I don't think this changes the dynamic one bit. Every subscription product still optimizes for engagement. Then there's the free speech aspect - sure it's easy to say "we don't want to see cigarette ads"- what about your local mom n pop restaurant buying ads to try and get more people to eat in?
The primordial domino tile is human nature, which you're not going to knock over. The solution is probably closer to what China does - punish companies that don't prioritize/train algos to prioritize the values we hold dear. Basically, just keep beating meta and bytedance until they decide to get their timelines out of the politics game and into the education game, for example, or the democracy game, or whatever your country's main issues are.
I think there's definitely room to regulate "divisiveness" though, and that's a little clearer than "addictive design".
I just don't get why anyone is still arguing against age verification tbh. Large social spaces are required by law to do it, whether its discord or matrix or anywhere that allows strangers to interact.
Love the article and agree with you but the normal persons take is exactly right - "isn't .zip a file extension and couldn't the average person think that it just leads to downloading a zip file or something like that? Aren't zip files kinda weird?"
However I would read luke's articles anytime, no matter the tld.
There's very little money in running a browser for users who want ad blocking, performance, and features but don't want to let the browser company make money the same way most of the internet does - advertising. Most people don't care about seeing ads.
If killing ad blocker support is what keeps Firefox alive, I understand the move and would probably make the same call.
Dramatic headline. They're probably not sharing Ukraine-specific planning info but will continue sharing everything else. My theory is that they can't trust Trump to keep Ukraine stuff secret and I agree with them.
Ehh I trust the reporting and generally agree that RTO was/is executed hamfisted but I dunno if this particular incident "makes" the narrative. IIRC LSE rate has been increasing for many years, maybe most of AWS's existence. This is part and parcel of building something so complex that continues to grow and evolve.
I do expect much better of them and they certainly have problems to solve but this is a big company evolution thing and not an Amazon-specific thing imo.
The real story from this incident is that Amazon’s “aws” partition doesn’t actually have multiple regions - effectively, it’s all IAD in a trench-coat.
This is a big deal. My employer has already started to look at bringing back our old racks from storage and switching back to on-premises. Cannot imagine he’s alone in that.
Can you elaborate what convinced you of this? We were running mostly in us-west and saw almost no impact, despite using a broad spectrum of AWS infrastructure and tooling.
No. As a consequence of the Bologna process all cycles of higher education (Bachelor, Master, PhD) ends with thesis work in most European universities. However it is called different things on different countries. Diplomarbeit in Germany, mémoire de license in France, etc.
> Thomas François, 52, a former Ubisoft editorial vice-president, was found guilty of sexual harassment.
> Serge Hascoët, 59, Ubisoft’s former chief creative officer and second-in-command, was found guilty of psychological harassment and complicity in sexual harassment.
> The former Ubisoft game director, Guillaume Patrux, 41, was found guilty of psychological harassment
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