In Canada meta pushed back (by not letting you link to or summarize recognized free press news sites) due to laws designed to encourage sharing revenue with news organizations for copying their content and posting it without their consent. The result has been a total vacuum of truth, and the platform is literally a anti-vax, agarthan racists wet dream when you open it up as a new user. It's ripe for replacement. I can't believe it's lasted this long.

> laws designed to encourage sharing revenue with news organizations for copying their content

By “encourage” and “copying,” you mean “require” and “linking” respectively. These second order effects were entirely predictable before the legislation was passed.

Is meta less of a cesspool in other countries?

As much as I dislike Meta, these laws are trash - as I understand it the Canadian law was based on the one we have here in Australia, which explicitly defines publishing a link to an article on a news site as being exactly the same (for the purposes of the law) as copying and displaying an entire article.

Then the supporters of the law said Facebook was "using" the news content by linking to a news site, as if they were actually displaying whole articles! Meta generally sucks but these laws (and the people calling for them) sucked just as much.

Yes and it's a subscription based license now.. of course

good heavens - can any thing or any one escape the subscription madness

I'm dimestore cheap, I'd be exploding to frames and sharpening and reassembling with a ffmpeg>irfanview process Lol. It would be awfully expensive to do it with an AI model and the results would be expensive. Would a photo/video editing suite do it? Google photos with a pro script, or Adobe premiere elements, or would you be able to do it in yourself in DaVinci resolve? Or are you talking hundreds of hours of video?

That's easy, the watchmen watchmen watch the watchmen.

If you're going to fire/terminate someone two weeks in advance, you should probably revoke all their access to trade secrets at that time.

I know Intel's a small mom-and-pop shop but it seems like something you'd be able to hammer out with a few days work.

> If you're going to fire/terminate someone two weeks in advance, you should probably revoke all their access

When I worked there, this was exactly the process. All access was revoked immediately (usually just prior to the employee being informed they're being let go). The upside is that you were not expected to work through the notice period. You just got paid for it.

Sounds like times have changed.

AMEN. Doing just fine, so is my family. Didn't need to turn my cost inside out to do it either.

You also get Canadians so enjoy being ruled by your so-called dominated peoples.

Hold onto power? The cult of personality is one foot in the grave from natural causes. Canada has longer winters.

JD and plenty of others will just move in and hold on for as long as they can

Rumours of an Albertan independence have been greatly exaggerated. There's astroturfed big oil preying on grade 10 dropouts on Facebook, And the rest is American CIA bullshit like they've been doing down south for decades.

Speculation (watching this from the other side of the planet): Danielle Smith doesn’t actually want an independent Alberta; she wants the threat of one to use to extract concessions from Ottawa

I think ideal outcome for her would be for independence to be narrowly defeated-that way she doesn’t have to deal with the headache of trying to actually implement independence, but the narrower the defeat the easier it is to use it to pressure Ottawa to come to the table

So Portland bad. Ottawa good. Got it.

Try sleeping next to that shit when you gotta get up a 5 to go support the rest of your nation to sit around and whine on pogey.