hogwasher

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by hogwasher 7mo ago
Whether Facebook/Meta can read the plain text of the messages or not depends on whether that encryption is "zero knowledge" or not, aka: does Facebook generate and retain the private encryption key, or does it stay on the use
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by hogwasher 7mo ago
I'm hardly a fan of Epic, but considering inflation and rising supply chain costs, a price that remains flat may be a price that would have otherwise risen. They might also direct the money towards funding more exclusives. Epic's
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by hogwasher 7mo ago
^this is the way. You can buy a domain name for like $10 per year; I recommend getting it from porkbun.com. Cloudflare.com is good too, EXCEPT if you buy your domain from them, you'll be required to use their nameservers until and unle
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by hogwasher 7mo ago
Google also takes the lion's share of the ad revenue. They're the reason youtube creators resort to sponsorships instead of relying on youtube's inbuilt ads. They even put ads on the videos of new youtube accounts and profit
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by hogwasher 7mo ago
And your grandma and parents pay for it, do they? Free ChatGPT chat has made the company a household name, and helped it to persuade investors, but every single one of those free users costs the company money. Most of those free users hav
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by hogwasher 7mo ago
Indeed, that article doesn't support a single part of that claim. It kinda feels like an LLM-generated article that another LLM picked as a "citation", and then no human bothered to check if it actually said what the LLM said
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by hogwasher 7mo ago
Its hottest service by far is completely free, the vast majority of users of its free service aren't converting to users of its paid services (and often stop using the free service too because they were just tourists seeing what all th
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by hogwasher 8mo ago
If that's the case, I want to see studies on how blue light filtering glasses fare versus just regular-ass sunglasses (of equivalent tint). Is it the reduction of blue light that helps people, or is it just the reduction of light, full
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by hogwasher 8mo ago
Even "mine.fyi" would be better at not making me think "landmine", although that would instead get read as "belonging to me".fyi. I assume this is probably because most people don't see mines (as in gold m
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by hogwasher 8mo ago
I think it is important to remember that only a tiny, tiny fraction of most facebook groups is actually posting, commenting, or even viewing the group at any given moment. Most people who view don't post/comment. (True of reddit a
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by hogwasher 8mo ago
The purpose of the broad list is removing AI-generated content from search results, so that the user doesn't have to wade through (as much) slop to find the human-created content they're looking for. While I applaud the honesty of