• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      9 months ago

      Hey, it’s not just fancy autocomplete!

      Thanks to years of innovation, it’s now copyright infringement as well.

  • alekwithak@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    No one is ever concerned with how much energy is used to feed ads to the entire population of earth 24/7.

    • Liz@midwest.social
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      9 months ago

      Please propose a law or regulation structure for significantly reducing or eliminating advertisements. I’m serious. I fucking hate ads. I just don’t have a reasonable or effective way to get rid of them.

      Edit: Hey actually I just thought of one! If the consumer is paying for the product, it can’t come with ads, including things like product placement or ad reads!

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    9 months ago

    …and, hear me out, that will be perfect for keeping messages untraceable by the government. Every single of those 200,000 computers will have full copies of all the messages ever transmitted, unencrypted, but they’ll never be able to tell who wrote them and who they were for.

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    The real charlatans were the “the technology has promise” people. No, the technology was dumb.

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      9 months ago

      He says on a decentralized platform that became popular because the centralized equivalent became hostile towards their users.