Dude you are building ads and doomscrolling content that is driving this country’s youth into a downward spiral.
Stop with this “building” BS.
You want a platform you can control, away from Google and Apple - you are not satisfied with slurping up people’s data and turning them into products (pretend glasses and VR crap are just that).
The galls of these SF bozos is just appalling.
It’s sad that we have shipped all our important technology to China where they really are building and instead we have a bunch of clowns pretend ‘building’ crap and are pure marketing geniuses. Nothing else.
• Vietnam War and Bombing of Cambodia: Kissinger played a key role in the secret bombing of Cambodia and the escalation of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, which expanded the conflict, resulted in significant civilian casualties, and destabilized the region, enabling the rise of the Khmer Rouge and contributing to mass deaths.
• Bangladesh Genocide (1971): Kissinger and President Nixon strongly supported Pakistan’s military dictatorship during its violent suppression of Bangladesh’s independence movement, despite well-documented human rights abuses and U.S. officials’ warnings about atrocities.
• Support for Dictatorships and Coups in Latin America: He was instrumental in U.S. support for right-wing military coups, notably the 1973 ouster of Chile’s democratically elected president Salvador Allende, and the subsequent support for General Pinochet’s regime, which was responsible for widespread human rights violations. Kissinger also backed Operation Condor, a campaign of repression and assassination by South American dictatorships.
• Indonesia and East Timor: Kissinger has been implicated in supporting Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of East Timor, which led to widespread killings and humanitarian abuses.
• Undermining U.S. Principles and Rule of Law: Kissinger’s tenure saw numerous secret operations and violations of U.S. and international law, including illegal arms transfers and covert interference in foreign elections and governments.
• Sabotaging Vietnam Peace Talks: He was accused of interfering with peace negotiations in 1968, potentially prolonging the Vietnam War for political gain.
He was a war criminal and a Nixon crony who among other things started the US practice of overthrowing democratically elected regimes to install US backed military juntas
Kissinger can take the blame for a great many things, but not for starting the US practice of overthrowing democratically elected regimes. He was still getting his Ph.D. when the CIA helped overthrow the Mossadegh government in Iran, primarily to help our buddies in England keep their hands on the Iranians' oil.
That piece of corrupt foreign policy has spoiled U.S.-Iran relations ever since, but Kissinger had nothing to do with it.
These days? Kissinger has always had public critics. In fact, in 1973 two members of the Nobel Committee resigned in protest.
Anyways, the first couple paragraphs of his Wikipedia is an introduction.
>Kissinger is also associated with controversial U.S. policies including its bombing of Cambodia, involvement in the 1971 Bolivian and 1973 Chilean coup d'états, and support for Argentina's military junta in its Dirty War, Indonesia in its invasion of East Timor, and Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War and Bangladesh genocide.[6] Considered by many American scholars to have been an effective secretary of state,[7] Kissinger was also accused by critics of war crimes for the civilian death toll of the policies he pursued and for his role in facilitating U.S. support for authoritarian regimes.[8][9]
It's an ad network with an attached optional pair of glasses.
It's the platform Zuck always wanted to own but never had the vision beyond 'it's an ad platform with some consumer stuff in it'.
I am super impressed with the hardware (especially the neural band) but it just so happens that a very pricey car is being directly sold by an oil company as a trojan horse.
We all know what the car is for unfortunately.
I can't wait to see what Apple has in store now in terms of the hardware.
Someone would have to be dumb to give facebook access to collect data from everything they see and hear in their life combined with the ability to plaster ads over every available surface in their field of view. They'd have to be beyond stupid to pay for it.
If you own the domain for a service used for free by many many websites and have encouraged people to use that service for free I think there is some responsibility to not transfer that to a bad actor.
If he simply made the DNS not resolve to a server anymore I'd be fine with it (and if giving people a warning a few months in advance would be great) but this is not inaction, this is selling trust. It's reasonable to have less than zero trust in anyone that would willingly sell my trust to an unknown third party for profit in this manner.
I think that people should have never used this service or used it with subresource integrity (which by design is not possible in this case), but that's not how it was pitched so now the owner has some responsibility if they want to maintain dignity and trust.
