• maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    I hate the euphemism of “joining”. It’s not a happy union of two groups of like-minded people deciding to pool their resources to better do what they do.

    It’s one set of suits paying another set of suits a boatload of money to fuck off, then firing half the people who created the value that made it worth to talk about in the first place.

    Acquisitions are not a happy sunshine and rainbows thing, it’s one corporation devouring another to gorge itself ever bigger.

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        8 months ago

        The thing is that we read so much marketing that it colours our world views too much. Companies only ever do good and happy things.

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          8 months ago

          Apple is a cute little name. If we called them Malus (latin name for genus of apples), we might think differently about them.

          Anti Commercial AI thingy

          CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

          Inserted with a keystroke running this script on linux with X11

          #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
          #!nix-shell -i bash --packages xautomation xclip
          
          sleep 0.2
          (echo '::: spoiler Anti Commercial AI thingy
          [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)
          
          Inserted with a keystroke running this script on linux with X11
          ```bash'
          cat "$0"
          echo '```
          :::') | xclip -selection clipboard
          xte "keydown Control_L" "key V" "keyup Control_L"
          
          
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        8 months ago

        Or how about we don’t link to marketing articles then??

        The real news story for this event is that a big company paid another company a boat load of money to make their app closed source and then launched it while pretending to be a privacy app.