It’s an infuriating dark pattern that Facebook themselves have created.

I don’t think most business owners realize what’s even happening when they post their ads. I’ve had it happen a few times now where I saw a slightly interesting image in an ad and wanted to zoom in (e.g. to read the specs of a laptop being advertised), but when I tapped it BAM redirect to a Messenger conversation.

Classic enshittification: there’s a spreadsheet somewhere in Meta HQ that some dickhead middle-manager made proving that it increased conversion numbers, but doesn’t measure how pissed off it makes their users, or how long-term toxic it is to the brands using that feature.

They still have to develop the software.

The Samsung Galaxy Fold was released 7 years ago.

This is hilarious to me because all I hear from Apple fanbois about why iPhones are always years behind Samsung et al on new features is because “Apple don’t release things until they work properly”

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Unbelievable.

By which I mean, I literally don’t believe this story as presented. There’s definitely some details missing.

You do realize that being obnoxious to people who don’t share your support of violence as a teaching method, undermines your whole position? It makes you sound like one of those “I was spanked and I turned out OK” people who did not, in fact, turn out OK.

Last week, Google’s Finland country manager, Antti Järvinen, apologised for the forest clearings but claimed the company had acted “on the best understanding we had of the legislation at the time”.

That understanding being “it’s more profitable to just do it and pay the fine”

No, but they’re devoting time and energy to being publicly unpleasant about it, to the point of being outright obnoxious and hostile towards people who defend it.

financial misconduct

It’s always a grift. Time and time again all over the world, the far right are fuelled not from true belief in their bullshit but from the realization they can make bank by peddling hatred.

yeah. I foolishly thought that if I booked the hotel a hundred metres from where I’d be working, I wouldn’t need a car. Nope.

Also something about the way the cops carry themselves make you feel less safe to see them, rather than more safe. And for a “land of the free” there seems to be so many rules and warnings absolutely everywhere just waiting to trip you up.

I’m reluctant to name individual incidents because the dynamic of forum posts suggests that some smartass will leap in to say “oh that never happens in your country?”, but I can only relate my own experiences, e.g. beggars waiting at junctions going up to my car to ask for money, or a road rage guy in a huge truck that followed me many miles back to my hotel to shout at me for turning into the lane he was trying to turn into. Yeah it can happen in other places, but to me it happened in the US.

In total I’ve been to 10 different states, spanning a period of over a year, and concluded that the US is basically everything they accuse their enemies of being.

I’ve spent time in over 30 countries, including developing and emerging countries, and the US is by far the one I felt the least safe in.

fake: OP is not a frog in a suit

gay: OP did girl kissing

They don’t need to, OpenAI and Anthropic are running at a huge loss to keep it cheaper to use them than to buy the comparable hardware required to replace them. The only way running open source models is cheaper is if you ignore hardware costs, or if you have a very specific and unusual usage pattern (i.e. constant 100% capacity, and not a clock cycle more or less), or if you go with another cloud provider who are also running at a loss.

Imagine if Mazda made an mx-5 EV or Toyota made an 86 EV.

I’m pro-EV in general (pro-trains notwithstanding), but don’t see the point in that. I’d rather they just got the people who designed the MX-5 and GT86 to design EV sports cars on their own terms. An MX-5 EV would just be there to remind you how much more fun the ICE version was to drive.

hang on a minute, there’s spaces around your em-dash! An AI didn’t write this at all, this is fake AI! I call Shenanigans!

I wonder if any of Trump’s supporters remember that his original 2016 campaign leant heavily on the idea that he was great at hiring people, and would replace the swamp with a team of the country’s best and most highly qualified people?

We should start using sliced avocados

Ok, try complimenting a man on his bosom and see how he reacts.

You might read it that way, but it doesn’t make the other reading wrong the way that user SwingingTheLamp was suggesting.

Using established and tested security implementations instead of rolling your own has been considered good practice since forever. It’s not a bad thing.