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My favorite XKCD

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They are not real hitmen, they are just pranking Open source gurus. The idea is that they are so paranoid that they are ready to closed source industry send real hitmen in the night

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Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits

I still find astonishing that tech crunch buys the argument of ML model training.

No one in their sane mind would use the API (that have always been rate limited) for fetch data for text generation. People would use HTTP or, even better, archives of reddit.

Why? Because there is better or no rate limit, there is no need to write anything (only reading) and it will stay free 🙂 Also super fresh data is not dramatically useful (except in very specific corner cases when something in the news change the way we talk)

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Musk claims Meta hired dozens of Twitter employees to build Threads.

  1. Fire people without knowing anything about the business, just for feeling powerful
  2. People go working for competition (it turns out employers don't own employees for life)
  3. Competition is advantaged by the know how of these people
  4. Be mad
  5. Lawyers come with the idea that ex employees retained company property (because, again, you don't own the person). Something either very stupid from Twitter to not ask for corporate equipment or blantly false
  6. ...
  7. Profit (yes, he will profit anyway 🤷)
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We Don’t Have to Live Like This

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No, it's nuanced. People smuggling worked like this... They would call her (and/or other NGO) and say "we just dropped x people in the sea at these coordinated, bye!". She would go and pick them up (she would not make any money out of this).

What the xenophobic party that was (and kinda is) in power wanted is to her ignore the heads up and let people die in the sea. Because all that party promised to his (debatable) electors is more death in the sea (to scare the other migrants).

Also all this is polical because the vast majority of illegal immigration is through Balkans anyway

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