I think this touches on an interesting question. What obligation do free or open source project maintainers have?
Even if a maintainer slaps on a, “I do what I want with this project. I am not responsible for any damages. There is no support” disclaimer, I am not sure that necessarily removes some social responsibilities.
This is not an "open source project", this is a service. When I use a open source project I take it as it is now and take a risk on it not being updated, but any updates are "pull", as in that I willingly take in changes.
In this case the service is "push", which is very different. Any website that used polyfill.io can have any changes pushed to it, regardless of if the author even had known about a change being made.
If my popular project is replaced with a single poop emoji on NPM any existing user is fine (especially since NPM keeps old versions after the whole left-pad thing) and will find an alternative. If polyfill.io replaces their code with
document.documentElement.innerHTML = '💩'
that's not fine, since it affects existing users without any update step.
I think that nobody should use these public CDNs at all, including things like unpkg and cdnjs, or at the very least using subresource integrity. Either way this has been something that has been on the horizon for years and similar to the buying of popular webextensions.
I don't have an answer, but the idea that the person providing you with a free service owes you anything at all just reminded me of this Simpson's quote I think about sometimes.
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Comic Book Guy : Last night's Itchy & Scratchy was, without a doubt, the worst episode ever. Rest assured that I was on internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.
Bart Simpson : Hey, I know it wasn't great, but what right do you have to complain?
Comic Book Guy : As a loyal viewer, I feel they owe me.
Bart Simpson : What? They've given you thousands of hours of entertainment for free. What could they possibly owe you? I mean, if anything, you owe them.
I never claimed bad faith. Lack of professional competency can also cause poor decisions. As it stands, Jake hasn't even admitted to his mistake yet.
This isn't just about an open source project. It's about an online service. The owner could have simply shut it down instead of allowing it to be acquired.
I mean, I own an Nvidia GPU and I'd rather CUDA get replaced too. Very few people besides Nvidia shareholders truly love the status-quo here.
But really, the blame has to be put on the rest of the industry. If you want to kill CUDA, you have to attack it where Nvidia won't defend; make something Open Source and cross-platform. The problem is getting everyone to sit at the same discussion table. Microsoft has a half-dozen accelerator programs in the work and benefits from the ecosystem fracture. AMD is desperate for anyone but themselves to do their work for them. Apple is hedging their bet on piecemeal acceleration while trying their hardest not to fall behind. Google is trying their hardest to distance themselves from hardware and focuses mostly on software. And Nvidia could care less what everyone does, because they're shipping the largest servers out of everyone mentioned.
> Microsoft is truly unstoppable no matter which way this whole AI race goes.
I can forsee one way they get crushed. If OpenAI keeps dealing in risky business with celebrities and intellectual property, Microsoft might be forced to divest one way or another. Without their OpenAI deal, Microsoft is in a much worse position more similar to Google. If everyone else is willing to ante-up on an Open Source CUDA alternative, then Microsoft's window closes to exploit the demand for a solution. Slim chance that everyone buries their hatchets though.
Great point - an analogy comes to mind: MSFT (and Adobe) were totally okay with (and even encouraged) students pirating Windows/Photoshop etc in non-Western countries in the hopes they grow up and carry that knowledge in a future legal venture.
They were right.
This is the hardware equivalent of that.
Only until CUDA is replaceable though: and who is gonna do that? Intel better carry through their promises in this regard.
I am sure you can make a similar argument that the chance of hitting 31 on a roulette table is ‘lower’ compared to 2021 highs or whatever imaginary gambling stat we can conjure up.
These are all made up numbers so number go down or up isn’t the issue here.
Stop with this “building” BS.
You want a platform you can control, away from Google and Apple - you are not satisfied with slurping up people’s data and turning them into products (pretend glasses and VR crap are just that).
The galls of these SF bozos is just appalling.
It’s sad that we have shipped all our important technology to China where they really are building and instead we have a bunch of clowns pretend ‘building’ crap and are pure marketing geniuses. Nothing else.