This is not a selling point but rather a unfortunate but comprehensible circumstance. Nexus and later Pixel phones have not been anything more than reference hardware without significant sales until the Pixel 6. Google has been a software company that has greatly benefited by android being an “open” platform you could contribute to and use their services on.

The App / Cloud ecosystem has gained a lot of competitors, so Google is doing their best to reverse this course of action by pulling more and more functionality out of AOSP into Play services and now into Cuttlefish. We can only wait and see how other phone manufacturers react to this.

Would be great indeed, but “more neutral” in this case seems to mean vendor agnostic by abstracting the hardware away and have anything run on a closed source google container.

The GrapheneOS team is very aware of their dependence on google. They are planning to either find an OEM for their own line of hardware or a brand whose phones support their requirements other than google. That being said, it will complicate work a lot, but for now it would be to early to jump to that conclusion.

Also, Google couldn’t care less if <1% of buyers flash a custom ROM / OS on their phone, this is about tying the android ecosystem closer to google in general. Most other big phone manufacturers know this and are trying to come up with their own solution, like Huawei had to because of the ban when the orange man has been president the first time.

“The ultimate goal of Google Beam — and it’s manifested on HP Dimension — is to feel like you’re there,” Andrew Nartker, general manager of Google Beam, said during the briefing. “You feel just like you’re there at the table working together … It’s all meant to bring us together and ultimately feel like we’re completely physically present.”

OK but why? There are not a lot scenarios where I would need or even want to spawn a hologram of a single coworker. Looks a little gimmicky to me.

Edit: Didn’t get the joke first lol

Thank you for your insights, they seem valuable at least to me, who is even further away from being a lawyer lol.

the normal way that Corpos avoid situations like this lawsuit is by making qualified statements, estimates within a range, non absolute statement

Would be nothing less than crazy stupid if they were to be found guilty for letting marketing be to honest / lawyers be to negligent.

Now again I am not a lawyer, but in many kinds of cases… well, anything that is entered as evidence, could potentially become public knowledge…

So, forcing this lawsuit may also serve as a way to make such records more widely available.

Would be great to see some antitrust level cases against LLMs using this - as well as hopefully even clearer and more qualified cases - as precedent.

There will be a lot of businesses who feel the (justified) need to hide the entrypoint to their infrastructure behind a VPN.

Wait, this can’t just be another useless DNS blocking, or is it?

Edit: Didn’t get the joke first lol

I’m shocked that this many people feel the need to disobey a rule that is only there to help the children. Next step must be to ban VPNs altogether, and enforcing all Internet users to be identified with their real identity (/s obviously).

Google has scraped Reddit and has basically all of its information, as well as the… basically the entire rest of the internet.

This is a big problem in the making, not only for reddit but for everyone. Apart from the societal implications of people getting their information from a non-deterministic system, deployed by one of ~5 big corporations whose intentions clearly differ from the ones of the people, while also feeding back details about themselves, losing their ability to think straight for themselves, impeding connections to other humans, …

Apart from all that, it will render primary and secondary sources irrelevant. This kills reddits and everyone elses business model on the web as we know it today.

Current lawsuit is over that ‘No’ being a lie, as well as whether or not it was an intentional lie, as in, they knew it would, and lied, and said it would not.

So this might as well be a blatant lie. What I tried to say before is that this question in this particular case is far from being able to deliver a solution to the root cause of reddits own misery. They had a good run, better and longer than most other big platforms out there. But this lawsuit is only some millionaires feeling the need to blame someone for wobbly stocks.

Reddit made it unmistakably clear that they don’t want traffic from people using their API and that they don’t want google or anyone else to scrape “their” content, which I’m pretty sure will have significant impact on SEO. They also have made sure to please potential shareholders by banning a ton of users and communities before their IPO.

As a result, the quality and quantity of discussion on the platform has lowered, some people even tried to mass delete their posts and comments which makes some threads to appear like ghost towns, which has also revealed the insane amount of inorganic communication (bots and the like).

So how exactly did google kill their userbase?

I think you are mixing this up with the function of the executive goverment in a state with alleged separation of powers (one of the fundamentals of democracy).

A president himself sending out forces is in fact not normal.

Bitte gebt mir einen echten (!) Ersatz zu Oatly. Nicht diese DM Barista Testsieger kacke die in jedem Blog empfohlen wird, sondern was cremiges schaumiges unsüßes, wie Oatly halt aber unter 2€ den Liter.

Schon seltsam dieser weltweite Trend politische Ämter an verurteilte Straftäter abzutreten.

Ach was, Verbote als Präventionsmaßnahme waren schon immer extrem erfolgreich. Abgesehen vom Verbot der AfD, die sollte man lieber “wegregieren” /s

Watching old commercial segments on YouTube from when we were kids hits right in the feels every time.

Yeah I did the same with ebooks on my tolino with onleihe for some time. The device itself has amortized pretty quickly that way.

I had a friend that recorded every single episode of the power rangers on VHS from pay tv.

Also, borrowing DVDs from the library was a thing back then (probably still is but noone does it).

I always choose the side of science, but coming to false conclusions and questioning things later on has always been a part of that. Labelling scientific findings as ground truth in a world that changes so rapidly, especially in media and its consumption, seems a bit ignorant to me. Porn not being harmful is such a conclusion imho.

Also noporn does not equal nofap and people use those topics interchangeably on purpose it seems. Sadly that one guy I picked seems to be just a troubled soul with the right intention but wrong execution which is being used as an excuse for people to justify their own behaviour, which is comprehensible.

But then again, probably I myself am wrongfully shouting in the void here. I am not a bigot trying to convey people into thinking what they are doing every day is inherently bad for no reason, but a guy who thinks that this is an overlooked and trivialized topic. As with every controversial and emotional topic though, discussing this with a hivemind is difficult to impossible.

You are purposely missing the point. Just research instant gratification.