow that guy can make a call and raise a billion dollars or 10.

When you say CEOs are you thinking of guys who are making millions with staff living on almost nothing?

The upside of Twitter’s downfall has been the absence of “look what so and so said in a tweet” headlines.

Dang. If I owned Tesla stock I would be a bit worried about this at the moment.

Seems pretty dicey to let an AI anywhere near your wallet.dat

Don’t know why you got downvoted, you’re 100% right. It’s just another layer of abstraction. Like a super high level non-deterministic level of abstraction.

Is this the technology forum or fuckai/fuckwork/fuck meta forum.

Jesus H Christ

I understand those are popular positions for the average Lemmy user but the negativity is really off-putting

Two companies that are desperate for disruption. It’s like one drowning person swimming over to another drowning person to rescue.

A default judgement just gives Spotify some leverage to try to collect money, property, and get injunctions. But as we know from the pirate bay cases, that’s a losing whack-a-mole battle long term.

But it does make life a bit harder for Anna’s archive unless they show up to fight back, which they probably won’t.

Not all bad. Git is an incredible system for collaboration and humans have been honing it to improve quality and share work across teams for decades now.

Allowing bots to play a carefully defined role is probably going to end up being a net improvement but there are still kinks.

Masquerading as a human needs to be fixed though - I can see why it’s happening and that’s one of the first problems to solve.

I understand where you’re coming from, but of course the Linux I want to use is not a business with a centralized marketing department vying for market share. It’s something that I can customize and make into whatever I want it to be.

I think that’s why many people want to use Linux - they’re not pigeonholed into decisions made to gain market share, they’re free to choose whatever works well for them.

Paradoxically, 20 plus years ago people chose PCs and Microsoft over Apple for much of the same reason. We could select our own hardware from any manufacturer, easily run our own executables and develop code in any direction desired.

It’s hard to see that being a good thing

I thought filing egregiously inaccurate documents with the court was risking contempt of court (in the best of cases).

Ignoring the court itself, I’d think for a prosecutor or cop this would lead to pretty bad performance reviews.

But if the system has no standards…

I don’t automatically have a negative opinion about this, I would need more information before that. Did the terms of service allow for this?

It’s a fascinating case study on crowdsourcing data that is useful to this navigation technology, and reminds me of the first captchas that helped train OCR engines.

You’re right. I got in the habit of doing that because I’m endlessly tweaking my .env files and I don’t think those reload unless you shut down first