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   gregg r (grheavyroller@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 06:03:48 JST gregg r

   Mussolini reputedly said "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." We're living it.

   In God We Trust will be replaced with Business As Usual

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   culpaplex (hp@social.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 21:42:31 JST culpaplex

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   @skykiss

   That's quoting pravda.com.ua paraphrasing him, not him directly, and they introduce ambiguity by making it sound a little as if he claimed WW3 is going on for sure and the world's just not realizing it.

   In reality he said, "If we don't know whether we're at war, it's always best to assume that we are." At least going by what's in the linked article and the Ukrainian source eurointegration.com.ua it refers to.

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   Terence Eden’s Blog (blog@shkspr.mobi)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 00:03:28 JST Terence Eden’s Blog
   Google has no faith in its ability to launch new products

   https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/google-has-no-faith-in-its-ability-to-launch-new-products/

   Back when I was a product manager for a large mobile network operator, we faced a constant problem. How do you launch a new product to the public?

   Most people are reluctant to try new things. Even in the exciting world of proto-smartphones, convincing someone to download, install, configure, and use a new app was difficult. Sure, we could run expensive advertising campaigns. Send hopeful text messages. Have a big celebrity endorsement. Or maybe get our customer service reps to push it.

   In the end, we pre-installed it on every device we sold. Then we forcibly pushed it to every supported phone on our network. The backlash was incredible. As you might expect, people think of their phones as their own personal space. Having a new app shoved on there felt like an invasion. It took up memory space, true, but more importantly it took up psychological space. We had reminded customers that we thought of them as little more than cattle; a resource we controlled with an aim to extract value.

   Google is in a similar boat today. They have absolutely no confidence that their Gemini AI Assistant is any good. They've run countless tests with customers and it is a dud. But they've invested a lot of money, so it needs to launch. Customers, in the main, decline to install it and they certainly refuse to pay for it. So what's Google's solution?

   They have forcibly installed it, jacked up the prices, and made it impossible to remove.

   These are not the actions of a company which believes in its own products.

   To be fair to Google, it is a problem seen in many businesses. They crave instant success, they want to see massive overnight numbers, and they have a winner-takes-all mentality. But the real world isn't like that. Customers aren't morons but they lead busy and complex lives. You product is important to you, but it is utterly irrelevant to most customers. It is your job to convince people that your product has merits. You have to listen to them and get their consent.

   People don't deserve to be tricked into installing something. Forcing people to use your product is disrespectful

   #google #products #rant

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   Aldo (aldo2@gameliberty.club)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 11:00:09 JST Aldo

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   @LukeAlmighty progressives push society forward, whether you or I like it or not.

   So the trick is to adapt to the times, accept the situation and overcome it using its own power against it.

   In order to defeat "progressives", one must become a progressive.

   In order to put out large forest fires, one may have to start a smaller fire.

   Yaddah yaddah, etcetera etcetera...

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   alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 04:37:02 JST alcinnz

   In planning a future "graphics workstation" hypothetical, after having looked over Blender's dependencies I'm quite settled on the hardware I'd want for it.

   In mid-20'00s terms... PS3-style "Synergistic Porcessing Units" with a XBox360-style GPU (which basically any GPU now) coordinated by (for the sake of it) a Reduceron.

   The GPU would provide large quantities of fully-programmable (if memory-constrained) "compute units", to concurrently process large collections of data.

   1/2?

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   lfa (lfa@hostux.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 21:09:51 JST lfa

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   @psychotimmy
   3/3

   During 2024 I've seen people who keep using palm devices. Maybe I'll get my Handspring out of the box and do something with it.

   In the gaming department, I love to keep enjoying the games I used to play and I prefer to play many of those games, especially on the Amiga system, than modern games. The most modern gaming platform I use is a PS3 with physical games on disc. IMHO nowadays games are no longer games because you have to get a PhD in order to play many of them.