mrkramer

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by mrkramer 2y ago
Tech debt of your hobby pet project? It's not like millions of people will be using it.
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Yes, you are right Microsoft was worse than Google but Google is constantly hypocritical....they are always twisting the narrative so it suits them whether it is open web, advertising or politics.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
They will never be able to kill cookies unless they bribe the whole industry and make them believe Google's cookie replacement technology will bring them more ad money. Tbh cookies are lesser evil than Google's make believe cookie
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Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe's Digital Markets Act(techcrunch.com)
504 points by mrkramer 2y ago|379 comments
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Antisthenes I appreciate your "cynical" response but what I meant is I didn't yet notice any degradation of service compared to the original uBlock Origin.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
X or Y product satisfies*
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Lite version works for me the same as the original. Blocks majority of ads.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel will put you in some group e.g. ice cream lovers so when you search Google or scroll Facebook feed they will show you ice cream ads.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
>People in their infinite wisdom trust these influencers, like those that trust David Pakman saying PIA is the most secure VPN, or the thousands of other influencers shilling for NordVPN. A vast majority of people don't know that th
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by mrkramer 2y ago
>Hold up, that's something people actually would do, click a link in a YouTube description instead of opening a new tab to search for it? Wild. You trolling or what? Clicking is easier than searching some long ass name or sentence o
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by mrkramer 2y ago
So YouTubers and their fans destroyed PayPal's $4 billion acquisition of Honey....this is like GameStop stoks reloaded. I'm fine with that because PayPal is yet another fishy and scammy tech company that presents itself as savior
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by mrkramer 2y ago
> I would never have thought people would happily let themselves be monitored like this Enter Facebook and Google.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
>The way Microsoft and Skype missed their opportunity during the pandemic They missed the huge opportunity way before on mobile and in gaming, that's when WhatsApp and Discord stepped in and destroyed Skype.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I always thought that metadata and circumstantial evidence is enough to incriminate someone. Do you really need plaintext data and communication to put criminals behind bars?
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Clubhouse was or still is live audio chat room for people, it's not full fledged audio livestreaming platform. Although like vasco said most of the people prefer visual content so idk how popular would be only audio livestreaming platf
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Speedrunners are worried: https://bsky.app/profile/summoningsalt.bsky.social/post/3lik...
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Yes online radio station plus social features like Twitch and even Twitch streamers could restream their live audio to this new audio platform. When you think about social audio, who is number one? Spotify is music subscription service and
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by mrkramer 2y ago
In one of my thought experiments I was thinking would only audio livestreaming be viable social platform for content creators because audio is like 90% smaller in size and therefore you don't need to spend loads of money to setup and m
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Facebook is doing the same thing[0] meaning that YouTube is Web's utility at this point. Google is so profitable that they will not put any limit on your YouTube storage anytime soon. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2025&#x2
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Why would you sabotage YouTube?! Imo it is the best social internet app ever created, at least the one I spent the most time on. You have so much diverse content and everything is free....kind of. But at this point I think the only way to c
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I first thought it was quitmaga.gov As an insider revolt against Musk's shenanigans. lol
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I'm surprised that there isn't a standardized open source web video player which all websites use so users have the same video player experience and features across the web. Usually commercial or "free" video players are
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by mrkramer 2y ago
So this is like Birthday paradox but for PINs.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
I needed this so much....I'm glad that you made this and that Chinese decided to open source it.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
It already exists in Gemini and it existed in Bard....now it's called "Double-check response". Here is pic of it in action: https://i.imgur.com/aIISzt5.png
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Yea, AI still can't figure out jokes, irony, metaphor etc. Perplexity also quotes Reddit very often, idk how smart is that.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
At this point Google has zettabytes of data and there is no efficient way for them and their algorithms to realize what is going on exactly....but I sometimes still wonder how things like this happen. When speaking about ranking I think the
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Google has hell of a moat because they are continuously crawling and indexing the Web for the last 27 years. They have tons of data and information that can be used for training of their AI.
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by mrkramer 2y ago
Step up your propaganda efforts. You can do better than this.
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>State media has been reporting intensively on coronavirus discovered on packaging of frozen food imports, not considered a significant vector of infection elsewhere, and research into possible cases of the disease found outside China’s

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