this is actually a pretty wild headline to appear on the verge frontpage
good on them
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I see a lot of people hate The Verge and I don’t understand why. Is it perfect? No. But, I think they have a pretty solid ethics policy and they call out bullshit.
I like 404 better but Verge is by no means bad.
Maybe there was an issue with them that I don’t know about? Idk!
An eon ago they made a PC building guide that was riddled with mistakes and had to pull it down again and I think that's still where most of that comes from.
IIRC the initial response to extremely valid criticism of the video was also terrible, and they threw the video host under the bus for a rushed video that should've never been produced under the circumstances it was (granted he was part of the terrible response to criticism)
Yeah. I just looked it up. That video was dumb and bad. Shouldn’t have made it up, but the article is still on their site. They did issue a retraction and update the story to correct the inaccuracies.
I don’t know if it warrants the Lemmy hate but I also know that Lemmy hates anything corporate so it is what it is. I’ll still read The Verge as long as they follow their own ethics policy.
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Paywalls mostly (speaking for myself).
That and, back in the day, they trashed Samsung for making big phones, then praised Apple for making objectively less functional ones (no stylus, no Note like features). We started calling them iVerge back then, for favoritism to Apple. Even as an Apple guy, I found it annoying.
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Money and mutually assured destruction (blackmail-able info).
Not just blackmail, if either had the balls to ban twitter I don't imagine the large orange fascist would keep his mouth shut and not retaliate. So it's also extortion!
I thought him and musk had a falling out?
It was performative after Musk's sieg heil crashed Tesla sales.
Musk still donates to them I assume it's not that bad as much as Musk just needed to be told not do that thing where everyone hates him so close to Trump
Musk has already said that he intends to go all in to get Republicans elected in 2028. He and Trump's heads may be too big to fit in the same room, but he knows which side his bread is buttered on.
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If you have an Apple account take a min to report it.
Thanks, this is very helpful!
It’s only allowing me report apps I’ve installed so I’m wondering if I should very briefly install the app to allow that. I’m generally cautions of allowing dodgy apps on my devices.
You don't have to open it. Therefore not being able to grant it permissions to access info.
*I mean that theoretically but it's worth a shot.we can also review bomb it on the App Store.
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They pulled Tumblr over cartoon porn, but using AI to sexually abuse actual women and children is all good, apparently.
It's because they fear what Musk might do.
Twitter should be banned for making CSAM.
Because billionaires like these two, and the corporations that they run, believe they’re largely not accountable to the law nor cultural pressure. They exist in a cloud of privilege that never holds them to account for truth, justice nor anyone’s wellbeing as long as the investors get paid. They are sociopaths.
~~believe they're largely~~ are
I've been an Apple user since the 80s, I used to be penpals with their CFO Ellen Hancock. Would get care packages from their PR team full of promo items. Exchanged emails with Wozniak and Jobs. I was deeply obsessed.
Obviously things have drifted away from the core "underdog" vibe that Apple exemplified for so long, as their popularity and device adoption surged, they've been less of the Apple I knew.
But Cook's behavior this year has me realizing I've bought my last Apple device. Bring on Linux in every form.
I know I don't matter at all, but it would have taken epic amounts of bullshit to make me sour on them, and here we are.
Your individual change is a drop in the ocean but everyone making that change is a tidal wave. I have very recently moved to linux after almost 30 years using windows. It is an incredible set of OSs with brilliant support from a fantastic community and it keeps getting better.
We need to make the change and encourage others too.
You're not alone. Used to be the biggest Apple fan, worked there for nearly ten years until 2023.
Last year I made the cut, the new PC I bought was custom built and is running Linux. My MacBook Air is running Asahi Fedora Remix primarily and the iPhone was sold on. Disconnecting from iCloud was a pain, getting pictures off of their system took me three months but it was worth it. Self hosting my stuff now and 2026 is the year to switch my family and friends over as well.
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I mean Grok is literally being used to make CSAM so it should not only be taken down but the law should get involved in any reasonable country.
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Do you need a back brace to stand up straight, buddy? Because at this point, I am certain you haven’t got a single vertebra.
Just want to make sure this line gets the attention it deserves.
This was a really good article. The author is rightfully pissed off.
Post deepfake porn of them and their wives or husbands on X.
That’s…actually a pretty good idea.
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Everyone watched as Tim Apple bowed and kissed the ring. 'Coward' was already his namesake.
More proof that rules and guidelines only apply to those without power or privilege.
It appears to demonstrate that it's very much profit over principles and values.
Why won't Apple and Google pull it?
Google will pull it as soon as Apple does, they're a follower not a leader.
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Because billionaires like to stick together because they think that they're better than all of us combined.
Because, it's NEVER been about protecting kids, or other vulnerable people. The filthy rich don't give one flying fuck about vulnerable people.
What's stopping people from making extremely cursed deepfakes of these idiots and spamming it everywhere? They've got to get tired of it eventually.
They can afford to hire the Pinkertons to find you.
Not them.... their family members. Spouses, siblings, parents, kids. There are no rules any more.
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They are not cowards, they don't give a single shit about it. There isn't enough backlash to effect Google so Google doesn't care. That is how corporations deal with every subject. They don't treat child porn differently becuase it's one of the more henious offenses; it's simply another rule broken and it is delt woth the same way as anyother broken law or rule: ignore it or throw money at it and admit no wrong doing.
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Fuck Tim Apple and Sundar Google.
All sorts of weird precedents are being set in the shameless kowtowing to the deluded traffic cone
Lawyers are going to be making any kind of weird argument based on some precedent set during this presidency for decades
Time to spread vids of Cook and Pichai 69ing
this was as close as I could get without burning too many rainforests--maybe people with better AI skillz can get an actual image of them fucking
hopefully more leftists/progressives will wake up about how trusting these companies with "censorship" and having closed source proprietary tech/platforms so entangled in our lives is a bad thing. Most in my experience just complain about how we need to tax them without really thinking about how we can disentangle them from our lives. The past 20 years have been this weird bubble where the largest creators of capital (silicon valley) were not explicitly sided with the auth right wing. People have gotten too use to this especially with personal data and just expecting the state to save them.
I like to think this will cause open source solutions and federated ecosystems to become more popular. Maybe i'm a doomer but we will just get more tiktoks about trump is bad and "late stage capitalism". People I think just will never sacrifice convenience in life, its why authoritarianism seems to always win.
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