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[–] 32 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

If you have an outlook or gmail, start migrating off those email services now, before microslop and google evaporate.

It's gonna happen fast when it happens.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Eh, probably they will be labeled "too big to fail" and the US government will go into even more money printing to keep them afloat. Making inflation even worse than it is.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I'm not knowledgeable enough to know what the ramifications of Alphabet's collapse would bring about. I can only imagine good things, though I know Firefox is propped up by them.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    What? No. This is ai data centers new build. Nothing about that would melt their current regular servers.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    The current regular servers proved capabilities that hyperscalers are selling at a drastic loss, most of which can be done with a build run on your PC.

    in order for hyperscale AI to break even, it has to make $6 trillion a year. The ambition was to replace most of the skilled workforce with something cheaper or more productive. (And that also means pushing most of society into ghettos and reservations.)

    The other interest was government projects, such as commanding drone armies and processing surveillance data.

    Six trillion is an awful lot, and its looking unlikely there's that much business to go around.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (4 children)

    Meh, if it happens to large swathes of Gmail users, and I lose everything in that account, I'd be ok with it. Like who fucking cares, honestly?

    Not only would it give me a reason to leave all that bullshit behind forever, since I wasn't the only one, I'd have a legitimate excuse if I actually lose anything irreplaceable.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Like who fucking cares, honestly?

    Anyone who has a little sense of self responsibility?

    even if you don't care at all about any of your emails in your inbox, all the places you registered an account won't care at all that you lost your email account. even if they cared, they have no way to verify you actually owned the account you claim to.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Sounds like a good excuse to not need to respond to 80 things. If everyone expects everyone's email to be destroyed, people will get a fucking break finally.

    Google is a scourge. So is MS.

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