People worried about LG. Use Android, iOS and Windows. Use Facebook and TikTok! Use WhatApp and get shocked TikTok keeps all data, video, images, text and reads it. Same as WhatsApp. Drive a Tesla. Have that Ring on the door and other devices.
Go figure. People are strange.
And yes, that ME and PSP are on every cpu since I can't remember, Thinkpad T60 was probably one of the last ones without spy tech.
That makes no sense. If antisocial "media" platforms make 1000's out of you, while you think that is a "free service", it makes sense for them to pay you, not the other way around.
If you take away the traditional ways such a service makes money out of you (advertising, selling your access patterns and data), but still want to run a service, there are still operating costs and startup investment needed to make it work.
So funds have to come from somewhere to pay hosting fees, bandwidth, caching services, legal fees, etc. etc. Getting people to pay for access is one such way. "If you dont' have to pay for the service, you are the product" has the corollary "If you don't want to be the product, you have to pay for the service".
I'm about 4 weeks to 6 weeks away from launching 'https://blewit.net/' along similar principles - no ads, no tracking, no algorithms, no dark patterns. We're going for a Patreon-style funding model, hoping that sufficient people will be incentivised to support an open and transparent foum that doesn't track you.
It's based on reddit, but since I think reddit blew it (the name is a double-pun: blue and blew it), there are some differences - it is primarily text-based but allows other fences (the ```...``` construct) than just code. You can notate music, or see chemical structure, or write maths - real maths, or plot graphs, or ... there's quite a few things you can pull in.
Just working on a few more things, there’s a network configuration to run through (webserver failover, database failure and recovery, etc) and the legal sign off (the OSA has teeth, failure to comply carries criminal, not civil penalties, so I want all the docs/policies cleared by the lawyer).
"without similar government subsidization" has any US company ever given such incentives? Or accept rescue or any money for gov?
In Europe take a look at VW, owned by the German gov. They are in trouble only because their CEO's and others who decide where they should go and do, they have no idea what they are doing. Zero. Grab a random person on the street and make it VW CEO that it will be much better.
First of all, they never ever never will delete anything. Same as Google or Facebook, they never ever delete a single byte. Even if you permanent delete and they say they deleted something. And that is no secret, Facebook says that.
They need to implement a way to start fresh. Until that happens, handle it.
The only way to start fresh is to use your own models at home. They always start fresh.
Why do you need those online models? Probably you get the same exact ouput from most of offline models.
As always, have an uBlock Origin to block all the crap the site loads. Like all other sites also.
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