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      oyaji
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      I think I can explain it: everybody wants to eat for free.

      © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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      • tiggerT
        tigger
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        As an example, a fund we own a small part of was recently in talks to buy a share of Anthropic. We got a long report about the expected profits, and the gist of it was that it’ll keep growing rapidly for a decade because that’s what Google and Facebook did 20 years ago. I don’t think you have to be a genius to doubt that, on the other hand the nonsensical growth keeps happening so what do I know?

        The sale fell through and I’m pretty happy tbh.

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          Jam @tigger
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          @tigger said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

          As an example, a fund we own a small part of was recently in talks to buy a share of Anthropic. We got a long report about the expected profits, and the gist of it was that it’ll keep growing rapidly for a decade because that’s what Google and Facebook did 20 years ago. I don’t think you have to be a genius to doubt that, on the other hand the nonsensical growth keeps happening so what do I know?

          The sale fell through and I’m pretty happy tbh.

          Nothing about the stock market is rational.

          Nothing.

          "laissez les bons temps rouler!"

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          • TazzT
            Tazz
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            Economic votes. That explains how a business can be successful. Either by purchasing their product or stock. Essentially you voting for a company by doing either.

            GTFO

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              A Former User
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              Posting for the headline:

              Alex Heath  /  Jan 30  /  meta

              Meta warns that it will fire leakers in leaked memo

              Meta warns that it will fire leakers in leaked memo

              Mark Zuckerberg told employees that leaking “sucks.”

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                oyaji
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                Hey Mark-o, you zuck, I’ve got a children’s riddle for you: If you want to keep a secret, how many people do you tell?

                © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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                  A Former User
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                  Thomas Maxwell  /  Jan 31  /  Artificial Intelligence

                  Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries

                  Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries

                  Google will probably close this loophole soon enough.

                  Aussies are going to be so good at this.

                  “How many fucking eggs should I use in a fucking omelette ya cunt”

                  It feels completely natural.

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                    A Former User
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                    Feb 3  /  News

                    $1bn revenue not enough to offset Meta's AR/VR Reality Labs' $4.4bn loss

                    $1bn revenue not enough to offset Meta's AR/VR Reality Labs' $4.4bn loss

                    Meta has published its earnings report for the three months ending December 31 2024, and despite $1.08 billion in reven…

                    Pretty surprised they reported 1 billion in revenue for AR/VR for one quarter. Shocked that they are spending four times that much every quarter.

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                      A Former User
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                      Wes Davis  /  Feb 4  /  news

                      Meta says this is the make or break year for the metaverse

                      Meta says this is the make or break year for the metaverse

                      The clock is ticking for the metaverse.

                      This year will decide if Horizon Worlds “will go down as the work of visionaries or a legendary misadventure,” according to a Meta executive

                      I’m on the edge of my seat.

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                        A Former User
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                        Matthew Gault  /  Feb 7  /  Privacy & Security

                        Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone

                        Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone

                        Under the U.K. law, it’s illegal for the company to even talk about the existence of the order.

                        If history has taught us anything, it’s that governments can always be trusted and backdoors never fall into bad actors hands.

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                          Gustaf
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                          If Hollywood has taught us anything, if a bad guy
                          opens the back door, a suave debonair, martini drinking Scotsman will save us, after he beds a few salacious named ladies.

                          "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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                            Tazz
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                            Jul 15, 2021  /  U.S.

                            Syringes Washing Up on Shore Close Five More New Jersey Beaches

                            Syringes Washing Up on Shore Close Five More New Jersey Beaches

                            The medical waste was first reported along the state's coastline over the weekend, and has continued to cause public safety issues.

                            Dec 26, 2019  /  California

                            It just rained (again). Is it safe to swim in the ocean?

                            It just rained (again). Is it safe to swim in the ocean?

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                            GTFO

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                              oyaji
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                              New Jersey was deep-sixing medical waste offshore (including medical waste for New York along with it), so maybe they still do this? Also, did anyone bother counting plastic straws on any beach? Then we would have basis for comparison.

                              If memory serves, Sandy Hook NJ was where all the used syringes were washing up on the beach for the news story years back.

                              © 2015 - 2025 oyaji

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                                Gators1 @Gustaf
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                                @Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                If Hollywood has taught us anything, if a bad guy
                                opens the back door, a suave debonair, martini drinking Scotsman will save us, after he beds a few salacious named ladies.

                                But in this case, he works for the back door bad guys, so we are fukt.

                                I hope the UK sinks.

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                                  Gustaf @Gators1
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                                  @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                  @Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                  If Hollywood has taught us anything, if a bad guy
                                  opens the back door, a suave debonair, martini drinking Scotsman will save us, after he beds a few salacious named ladies.

                                  But in this case, he works for the back door bad guys, so we are fukt.

                                  I hope the UK sinks.

                                  That is so short sighted! If the UK sinks where will we get our…uh…hm…

                                  No I guess you’re right, nothing would change.

                                  "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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                                  • eWildcatE
                                    eWildcat
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                                    I have to slightly disagree, sadly : the Six Nations Championship would then be the Three Nation Mess That France Always Wins, which would certainly be amusing for a couple of years but would soon lose some appeal. So there would be some minor inconvenience.

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                                    • GustafG
                                      Gustaf
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                                      Not to worry! You just go find yourselves 3 other nations of equivalent economic and cultural power to replace them with! Say, Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico!

                                      "Let's give it a week! Still a disaster? Let's give it another week…" -Tazz

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                                      • eWildcatE
                                        eWildcat
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                                        The idea is sound, but I worry we may anger the US government if we beat their former colonies every year, and we don’t have quite as many aircraft carriers as we’d need to do that.

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                                          A Former User
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                                          Meta’s laid-off ‘low performers’ defend themselves on LinkedIn and Reddit

                                          You’d be a fool to take a job at Meta (or any of the other high profile tech companies if this becomes a trend). Meta has hemorrhaged billions on the Metaverse and recently indicated layoffs were because of it, Then Zuckerberg recently appeared to have acknowledged that his years of enshittifcation aren’t working and promised a return to the OG Facebook experience which will also no doubt lead to restructuring and layoffs. All those things are fine as they acknowledge mistakes and try to correct them. But to then tar thousands of your laid off workers with the “low performance” brush and negatively impact their ability to get new jobs is a cunt’s act.

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                                            Blanks @A Former User
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                                            @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                            Meta’s laid-off ‘low performers’ defend themselves on LinkedIn and Reddit

                                            You’d be a fool to take a job at Meta (or any of the other high profile tech companies if this becomes a trend). Meta has hemorrhaged billions on the Metaverse and recently indicated layoffs were because of it, Then Zuckerberg recently appeared to have acknowledged that his years of enshittifcation aren’t working and promised a return to the OG Facebook experience which will also no doubt lead to restructuring and layoffs. All those things are fine as they acknowledge mistakes and try to correct them. But to then tar thousands of your laid off workers with the “low performance” brush and negatively impact their ability to get new jobs is a cunt’s act.

                                            They’ve got like 8 job postings for my field and they have been up for months. I never really bothered to research much into how they function or what they are doing, but no wonder they can’t fill these roles.

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