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by IMSAI8080 1mo ago
There was a popular pirate streaming stick sold on Amazon that ran a residential proxy by day and did ad fraud clicks by night.
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by IMSAI8080 1mo ago
It'll be the Chinese. The big Chinese cloud providers have data centres in Singapore for some reason. My Chinese mobile phone sends all it's telemetry back to Singapore, not mainland China.
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by IMSAI8080 1mo ago
My solution was similar. Anything coming from the ASN of a major cloud provider gets a CAPTCHA with a little nuance to allow Google and Bing to index. That seems to do a pretty good job. Also, anything coming out of China or Singapore also
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by IMSAI8080 9mo ago
I recently moved off Hugo as well to a DIY Python static site generator for my own blog. The trouble I had was I found it frustrating to have to learn how to do something the Hugo way when I knew I could quickly code it in a language I was
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by IMSAI8080 11mo ago
I think it comes from a marketing exaggeration of what the card could do. None of the cards of the day could actually produce their own box art (in real time) but the art implies they could in a way they can get away with. It follows the tr
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by IMSAI8080 1y ago
Or related: there's no one to nag you about going to get that funny ache checked out. Men particularly are notoriously reluctant to go to a doctor for various reasons but a worried partner might persuade them.
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by IMSAI8080 1y ago
Indeed. It'll be a gravy train for one of the usual big consulting companies. Billions of much needed cash will be wasted and nothing of any value will be achieved. This ID system is touted as somehow stopping illegal boat crossings (t
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by IMSAI8080 1y ago
Now you mention it, I can see there's a lot of demand for very cheap video ads on YouTube and such and I can see those kind of productions using AI slop and not really caring. I was just surprised by the calibre of client the poster ab
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by IMSAI8080 1y ago
What component of the production process is the AI being used for? Is AI video now good enough for green screen backgrounds or something like that?
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by IMSAI8080 1y ago
It's all about the story that's sold to the higher ups. The higher you go up the corporate ladder, the vaguer the understanding of the technology. The big boss hears from a Microsoft salesman that AI = you can fire 20% of your wor
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by IMSAI8080 1y ago
That's staggering that 50% are using LLMs. Have you tried making a statement in the job ad such as "in-person technical interview will be required for this position". Of course you may or may not choose to conduct the in-pers
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by IMSAI8080 1y ago
Yeah it's probably an ancient web site. This was commonplace back in the day when Internet Explorer had 90%+ market share. Lazy web devs couldn't be bothered to support other browsers (or didn't know how) so just added a mess
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by IMSAI8080 2y ago
I think the sentiment was to keep your content (and audience) portable, not specifically that you don't rely on anyone else's services. If you post everything on Twitter and Twitter decides they don't like you, then that&#x27
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by IMSAI8080 2y ago
My guess is the average technical book is probably in the hundreds of copies over a reasonable lifetime. Mine's sold 91 copies in 5 months. It's a book about how machine learning works. Unknown author, I have no social media and z
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by IMSAI8080 2y ago
Already done for skipping the sponsorship sections in videos.
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by IMSAI8080 2y ago
I'd agree with the article authors figures. I have a small family home in the UK and use about 2000 KWh a year electric only. I have gas heating and water. Electricity cost is currently running at about 28p/KWh. I presume that&#x2
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North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs(bbc.co.uk)
166 points by IMSAI8080 2y ago|221 comments
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by IMSAI8080 2y ago
I live on Bobby Tables Close.
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by IMSAI8080 3y ago
And FreeTube for desktop (just has regular adblock). It's an alternate client with a nice UI with a similar layout to YouTube. https://freetubeapp.io/
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by IMSAI8080 3y ago
Pretty sure it's A/B testing. I'm logged in with uBlock Origin and no anti-adblock is visible. I've seen someone on Reddit complaining they were getting this and loads of people replied to say they were not. They're
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by IMSAI8080 3y ago
There's a book "The People's Republic of Walmart" that makes these arguments. Walmart is a massive company, as large as some entire countries even, that operates an internal economy based on central planning. They tell a
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by IMSAI8080 3y ago
There were huge numbers of Sinclair ZX Spectrum clones too in the 80s from all kinds of manufacturers. Pirate Spectrums were widely popular in the Soviet Union: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ZX_Spectrum_clones
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by IMSAI8080 3y ago
1 star reviews are often skewed by the "delivery company did something dumb" reviews or a part was missing or there was a problem with returning it or that kind of thing. I often just look that the average rating isn't comple
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by IMSAI8080 3y ago
I think the spirit of the original comment is people don't want to do enforced work at someone else's behest in order to live. I agree a lot of people would choose to do some kind of work voluntarily even if they didn't have
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by IMSAI8080 3y ago
Many years ago now, but I did electronics as I felt I could already program in several languages by university age and that was my perception of what a CS degree would do for me.
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by IMSAI8080 3y ago
Well yes. Just to point out that list may be somewhat shorter that it looks as including 9/11 is somewhat of a technicality and it includes incidents that investigators think may be suicide but it remains unproven. That list does actua
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by IMSAI8080 3y ago
It's a fairly common incident. There's a list of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_decompression
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by IMSAI8080 3y ago
Indeed. Pilot suicide is just one theory and is not proven fact. Almost everyone thinks there was a decompression event on the aircraft. Another possibility is hypoxia causing pilot impairment as a result of decompression. Hypoxia severely
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by IMSAI8080 3y ago
That wasn't the intent of the comment. The original article was suggesting Freenom was popular with spammers. I was adding my observation that it has often been Namecheap that is prolific in my spam folder. We then go on to discuss why
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by IMSAI8080 3y ago
What? I have never seen these alleged "entitled gatekeepers". I have been passed to specialists with no issue. The public sector healthcare is excellent and the same medical standard as is received in the private sector. Let'

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