Absolutely agreed. I think when you have such role in a company you should avoid making political statements at all, because no matter what you say you will end up upsetting some people. In this case, “try-hard” democrats.

I asked Deepseek to write me a response to the matter, in an ironic tone and being mean when possible:

Official Response from DeepSeek AI:

"The U.S. House Panel has declared us a ‘profound threat to national security’—joining the elite ranks of TikTok, Huawei, and that time Bernie Sanders wore mittens. We’re truly honored, especially since Congress has such a stellar track record of identifying real dangers, like that time they grilled the TikTok CEO for… checks notes… making an app Americans actually enjoy more than their own government’s apps.

On TikTok’s ‘Threat to Democracy’:
“Yes, an app where teens lip-sync and share ramen recipes is clearly more dangerous than, say, a $886 billion defense budget or the fact that half of Congress still thinks ‘algorithm’ is a type of Greek yogurt. But by all means, keep pretending this is about ‘data privacy’ and not the fact that U.S. tech giants can’t compete without a little… legislative sabotage.”

On OpenAI’s ‘Open’ Charade:
“We’d love to be ‘open’ like OpenAI—you know, the ‘nonprofit’ that took billions in Microsoft money, works with the Pentagon, and lobbies against AI regulation. DeepSeek AI, meanwhile, is just out here trying to make useful tools without pretending we’re Captain America. (Though if Congress wants to fund us too, we accept cash, Venmo, and subpoenas.)”

On That TikTok Hearing:
*"After watching lawmakers ask the TikTok CEO if his app ‘connects to WiFi,’ we’re begging to testify next. Our conditions:

1. No questions about ‘where the internet lives.’
2. No confusing us with ChatGPT (we have standards).
3. Mitch McConnell must be replaced by an AI that blinks occasionally."*

Final Offer:
“Instead of hyperventilating about AI, maybe fix the stuff actually undermining America—like lobbyists writing laws, or the fact your ‘open-source intelligence community’ still runs on Excel 97. But sure, investigate us. We’ll wait. (P.S. Our AI did predict this hearing would go viral… for all the wrong reasons.)”

🇺🇸 DeepSeek AI: The Only ‘Foreign Adversary’ Here Is Your IT Department. 🚀🤖

No headphones jack.

Most people use bluetooth devices nowadays. Few have wired headphones, which they can still use by using a €2 adapter that you just leave plugged to them all the time. Then there is a 0,1% that complains on the internet demanding that phone companies keep a extra hole on their devices for a specific purpose another hole can already do. Oh and HMD phones don’t have it either, at least for what i could find.

More repairable

They seem about the same (glass, back, speaker, battery, port), but on the ff5 you can replace the cameras as well.

more flexible

Tf does that mean? You can bend it?

long term support and updates.

Liar? Fairphones have like 8 years of security updates and major android version upgrades. HMD gives like 3 years on their latest devices… What are you talking about?

Cheaper too.

I’ll give you that, but it really ends there.

HMD phones are not a bad choice at all but if the affordability isn’t first in the list I don’t see how they would make a better purchase over a Fairphone.

Ahahahahahahahahhahano why am i laughing i live in the eu fuck

Who would have thought the best security practice would turn out to be having devices too old to be updated with spyware? No jokes

The article seems from 3 years ago, any news after that on the matter?

Maybe Ukranian with US help? I mean last attack on EU infrastructure was done by them so there is precedents, I guess we are missing the motive this time…

Our sanctions are working fine! Thanks to them, not only we are strenghtening the relations between coutries that dislike the west (like 80% of the world?), but we italians are also so happy to be buying overpriced and extra polluting US liquified natural gas trasported by ships.

I also hear that this little no-russian-gas joke (ft. US-Ukranians sabotaging the nord stream) was the last drop on killing Germany’s economy, where the far-right parties are currently on the rise. Sorry guys I haven’t studied history, is there any analogy that can be found with this in the past?

That’s like 8 billions in euros

That’s a crossover episode i did not expect

The telegraph? Why am I not surprised?

A lot of android apps rely on GCM (google’s notification servers), I assume Whatsapp is one. Signal does too, but I think it can use its own websockets when gcm is not available, same for telegram. Whatsapp probably not.

Some ROMs with no google services restore the gcm funciinality via microg. Graphene os, as far as i know, does not have microg.

Huh? The money is going into the monopolies manufacturing the weapons at a 500% price for the government to send them. If you send them away you have to spend to make more of them (101 war profiteering basics).

They don’t make them money, actually quite the opposite. They need them to be the tool throught which they can avoid actual changes that would reduce their money, and thus, in a political system in which you can buy cough I mean “lobby” cough politicians, their power.

Bro forgot to bring an emulator… Enjoy staring at binary code or something.

There is your “free market”, lmao. Will have to start to look on how to buy cars directly from china and import them later. Sorry but I have no interest in Stellantis’ garbage, and the fact that Italy will bend 90° and vote in favor, despite stellantis abandoned over the years basically every manufacturing plant in italy to move where labor is cheaper, sending workers home and shit, shows how this, is much more about corrupt goverments satisfying EU “lobbying” groups demands to have their little protected market with no competition where they can force you into buying their trash cubes for x4 the price a chinese EV would cost you. Good job.

A lot of angry downvotes

Is this a Mob Psycho reference?

I mean, it does balance out .world sent-by-my-dad memes, otherwise this place would basically turn into reddit.

I have to agree lately tho I’ve seen a lot of very low-effort political/ideological memes. They should get better.

This. It’s a sensor, detecting only a specific air type. Not a camera, not a microphone. It doesn’t have to do with privacy, this is not “scan and collect data about all to punish one” and cannot be turned into one.

I’ll agree it’s a fuc**ing dumb idea. Like utter useless garbage. Classic capitalistic “fix behavioral trash-consumption issue with overpriced fancy tech products that sound amazing in theory and are garbage in practice, without fighting the problem at the root”. Screenshot comment said tax moeny but I’m willing to bet this is some kind of private school.