archchan

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[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes.

A nonprofit led by Google and IBM executives is working with Semptian, whose technology is monitoring the internet activity of 200 million people in China.

Here as well.

$1.2bn contract with the Israeli government. Known as Project Nimbus, the joint contract between Google and Amazon signed in 2021 aims to provide cloud computing infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI) and other technology services to the Israeli government and its military

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It was never off the menu, just rebranded a little bit.

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago

There's only a JD Vance there.

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dark mode is supposed to be released this weekend! 50 weekends ago.

I stopped keeping up with him to save my sanity and excitement for when I can actually see for myself what has changed with an update.

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

They're killing third-party client access, limiting adblockers, blocking VPNs, and forcing sign in more and more. I sincerely hate it but this was inevitable. They have their monopoly, this is just the "abuse that position and enshittify for more data and money" stage. I hope an alternative takes off because I refuse to play by their rules.

 

Instead of leaving Xitter, they left Mastodon. Proton's trend is not inspiring confidence and this feels like another step backwards.

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 month ago

.world straight up blocks /c/piracy and "preemptively" blocked hexbear.

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

FYI the 41% of instances that block or limit Threads (from the source data which doesn't have every instance), accounts for 24% of the user base of the fediverse.