it is not “now”. It is exactly as it was being used in 2020, when the article was written, by the mass media. They were calling “troll” everyone they were disagreeing with.

lmao after seeing your name I can’t believe it was you all the time

I agree on the first part. However this is from 2012 and in the meantime Linus himself realized and admitted that he was not proud of behaving like that and took real measures and seeked help in order to improve himself.

damn. I lost. Give me your bank details to send you your money.

fingerprint login is not secure. period. Being stuck in using a password login is a plus

your memory might not works very well since it was never called plain “mozilla”

the “I” in “AI” is not real intelligence either

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Don’t fuckin buy it.

yes, this is what I’m doing. So, what is your point?

lol or “pay to win”. Pay to have an AI reply for you that will guarantee to get the conversation going

yes, and how long until this be known? If the company self-sabotage itself so profoundly it will just be the end of the company. I’m not saying that their end goal is to survive forever, but this is incredibly shortsighted.

you didn’t manage to reply to any of the arguments above. You just spitted out some basic principles which all of us are aware of. I don’t understand even why you bothered to type these since they also don’t offer anything valuable in the conversation

and what does it prevent them to do the same thing now? In both cases, sooner or later the real users will figure out they are bot accounts. I don’t get how the company will benefit if they have a series of angry users when they realize that the messages were from bots all along? Or are they gonna keep the bar so high that the end users will never realize that they were bot accounts.

still not get it. You imply that these “premium messages” will be messages by AI bot accounts ?

app sponsored AI bots to lure people into paying premium

sorry but what do you mean? Can you please explain?

Attractive people simply don’t need the apps.

and funnily enough, attractive people are being “promoted” by the apps. By “promoted” I mean, that people who receive a lot of right-swipes are pushed higher in the stack of appearing to users because if users were seeing not-attractive users, they would ditch the app.

short answer: not possible without real moderation by people who are getting paid for that.

I’m genuinely baffled that you interpreted any of what I said as garnering sympathy for streaming platforms or their CEOs.

then explain me why you mentioned the “operating at a loss” thing. What does it prove in your argument? What does this offer in the dialog and please explain me if the CEO of a said company which is “operating at a loss” walks out with millions in their pockets or not. And also what will happen in the owner of a small business which is also operating at a loss. Then compare these two “operating at a loss” and tell me if they are even slightly comparable.

From their generic FAQ:

What is Disney+?

Disney+ is the streaming home for entertainment from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.

from my limited perspective, the word “plus” is to indicate the rest studios/companies that are included in the Disney (parent) company

ok, so the word “plus” is used to indicate that it is a streaming service. Got it