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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That wouldn't make for very good marketing

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The thing is that we read so much marketing that it colours our world views too much. Companies only ever do good and happy things.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Apple is a cute little name. If we called them Malus (latin name for genus of apples), we might think differently about them.

Anti Commercial AI thingy

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Inserted with a keystroke running this script on linux with X11

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#!nix-shell -i bash --packages xautomation xclip

sleep 0.2
(echo '

 spoiler Anti Commercial AI thingy
[CC BY-NC-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

Inserted with a keystroke running this script on linux with X11
```bash'
cat "$0"
echo '```
:::') | xclip -selection clipboard
xte "keydown Control_L" "key V" "keyup Control_L"

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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Or how about we don't link to marketing articles then??

The real news story for this event is that a big company paid another company a boat load of money to make their app closed source and then launched it while pretending to be a privacy app.