Great summary, but I want to point out that the reality of why they’re doing this is to pander to racist voters who were told their opinion by a highly effective villification campaign against this woman in tabloid newspapers.
Once these things gain traction, politicians always kowtow to the loudest public opinions
Which is also exactly how Signal works too; I migrated both two days ago. Process was virtually identical.
I much prefer Signal, but can’t judge WhatsApp to harshly on this tbh.
Mark Zuckerberg needs to tread carefully or he might have to spend another afternoon answering the nonsensical questions of a bunch of geriatric luddites.
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The useful idiot certainly keeps himself busy doesn’t he
I mean, yeah, doesn’t everyone?
This is also slightly off. It was primarily to eliminate third party apps from the existing landscape. Reddit want money from users in one of two ways:
Due to the extortionate pricing, (2) was only ever hypothetical. In reality there was no sustainable model for this for any third party app, even as a non-profit.
The case around AI does exist, but it was smoke and mirrors for Reddit pulling the same nonsense that Twitter did once they realized they might get away with it, regardless of the short term damage it would do to their public image.
I hope he takes this firing as a window of opportunity. With the right attitude he can really ground himself.
Great, now I have to worry about this every time I order a curry
I dunno dude that sounds pretty hamas
As a software user, you can either care about your privacy or not. Caring about your privacy and not either vetting what you’re planning to use or checking that someone else has before using it, is akin to sticking your hand in a fire to find out if it’s hot.
Taking that analogy further, malicious open source software is kind of like a burning building. It only takes one person to raise the flag for it to spread pretty quickly through social media or other means that it is malicious. The whole community doesn’t need to acknowledge the fire for something to be done about it.
That they leak information? I work in commercial software development and I have to do a lot of open source security reviews. The answer is: virtually none.
Private, closed-source software on the other hand… If it could sniff your farts and send the smell to advertisers, it would; in almost all cases.
The app is open source so you can review the not-leaking-your-information that it does yourself.
Windows on the other hand …
That’s the one, and you’re right, it is currently a rebrand but ultimately the same product.
I think having separate apps is the wrong way to go for their “integrate everything in one place” philosophy, over the longer term. I’m eager to see what they do with it next.
They’ve just done the same with a calendar app that I forget the name of. They then rereleased it under their own brand.
They appear to be on an unspoken mission to challenge Google’s suite of apps, so I’d hazard a guess that email tech is a part of that puzzle (along with calendar)
“Mike, we need you to take the tongue this time”
The fediverse is as if you took X, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook and made them all interoperable so you could post anything from anywhere, and all your followers would be guaranteed to see it. And if you wanted to leave one platform for another, you could bring all your content, all your followers, all your everything with you.
NO. NO, NO, NO.
That isn’t what it fucking is at all! It’s not another open standard for five companies to abuse until they’re the only sound that you can hear because they’re drowning everything else out.
I know they’re trying to appeal to the layman but, I dunno, try harder maybe?
Not everything in life is about posturing and followers. The best parts of the fediverse are anonymous and unadulterated by corporate interests and having advertising rammed down your throat every 5 seconds. that’s what killed the open web.
The case for one - do you want a case without Dynamic Flex ©®™ compatibility like some commoner?
I would have previous said a folding lightning cable connector, but the EU have saved me the bother.
His actual goal is in the final sentence of the article and has nothing to do with moral intent.