“It was obviously really tough, we parted with a lot of talented people we cared about" - Mark Zuckerberg

“Mark Zuckerberg made more than $28 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge” https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/02/business/meta-stock-surge-mark-zuckerberg/index.html

The US Attorney General John Ashcroft singing his wonderfully jingoistic 2002 masterpiece “Let the Eagle Soar”

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=woLQI8X2R6Y

No need for /s - this is no less illogical than most of their other arguments.

Unshittification

At this point, I’m just so sick of every little thing being a huge struggle

Suffering is inevitable. This is the first noble truth in Buddhism. Troubleshooting Linux is Tao.

well, well, turns out he’s a complete fruitcake. Whod’ve guessed?

Imagine this happening today…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

Kid at school named Miles Long.

Hardly ever use Windows myself, but I’m pretty sure you can just download it from Microsoft and refuse all the nags to register it when you are installing it.

and they will come with full self-driving

I love you, bot.

Linux, dovecot, postfix and a large quantity of pain medication.

Hookers and blackjack coming soon.

Every day is pizza day here!!! That’s what makes us a “Great Place to Work” (GPTW^TM)

Would you care for a chair massage?

Concur. Also long time user here - but prefer to skip the data collection bit. Imagine showing up at the dentist some day and being chided for missing your back molars last Tuesday.

The primary use case is for making sure kids and elderly loved ones are brushing their teeth and keeping the brush charged. Also supposedly senses if all teeth are being properly cleaned, although based on reviews that sounds like a stretch. But yeah, the aggregated data is probably marketable somehow - I didn’t check their privacy policies.

Electric toothbrushes are a thing. It’s understandable that the vendors would like a rationale to track usage. Not beyond the bounds of possibility that in ten years it may be impossible to buy an electric toothbrush that doesn’t track usage and try to phone home to report it.

It was nice while it lasted. Moved to MX.

Presumably, we can expect 404 to eventually replace 42 as the answer to everything.

A German guy once told me that the original penalty for violating that law was that the brewer was to be drowned in his own beer - to be fair, he was quite drunk at the time, so it might be complete bullshit.

Awesome! Here – enjoy another mocha latte on us!