Uh, wut? Why TF would Oracle have any interest owning a social media company?
"Our business partners overwhelmingly want a short video format social site to, uh, complement our suite of backend corporate technology solutions." - No Oracle C-level executive ever
But it also occurred to me that no matter what lifestyle you live, what background, character, personality, financial or disability you may or may not have, everyone gets stopped by red lights.
Police, funerals, ambulances, firetrucks, sports teams, Presidents, and elitist bicyclists may have missed the memo.
Credit where due, it is just my best guess. I have no evidence.
I simply think if you have custom code on a machine to ingest data, creating a federation interface may be more suitable and stable in the long run than a scraper. The extra server load may draw attention or run amuck with security policies designed to obscure scrapers.
Personally, that crosses my mind. But I came over in the reddit revolt and saw lemmy as a fresh start. Privacy isn't easy, but at least make them work for it.
Also, I figure (if it hasn't happened already) some federated instances out there are nefarious, set up to harvest data.
We just had a helicopter doing low passed over our house and watching the flight on a tracker, it was clear it was casing chosen neighborhoods. The lengths someone went to sell whatever info they grabbed means it's highly valuable. The fediverse is open and waiting for it to be datamined.
Can we coordinate with Oregon and Washington to join Canada?
That aside, California leads the US in many ways, but we have a tendency to go too far and do really dumb things. We're pretty good at self congratulations even when other states stare, slack-jawed at our blunders. It's nice to have perspective.
Of all the times companies hire from outside the company, this would have been an appropriate one. Instead, let's go with someone who comfortably knows the system and won't rock the boat. Heck, if an outsider were hired with a "it's time to make some changes" message, at least PR could have something to spin.
In the interest of national security, were ignoring the security part. Winning! Read all about it in the new book Art of the Tiktok Deal for sale now for $59.99!
I'm assuming you're kidding around and all, but I knew some of those dudes and heard their stories. Amazingly kind hearted, honored integrity and pursued scientific knowledge their whole lives.
When has AI been for the benefit of the people more then a trinket to toy with.
It will benefit companies to streamline workflow (replace employees) and lock in patents at an alarming rate. Calling "First!" will cement decades of profit.
Oh, and don't forget behavioral training. You thought invasive ads were bad now...
I did not know they tried to buy TikTok years ago! Huh!
Today I learned.