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@erik @lowqualityfacts please don't take them. Leave them there so people can get out.

@evacide conscious threat modeling takes effort.

@hacks4pancakes I'm not the target audience. And I'm completely ok with that.

@lowqualityfacts yeah but does anybody really care? If so, I can't imagine why we all have time enough to cry.

@benofbrown @jalefkowit I used to tell people that Packard Bell was inevitably going to go out of business once everyone bought their first computer, because nobody would buy a second one from them.

@hacks4pancakes @Firesphere I've had the equivalent in London under a very different name. A single serving was enough for my wife and I to walk out stuffed to the gills, and all for about ten quid. Probably more now, given that we last had it about seven years ago.

@lowqualityfacts he was 86'd.

@wendynather it helps to know the antecedent of "this"

@dlakelan FWIW, I've had great results with the (now discontinued) EdgeRouter-X. It was sold at an amazing price point and I get ~970Mbps through it. Strictly Ethernet.

@ithoughtisawa2 @adamshostack I had an employer years ago who I managed to convince to delete the store. Their reasoning for keeping it had been "just in case". I showed them the cost side of the ledger and the data was deleted within a week.

@wendynather @maxleibman @TheBreadmonkey Oh. My. Godfather.

@not2b @wendynather of course it is. When the olds start using it, it's over.

@GossiTheDog the order of events is true, but they were a dying company either way. Their revenue stream largely depended on social media companies promoting their content. When those companies concluded that promoting links that took eyeballs away from them was counter to their own engagement goals, they took that revenue stream away.

The AI pivot was mostly the "burn the furniture" cost-cutting strategy that dying companies engage in as a last ditch effort to stay alive, hoping that something will change in that borrowed time to make it possible to have a long term strategy again.

There are plenty of bad AI business decisions out there. This one probably isn't one of them.

@lowqualityfacts that fact has so many holes in it...

@lowqualityfacts It's waning moon, hallelujah it's waning moon...

@joshbressers nor would it necessarily need high powered computing to maintain reservoirs. Just a handful of underprotected small business websites would be enough.

@joshbressers the word "pathogenic" is the one that keeps coming to mind. And it doesn't require producing full blown AGI. COVID is hardly intelligent, as a point of reference.

@lowqualityfacts so is a snog.

@mattblaze time to get out Form 1040X, formerly known as 1040Twitter.

@jschauma in all seriousness, why wasn't it named Phil, as in Phil Anthropic? Instead they chose the name Claude, which comes from Latin, meaning "lame".