Summary: "Google considers that the territory that DPR considers theirs is indeed theirs," a source has told us. "The guy from Mariupol says that because his city is in Donetsk oblast' Google Clown blocked him considering him as a resident of DPR." Those sanctions are, as usual, punishing many of the victims; they punish the wrong people and help the occupier/invader/oppressor. "In this case they definitely punished the wrong person," the source has added. "Being a Ukrainian in Ukraine and a refugee, but also being punished by Google in the name of Ukraine is several levels of ironic." And another person has noted that "this is why i don't believe in the "clown" [...] if you're in the wrong country at the wrong time, there goes your data..."
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Considering the huge proportion of Web requests that come from LLM bots (more so this past year or two), statCounter may struggle to justify the operating costs
The corporate media is projecting or signalling its own dishonesty when it tells us that Microsoft is a very "valuable" company while the data shows Microsoft is also a "market leader" in layoffs
For those of us who turned down those propositions there was a struggle; we needed to justify not having skinnerboxes or "social" accounts in some site run by a private company
In a lot of ways, so-called 'Vibe Coding' is already considered vapourware or a passing fad promoted in the media by managers who try to justify mass layoffs, especially ridding companies of "very expensive" software engineers
"No matter how much financial hocus-pocus they use to reclassify revenues to land in the "sexy" buckets (AI, Quantum), it still smells old and musty - just like this company."
