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Glad I found this comment. It was my first thought when seeing the headline: haven’t they already been doing that for decades?

My even older laptop ran like this for many years and the battery never swelled. It couldn’t hold a proper charge, but I always saw it as cheap surge and microblackout protection.

Thanks (subscribed).

Because this is c/fediverse? Because OP tagged their post #federated?

I’m a bit unclear about how this federates. Shouldn’t there be a c/unfinishedprojects?

that seems something more valuable that (than?) energy spent

Considering how much energy that used, we’re going to have to disagree there.

Need for perpetual connectivity is bad, but companies have to make money and control their product, AI is solving that.

You really lost me there. Good Bye.

It’s about the EU’s fear of falling back in tech. Which I think is a dumb narrative.

And who pushes the hype that says AI is a must? Who profits the most? Certainly not the EU.

I see two factors here: a) the same “trends” that are happening in the US are happening here too, if to a lesser extent, and b) they’ve been riding the “USA our friend and partner” train for so long, they don’t know how to get off.

US American servers.

Same same on both aspects.

Plus, I think I have a crush on Meredith.

Google/Alphabet continuously suppresses internal warnings, manipulates advocacy organizations, kills safety features, and auto-deletes internal communications

Just par for the course for one of its subsections.

People call it a duopoly but I really think it has been a monopoly for a while, esp. outside the US. This company needs to be broken up. And corporations in general need to be regulated more/better.

Huh. I hate it when people do that. Fake/professional empathy/support. Yet others gobble it up when a machine does that.

The term FUD has been around longer & broader than that. But thanks for the explanation.

Thanks, you saved me a click 😐

Worse actually; in addition to the DDOS the person who runs this archive site also manipulated archived pages. All because they have a hate boner for some blogger.

I just found this code in the archived page:

setInterval(function(){fetch("https://xxxxxxxx.com/tag/"+Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,3+Math.random()*8)+"/",{ referrerPolicy:"no-referrer",mode:"no-cors" });},3000000);

(X’d out actual domain)

That’s a DDOS attack. WTF?

Could you at least share the actual link please?

I hope it fails miserably for them.

That’s not how they think about it. It’s 100% automated, running on generic hardware. If even .1% of targeted customers fall for it far enough to create revenue it’s a success. Just keep it spinning. They aren’t interested in the morals of it at all.

The real problem is that whatever country they operate from does not shut them down immediately, then send the owners/creators to jail.

Just to spell out what many comments already hint at:

There are no US-made routers. “Made” here refers to companies, not where the stuff is actually made. Even if the plastic housing happened to be made in the US for one or two products, the components are still from far away.

Those few US companies paid MAGA for this.

This is corruption pure and simple.

You seem to be criticizing this yet you are exaggerating the situation in a manner that seems to be praising it.