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Cake day: August 31st, 2025

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  • You must be new around these parts. Facebook (and the rest of big tech) are monopolists. For the past ~26 years, the tech industry has been using illegal anticompetitive tactics to suppress competition and destroy potential competitors. The government has done nothing, because they’re stupid and think “big = good”.

    An example is Instagram. It was a start up that was growing rapidly, and actually became a threat to Facebook. What did Facebook do? They placed a massive bid to buy the company at like 10x their actual market value. It’s an offer so huge that every investor in Instagram would support the deal even if the founders were against it.

    A sane government would see that as an obvious anticompetitive decision, and block the merger. Facebook should instead use that money to improve their own product and compete fairly. Obviously, that didn’t happen, the merger went through, and Facebook is still the owner of Instagram. Users and the tech industry at large are worse off.

    Look at TikTok’s huge success. If they weren’t a Chinese company, they probably would have met a similar fate. Unfortunately for Facebook, they weren’t allowed to buy a Chinese company.


  • How are they so unable to differentiate a shitty edit from AI?

    It’s just that most people don’t know what you mean when you say something is “AI generated”. With context clues, they tie back to terms they’re already familiar with, and are associated with fake computer generated imagery (“that’s Photoshopped”).

    I think most people have never even seen Adobe Photoshop, the actual software. Like, literally never laid their eyes on the gray window, the layers and tool panels, etc, yet they’ve still thrown the term “photoshopped” around.













  • You shouldn’t be using corpo slop languages anyways. That includes Swift, Go, C#, Kotlin, etc. C++ is independent from big tech. Even though it’s so complex, there are TWO open source and independent state of the art compiler implementations (including one that’s free software).

    Also Mono (open source .NET runtime for Linux) is shit, and .NET apps sometimes struggle to run on Wine. The compatibility situation will probably get worse when Microsoft adds Copilot integration directly into the .NET runtime.

    Edit: if you want a similar alternative, try Haxe!




  • Are you even reading the criticisms people are making, or just asking an LLM to generate responses for you? Or have you developed brain damage as a result of so much LLM usage? Those are the most charitable explanations for your behavior here, because you seem to be incapable of understanding the criticisms. This has nothing to do with “effort”.

    When I said you should seek a mental health professional, that wasn’t a joke. Some people might say that as a joke, but I wasn’t. AI psychosis is a serious thing we don’t fully understand yet. From my perspective, you’re just an annoying Lemmy user/possible troll, which is easy to ignore. But if you’re not just trolling, then you’re probably damaging your health and/or relationships for a very stupid reason.


  • Honestly it’s a pretty well written

    It was not written

    I certainly would try and judge it for its content

    I’m not falling for this engagement bait, and I’m certainly not providing free fact checking for AI generated crap

    Personally I think the author overstates…

    There is no author, and there are no statements; this is junk text auto generated by someone who doesn’t understand the subject matter trying to bait people to drive SEO traffic so they can make money from ads and/or scams