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  • Spain also tried to tell Google News to pay up for what they offered for free to people. Google simply shut it down. I haven’t checked up to see if news agencies floundered, went elsewhere or thrived as the rich touted would happen.

    Canada is claiming the same issues. I suspect there is a symbiotic relationship between news agencies and social media that connects eyes with publishers.

    I agree with the general sentiment that Facebook users are more siloed than those heading to Google News. But paying to show a snippet just isn’t feasible.



  • He may be trying to give Pootin a way to blame the ministry of defense for providing Pootin, Wagner and the Russian people false information. A way for Pootin to blame someone not named prigozhin. Sadly with the ministry of defense making public statements against prigozhin they are trying to force Pootin to pick between the two. Either way it is a win for us.





  • This seems to confirm the motivations behind why the company is pushing more for requiring WFH. For a company with global impact and global offices they have kept doubling down on keeping their engineering siloed in Mountain View. It is funny how much better MTV traffic is when Google has Sundar days (days off granted by the CEO). Everybody hates the traffic but it is self-inflicted. The answer is remote, but the behemoth will need to justify it’s decisions made 6 years ago



  • While infra is much easier now, there are still a number of rough edges that drive non-technical people to managed solutions. While great for getting things going the costs demand your product make a certain amount per month and per byte transferred and per CPU cycle spent processing that request.

    With as many AI companies wanting training data the Reddit API is going to get hammered. Most of those companies will likely be unable to pay the fees so they’ll go elsewhere, hopefully to the fediverse. Also, given time we won’t need petabytes of training data. I expect this API money grab to be shortsighted both from the emigration we’re seeing now and tech improving.