it’s been a while since Adobe moved from standalone projects to what they call “content supply chain” they have no interest in competing at individual product level. if you only need photoshop, there are tons of better alternatives. they only become irreplaceable if you are in the enterprise level and need things like collaboration, project management, cloud storage, auditing, governance, etc (ie. creative cloud + workfront + their AEM DAM offering).

I do consulting in Adobe products and every year their products are shittier but they still are indispensible due to inertia and integrated ecosystem

what’s the relation with my corolla?

I also used to think hybrids were probably too complex, but 5years ago after checking in how ecvt works I got a corolla station wagon (US doesn’t get it. your loss) hybrid an I really like it. it gives me 4.7l/100km (50 mpg) and moves super smooth.

I’m convinced that is a generated metric that is far away from reality. the objective is too make their product seem better than it is

in that particular case the people involved were identified through their recovery email which they did not hash like ‘safe’ other providers do. they have positioned themselves as safe even for activist and journalists and have failed to deliver in that account consistently.

no surprise since their CEO is a MAGA guy

there has been in the news several instances where proton has given to law enforcements information that have hold onto. in some cases regarding journalists.

their answer is always “ah, yeah. we do keep that one, but not the other data”

before you ask…an example https://privacyradar.com/news/privacy/proton-mail-payment-data-stop-cop-city-activist-identified/

and even with that, recent iphones are way easier to repair than a few years ago. I would not say anyone can do it, but it’s definitely easier than before when you basically had to disassemble the whole thing

do you need dolby vision support? both profiles? that makes a difference

every non-apple macbook I ever bought always had some issue. broken hinges, screens that went bad, just go dead,etc. It’s not like apple ones are defect-free but I have 4 of them running at home, the oldest from 2012 running without zero issues beyond a wasted battery. repairability is not an issue if they dont break in the first place.

if that wording is what bothers you, you are part of the problem

have you met Ursula von der Leyen? she will absolutely cave to Trump. No doubt about it

this looks a lot like that “European X alternative” named “W” which was vaporware. I wish journalist were more critical with the claims of these people.

…forcing the evacuation of more than 150,000 people. More than 2,000 die in the process.

it looks precise to me

I think FOSS enable those kind of communities but I don’t think FOSS as a concept is any of those things. those communities could equally work with a non FOSS license (eg one that prevents commercial use or a license that allow usage only by members of a specific community). They uses existing licenses because they go momentum and have legal precedents that allows people to defend their rights.

Most FOSS licenses were specifically designed to allow profiting from the wok of others, even the GPL. Just see how many billion dollar companies (think Azure, AWS, etc) profit from projects without giving anything back.

but it doesnt matter because now they are a robot company!

Tesla is such a meme stock.

I spent too muchtime trying to figure out why they would do casting (like in casting actors for their shows) from a phone.

I f you believe AI companies should NOT be allowed to train AI with copyrighted works you should stop using Internet search engines. Because the same rules that allow Google to train their search with everyone’s copyrighted websites are what allow the AI companies to train their models.

sorry but no. most search bots have been for years quite reasonable in following instructions from the sites on what to scrap and what not. AI scrappers have shown they are willing to go to great lenghts to scrap content against the wishes of the website owners.

Additionally this scrapping has shown to put a tremendous amount of problems into some sites and platforms, open source projects, for example.

Last, search engines are a win-win. They get to show ads and then redirect traffic to the source. LLMs for the most part steal that traffic, by regurgitating the same content they stole in the first place.

This analogy is absolutely bonkers. the VCR is not made out of copyrighted material. If the VCR does not spit bunch of copyrighted material on demand because the makers put it there. AI Image generation models cannot be created without copyrighted material. That is not even a controversial take.

It’s impressive how they have changed the expectations around their pro it as time goes by:

-Our AI could become sentient and destroy humanity to become sole ruler of the world

-Our AI will discover the cure for cancer and so many other illnesses

-Our AIl will soon have PHd level intelligence

…

-You can sext with our AI

While their arguments are absolutely ridiculous, I don’t think they are ‘demanding’. The EU specifically asked for feedback on the DMA and they provided theirs https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/consultation-first-review-digital-markets-act_en