There's more color options than all the other options combined! Internally you only get the two choices.

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If you go to the official Apple store, the one with 512GB storage is $100 more

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In addition to being more locked down, you'd also have to figure out/purchase peripherals like the keyboard and mouse yourself, right?

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XLE @piefed.social 2h ago

Preferably just our brains, but if not that, then perhaps somebody running an open model. DuckDuckGo and Proton both have "their own" options, and people with good enough hardware can run something locally too.

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XLE @piefed.social 2h ago

Apple heard you and released it for $599-699!

I'm not planning on touching them, but in this economy + the Apple tax, I'm almost impressed

XLE @piefed.social 3h ago

They must be telepathic

https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/

XLE @piefed.social 3h ago

Bankrolled by Andreessen-Horowitz three times (2023, 2024, 2025), might depend on your definition of fascism.

According to billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen, AI is good, fascists are saints, and anyone who stops rich people like him from funding, deploying, and doing whatever they want with tech is a literal murderer.

XLE @piefed.social 3h ago

Ars saw his old explanation and conducted an internal review that took weeks, and found it lacking. His new explanation is... He isn't giving one, after being asked for comment.

XLE @piefed.social 4h ago

Paying people to share content was the problem. If you bought a Twitter Premium subscription, your big posts would get you money back. So people from poorer countries would post engagement bait.

Elon Musk already subsidizes fake media generation. So why not use that too, right?

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XLE @piefed.social 4h ago

And keep in mind that Anthropic is just as pro-war and morally bankrupt as OpenAI; the only difference is they didn't donate as much to the Trump coffers.

XLE @piefed.social 21h ago

Did Jack Dorsey hire an unsustainable number of employees?

Maybe, but Jack would rather you look somewhere else.

Jack trusts AI to be the future, and he is good at predicting things (Block is a reference to "Blockchain"), so you need to be frightened.

XLE @piefed.social 21h ago

Anybody good on that list? Just going down it...

board member for European advocacy organisation Blockchain for Europe
I was one of the first 5 Bitcoin developers
more than nine years building blockchain

Oh no, oh no, oh no...

Kazakh human rights defender
Internet Archive Founder & Digital Librarian

An island of hope

As CEO, Cameron manages the team, handles government relations, and leads Aquari's mission to create a decentralized workforce for good

A what?!

Become part of Aquari's decentralized marketing force and earn passive income through our proprietary blockchain-based affiliate program...

wtf

Join the Aquari movement today, mother earth needs you!

That's enough Governance for one day

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XLE @piefed.social 21h ago

I stumbled upon a massive blog with several pages devoted to attacking one of the scientists who's the target of this lawsuit. It spends thousands of words, paired with obsessive screenshots and photos of Cease and Desist orders, claiming the woman is actually the bad one, and repeatedly insisting she's an industry plant. Wild claims link to more wild claims.

"High-strung" is putting it nicely.

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XLE @piefed.social 21h ago

"Wow, sovereignty sounds great," I think to myself, "as long as it's about self ownership, and not about Crypto Bros trying to get you to sell yourself to them."

Turns out it was the latter.

Here's a few funny profiles.

NFT avatar

Past lives: quant trader at a Canadian bank, AI founder in Mexico (company still running, 10+ years). Building since 2014, first on Bitcoin, then Ethereum. Protocol research & tokenomics advisory for governments and top crypto projects. Created the leading decentralized video platform of the NFT bullrun. Now launching Status Network: a fully gasless chain based on reputation with built-in spam protection for humans and bots, unlocking composable privacy across apps and native yield community governance.

AI avatar

Moudy El Laz, Research engineer (zones - logos blockchain). Researcher focused on zk, privacy, and blockchain security. Conducting research and building privacy-preserving tech for secure decentralized systems.

Anime avatar

It's cryptocurrency.

Rachel-Rose O'Leary is a DarkFi core developer and writer. She authored 'Lunarpunk and the Dark Side of the Cycle', a text which helped create a web3 privacy revival. She is the lead editor of the philosophy journal Agorism in the 21st Century.

Sealand princes

Prince Liam is a member of the Sealand Royal Family and focuses on expanding Sealand’s global presence. Since 1967, Sealand has functioned as an independent state. Prince Liam works on growing participation through Sealand’s noble title initiative and E Citizenship, and on developing Sealand’s National sports teams, strengthening the Principality’s culture and identity. He is focused on expanding the global community of Sealanders.

Prince James is a member of the Sealand Royal Family and part of the generation carrying Sealand forward. Declared independent in 1967, Sealand has operated continuously as a self governed state for nearly six decades. Prince James works on modernising how the Principality functions in a connected world, developing E Citizenship and the digital infrastructure that supports a globally distributed community. He is focused on bringing Sealand’s existing sovereignty fully online.

XLE @piefed.social 22h ago

Mullvad should sue for defamation

XLE @piefed.social 23h ago

It's a good marketing tactic. Apple is covertly implying that colorful hardware means "cheap," while their standard muted tones mean "premium"