WhipTheLlama

Canada shouldn’t become a country where the government decides what we see, hear, and do. They already meddle in that too much, and blocking websites that aren’t engaging in illegal activity is absurd. Will they block the Fediverse next?

All Meta is doing here is complying with the new law. The government said “pay to link to news sites or stop linking to them” and that’s exactly what Meta is doing. It’s another stupid law pushed by corporate Canada for their own benefit, and now they’re surprised at the most obvious outcome.

There is already a foreign buyer ban: https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/professionals/housing-markets-data-and-research/housing-research/consultations/prohibition-purchase-residential-property-non-canadians-act

It’s at a gay bar, but it’s also an official employee event, which is weird. I wonder what the expectations are for employees to attend official events. For me, whether it’s a drag show or bowling, I don’t attend most after-hours work events.

Google is still sponsoring the event, it’s just not an employee event anymore. That’s probably how it should have been planned from the beginning.

That said, thin-skinned Christians can not attend if it’s an optional event. The bible is silent about drag shows.

Huffman claims it’s about things like LLM training that uses the API, as if it isn’t possible to validate apps that want to use the API and only issue keys for approved apps. This could save third party apps while preventing bad actors from gaining access to the data without scraping the site.

No, if bad actors were the problem then the solution would be much different.

A better comparison is formerly popular social news/link aggregators such as Digg and StumbleUpon. Digg dominated just like Reddit for a while, and then it died when users flocked to Reddit after an unpopular change. The similarities are uncanny.

It’s laughable that Huffman thinks people don’t realize how much smaller Reddit is than Google or Facebook.

Most of what Huffman said here is about cost-cutting. If Reddit had 1800 employees before the layoffs, then yes, it’s probably bloated and laying off another 800 employees probably wouldn’t affect the end-user experience.

The problem remains that Huffman sees how users want to use Reddit as bad for the company. There doesn’t seem to be any reason why Reddit couldn’t have monetized their API through ads, making third party apps similarly profitable as their own app. And if their own app isn’t profitable through ads, then what’s their plan? Moving all those users to their first party app doesn’t fix anything.

You should print one in TPU so it’s soft, then put it in a glass container with a safe to handle liquid so it looks like a real brain preserved in formaldehyde. Then you can reach in and pull out the brain and ask who wants to hold it.