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> or if this was some old guide about How to Use Microsoft Office 97.

Materials like that may be very valuable to software / tech / HCI archeologists soon.

I can't get the tools or local know-how to straighten my scythe blade in a country where every cottage had a scythe less than 100 years ago, with the last scythe-native generation rapidly dying out.

Fast forward a civilizational collapse and that M$ Office 97 for Dummies might be as groundbreaking as a Guide to Using Roman Concrete

> Binance last year handed Russian authorities details of cryptocurrency donations to Ukrainian fundraising campaigns that were used as evidence to bring terrorism financing charges against a Russian IT specialist, law enforcement documents show.

> While it is normal for companies like Binance to comply when law enforcement agencies in countries where they operate make legitimate requests to see client information, the world's largest crypto exchange said in 2023 it had fully exited Russia. [...]

> Binance was under no obligation to provide the data, having quit Russia, and may in fact have had an obligation not to provide it under European Union data protection law, said Mike Bystrov, founder of law firm Stellar Consulting that advises on crypto regulation.

Really sounds like the guy would've been better off just doing a bank transfer through a proper financial institution.

GPT 2 didn't have a chat interface but had made a splash in some circles (think spam-adjacent).

Edit: mixed up my dates claiming DALL E came out before GPT 3

I'd assume active user count

I do not believe that advertising and purchasing is at the top of the list of things what make software sticky

> Your comment made me lol. And it’s very rare for that to happen to me via reading text.

If anyone else reading this is in a place like you've described, try 1900hotdog.com

>search access comes at the cost of tracking

don't you have your identity (through payments) tied with every search query you make when using kagi?

> However "good" native ads are really just a company paying for priority reporting in the style that would otherwise be done anyway, and are probably content that readers/viewers want.

That's akin to saying a person wants some of that "good" cancer.

If I am paying, I am supporting the editorial staff. It's their decision what to report on and how. Paid-for content, even if it's just for priority coverage, compromises the integrity of the editorial staff as well as their ability to curate (not to mention a clear disincentive to be critical of the ad buyer's claims).

It starts when TheBrink publishes a high quality behind the scenes piece about a scam mobile game instead of a truly great indie game just because the latter is not as profitable and cannot afford to buy the ad.

It ends with the entire catalogue of the publication being paid for by advertisers. Much like some influencer's instagram feed. Paying for access to an ad feed is unacceptible.

To add: "the firewall" between the editorial and business sides of a publication is the basic prerequisite for ethical journalism, even if it's an entertainment rag. Advertising that masquarades as reporting is therefore the worst and most toxic, i.e., cancerous, of the bunch.

So I do not agree that native ads are something that should be desired.

from tfa:

>Russian darknet markets control 93% of the global share, generating approximately $1.5 billion in revenue in 2023 alone

from tfa: > Russian darknet markets control 93% of the global share, generating approximately $1.5 billion in revenue in 2023 alone

does seem very relevant to expose Russia's outsized influence.

And building something yourself could be the most valuable way to spend it. For some, it might even be the only respite from the monetization of the entire human experience, i.e., beyond priceless

Indeed, some people would value a device they'd built themselves at way beyond any monetary number.

Most shockingly, someone might feel that such a device was better than free, more satisfactory and empowering than anything $200 and a ton of time wasted on side hustling could buy!

>the more of a black box Meta’s advertising becomes the better the advertising results, even as Meta makes more margin

this one screams 'citation needed' and is not what I'm hearing from people in the field. Would anyone care to share their experience?

tbf, they still work, but my educated guess would be that the overall ROI distribution looks similar to the gambling/adult industries: a minority of the population bringing in an outsized return due to peculiarities in how their brains work

roadside advertising has an adverse effect on driving. We should ban ads before we even consider vilifying music

why not just link directly? https://existentialcomics.com/comic/557

This one seems like the better of the two, as it includes Q124 profit and revenue numbers, as well as the stock's movement

as noted in the AP article, it's at least a second settlement:

> In 2021, a judge approved a $650 million settlement with the company, formerly known as Facebook, over similar allegations of users in Illinois.

when someone litters on my lawn the administrative fine goes into the local/state budget, not my pocket.

I think this adware company is pure evil, but this feature seems like something a user might actually opt in to (as noted in the AP story, quite a few did).

Interesting to see that while meta at least publicly scraps the feature, a similar one on iOS Photos is not even an opt-in – you can't turn it off.

It doesn’t matter, but companies can still get something out of it. For instance, if you’re trying to look more credible, you could share and pin your oped, quote or brand mention from TC on social media. This might fool someone who’s just glancing at your profile to figure out if a company is legit. No clicks involved and all it takes is for the person not to know how much TC has gone downhill.

Having your brand linked to (or even just mentioned) on sites like TC is also something seo spammers swear by too.

that word you’re using, “compatible”, I don’t think it means what you think it means

putting a knife to pieces of lego to cover up the mic and speaker of a device that costs hundreds of dollars for some visual customization is just plain stupid

hard pass on using a scraper’s browser extension

as someone who hates ads, I am appalled that people not only buy these devices, but also give them out as _gifts_.

yeah, skimmed the text, saw his name and closed the article.

nomads pay taxes, then they leave – Portugal gets extra money to provide social services and does not need to care for those nomads when they hit retirement – saving the state money in the future

I guess it’s about having some short-term tax revenue from younger foreigners to help the state deal with an aging population. Since nomads eventually move away, the state does not include them in any pension system.

People in my country sometimes do. As well as uni students, who always say which year they’re in, not how many years they’d finished.

After their 16th birthday, the person is going through their 17th year.

Just like 11:45 can be told as "a quarter to 12"

What about languages that don’t have an equivalent to “the Xs” for decades or centuries?

Also, 1799 is obviosly more than 1700, as well as 1701 > 1700 – why should the naming convention tie itself to the lesser point? After one’s third birthday, the person is starting their fourth year and is not living in their third year.

I feel this is relevant https://xkcd.com/927/