You know what is truly ridiculous? It’s when I installed Windows N (the version without all that bullshit), but each time I launched a game, it complained that some Xbox app was missing. When I finally said, ‘Fuck it, let’s install that crap,’ I learned that it isn’t even possible to install on that Windows edition. Yet they would still show me the error about the missing app nonetheless. Every. Single. Time.

I made a stupid joke

Nah, the joke was fine. They overreacted.

TG is an app for big groupchats and channels

You make it sound like that’s the sole purpose. There are 1:1 chats in Telegram and people actively use them. Everything else builds on top of that.

Anyone still uses Telegram?

Like 1B monthly active users.

I don’t know how people watch YouTube with ads. Premium or ad blocker, otherwise it’s a nightmare.

Recording a 1h meeting with a smartphone sounds like a nightmare.

IMO Skype to this day has the best emojis.

Just a few months ago it was literally Meta itself…

Well, it’s Meta. When it comes to science and academic research, they have rather strict rules and committees to ensure that an experiment is ethical.

In business environments this can help employers spy on their employees. That’s how, I guess.

Hold on a second. For it to be enshittified, it has to be good at the beginning, and I highly doubt that’s possible.

Honestly I though somebody was using drones to throw shit at people below.

It’s like the same but with a background color that has rounded corners.

Pear to pear communication.

Don’t some try to locate public access points nearby? Or is it just an internet myth?

Here, take it: )

Yeah, any business would have to either accept this request or leave the market. Jack Dorsey has no relation to that.

But they can use some other instance. With centralized platforms the issue is that they want to do business everywhere. Russia threatened to arrest Google employees in Moscow, for instance. Even without such threats, they want to have access to local markets. That isn’t a concern for some instance in Ireland that is supported by donations.

What costs money is testing phases, including a lab to hold and propogate immortal cell lines and later production lines to create enough doses for thousands of human trials.

Thank you. These arguments are always hard to read. Sure, small labs are where it usually starts, but without enormous and risky investments, we would never have the drugs we have today. Most of these investments fail miserably, so one successful drug must cover the costs of ten unsuccessful ones. Nobody would do that if their IP weren’t protected. It’s more about reputation than facts when it comes to this topic.

From the article:

The Israeli military uses Microsoft Azure to compile information gathered through mass surveillance, which it transcribes and translates, including phone calls, texts and audio messages, according to an Israeli intelligence officer who works with the systems.

From my understanding, they use AI to automate the processing of text, audio, and video data collected by the intelligence services.

Did you try that with the latest beta build?