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quiffledwerg | 4 years ago | on: The U.S. Air Force Has Doubts About the F-35

Can I just say “China going after TSMC” is one of the silliest ideas I’ve heard.

I know people discuss it as plausible in some way, but you only need to think for a microsecond to work out it’s not.

There’s so many reasons why they’d end up with zero that there’s little point even starting to articulate them.

quiffledwerg | 4 years ago | on: The U.S. Air Force Has Doubts About the F-35

These are the planes that the military builds when in peacetime controlled by vested interests.

In a real war there would be a much sharper focus on building planes that can fight and win. But that what the enemies of the US are already doing and it’ll be too late for the US when it needs the right planes.

The US is focused on building complex overly technology focused boondoggle machines that take far to long to design and build and cost too much and underperform.

It’s a robot war future anyway.

quiffledwerg | 4 years ago | on: Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs

Bumble gave him a cake for five years service recently, so the company can’t be that bad really.

https://twitter.com/arkann1985/status/1446071099989663745?s=...

Surely we can overlook the whole “give us your damn open source personal projects copyright grab or you’ll be chewing on big legal problems buddy” thing given the companies generosity with cake?

The cake shows that Bumble really are good people.

Reminds me of those famous words “speak softly and carry a big cake”.

quiffledwerg | 4 years ago | on: PeerTube 4 RC

This project needs marketing people on the team.

I’m interested in peertube it’s an exciting concept. When I when to that page I expected a simple, clean design inviting me to download it or use it or whatever. Instead there’s a rambling unfocused page without a call to action.

YouTube is the Mike Tyson of video…. you’ve gotta be much better than this to get in the ring with YouTube.

quiffledwerg | 4 years ago | on: UK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy deal

Yes I think it’s flipping bonkers that a funny picture company can’t be acquired because it’s a competitive threat.

It’s too silly for words really.

It’d be a Monty Python sketch except it’s real.

Or a children’s story in which the wicked witch steals all the worlds smiles and no one can smile again until the spell is broken.

Only in the UK.

The only thing more ridiculous than Facebook not being allowed to buy the funny picture company, is the fact that Facebook is spending $400,000,000 on a funny picture company.

Layer upon layer of crazy.

quiffledwerg | 4 years ago | on: UK regulator set to block Meta's Giphy deal

Things will become very sad on the other social networks.

Zuckerberg is ruthless in his determination to own all the funny gifs and good times.

It’s not fair cause nothing will be left for Twitter, making it all just people yelling at each other and no one laughing at funny cats and memes.

If this deal is not stopped then Zuckerberg will have bought much of the worlds supply of laughs. He’s shown he’s willing to use those laughs against us.

It’s a dystopian future that I’m glad the UK is standing up against. Thank god there’s a democracy that stands against such devastating overreach.

We suspect zuckerberg’s grand plan is to lock away all the worlds laughs in a big vault so no one can get them, and finally the world will be under his control. Unless The Incredibles are sent in to Facebook headquarters to break in and steal the worlds sense of humor back.

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