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by ricardo81 10mo ago
I don't disagree with the logic and it definitely is/was their business model, scraping/crawling the web and subsidising the service with ads. But clicking on ads are optional.
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
Reminds me of (the ironic AI summary) https://www.google.com/search?channel=entpr&q=celebritynetwo... Testimony https://medium.com/@brianwarner/celebritynetworths-statement... CNW ended up putting
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
Unfortunately they do have a couple of points that may prove salient (though I fully agree about them being scrapers also). You can search Google _for free_ (with all the caveats of that statement), part of their grievance is that serpapi u
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
Interesting stuff, there may be a potential peak entropy point in time. As a layman, I've not heard of any proof of dark anything- just something was needed to explain the acceleration of the metric expansion of space.
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
>for who Indeed. Though the high school uniform thing seems to be a fairly mainstream fetish, with hormones raging at that time in people's lives. But granted, if it's not for your partner or (of age) mistress...
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
I'd used mitmproxy to reverse engineer browser extensions and mobile apps and it did the trick. It was quite some time ago.
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
Yeah, I'd lean towards a high % also- it would take some time to prove it. Also, homograph attacks are likely much less of a thing for the above reasons.
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
>Interestingly, the typo space on major sites is actually very sparsely registered (2% at edit distance 1), meaning that typosquatting may actually be underexploited. Anecdotally, the autosuggestions and improved browsing history recomme
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
>money Android phone contracts seem strangely cheap.
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
You've said a lot so excuse myself if I don't address all your points or address them enough. >proton Yes, probably 'good enough' at the scale they have as an alternative. >Obviously, this will never happen. Hard s
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
American tech companies have been pushing the needle on privacy ever since Google. Then Facebook. They've gradually normalised that privacy does not exist, all for their own capital gain. There are European alternatives but they need s
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
It's alright. I don't make the rules.
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
explaining the joke spoils the joke, such is social convention.
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by ricardo81 10mo ago
Presumably after the first run much or all of the program is paged into OS memory
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by ricardo81 11mo ago
I wouldn't say Internet is a problem, but centralisation towards big tech algos and clearly gamed social media comment sections do control the narrative of what the majority of people see most of the time.
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by ricardo81 11mo ago
I enjoyed reading that. My daughter had recently been diagnosed with "social anxiety" but had suspected it was autism. Somewhat related, "Health Secretary Wes Streeting is launching an independent review into rising demand fo
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by ricardo81 11mo ago
Their uptime over the year is likely faring worse than your average hosting company, DNS provider or CDN.
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by ricardo81 11mo ago
FWIW Mojeek (an organic search engine in the classic sense) can do this with the before: operator. https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=britney+spears+before%3A2010...
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by ricardo81 11mo ago
>Maybe OP is young or didn't frequent other communities before "social networks", but on IRC, even on Usenet you'd see these behaviors eventually. I was too young for IRC/Usenet and started using the net/web
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by ricardo81 11mo ago
I deleted my Facebook account a couple of years ago and my Twitter one yesterday. It's not just LLMs, it's how the algorithms promote engagement. i.e. rage bait, videos with obvious inaccuracies etc. Who gets rewarded, the content
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by ricardo81 11mo ago
It's a cool subject and article and things I only have a general understanding of (considering the place of posting). What I'm sure about is having a programming unit more purposed to a task is more optimal than a general programm
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by ricardo81 11mo ago
Agree. Voyager is probably considered by many to be one of our greatest achievements. It makes me wonder when we'll have anything set foot in another star system. I would guess realistically after 2100, but then we went from the Wright
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by ricardo81 11mo ago
Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked [0] https://youtu.be/79TVMn_d_Pk?t=117
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by ricardo81 11mo ago
agreed. we interact with so many different types of software and I presume like me, we designate a confidence score of how things will work out because there's so many unknown quantities out there. Those little thoughts you have while
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by ricardo81 1y ago
It's good that he has his own website! I can relate (for non famous reasons) about the Facebook issues. I can't even sign up any more, using my real name anyway. It can be a pain as so many local organisations use Facebook as a fr
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by ricardo81 1y ago
An IPv6 would also. Then this chap could have his website hosted on it.
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by ricardo81 1y ago
That's what I read on the surface. Any useful links for the context?
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by ricardo81 1y ago
A thing you'll have to watch for is these agents actually being a user's browser, just the browser provider is using them as a proxy. Otherwise, there are residential IP proxy services that cost around $1/GB which is cheap, b
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by ricardo81 1y ago
What certain people do you mean? To me it's undeniable that the web has become more centralised, more homogenised, and certain agents find that very convenient. even wiki(pedia|data) is very convenient for large scale training, and mos
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by ricardo81 1y ago
I wonder if unknown /s powers persuaded us to homogenise things which ultimately suited AI training for AI to be viable. - search engine algorithms used be be the main place of information discovery. Before 200x it would involve not us

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