Google should have to clearly communicate to users what they did. Only few will even read and know about this. Rarely anybody will care.

Misbehavior on such a scale should at least be communicated so users can make an informed decision on their continued trust.

Depending on product type and region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_shopping_website#Major_websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman#Other_endeavors

Another CEO resigned, and he took over (for eight days).

Intention and habit. If you strengthen the intention of waking up before going to sleep, you can wake up and get up better. If it’s a dreadful morning you’d rather sleep through or nothing you want to get up for it’ll be a hindrance.

If you have a habit of dismissing the alarm and sleeping again, I’d definitely put it not right next to me but a bit away, where I would at least have to stretch or move out of bed. Make it harder to immediately fall back to sleep.

If you slept two more hours, maybe you needed the sleep though? :)

Before Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform last year, Twitter signed a multi-year contract with Google related to fighting spam and protecting accounts, among other things, the report said.

Sounds like it’s not about hosting their infrastructure but tangential services.

Of course Elon Musk thinks he can anti-spam and protect accounts better by himself and without external cost.

I’d love to see cloud hosters refusing to work with Elon Musk because of all the unpaid bills stuff.

The other reply seems more informed, but I’ll share another technical practice that would lead to increased load and thus risk of DDoS in general (I hadn’t heard of this change and issue of Twitter before reading about it here):

Delivering webpages without a logged-in user means you can cache (remember) commonly returned data and pages. You can repeatedly deliver the same thing.

For logged-in users, this is not the general case. A logged-in user has follows, blocks, and adjusted content selection. So rather than deliver a “standard view” a “user view” has to be generated.

that it’s testing

That’s not quite confirming a policy.

asklemmy post that went viral: I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can’t take up too much space. What food do I pack?

asklemmy post that went viral: I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can’t take up too much space. What food do I pack?

with this being yet another post about it…

Didn’t XMPP just lose to better messenger competition then?

Did the [unidirectional] connection really make a difference to XMPP and its users?

Can you elaborate on them? Stating just the names requires you to already be aware of how they were taken over.

I thought that was the whole point of Wikidata. But I’ve not actually used it yet.

Wikidata is under CC0 license so I imagine that’d be useful https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Movies