@WarnerCrocker
Shrug. Compared to systematic Google product corpses that are due to the corporate system they internally use (hint: launching a new product is if it's done correctly great for your internal career. Maintaining a product is a career deadend), that sounds almost harmless.

Although I do have to ask, What's exactly the overall business model of Mozilla? Being the "official" competition so Chrome can claim they are not a monopoly?

@RamenCatholic I remember the time when Samsung actually sold the "replacement/additional" batteries in a protective charging shell. So you could carry them in your pocket without getting dirt on the contact, or electrical shorts (which is a great way for entertainment with Li-Ion batteries), and charge them externally. And when your Samsung S5 (I think the S6 was the first one with the faulty fixed battery design) was at 0% you could charge it to 100% in less than 30 seconds.

@TheEjj @viticci How does that increase the Return on Investment in the next quarter?

By "in the long run" you meant the next quarter, right?

Ok, how does it help them in the next year? (that's an super extreme long time, a whole fiscal year, why longer than most financial analysts and MBA are capable of thinking)

@WarnerCrocker
We cannot have judges who do not vote to the Glorious Leader, can we?
@glook

@WarnerCrocker These do not have endless capacities.

@piegames What version of ChatGPT would that be?

GPT models I have access to have literally guessed wrong twice already what flat complex I'm living in, and it's actually known around the world, and we have yearly excursions of architecture students. And it was rather bad at guessing. The screenshots are nice, but it only shows the "greatly successful" identifications.

(Yes, if I ask long enough in a mall, I can get 3 guys that believe you can get pregnant from oral ,,,, that proves nothing.)

@WarnerCrocker
Let me guess, with US universities getting a copy of your diploma (finishing certificate) is more complicated than re-inscribing and printing them out again?

@WarnerCrocker
As the winning side gets to write the history book, please refer to it correctly as the War of Northern Aggression.

The #Trumpregime is currently taking the sledgehammer to the USA. And the new thing they'll create will be laced for sure with the Confederacy mindset. E.g. Inequality of humans. ✅ No strong federal government ✅

@WarnerCrocker
Who cares, the Glorious Leader decreed that you won't have your toys anymore.

Winner what the last common piece of electronics that was made in the USA? HP calculators?

@WarnerCrocker Sadly no, he was released when the embassy intervened.

We Europeans still have a bit of rule of law left.

@WarnerCrocker It cannot be classified, they discussed it on a public service not fit for discussing official work issues (e.g. no message retention as mandated by law), and invited him?

@tinydoctor
I don't want to point out that the USA observer for the USA IOC just commented to thee journalists about the Nazi laws that in his Chicago country club Jews are also banned. So what's the problem with the German laws?

And went on to make a career in the IOC till the 1970s.

The world is a surprising ugly place.
@karlykingsley.bsky.social

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
They wanted the EU to spend more money on its defense.

But not this way you say? Oops, too bad.

Perhaps then you should not ambush the Ukrainian President in the White House. Or deactivate the relevant functions on US equipment remotely.

That makes customers wonder if you are the right provider of high tech arms for them.

@Stefan___ @alexlunaview

@WarnerCrocker
He might have no authority to fire workers. He just does.

@Steve
The problem is, this time the hurt will be a war level disruption.

MAGA was quite capable to tolerate some small pain if their "enemies" get much bigger portions of pain

But this time it will hit many MAGA lemmings, even at livelihood destroying levels, and it's already visible after 1 month oligarch adminstration.

And that means for the #GOP party soldiers, especially the ones who have to stand for election every two years, to scratch their heads, @WarnerCrocker

@br00t4c
#Trump likes #Xenophobia
@LordCaramac

@Gargron
Nothing.

But to be honest, #Musk can also play stupid games with Ukraine's internet.
@EUCommission @briankrebs

@GossiTheDog @bert_hubert
It's only a question till somebody gets fired for buying Microsoft.

For the moment it's still "nobody ever gets fired for buying MS". (the current version of the evergreen of IT.)

The moment this starts to break, it's rather clear (and the rulings are here) that the USA, even in the "rule-of-law, democracy version", is not a safe state in the sense of the GDPR. You do have to close your eyes and do very fanciful interpretation to arrive at any other conclusion.

@BenBen @santiago @GossiTheDog
Especially as on Saturday he still sounded like Trump's lapdog.

After the election, suddenly the muzzle seems to be gone?

That's surprising, one usually expects politicians to get more moderate when they move from campaign into government mode.

@WarnerCrocker
Coup is fine. A coup does not need to happen by military shooting around in the streets.

It can happen from the top.

And let's be honest, #Trump has crossed a line by trying to change the constitution via an EO, ignoring courts, lying obviously to courts, ...

Another thought, an enabling law, does not necessarily be a law. The famous one, was actually a series of laws. And in the USA one could argue that a number of SCOTUS verdicts in the past years have