Comment on Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount

FallenWalnut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Also we shout stop to buy us tech producs completly.

  www.goeuropean.org

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  • Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Honest question: which euro alternatives do you recommend for mail, cloud?

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    • calebegg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Proton mail is swiss and is great. If by cloud you mean cloud storage it also has proton drive; if you mean aws, I don’t know though.

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  • TuxEnthusiast@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    EU is going down the same path. The “EU” alternative stuff is just bogus.

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    • chasteinsect@programming.dev ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      EU is going down the same path. The “EU alternative” stuff is just bogus. It’s just a matter of time before EU starts doing the same.

      It’s not bogus if you are yourself European or if the alternative is Big Tech. But I feel you. There are lots of shitty European companies that are not that much better. I avoided the switch to Spotify because even though they are “European” they gave a lot of money to Joe Rogan and to Trump on his inauguration.

      Also, the EU did recently reject the chat control proposal so at least that’s something…

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    • GameOverFlow@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Us tech is on a completely different level evil wise. Maybe it gets worse but in the moment EU tech is much less evil. Just listen to what the openai ceo says in interviews. 

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    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Chat Control comes to mind.

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  • FallenWalnut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Agreed! There are lots of excellent EU-based alternatives.

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• ji59@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t think AI is to blame. They just don’t need those people. I heard big tech hired a lot of people to steal them from smaller businesses, so they could not compete with them. If those employees had been useful to them, they wouldn’t fire them.

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• biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I want to do that if there is a deal in which part of what I spend is reinvested in hiring workers at humane rates.

  Or, even better, in sharing ownership with the workers.

  The “bodega romanticism” is something I see as a huge societal issue, also because I can imagine a lot of “bodegas” actually dreaming to achieve the same kind of success of Big Tech.

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