Dewege

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Let‘s assume its true: those were so much healthier times. Covid was not heard of yet, Twitter was still Twitter. Today it‘s normality that AIs are making the decision if you work here or not (certainly deciding during recruting if your CV is forwarded, maybe also for firing by DOGE). It‘s normality that AIs decide if your content on your cloud account should trigger criminal investigation and closing your account for good. Anyway most big companies are not reachable by a customer anymore (in order to contact a real person). They have grown providing services to (and taking money from) way too many users, but paying way too few employees to handle it.

My personal opinion is that any company should be allowed to grow (by customer base) only to a size, where they can still handle customer contacts by real persons. If their product is working flawlessly it causes fewer needed customer contacts, so fewer employees can handle it. On the other hand, if the product is shit, more customer contact employees must be hired relative to customer base.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ist das nicht, wie die Pest durch Cholera ersetzen? Jetzt hat der Suchmaschinen-(und anderes)Riese einen Browser, in welchem er Suchmaschine, eigene Cloudverbindung und Datensammelprofilierung per Standard vorgibt. Danach hat der KI-Riese (=Suchmaschine 2.0) einen Browser, in welchem er Suchmaschine, eigene Cloudverbindung und Datensammelprofilierung per Standard vorgibt …

The Internets Next Google (THING)

 

Most open source projects are important alternatives to escape pilitical and commercial control/limitations/censorship existant in commercial products, driven by commercial interests. With the current situation all US-based companies are even more subject to political pressure.

An embargo by the US towards any country/entity would mean US companies have to shut down their services for that entity.

As many open source projects seem to be hosted on github (M$), could they be blocked nearly instantly? Thus giving the pumpkin the power to sabotage alternatives to US controlled tools?

(Hope I‘m not in the wrong community to bring this up. Hints to better suited places are welcome.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

From my POV not only „free of adds and tracking“ are important to underline. Also „free of political and commercial pressure“ is key, from my POV this is the most important, especially in the current political climate. I know this is not directly a reason why donations are needed, like the others are. But for someone to decide about a donation this is a very important reason to throw money in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Thanks for the great app. I‘m having trouble though (ipad with ios 16.7.10, can not go higher) with the video player: clicked a link to a youtube content. Player is full screen, but I find no way to go back to the post. Have to quit the app and restart it.