bigbuppo

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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Thank you for finding the right metaphor. If there is a sign out front that has a list of individuals that should go away but they continue, they're in a lot of legal trouble. If they show a fake ID to the event organizers that are han
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Now that's a paid subscription I can get behind, especially if it suggests that Meta should cut Rob Schneider a check for $200,000,000,000 to make more movies.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
How about AI companies just act ethically and obey norms?
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Seriously. Did you see what that web server was wearing? I mean, sure it said "don't touch me" and started screaming for help and blocked 99.9% of our IP space, but we got more and they didn't block that so clearly they
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Sounds like you should give the bots exactly what they want... a 512MB file of random data.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
I forgot what I was going to type, but I didn't get enough sleep last night.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Subscriptions: AI makes it necessary.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
All up until the point that you get a "Dear Valued Customer" letter.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
The DTP app actually does something that neither InDesign nor Quark handles properly, but it's something so specific I would dox myself if I mentioned it.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
You do realize that most laptops ship with almost zero storage available on the C: drive, right? You have actually looked at the specs of real hardware in use in the real world, right?
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Ah yes, because people should be forced to use some random third-party program because developers went out of their way to write their own installer that lacks a feature every standard installer has had since the 1980s.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Well the problem with that is that the past few generations of laptops have taken a page from chromebooks and only give you 128GB of storage, maybe 256GB if you're lucky, unless you add more, assuming that's even possible. Storage
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Has SCOTUS ever later revisited and reversed a previous decision?
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
On the plus side, when they layoff every single person that worked on Affinity in order to better align with something something market strategy, those people will be able to get together and start a new non-subscription desktop design appl
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
It's smart only if their business goal is to lose every single customer they had specifically because it wasn't subscription software and didn't have the AI junk that their customers specifically did not want.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Yep, this is the first step of enshittification. It's all downhill from here. It will probably be ad-supported by this time next year.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
And what's that thing about treaties and the Constitution?
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
I'm wondering if changes to tax and accounting rules for CapEx is what really sent companies to the cloud. I do know that a lot of VC-backed companies don't want to own anything physical because that's a problem to be solved
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
They're the CA/Broadcom of as-a-service.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Digital Radio Mondiale?
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
It wasn't targeted. Mostly they were trying to exploit confirmation/bounceback spam as the form accepted an email address. The spammers never got beyond probing the system. I would get one or two messages at a time. They realized
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
> "We also find a highly significant (∼22σ) deficit of POSS-I transients within Earth's shadow when compared with the theoretical hemispheric shadow coverage at 42,164 km altitude." I'm not an statisastroscienticianis
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
It doesn't increase shareholder revenue. That is the second highest calling. The only thing more important is marketing and advertising, and this also helps that, so hey, two birds one stone.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
I did that once. Spammers found it within 15 minutes.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Costs only $149.99 but refills are $279,415.37, but if pay a monthly subscription at a quarter of that they send you a new time-locked cartridge every month.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
The problem is that people are using it as a substitute for a web search, and the web search company has decided to kill off search as a product and pivot to video, err, I mean pivot to AI chatbots so hard they replaced one of the common wa
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Growing like cancer.
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Not to mention, even if you went through the hassle of a diverse multi-cloud deployment, there's still something in your stack that has a dependency on us-east-1, and it's probably some weird frontend javascript module that uses a
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
Whose idea was it to make the whole world dependent on us-east-1?
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by bigbuppo 1y ago
And their highlights conveniently ignored any and all negatives except for the one they could spin into a positive. It's almost like it's in their best interest to sell you a future so bright you gotta' wear million dollar sh

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