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I saw the headline “Beware of clickbait” and clicked on it immediately 😉

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Cybertooth, NaNoNyMouse

Just one more thing:
Q4’s cost of sales of 61% of revenue is in line with the 2023 full year, so if we assume that Q3’s 85% is to do with one-off restructuring charges then we can adjust the comparison further to get what I think is apples-to-apples:
Q3 is a loss of $0.2 billion and Q4 a gain of $0.5 billion.

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For Q3, the loss was $16.6 billion. For Q4, the loss is $0.1 billion. That is obviously a dramatic improvement

This is a misleading comparison; Q3’s loss included $13.5 billion of tax provision and restructuring charges. A more valid comparison would be Operating income excluding restructuring charges. Q3 is then a loss of $3.4 billion and Q4 a gain of
$0.5 billion. Q3 also has cost of sales of 85% of revenue whereas Q4’s is 61% which looks odd to me without more detail. Other costs to do with the restructure in Q3’s COS?

Bottom line: I don’t think comparing Q3 with Q4 is telling us very much at all and certainly doesn’t constitute a “dramatic” improvement. Possibly some improvement.

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Will Fastie

That’s HDD, not SSD

 

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Paul T

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all the people who make this a great site.

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Elly

I don’t get any pop-up, it just downloads a 1.2Mb zip file called EdgeBlock.zip

 

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BobStr

BobStr wrote:

“Exclude folders” brings up a box where, I guess, I can enter paths to folders I want excluded, but it doesn’t seem to have a place to view what’s included in the first place.

Just a thought; do you need to turn FH on before it will show you the folders?

 

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BobStr, PL1

Alex5723 wrote:

you have to present some sort of age identification which will impact privacy.

The users of these platforms already have their privacy seriously impacted by all the data-slurping going on. Nothing is perfect and this law won’t be either, but we shouldn’t just surrender and let the perfect get in the way of the good.

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Mr. Austin, Alex5723

I ‘m not sure what “reasonable” steps are, but at least these companies can no longer do nothing and say it’s not their problem.

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Mr. Austin, WSbobby-p

No

 

Moderator’s Note: Let’s keep the playground-level arguments (yes, no, yes, no, etc.) out of this thread or it will be closed.

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Andy M

Try this:
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/move-the-menu-to-the-left-side/

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Thanks Noel. I’ve always appreciated your articulate opinions and insights (whether others agreed with them or not) and missed them when you went AWOL for a while. I hope we see more of them.

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satrow, windbg

Nibbled To Death By Ducks wrote:

And again, their net profit last year was 8 billion-something. Can we get our math whiz in here again to figure out how much of a breath mint that was for T-Stumble?

Total service revenues increased to $63.2 billion in 2023
Net income increased 221% year-over-year to $8.3 billion in 2023
Source: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/business/t-mobile-q4-2023-earnings

So a $31.5 million fine equates to 0.05% of their revenue and 0.38% of their net income. That’ll learn ’em !

Actually the real fine is only half that because “the telecom carrier must invest $15.75 million in cybersecurity enhancements”, expenditure they should have incurred anyway. You know something’s badly wrong when a court has to tell you how much you need to spend in cybersecurity enhancements.

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Nibbled To Death By Ducks

Let’s get the numbers right:

91 million euros is about 101 million USD

Meta’s revenue and net income for the year ended Dec 31 2023 was 134.9 billion and 39.1 billion respectively. See https://investor.fb.com/financials/

So 91 million euros is 0.07% of their revenue and 0.26% of their net income.

This doesn’t change the OP’s conclusion. Chickenfeed.

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Nibbled To Death By Ducks

Interesting. Could it be connected to the fact that there are zero charge/discharge cycles ? In other words, the battery needs to discharge sometimes to stay healthy ? I seem to remember reading somewhere that that is the case.

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