If you want to be pedantic about it - if the NSA, or any such agency demands to place a [backdoor of any sort] in an American company's datacenter, they have to comply.

So, no, they (meta, Google, etc) won't be handing over the data knowingly. But those devices placed there for sure aren't running Minecraft servers.

We recognize that our business is critically dependent on sustaining the trust of customers, countries, and governments across Europe. We respect European values, comply with European laws, and actively defend Europe's cybersecurity. Our support for Europe has always been – and always will be – steadfast.

None of that matters, since they still have to comply to American laws, which means they have to give access to European data if the US government requests it.

It's kinda like good guy Hitler, because he killed Hitler.

Trump's major achievement might be that the rest of the world starts relying less on the US.

In other words, clickbait?

Better yet, just don't connect your TV to the Internet, and use a separate device to watch your content.

Yes, the same principles still apply there, but TV makers long term support had generally been horrible, only adding more and more ads and privacy leeching stuff after purchase.

EU: introduces law that forbids using AI from making high-impact judgment calls on people.
US: ...

That's the kind of nuanced response I expected from lemmy about something becoming less left wing ;)

Meanwhile, I did have to close an email popup to read this article.

So... How can you possibly justify that start button?

Yes it is. Although I personally have far less moral objections to it.

To elaborate:
OpenAI scraped data without permission, and then makes money from it.

Deepseek then used that data (even paid openai for it), trained a model on that data, and then releases that model for anyone to use.

While it's still making use of "stolen data" (that's a whole semantics discussion I won't get into right now), I find it far more noble than the former.

Thank you for your insightful comment, it tells me a lot. Mostly about you, but still.

I only know the guy from the thumbnails and dead eyes. But this really feels like reaching for a justification to hate.

If you've seen (also past tense) any movie by, for example, Bryan Singer, you have consumed art made by a pedophile.

I'm not defending him (I honestly don't care about him), all I'm saying is that without any context, these kind of statements are kinda cheap and meaningless.

Ackshually, Big Ben is the name of the bell inside. This is a picture of the Elizabeth Tower.

“We had to get in on the video action, too — "

No, you didn't.

I'd say that federation is the core principle of the network, so centralisation by piling all the users and content onto one server is very undesirable.
(also looking at you, lemmy.world)

uh huh-huh.

Because triggered and hate circlejerk.

(despite that, it did pretty rapidly remind me why I stopped using it - so much outrage for the sake of outrage)

I haven't used it in years, but I just logged in to check my feed.

Despite what lemmy keeps telling me, I didn't see a single racist tweet.

Turns out that, since you pick who to follow, you get what you sign up for. In my case, a lot of privacy advocates, developers and journalists.

Keep jerking that circle, people.

Yeah, if making money is evil, this guy is worse than Hitler!