apefulsin

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by apefulsin 8d ago
Haven't you heard? Capitalism is now communism.
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by apefulsin 8d ago
I didn't realise that McDonald's owned Andy Warhol. I always assumed Campbell's Soup did.
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by apefulsin 10d ago
I've heard he was more like the Elon Musk of the open source world. He didn't co-found Reddit, he was placed there by Y Combinator staff to the protests of its actual founders. Maybe some of the other projects he's credited f
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by apefulsin 10d ago
Yes, that's how the trick works. Profit is revenue minus expenses. By increasing expenses, you decrease profit, and therefore tax. But it only works if you had a profit before, because the government doesn't pay you back tax when
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by apefulsin 10d ago
It's not that simple. You will still be charged if the company isn't worth a trillion dollars.
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by apefulsin 10d ago
No, there are better public sites too, like 1337x
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by apefulsin 11d ago
We should all be using more of those shady services - provided they aren't scams. Those are valuable people providing a valuable service of bypassing enshittification.
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by apefulsin 11d ago
What is it about?
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by apefulsin 11d ago
Probably Spotify
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by apefulsin 11d ago
Soulseek is centralised, and censors searches in compliance with legal requests. If you connect to someone who has censored content, the central server can't stop you grabbing it, but you have to find them another way.
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by apefulsin 11d ago
There's just no reason to ever use them when other sites are better.
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by apefulsin 11d ago
> When there is no longer a method to read Twitter/X withoot logging in, then one can use a headless browser There isn't one. Nitter logs in.
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by apefulsin 11d ago
It is possible to get phone numbers. And not from shady sites - I mean you can just buy them, from the bodega. But I agree, not easy.
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by apefulsin 11d ago
Their "open source algorithm" (Which is actually a random code dump that does not constitute the algorithm) contains enough evidence that Elon posts are massively boosted, though no smoking gun. It also classifies politics as demo
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by apefulsin 11d ago
All those have been ingested by chatgpt, which ironically provides a better user experience.
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by apefulsin 11d ago
It's Twitter written in Nim. Ni- + -itter.
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by apefulsin 11d ago
You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
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by apefulsin 11d ago
He's just serving the profitable market niche of incompetent CEOs with golden parachutes
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by apefulsin 11d ago
The reason is that every copy of Nitter has a list of account tokens to log in with, and pretends to be a human using those accounts.
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by apefulsin 11d ago
git clone
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by apefulsin 11d ago
Are there any left wing elites?
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by apefulsin 11d ago
They're not paying to link. They're paying to summarise, because people read the summary and don't go to the news site.
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by apefulsin 11d ago
We can test this. Piracy used to exist and streaming services were cheap and good. Then piracy didn't exist because of that, and streaming services got expensive and worse. Now piracy exists again.
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by apefulsin 12d ago
> Imagine what we can achieve when robots can do the laundry and dishes. First, you mean like clothes washers and dishwashers, which already exist? Second, my imagination of what we can achieve by procreation seems limited to "more
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by apefulsin 12d ago
The base is where people live 24/7. You'd be banning them from having phones.
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by apefulsin 12d ago
That depends what else is on the channel that is the reason for it not being available for wifi. In some places, it's a military radar and they will definitely investigate.
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by apefulsin 12d ago
Is that GDPR? Is it still true in America?
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by apefulsin 12d ago
This would require them to give you a copy of their models, which would quickly be leaked on the internet, and they know that, so it won't happen.
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by apefulsin 12d ago
So DNS should be open to MITM attackers?