All the title is telling me is that [M|A]RR has been so abused, they stopped making any sense.

A company selling dollar for cents would have infinite MRR, doesn't make it a "business", let alone a good business.

Instead, tell us how much do you make in profit/month, not your gross MRR.

but they can scale to 2x spending 1000x IF the business is scalable, no?

$20 x 1000 => $20,000 // not more than what they make a month even if "multiple" here means 2

this is dodgy at best.

Building a $10K MRR website is hard. Building multiple (assuming "multiple" here means >= 3) $10K MRR websites is extremely hard.

I don't know which investors they pitched to, but most investors seeing that number will write a 100-200K check to invest in THE PERSON pretty immediately; unless there was strong red flags in their business model (porn, drug, gambling, etc...)

I'd also ask what can we regular Joes and Janes do to avoid this disaster?

I can't think of anything other than going out and standing on a street with a placard. can we do anything better than that?

The question isn't what must be done; look to the very founding of the United States for wisdom on that topic. The only question is, do people have the collective courage to do it?

USA has enough firepower to kill millions of people in short to mid term without needing any nukes.

Only (April) fools would trust Facebook's technology with anything as safety critical as construction work.

Meta spends a ton of money on concrete, a 1M sqft data center with a 6” slab has one yard of concrete for every 54 sqft of floor, which is around 18,500 cubic yards of concrete.

Any improvements to concrete mixes will benefit them.

Move fast and break things coming to high rise and bridge construction.

Testing your concrete takes too long. Just vibemix it.

Facebook's strength has never been innovation, but adapting to the changes; mostly through acquisition.

With the 20/20 hindsight - I'd say the VR bet was too early for Facebook. Instead of trying to build a future tech, they should have acquired it another few years later, only after the tech has reached a more mature stage.

Meta still has a chance to catch up in the AI race given they are not trying to build afresh, but once again adapt by throwing cash at it (which has been the biggest strength of Facebook and Zuckerberg. see: instagram, whatsapp, reels, and many more...)

I think they were just early with VR in general (they did buy the best VR at the time). And then severely miscalculated what VR would actually be great for.

Eventually we'll get super cheap and light headsets or glasses and gaming will be pretty cool. They should have focused all in on that. It's already a huge industry

yes. Once some other company figures out how to build light cheap headsets, Meta can acquire or copy that tech - and scale.

That's indeed Meta's strength area.

To Github's credit, they have been showing a banner consistently. To my discredit - I never bothered to read that banner until I saw this HN headline

How does that help if you don't go to the github site but just use git from the command line?

Can you use git's Copilot from the command line? If you can't, then you have nothing to opt out from.

It's not git's Copilot it's Microsoft, or at best github's, Copilot.

And Copilot is integrated with IDEs. Doesn't need any interaction with the github site beyond the initial sign in...

They also sent an email.

Did they? Not to me, and I have a 'review this new sign in' from 4 days ago so them emailing me works.

And even if you read the banner on the site, the email they sent, and the announcement itself, you would not see instructions that mention the specific thing(s) you must change in order to opt out.

Sure, you can poke around in the settings and find one that you believe opts you out, but in lieu of clear and explicit instructions from GitHub, you'll have no way to find out. Only the possibility of finding out later that you guessed wrong.

I've never seen the banner. Where does this show up?

It's been on top of the web UI for 2 or 3 days now.

You might have closed it...

Just go to your account settings and find the opt-out option.

Honestly there go months between me visiting github.com, let alone as a signed in user.

right up top. I'm not sure how anyone could miss it.

  $ git pull
  $ vim foo.rs
  $ git commit
  $ git push

That's how.

exactly this. I rarely need to go to the site.

Obviously you wouldn’t see it if you don’t go to the site so why ask?

I hadn't gone in the last 2-3 days. Not never.

Probably have to have adblockers turned off.

I have never seen any app reset/loose setting before.

What are you referring to? I set this to "Disabled" months/years ago and it's retained the disabled setting.

So? You guarantee that this setting is durable and will never revert? Or you guarantee that no client-side bug on that page will not override the setting with null value when you click save on something else? Please.

Nope, none of these are things I said or implied. I was asking whether you were referring to it having reset already.

The chip on your shoulder doesn't make for productive conversation here.

Under privacy.

> Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training

I don't see this. Might be a regional/geofenced thing with the EU, not sure. Or because I have a corporate Copilot license through my day job org.

Strange, looks like I don't have that option at all

https://postimg.cc/LJD5w1rv

I don't see it there, but I do see it in screenshots online. Maybe it was removed or moved.

Still at https://github.com/settings/copilot/features#copilot-telemet... for me.

It's not a new setting, fwiw. I opted out years(??) ago.

Huh, there must be some reason it shows up for some people but not others. Weird.

> Idle speculation has led to baseless rumours of an OpenAI acquisition. I’m not convinced that makes sense but neither does the entire AI industry.

hmm, blog author doesn't know about Anthropic's Bun acquisition, and consequently shouldn't comment on "the entire AI industry"