We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:
- Bought an AdTech company
- Added AI features to Firefox
The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.
One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.
The TreeStyleTab extension for Firefox has added vertical tabs for a decade
The private sector takes the profitable popular routes first, which the public system is already serving, meaning the public system would not longer be able to use the fare revenue from the popular routes to subsidize the geographical coverage unpopular ones which are nevertheless needed to get the full network effect
Liefeld's Only Feet must be where Rob Liefeld sells all the feet he didn't draw in the 1990s
"Mommy, they are going to take my thumbs. Please pay the ransom. It's $10k in Amazon giftcards. Mommy, please!"
Why, OpenAI? Why are you trying to destroy the world? We have no defences against voice impersonation
El Salvador Will Keep Putting $71,000 into the President's Swiss Bank Account Daily
FTFY
Yes, yes, keep my labour in high demand and my salary high
Oh no, not racial impurity in my Nazi fanart generator! /s
Maybe you shouldn't use a plagiarism engine to generate Nazi fanart. Thanks
This is probably motivated by the EU decision that since no uses iMessage in the EU, Apple is not legally a "gatekeeper". Perhaps no one (i.e. fewer than 40 million people) uses web apps in the EU, therefore they are gambling that they are allowed to legally gatekeep in that market
Divorcing the author from the work is rather challenging when that author is a living billionaire who makes money whenever you buy any kind of merchandise of their work. While pirating their trademarks without paying is in principle harmless, the moment you cross over into, say, paying money for Harry Potter Lego or Harry Potter Fortnite skins, you are then immediately funding the author's hate campaigns
The instance name is clever, but I think you will find the concept embarrassing in hindsight. I would recommend not doubling down on the cognitive dissonance
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yildolw
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How do you feel about "demonizing" or "dehumanizing"? Same concept, older lingo