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by dahwolf 3y ago
"I guess the answer is legal liability." Indeed. The answer is in the article. He gets offered jobs all the time, but nobody offers to buy the data itself. Clearly because nobody wants to own it, it's all plausible deniabilit
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"Also, if anyone wants to get paid 10 cents an image to take pictures of North American license plates, get in touch." Your blatant disregard for privacy is shocking, but perhaps unsurprising in the field. I guess you also didn&#x
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Worse, Pinterest even ranks highly in Google, often higher than the original. If you'd now go and do the same, create a website that rehosts known content, Google will simply delist you. But magically, not for Pinterest, they get a boo
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The "Digital garden" part also makes very little sense. Notes on personal wikis. What? How is this part of the social web?
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"and I think it's naive to wish so hard for this all to fail. It's convenient & easy to say it'll never work." I do not wish for it to fail, I'm observing that it cannot succeed within the scope of our disc
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Obviously with forever I mean within the lifespan of the service, not literally forever as in a trillion years. So yes, your 2008 Facebook post is still going to be there.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Mastodon absolutely does not scale that far and this should be considered fact. Far smaller instance owners sometimes complain about bills of hundreds of USD per month. So the only way to scale up "indefinitely" is by having many
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Of what? Marketing copy generation?
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by dahwolf 3y ago
In the spirit of anything that helps should be considered: Disable all notifications except for direct messaging from family/friends, banking and other important stuff. Everything else cannot possibly be urgent, see next point. Do soci
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The AI hype cycle is ending, get ready for a period of "trough of disillusionment" before things get better again. Sure, some of you may have a permanent new code buddy. But many had a play, got some funny responses, generated &qu
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Saw some comments on the protocol being fluffy and typical implementations resource hungry. This is an interesting guy to follow: https://universeodon.com/@supernovae He's the admin of universeodon, a mastodon instance
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by dahwolf 3y ago
The elephant in the room here is that quite likely a large part of content that may contribute to female mental illness is not hateful. I'm of course talking about female influencers on Instagram flexing their wealth, highly customized
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by dahwolf 3y ago
I do quite a lot of tech support for older people and would add that forgetting passwords isn't the only issue, an even larger issue is people not understanding passwords at a conceptual level. Try as I might, my mother doesn't un
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by dahwolf 3y ago
You forgot to include Colombian smartphone usage: max volume on speaker, then play videos and make phone calls.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Exactly. The task ahead is to find something new that brings in a billion or so in profit per quarter, with headspace to several billions. And it needs to be a kind of winner-takes-all success that cannot be replicated easily. Does the auth
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Would be quite bad for this author if Zuckerberg got fired, obsessively hating on him seems to be his identity. Too much narrative and axe-grinding.
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What does that even mean?
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It was revealed by people familiar with the matter.
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Factually, it is a "them" problem. In most countries, all restrictions are lifted and COVID is now considered endemic. The public has fully embraced the return to an open society and importantly, across the entire political spectr
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by dahwolf 3y ago
Here in the Netherlands, we'd translate 31mpg to "1 per 11". One can drive 11km on 1L of fuel. 1 per 11 is a joke. It's associated with heavy petrol cars from the 80s and 90s, before anybody even attempted efficiency. Ev
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"There are a lot of mentally unwell people in the LC crowd" Yep. And they ruin it for everyone to the point that the image now exists that LC is "just an excuse for white middle-aged women to not have to work". Part of a
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by dahwolf 3y ago
It all sounds so fancy, such grand vision. In reality, this is just Sundar looking through the org chart and saying: wow, these things seem related. Let's combine them because surely that will mean that it starts working. Just so that
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"Combining our talents and efforts will accelerate our progress towards a world in which AI helps solve the biggest challenges facing humanity" ...which is that we're not looking at enough ads.
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That would be better, but how would you even do that for long form content, which is typical of blogs? This idea also goes against the "Copies cite the original." approach mentioned in the article. You'd lose view/reader
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I'm fully with you. Independent ownership and publishing is the important part, I'm only critical of the syndication part.
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No, but their people most certainly are.
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Your downvotes prove your point.
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by dahwolf 3y ago
"harassment in the forms of [...] or inciting the community into support or disdain for a person, organization or community*" This would cover pretty much every quote tweet ever. Also, how is incitement to SUPPORT a person harassm
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by dahwolf 3y ago
This is web 4.0, also known as WWBWW. World Wide Bubble Wrap Web.
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by dahwolf 4y ago
"The distinction between a chrome app and a webpage is very minimal" It can be minimal, it can be significant difference, all depends on the PWA implementation. Installed app has a shortcut/desktop icon, which is good for ret

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