CthuluVoIP

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[–] CthuluVoIP 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes, but Trumps policies will only benefit Tesla both in the US and abroad. This news isn’t relevant outside of the US, where more than 50% of EVs sold in America are Teslas.

Your point is valid, but irrelevant.

[–] CthuluVoIP 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

They meant where this news matters, in the US. BYD currently cannot sell passenger vehicles in America.

[–] CthuluVoIP 10 points 6 days ago

It’s less than $200 per statue. The company they’re contracting likely has a trip charge just to show up. 😂

[–] CthuluVoIP 7 points 2 weeks ago

And me just now.

[–] CthuluVoIP 1 points 4 weeks ago

That’s fair - I should have said major browsers to be more clear. Edited above.

[–] CthuluVoIP 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (6 children)

The overwhelming majority of development to Chromium is done by Google and not the open source contributors to the project. Maintaining a browser is not something that can be done for free as a hobby. It requires an army of full-time developers to sustain.

Given all of the major browsers except Firefox are using Chromium, the best case scenario for spinning off Chrome is that Microsoft would pick up the lion’s share of development to keep Edge up to date.

This is the same reason that all of the major Linux distributions have large foundations to support them.

The DoJ would do less harm to the internet if they just forced Google to sell off Search instead. Then they’d be an advertising and cloud services company that happens to maintain a major browser to serve their ads.

[–] CthuluVoIP 4 points 1 month ago

This is the right take. This move would be so deleterious to the way the internet works on a foundational level at this point, it’s almost ridiculous. It would impact the world less if the courts forced google to sell off Search.

The idea of who might have the assets to acquire this company and be an organization that would be preferable to Google maintaining control of Chrome doesn’t conjure many candidates. The best case scenario would be Microsoft, and they aren’t buying a browser company.

Completely agree with you, fuck Google, fuck their monopolistic business practices, fuck their increasingly surveillance driven operating model, and fuck their gutless leadership for allowing their company to be reduced to an advertising enshittification factory after becoming so deeply ingrained in the way the internet is used that it became a verb.

[–] CthuluVoIP 7 points 1 month ago

I think it’s less that young white men actively supported Trump because the Dems didn’t pander to them, and more that young, upper-middle class, suburban white men were altogether uninspired to vote because in either scenario, they wagered they’d be okay.

The lesson seems to be a very clear and unfortunate rebuke of women as presidential candidates, but very specifically black women, as Harris seems to have gotten even less support in this demographic than Clinton did. It’s shameful, but I believe that if Newsom had been the nominee and ran a near identical campaign, Israel and all, that he’d likely be president elect today.

[–] CthuluVoIP 6 points 1 month ago

It’s the worms. 🤫

[–] CthuluVoIP 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They may not have gotten the memo that he dropped out, though. 🧐

[–] CthuluVoIP 36 points 2 months ago

Electioneering is a hell of a drug.

 

Just a chill video in a series by the creator, Brady Brandwood, about a lobster he bought from a grocery store and rehabilitated into a pet. I appreciate the vibe that Brady puts into these videos and his clear admiration and care for Leon. Thought others might enjoy discovering them, too.

 

Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I'm not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

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