No they're not.
The best Chinese models are good, but they're resoundingly outclassed by the likes of Claude.
And that's not to mention the Chinese models are trained off the American models, i.e. they can't exist without the American ones being developed first.
Lmfao, look at this righteous edge lord.
Who needs to think things through, when you can just condemn someone who says anything "black" when you're on team "white".
Talking total debt is somewhat meaningless.
The important number is the ratio between their loss and their revenue.
i.e. the convenience store down the street could operate at a loss before turning profitable, and accumulate far less than half the debt of iHeartRadio, but that doesn't mean the convenience store is the better long term investment. When it turns a profit, it's potential profit is far smaller than iHeartRadio's was.
I don't necessarily disagree.
Though it does raise concerns about government identity systems and fascist governments...
I grew up thinking that was a ridiculous anachronism, but looking at how far the US has fallen, I do understand the concern.
Imho the best option is just OS level enforcement. You buy a device, you set up accounts on them, some can be kid accounts, those ones have their web fetches always include their restrictions.
This is horseshit.
It is worth remembering that many of those who champion Digital Sovereignty today were silent back in 2006, when the open ISO/IEC ODF standard — the pillar of Digital Sovereignty — was announced: not only did they not listen to us during all these years, but in some cases they greeted us with a condescending smile.
If we can speak of Digital Sovereignty in Europe today, it is thanks to The Document Foundation and LibreOffice community members at large, who kept the flag of open-source office suites flying when everyone was predicting their demise, and who continued to develop the only truly open and standard format that guarantees Digital Sovereignty, as it provides full user control over content.
The answer to this, is "thank you for your service". It is / was genuinely valuable. That being said, arguments about what people said or agreed with in the past is irrelevant to discussions about how to move forward.
The basic premise of this kind of arguing is a smell that you don't actually have a real argument to lean on. It's like credential dropping, it's a heuristic that hints at what could be a likelier truth than another, based purely on debate metadata, but that's it, and by their nature / definition, heuristics are constantly wrong.
Insisting on a white knight campaign to make a file format standard when you are not the standard file saving platform is Quixotic. It does not make you an ally of Microsoft to meet users where they're at.
The EU government mandating a certain file format might actually move the needle, a niche documenting software's defaults will not. This is why Microsoft's famous playbook was "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish", not "try and force a niche number of users into making this a thing somehow" (of course, Microsoft has also tried and failed the latter playbook numerous times).
Social media needs regulation for everyone, and I'm deeply concerned about the impact of ID verification on the open web, but at the same time, given the clear harms, it's hard to argue with people attempting some form of regulation, even if limited and imperfect.
No, as someone who has grown up and seen the change, it is vastly different.
I mean sort of, but it's a parenting issue in the way that smoking was for our grandparents, but in some ways, much worse.
With smoking back in the day, our grandparents were addicted to it, and inadvertently modelled that behaviour for our parents (or for other people's kids who thought they looked cool), leading way more of our parents generation to smoke, even though they started growing up being aware of the risks and the impact it was having on their parents.
Social media is operating like that, but one difference is that smoking mostly cost people money... It did also cost them time, but most of that time was paid in years of their lives at the end. Social media is costing everyone their time constantly, day in - day out, and sapping their attention, focus, and willpower... Leaving social media addicted parents even less bandwidth to try and make sure their kids grow up different then smoking parents.
You asked if you were wrong about what is a third party launcher, and they are pointing out that you were.
Your point of view does not matter when it comes to the definition of 'first party', 'third party', etc, because that is not how those words are defined.
Whether or not you like games insisting on you using the game developer or publisher's launcher is separate question from what is or is not a first vs third party launcher.
Somewhere between 4 porn sites and 30 million porn sites is quite the hedged bet.
I feel confident saying that there's at least 6 of them.
Don't buy those crappy plastic bag-clips to hold chip bags, flour bags, etc closed. They're unsatisfying, they wear out and bend, and they just add more plastic pollution to the world.
Instead buy more binder clips. They're made from spring steel, they're strong as hell, they almost never wear out, they can be used to close bags, as small clamps, as hangers for almost anything in a pinch, and they're amazing for building pillow / blanket forts.
I have some from my grandma that she bought 30 years ago and they work just as well as the ones I bought a year ago. The only risk with them ever is rust, and you can just scrub that off with vinegar, add a brush of paint and it's fixed.
Truly some of my favourite robust little items.
Big baby bitch can't even think things through.