dantyti

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by dantyti 1mo ago
> 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 b
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by dantyti 1mo ago
> 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 docume
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by dantyti 11mo ago
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
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by dantyti 11mo ago
I'd assume active user count
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by dantyti 11mo ago
I do not believe that advertising and purchasing is at the top of the list of things what make software sticky
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by dantyti 2y ago
> 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
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by dantyti 2y ago
>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?
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by dantyti 2y ago
> 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
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by dantyti 2y ago
from tfa: >Russian darknet markets control 93% of the global share, generating approximately $1.5 billion in revenue in 2023 alone
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by dantyti 2y ago
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.
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by dantyti 2y ago
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
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by dantyti 2y ago
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
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by dantyti 2y ago
>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 c
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by dantyti 2y ago
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
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by dantyti 2y ago
roadside advertising has an adverse effect on driving. We should ban ads before we even consider vilifying music
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by dantyti 2y ago
why not just link directly? https://existentialcomics.com/comic/557
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by dantyti 2y ago
This one seems like the better of the two, as it includes Q124 profit and revenue numbers, as well as the stock's movement
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by dantyti 2y ago
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.
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by dantyti 2y ago
when someone litters on my lawn the administrative fine goes into the local/state budget, not my pocket.
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by dantyti 2y ago
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
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by dantyti 2y ago
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
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by dantyti 2y ago
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 st
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by dantyti 2y ago
hard pass on using a scraper’s browser extension
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by dantyti 2y ago
as someone who hates ads, I am appalled that people not only buy these devices, but also give them out as _gifts_.
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by dantyti 2y ago
yeah, skimmed the text, saw his name and closed the article.
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by dantyti 2y ago
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
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by dantyti 2y ago
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.
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by dantyti 2y ago
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.
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Dough resting time effects on the development of gluten network in noodle dough(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by dantyti 2y ago|0 comments
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by dantyti 2y ago
After their 16th birthday, the person is going through their 17th year. Just like 11:45 can be told as "a quarter to 12"

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