Capricorn_Geriatric

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Capricorn_Geriatric,

Basic EEE strategy (embrace, extend, extinguish). For example, take XMPP. It was a wonderful federated chat protocol. Google joined it with its Google Talk application. All was well. Until it wasn’t. You see, Google added some “new features” that could be used only with the Google talk app and account. So people flocked to it. All is still well. But then google decides to close the gates - Google Talk is its own thing now and you can’t talk to people on other servers or with other apps. Take what hapoened wit XMPP. Google embraces XMPP with Giogle Talk. Google add some shiny “new features” that are exclusive to Google Talk (extend). Google cuts off XMPP access to other domains other than the Google Talk domain, thus finishing the extinguish phase.

Just replace Google with Meta/Facebook/Zuckerberg, Google Talk with Threads and XMPP with ActivityPub/Mastodon/Lemmy and you can see how it could happen. The XMPP Wikipedia page has it covered very well, and there’s a dedicated Embrace, extend, extinguish page on Wikipedia if you want to read more.

Capricorn_Geriatric,

The basic shape of pentagons and hexagons is almost always the same, but the black-white color combo is pretty rare - the balls are usually white with colorful designs and use paited shapes other than the ‘basic’ petagons and hexagons.

For example, take the soccer wikipedia page The image on the side shows a ball with a design that looks like the emoji well enough at a glance, but you’ll see it’s quite different. If you go on the wikipedia list page for FIFA World Cup balls you’ll see that the ‘Tango’ style lasted for 6 competitions while the ‘Telstar’ (the one in the emoji) lasted only 2. After 2000 the designs got really wild and nothing like the Telstar. And that’s just looking at FIFA World Cups, ignoring all other competitions and events, as well as balls you could buy at a store

If you were to go look at the balls in a sports shop with some 5-6 models of soccer balls, sure, you’ll most likely find a ball that matches the Telstar aesthethic more or less closely, but there will be a lot of variation in the designs that are nothing like the Telstar, as opposed to balls for other sports which are much more standardized.

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Yet Apple throws those phones out of warranty regardless of what caused the fault

Capricorn_Geriatric,

He was just obsessed with cutting things in half

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Don’t forget adjusting for inflation and real money being given back not some shitty gift card

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Isn’t preaching (i.e. telling people how to think) the basis of all religion, especially christianity and especially catholicism?

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Don’t know if it’s Lemmy’s low userbase or the libtards accounting for the low upvote count, but I totally agree at least. Jews being slaughtered during WWII definately doesn’t give Israel the right to do the same to others any way you look at it.

Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)

ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.

Capricorn_Geriatric,

But if it knows everything, it knows nothing. You cannot discern a lie from the truth. It’ll spit something out and it may seem true, but is it really?

Capricorn_Geriatric,

No, just make it a permanent cookie to reject so if the cookies get deleted (as they usually do) you’re back to being tracked

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Imagine Nestle executives finding a time machine and going to all of history’s most famous persons’ mothers and telling them how they can’t breastfeed their kids.

Someone should definitely write a book about that

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Poor people eating their avocado toast now COMPLAIN? UNIMAGINABLE!

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Yup, “our years” sounds way better than “your anus”

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Don’t you worry, the baby will grow in a few years and the cat overlord will have once again what was its to begin with

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Wait, bidets cure COVID?

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Can you elaborate? Don’t want to sound like an apologist, just genuinely curious

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Makes sense

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Not to mention 99% of sites being ad-ridden bullshit while serious responses on forums tend to be short, sweet and more educational than searching

Capricorn_Geriatric,

Well, CD Projekt had the entire Cyberpunk launch fiasco and ID is now a part of Bethesda who basically ruined their IPs so I can see how you could lose respect for them

Capricorn_Geriatric,

The code states that “male students’ hair will not extend, at any time, below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes,”

Does this mean you can’t have hair on the back of your head too? /s

Capricorn_Geriatric,

I can’t see how Unity increasing prices is anti-competitive. If anything, them going brainfuck with fees can only serve to open the market to new players. Also, I doubt they’ll be able to make the fees retroactive, at least for games that won’t get updated.

Capricorn_Geriatric,

There’s also a New Zeland, so that’s nice

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