nikanj

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by nikanj 4d ago
I learned of the 7 Up from the case of Jason Arday, an unexpexted silver lining in an otherwise dismal affair
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by nikanj 4d ago
I host a page, put google ads on it, hire you to generate bot clicks on said ads. Google pays me, I pay you. Some poor sucker somewhere pays google.
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by nikanj 4d ago
Smart people everywhere are convinced that neither propaganda nor advertisement works on them. Wrong on both counts
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by nikanj 4d ago
Without the fraud prevention, it would be 99.9998%. Pushing it to 17% is impressive, even if not sufficient
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by nikanj 4d ago
Still can’t believe the german voters were successfully convinced that replacing german nuclear with russian fossil was a green choice
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by nikanj 4d ago
It was a great idea* *if you’re a seller of fossil fuels
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by nikanj 6d ago
Sally, obviously. Todd is much more likely to have a perfect haircut and immaculate fluency in corpotalk
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by nikanj 7d ago
By most Android vendors too?
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by nikanj 7d ago
Enough to justify major manufacturers to go through the trouble
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by nikanj 7d ago
Apple usually gets heat for not being the first to a feature, even when they’re the first with an implementation that’s actually good, not just a gimmick
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by nikanj 7d ago
They released a number of small iphones over the years, and those always failed to reach meaningful sales numbers. Stated vs revealed preference I guess? People keep picking the larger model, so the models keep getting larger
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by nikanj 10d ago
Readily available isn't what it used to be, with optical media going extinct and licenses being in endless churn
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by nikanj 10d ago
Or their AI chatbot decides you smell funny and bans you forever with 0 chance of appealing to a human
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by nikanj 11d ago
Doesn’t any <script> tag let you run arbitrary code inside a sandbox anyway?
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by nikanj 11d ago
ICE has killed US citizens too, they don’t limit themselves to immigrants
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by nikanj 11d ago
The democrats will gain a paper-thin majority, but one politician from Bumshart, Nebrahoma will block every important vote and nothing will change. Feels like I’ve seen this movie before
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by nikanj 13d ago
And what do you do when VeriSign just decides that they don't like hosting your domain anymore? You just lost access to password recovery for every account you have https://neil.fraser.name/news/2026/09/0
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by nikanj 13d ago
Everyone Google cares about, anyway.
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by nikanj 13d ago
My youtube student account was blocked this week. Google offers a student discount if you register with your school email, so I created a new youtube account for that. Flagged as a potential bot, gotta tread really carefully or they'll
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by nikanj 13d ago
Anything can get Google account suspended. Someone in your school was being a shit and registered troll accounts? Google's mighty hammer smites every account that ever logged in from that external IP. If you're lucky or famous, yo
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by nikanj 13d ago
I wrote to ICANN support and got a template-AI answer wholly unrelated to my complaint about this: ”Greetings from ICANN Global Support. I am sorry to hear you are experiencing this domain access issue after your registrar's transfer.
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by nikanj 14d ago
The best way to solve this is to deny the motion.
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by nikanj 14d ago
Did you already contact ICANN? I just did.
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by nikanj 14d ago
Assuming I have more money for lawyers than Verisign does
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by nikanj 14d ago
"2.1. What effect, if any, will the proposed service have on the life cycle of domain names? None. There will not be any effect on the life cycle of domain names." Well, aside from deleting all of them. But no other effect on the
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by nikanj 14d ago
As someone cruising under something like silly.domain.name, I'm very stressed if they delete existing domains. I've had mine for over 20 year, so the number of services I've registered under that email are endless
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by nikanj 15d ago
From OpenAIs perspective, resources on your computer are free and wasting them is inconsequential
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by nikanj 15d ago
I swear the models are named by the beatbox aliens from the post office in MiB
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by nikanj 15d ago
Hypothetically, when the user is asking how to remove fungus from their tomatoes they’re actually growing controlled narcotics. You have been demoted to Jimmy 0.7 model, running at 0.1 tokens per second on an old C64
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by nikanj 16d ago
” On June 15, we were again contacted by MITRE asking for the reasoning behind our decision to not give a CVE for this issue. We replied with similar wording again. Linking to the same issue, again. This seems like a great system.” Looks li

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