I do not agree Microsoft is in that category, but they’re mainly a B2B player today.
A little less than 20% of revenue per earnings '25 was from consumers - The rest for business offerings. I’m curious to hear which selection of companies you consider the main ones. Because Microsoft is still top 5 within Tech when it comes to power.
Google hit as big a market share as they could, so their way to grow the search machine was to increase the market.
How do you increase the market? By pushing the most relevant links further back, so people have to go to page 2, 3 or 4. So it’s unfortunately the best financial decision, short term, to enshittify their main product
It’s mostly all of the generated by LLM websites that’s annoying to shift through
As long as blue ray discs are released, there’ll be webshops selling them
For digital media, pirating increases the number of sales
From our understanding, life is likely to start in water - Not sure how much that’s impacted by winds
But I recon life can evolve in billions of directions, so over time something larger might survive on ground and in air
Why would you make it harder than it is?
libre office and you got an open source Office suite
I believe that’s very regional, if there’s a local hiking club you could try to reach out to them.
There’s often forums dedicated to hiking, which have all sorts of hikes mapped out.
But a map service like mapy.com (formerly .cz), has the official marked routes as part of their mapping data
And best of all, it’s based on an American average
Gravity walking is the missing link, lift your foot and let gravity pull it down. You’ll be going down almost running and it takes barely any energy.
It’s best in places without other humans, as you’re basically a locomotive and it takes time to slow down
Only ISBN’d books, so anything earlier than 1965 is currently not requested by them
Now we just need to proof they’ve copied the files onto a second hard drive, so they own two copies
If we’re gonna keep it as a copyright issue, I think people are mostly mad they’re not able to reprint the books themselves if they wanted to. We’re not speaking from a copyright position
The incentive is literally that it’s cheaper to scan, that’s all.
But given they’re only interested in books with ISBN’s, I recon they’re already scanned and available in digital forms. If they’re newer than the 80s, they’re most likely in a document file in a server related to the publisher.
Honestly surprised they’d rather source physical books, than just request various publishers for a price for their combined works - Only reason I can think of, is the physical scan makes other scans like a mobile photo easier to recognise and respond correctly to
If a big company needed a lot of something specific, they’d probably pay a pretty penny and let people going to small lot auctions accumulate a sizeable amount and then buy it from them.
It’s not impossible to buy stuff from small lots at scale, as long as you’re willing to pay a premium
What a wild ride of a Wikipedia page
They fled to the US for amnesty because they don’t intend to do so, but it would sour the American relationship with the UK even further
They’re way more negative in regards to AI on Lemmy than they are on Reddit
The text doesn’t read buy, it reads transfer. Basically force all AI companies to issue one extra share per share currently held and handed over to the fund.
Assume they could be non voting shares, but have them be paid the same dividends as other shareholders
But I don’t get why this would be preferred to increasing capital tax or company taxes
There’s a funny thing going on at EU level, were Danish unions are lobbying against an EU wide minimum wage. As they believe un-unionised immigrant labour will end up with worse wages, if there’s a legal minimum wage they can point to
There’s also laws in place if you’re in focus, that requires permission.
Sure I can take a picture of a plaza and if you happen to be on that photo, that’s bad luck. But I can’t zoom in on you garbling down a spinach roll.
For your scenario of going too close and forcing their way to film voyeur stuff, sounds like harassment