Sounds like someone has lost their marbles

Some people think that one of the founders has the keys to the social media accounts and they also say that person is paranoid. I feel like many adjacent communities have similar toxic behaviours or can be too heavy-handed with responses to criticism.

The real mistake was mentioning it at all. They are the best at what they do, but even compliments rub them and their horde of online defenders the wrong way.

A completely harmless comment like this should be ignored:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381570

But, like clockwork, in comes the “they have the right to defend themselves.”

I’ll probably regret posting this even though I am on their side.

If an article about your product is bad, or you think it is bad, you make a single post and say “We deny the statements.” That’s it. Don’t Streisand effect yourself.

Also, that new phone is hella expensive! That isn’t being negative to the other OS. Stating that Motorola works (or has worked) with Oracle and law enforcement isn’t painting the OS in a negative light. Everyone knows that the other OS is the best choice for anyone who takes security and privacy seriously.

Yup, this was me a few months ago (but my shoes stayed tied…)

I agree with you that it tracks the way you read it. But, they might be using the terms to mean internalizing as mental health issues (anxiety, depression) and externalizing as behavioural issues (rule breaking). This also tracks, at least in my experience.

Fear is a huge thing that should be looked at. Perhaps there is a different term used in psychology. Jealousy too. The right wing people I have to hear can be summarized as: fearful, jealous, and prone to overreaction, but not about real threats like COVID or global warming.

“Company says they’re the best at something” is sponsored content, not journalism.

This is probably like when OpenAI said AI went rogue. They gave it all the training material to answer questions about a particular subject so now it can answer those questions.

My company has a partnership with Mistral. Nobody uses it. I’ll have to send out a survey to my students to see if they use it.

Sounds to me like they should have done one of those group testing situations or focus groups and watched how people really used their devices. They might have been downloading the file, editing, reuploading. Or copy-pasting from MS Office.

From here:

Denmark has ended a pilot that put the open-source-oriented Collabora office suite in the hands of 38 employees at the ministry responsible for digitalization.

The experience of 38 people! Wow.

No official evaluation comparing Collabora’s performance with Microsoft Office was completed. Reports emerging late last year had already pointed to interoperability issues: documents could display blank pages or lose formatting when opened between the two office suites.

So, stop using OOXML.

They swear they don’t watch the news or even use social media that much. Telegram is their main source of craziness.

Who owns media in France is an important factor.

For years, the language used to describe each side has been changing. For those that vote right, the negative things that can be said are indeed the selling points. They are racist and jealous that someone with darker skin has more success, or that their taxes help people poorer than them, or that they are single but two dudes have found love… So, many of the things the left stands for are dangerous to them.

My inlaws here in France are very conservative, eurosceptic, transphobic, whatevers. This is literally what they think will happen:

• Left wins: country turns into Cuba or joins Russia, because they are “bad at economics” the debt destroys everything, we are all conscripted to work, children are trafficked
• Right wins: the violent leftists will riot and roam the streets murdering women and children and forcing men into labour camps or military conscription
• Centre wins: something something Dictatorship

They live in fear. They fear piercings and hair dye. They fear UBI and sex ed in schools. They fear vaccines. They fear the fucking vegan hotdogs at IKEA! But they think they are the smartest people in the room.

Of course they do. Right wing journalists are running out of kleenex here in France. Between blaming the left and labelling this a “pre-civil war” it is starting to sound like someone just translated Trump into French, their wrists must be so sore.