For a company whose business model is based on breaking the rules, fighting tooth and nail to gain influence, and eventually just paying the fines, I’d image they forecast this and decided the risk/reward was worth it. It’s just 2% of annual revenue.

CEO is legally required to maximize shareholder returns. Replacement CEO incoming.

I guess it would be better to make Roblox a non profit but then how they gonna get in front of so many kids…?

Fun fact: The timer app doesn’t even need to run in the background. When you started it, it recorded the start time. Now it’s showing you now - then.

You could turn off your phone for 10 years, let the battery die, come back, reset the clock, and the timer will still be running!

If we could function like ants… Sacrifice 10% to save the 90%, that would be a net gain for the species. But nobody is voluntarily signing up to be in that 10% 😅

Perhaps that’s both a feature and a bug of humanity

I think he had as much impact as anyone in his position could possibly have, if not way above average for a whistleblower.

The problem is that the public quickly turned on him, in no small part due to the PR strategy of those who DO have the power to change this. And most of the public shrugged and said what are we gonna do?

His contribution was proof that suspected domestic spying under the guise of homeland security was being widely misused. Which is a violation of YOUR constitutional rights. Of course anyone paying attention suspected it before, but he brought receipts. Many people think he should be in jail or worse because of this.

Unless he’s lying, and I don’t think he has been shown to lie, he did attempt to use proper channels. The media has historically been called the 4th branch of government for a reason - and ultimately that’s where he turned.

The man effectively lost much of his freedom and the people he did it for were unable to take it any further.

The unchallenged winner of capitalism. Wow. Now let’s restart the game.

This is um… Very CCP-like

Maybe. Sometimes different rules apply to government (public) property vs private.

Still just a couple bucks if newsgroups float your boat!

Facebook probably isn’t the one to do it. But paid social media, if it worked like social media from 1999, would probably be worth a few bucks a month.

Unadulterated crabs-in-a bucket thinking

We’re deep into a “move fast and break things cycle” which absolutely means a lot of testing is happening in prod because ev

I get it… If the competition has features you don’t have you’ll lose business now. Telling your customers to submit a ticket so the team can quickly fix it or ignore you is kinda the normal now.

What are you gonna do, vibe code your own solution?

Somehow that guy can make a call and raise a billion dollars or 10.

When you say CEOs are you thinking of guys who are making millions with staff living on almost nothing?

It IS a big hassle. I use Amazon SES for outbound which mostly solves the spam rejection problem based on IP, but the system still has to protect its domain reputation by being setup well. Inbound is an issue because downtime can mean lost email, so I have two other systems acting as MX relays. I also have to deal with spam, monitor disk space and a bunch of other things that for most would not be worth the hassle.

They started this BS a few years ago… At the time they were going to totally remove the program, and finally backed off from that stance if you agreed to use only for non business purposes. Horse was outta the barn though, a lot of people migrated away.

The thing is, Google very clearly and purposefully marketed this as a free for life program to get your family domains on there in return for earning credibility with IT influencers and decision makers. If they remove this program, they’ll burn that goodwill (if any is left, lol) and frankly should return all of the value they got from scanning our data for the past 20 years or so which was a known part of the “free for life” trade.

I’m degoogling as fast as possible and have all except some family members off Gsuite so far.

Immich Nextcloud My own postfix email server (I’m a super nerd) Thunderbird and rainloop email clients Duckduckgo is default everywhere and use searxing in some cases Also have a pihole doing dns blocking of Google’s junk and ublock origin on all home pcs

I don’t have a great replacement for YouTube yet. Actually I subscribe to YouTube premium because I feel like that at least gets creators paid

These are a few of the ways I’ve handled it

The upside of Twitter’s downfall has been the absence of “look what so and so said in a tweet” headlines.

Dang. If I owned Tesla stock I would be a bit worried about this at the moment.

Seems pretty dicey to let an AI anywhere near your wallet.dat

Don’t know why you got downvoted, you’re 100% right. It’s just another layer of abstraction. Like a super high level non-deterministic level of abstraction.