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New comment by yabatopia in "Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings"

yabatopia — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:38:33 +0000

Instagram and WhatsApp were far from bets. Both were growing exponentially. Both were serious threats to Facebook's money machine.

Facebook used their lucky cash cow money to eliminate the threat, by offering way more than any reasonable market value. Absolutely crazy money. An offer they couldn't resist, especially the investors.

No bet, just an ice cold rational calculation. Anyone wealthy and crazy enough could have done the same. No skills needed, no risks involved. It's like betting tomorrow will be another day.

New comment by yabatopia in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

yabatopia — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:12:40 +0000

To keep it more in line with other brands:

- Netflix Max: basic subscription with ads, no 4K

- Netflix Max Ultra: basic subscription with ads, but with 4K

- Netflix Pro Max: standard subscription without ads, no 4K

- Netflix Pro Max Ultra: standard subscription without ads, with 4K

You can add a Mobile VIP package for one extra viewer outside your house, but only for Pro plans.

New comment by yabatopia in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

yabatopia — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:33:41 +0000

With zero market share for Google.

Living in AImaginationland must be nice. C’mon kids, let’s all sing the AImagination song: AImagination, AImagination, AIiiimagination, …

New comment by yabatopia in "X-Ploitation: How X Became a Crossroads for Child Abuse and Influence Operations"

yabatopia — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:27:14 +0000

During an ongoing investigation into illegal Russian influence operations on X, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) researchers discovered what seems to be a coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) network distributing “Child Sexual Assault Materials” (CSAM). The network can be observed hijacking hashtags, publishing explicit CSAM videos, and redirecting users to a wide range of other platforms. Due to the operation flooding hashtags, researchers chose to name it “Operation X-ploitation.”

X-Ploitation: How X Became a Crossroads for Child Abuse and Influence Operations

yabatopia — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:27:14 +0000

Article URL: https://alliance4europe.eu/x-ploitation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44934660

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by yabatopia in "Let me pay for Firefox"

yabatopia — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:01:40 +0000

I have no intention to pay just for Firefox, the browser. A browser is not that special anymore and there are plenty of alternatives.

However, I do want to pay for additional features and services, like a solid ad-blocker, integrated VPN-networking, privacy features like email relays or anti-fingerprinting, a safe and reliable cryptocurrency wallet, a smart cross-platform password manager, a privacy focused gmail alternative, integrated detection of fake reviews, bot messages and sloppy AI content, AI summaries, …

Add value to Firefox, in a coherent, meaningful and effective way to make using the internet secure, enjoyable and interesting again. Do that and take my money.

Galaxy Z Fold 7: Samsung made the foldables we've been asking for

yabatopia — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 16:07:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/phones/701076/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-flip-7-fe-hands-on

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511736

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yabatopia in "Oldest boomerang doesn't come back"

yabatopia — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:32:41 +0000

"It was probably used in hunting, though it might have had cultural or artistic value, perhaps being used in some kind of ritual."

Ah, the good, old ritual explanation. Surprised that it’s still being used, instead of just saying "we don’t know".

New comment by yabatopia in "The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer"

yabatopia — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:23:30 +0000

In a lot of use cases you only need to change the host name. https://dns0.eu/ or dns0.eu is not that difficult to remember.

The ip addresses are indeed not memorable, but users who change the settings of their routers won’t have too much trouble copy and pasting an IP address once or twice. Save it in a password manager and you’re done.

Bureaucracy has nothing to do with it, it’s a matter of resources.

Entrepreneur 'humiliated' after London Tech Week turns her and baby away

yabatopia — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:01:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jun/11/entrepreneur-humiliated-london-tech-week-turns-baby-away

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247734

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

New comment by yabatopia in "Oracle to buy $40B of Nvidia chips for OpenAI's new US data centre"

yabatopia — Sat, 24 May 2025 17:00:55 +0000

OpenAI could buy TikTok, together with Oracle. $40B of Nvidia chips would be very useful for that purpose. And it would level the playing field for the next tech wars between OpenAI/ChatGPT/TikTok, Google/Gemini/YouTube+Gmail, xAI/Grok/xTwitter, Apple/AI/? (integration?), Microsoft/CoPilot/Office+Bing, Meta/Llama/Facebook+Instagram+Threads+WhatsApp.

Seeing it like that, Apple clearly needs to step it up a notch. It’s time for Apple to scoop up Anthropic/Claude.

Humble Bundle raises prices for Euro and Canadian subscribers

yabatopia — Thu, 01 May 2025 22:27:15 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/1k7ycn9/humble_bundle_raises_prices_for_euro_and_canadian/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43864071

Points: 14

# Comments: 0

New comment by yabatopia in "Tesla loses ground as Chinese EVs dominate global markets"

yabatopia — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:18:49 +0000

You forgot the total lack of enforcing even basic environmental regulations, the massive government subsidies (diect and indirect), Uyghur forced labor, etc.

And China is anything but a free market. In a truly free market, most Chinese carmakers wouldn't even exist. They mostly exist because Western carmakers were forced to form China dominated joint-ventures, share technology and ownership in order to enter the Chinese market.

Amazing: Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban just one book, the one about him

yabatopia — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:51:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/14/mark-zuckerberg-free-speech-meta-sheryl-sandberg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43368162

Points: 39

# Comments: 5

New comment by yabatopia in "Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikes"

yabatopia — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 21:38:05 +0000

Not a big deal. Coffee is not a necessity. The coffee monoculture is devastating for the environment. Most small coffee farmers and plantation workers don't earn a livable income. Only 10% of the retail price of coffee goes to farmers. The whole industry is exploitative.

Don’t drink coffee. It’s that easy.

New comment by yabatopia in "Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed"

yabatopia — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:29:35 +0000

That was 65 years ago. There are way more sophisticated ways now to influence things.

New comment by yabatopia in "Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study"

yabatopia — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 02:15:34 +0000

Fair enough, but I still prefer the banana. Just a little bit tastier than a raw potato.

New comment by yabatopia in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

yabatopia — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:39:14 +0000

That’s how I remember Nokia in the first half of the 2000’s: peak arrogance. Even if Steve Jobs himself would have given them the iPhone for free, they would have rejected it.

New comment by yabatopia in "Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge"

yabatopia — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 20:52:55 +0000

Unsplash is part of Getty Images.

From 2021: Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26634113)

New comment by yabatopia in "Orbit by Mozilla"

yabatopia — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:44:15 +0000

And it still doesn't work on on Firefox Mobile. Disappointing.