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minus-squarekereshnull@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 year agoSmells like desperately trying to save on storage costs.
minus-squarestarman@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoIt’s incredibly cheap, no way they don’t have money for storage. They should fire their CEO instead lol
minus-squareCloudless ☼@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 year agoText takes very little space, so I don’t think it is mainly about storage costs. I think they just want to save the data migration costs.
minus-squarevzq@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoThey want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.
minus-squaretoasteranimation@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 year agoerror loading comment
minus-squareCataclysmZA@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThey probably looked at Facebook’s latest dumpster fire involving hauling data outside of the EU and decided to just not find a workaround.
minus-squarexavier666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoIt’s called doing the Elon. Or “musking”
minus-squareCabrio@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agoMusking: the act of becoming an ouroboros of shit producing self consumption.
minus-squareGamey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWe have to email dictionaries till they add that!
Smells like desperately trying to save on storage costs.
It’s incredibly cheap, no way they don’t have money for storage. They should fire their CEO instead lol
Text takes very little space, so I don’t think it is mainly about storage costs.
I think they just want to save the data migration costs.
They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.
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They probably looked at Facebook’s latest dumpster fire involving hauling data outside of the EU and decided to just not find a workaround.
It’s called doing the Elon. Or “musking”
Musking: the act of becoming an ouroboros of shit producing self consumption.
We have to email dictionaries till they add that!