It is effective at reducing staff cheaply, but it has a huge downside, shared with most attrition-based schemes for reducing payroll: The best employees are also the ones who find it the easiest to leave. The worst employees are also the ones who will grit their teeth and hold on to the bitter end.

It's harder and more costly (in the short term) to do targeted layoffs which allows the company to target low-performers, or those who are low performers relative to their cost. It's the better choice, though.

Lots of the top performers will.

It's also a sociopathic one.

That it's SOP doesn't make it any less so, but rather an indictment against our capitalism-first culture.

It's called a private cloud, it's not rocket surgery, we were doing clustering with machines with only dozens of MHz clock speeds and less RAM than most modern embedded platforms back in the nineties.

Even worse, it installs a special Excel that you can only access through Solitaire, but which still takes up all of the space of normal Excel.

I use Firefox with UBO and occasionally youtube gets mad for a day or two, then it works again. Yes, I've run updates manually.

I still recommend it as long as it works, though.

Sadly I can't recommend Firefox for mobile any more. It crashes on me every day, sometimes multiple times, when using javascript-heavy sites.

You were so close. It's obvious you post as a coward because you're stupid.

Oh look it got mad I insulted its sock puppet

It is when they get it, but I'm not sure you understand the purpose of an archive

It would be useful if they were required to make any training data they didn't pay for publicly accessible...

But they aren't

Don't worry, I have no illusions about reaching him. This ain't my first rodeo where he's the bullshit

Except you can't trust that Google's browser isn't snitching anyway, so no, it's really just a way for Google to keep you using their service without having to process your tokens

It's the techbros who don't understand it, obviously. You agreed to install one thing, they took it as permission to install another thing. Conversely, they also offer to support you, then they release the same product under another name and tell you to go fuck yourself. That shit is fucked both coming and going and you're here to defend it.

"that military is stopping a nuclear armed terrorist state from setting the worlds trade rules."

No, it isn't. America has been setting those rules for decades, and if you don't like it, we will invade you. We are the only nation to ever nuke anyone. We are the terrorists.

Ok coward bot troll.

We do, but we don't get it until we swap the thoughts and prayers for torches and pitchforks. As long as we spend our time fighting over scraps while the billionaires feast, we will deserve the nothing we get.