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Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by rockemsockem on Friday July 18, 2025 @03:55PM (#44609091)
Yeah it's kinda weird.

Feels like I need to go find a tech site full of people who actually like tech instead of hating it.

Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by blibble on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:03PM (#44610753)
I like tech

I don't like meta or anything it has done, or stands for

Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by rockemsockem on Saturday July 19, 2025 @03:38PM (#44618628)
See that's crazy though.

You don't like open source ML (including or not including LLMs, depending on how you feel about them)

You don't like React?

You don't like PyTorch?

Like a lot of really smart and really dedicated people work on pretty cool stuff at Meta. You don't have to like Facebook, Instagram, etc to see that.

Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by cultureswitch on Saturday July 19, 2025 @06:27PM (#44620018)
To be fair, anyone who genuinely likes React is probably insane?

Plenty of great projects are developed by people working at Meta. Doesn't change the fact that the company as a whole should be split in at least 6 parts, and at least two thirds of these parts should be regulated to death. And when it comes to activities that do not improve anyone's life such as advertisement and data collection, I do mean literally regulated into bankruptcy.

Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by rockemsockem on Monday July 21, 2025 @02:09PM (#44638419)
Lol, I try to do as little frontend as possible anyway, seems like React is better than many alternatives though?

The comment I responded to said Meta didn't do anything good, which is obviously affecting their opinion on whether Meta opposing European AI regulation can possibly be good. Certainly there's a lot of not great stuff Meta does.

Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by OtomotO on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:09PM (#44610807)
I like tech, but I despise cults
Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by asats on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:10PM (#44610811)
Don't know if I'm biased but it seems there has been a slow but consistent and accelerating redditification of hacker news.
Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by randomNumber7 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @03:40AM (#44613403)
It's the AI hype and the people who think they are hackers because they can ask a LLM to write code.
Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by rockemsockem on Saturday July 19, 2025 @04:17PM (#44618973)
Idk I feel like there are a lot of non-technical people who work in tech here now.
Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by rockemsockem on Saturday July 19, 2025 @03:35PM (#44618612)
Yeah I think that's part of it.

Probably partly because reddit somehow seems to have become even worse over the last several years. So there are probably more people fleeing

Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by j_maffe on Friday July 18, 2025 @07:35PM (#44611022)
Tech and techies don't like to be monopolized
Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by trinsic2 on Friday July 18, 2025 @08:22PM (#44611330)
No we like tech that works for the people/public, not against them. I know its a crazy idea.
Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by wswope on Friday July 18, 2025 @09:02PM (#44611574)
Your opinions aren't the problem, and tech isn't the problem. It's entirely your bad-faith strawman arguments and trolling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44609135

That feeling is correct: this site is better without you. Please put your money where your mouth is and leave.

Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by rockemsockem on Saturday July 19, 2025 @03:38PM (#44618635)
I think your command of the English language might be your issue
Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by guelo on Friday July 18, 2025 @10:32PM (#44612050)
If you don't hate big tech you haven't paying attention. Enshittification became a popular word for a reason.
Re:Meta says it wont sign Europe AI agreement, calling it gr... by troupo on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:01AM (#44612955)
As others have pointed out, we like tech.

We don't like what trillion-dollar supranational corporations and infinite VC money are doing with tech.

Hating things like "We're saving your precise movements and location for 10+ years" and "we're using AI to predict how much you can be charged for stuff" is not hating technology