Cloudflare is a vile company, who has destroyed large parts of the web and is almost certainly involved with intelligence agencies. Buying Firefox would push away what users they have left (many of which are due to Torbrowser)
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Nothing. That's why it's a psychosis. It has nothing to do with the reality of how language models generate words without mental reasoning.
You'd typically copy logs, to open issue tickets etc.
Are you saying that, because Big Tech is harming the mental health of American children, this is supposed to redeem the situation somehow?
Or are you saying it contradicts the observation that US has "caused harm at a global scale"? There is no contradiction.
> What is your nationality and what are your nation's contributions to the rest of the world?
Maybe this power posturing would have worked 20 years ago, before America's enshittification showed who its "contributions" were ultimately designed to benefit. I don't disagree that it's urgent for middle powers to contribute to the world. I believe ending their protection of America's value-extracting power is now a great way to do exactly that.
a) This is not about trying to protect the incomes of people working in Big Tech
b) In his talk Doctorow gives examples of business opportunities that are actually being repressed by the laws against reverse engineering
America is a hostile nation, who has sought to align everyone with its interests, under a false pretense of mutual benefit, while instead its tech sector has caused much harm at a global scale. America is now doubling down on value extraction, at an obvious expense to everyone else.
Middle powers should not be granting to America any goodwill whatsoever. There is nothing in it for them anymore, except irresponsible reliance on a bad faith actor.
elon whom you gave your money to will still be a disgusting creature
> But a company can't block US residential IPs if it would also cut off many of their real customers.
since when do companies care whether they cut off real customers? i've been paying for residential proxies for everyday internet browsing for nearly 6 months. because it's the only way to pass the captcha service of another famous company headquartered in San Francisco
I'm glad some engineers realize that technology is inseparable from politics. It always has been. All evil came from engineers who beleived they were above politics. Selecting the tool which got the job done/made the number go up/paid a paycheck is how we got Facebook, Google, Palantir, crypto, AI, techno-fascism and neo-feudalism. None of it would've have happened without engineers blindly applying their knowledge to achieve "purely" technical results, while ignoring the social consequences. With the hindsight of the last 20 years, anyone who still advocates for an irresponsible adoption of technology should be considered automatically suspect