I've seen that a lot more often lately because of AI botnets. Supposedly the bots come (or appear to) from some countries more than others, and sometimes websites are just banning a whole country because the load from…
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Neither Anthropic nor anyone in the Trump administration can hold a candle to kabuki theatre. (I know that's not what you meant, but still! Art, the LLM and the Trump admin cannot.) Anyway yeah this is beyond absurd of…
The rest of it sure does read like "content", yep. There's no substance. It's short. And then there's another book ad. It reads like someone used an LLM to cough up an article as an excuse to show the book ads. Though I…
You can copy a shared link and use the browser url bar to open it in a private window, or delete the extra crap at the end of the url (anything after the ? in a lot of cases). Granted, that doesn't help for the service…
I think they want discount codes from "sign up to our mailing list!" emails. If it's in the promotions tab, they probably never have to look at it otherwise or get bugged with notifications, but they could still have it…
Ok, but I can't possibly be the only one who has no idea who that is, let alone what misconceptions they have.
That is definitely a difficult battle to fight, but why do you think kids can't bypass these government-level restrictions just as easily as they can your own? Especially since governments are usually slow to respond to…
YES. Not just the Google class action notices - though those, which Google was court-ordered to send and deliver, are the most egregious - but ALL class action or settlement related emails get automatically chucked into…
Have you not encountered the eleventy billion subscription services and merch stores? Those make a loooooot more money for creators than ads these days. Even the dirt cheap ones. Similarly, there's a reason so many…
This is because of the Google I/O (developer conference) announcements this week. They're about to overhaul their regular search and make it even more garbage, to the point - so it sounds - of it being more just a…
If you don't use their sync service, all your vault files are local only, and there isn't any mysterious telemetry happening in the background. If you do use their sync service, it's end to end encrypted with your own…
When I started using them, they did this by checking against Paypal, with whom (admittedly to my regret) I had already verified myself. I wasn't asked to provide a copy of my ID to them directly, at least, or to provide…
Some electronics insurance providers will do that in the U.S. I'd say that kind of refund isn't typical otherwise. But if the RAM was sold with Umart's promise to replace it (or the local laws' requirement that they…
Are you suggesting all messaged photos should be scanned, and potentially viewed by humans, in case it depicts a nude minor? Because no matter how you do that, that would result in false positives, and either unfair…
I think it was clear what they meant.
Sure, but then everyone moved to Facebook. The monopolist changed, but not the monopolistic market and the lack of consumer choice. And nobody gained privacy in the process (I rather think everyone lost even more of…
Most people couldn't tell you how their car works, at least not enough to fix it. Is that handholding, too? People can't be knowledgable about everything. There's just too much information in the world, and too many…
It definitely ignores that many people don't have time. If someone is working over 40 hours per week, plus maybe doing unpaid labor taking care of kids or elders, where are people supposed to find the time and energy to…
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…
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…
^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…
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…
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…
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…
I've seen that a lot more often lately because of AI botnets. Supposedly the bots come (or appear to) from some countries more than others, and sometimes websites are just banning a whole country because the load from…
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Neither Anthropic nor anyone in the Trump administration can hold a candle to kabuki theatre. (I know that's not what you meant, but still! Art, the LLM and the Trump admin cannot.) Anyway yeah this is beyond absurd of…
The rest of it sure does read like "content", yep. There's no substance. It's short. And then there's another book ad. It reads like someone used an LLM to cough up an article as an excuse to show the book ads. Though I…
You can copy a shared link and use the browser url bar to open it in a private window, or delete the extra crap at the end of the url (anything after the ? in a lot of cases). Granted, that doesn't help for the service…
I think they want discount codes from "sign up to our mailing list!" emails. If it's in the promotions tab, they probably never have to look at it otherwise or get bugged with notifications, but they could still have it…
Ok, but I can't possibly be the only one who has no idea who that is, let alone what misconceptions they have.
That is definitely a difficult battle to fight, but why do you think kids can't bypass these government-level restrictions just as easily as they can your own? Especially since governments are usually slow to respond to…
YES. Not just the Google class action notices - though those, which Google was court-ordered to send and deliver, are the most egregious - but ALL class action or settlement related emails get automatically chucked into…
Have you not encountered the eleventy billion subscription services and merch stores? Those make a loooooot more money for creators than ads these days. Even the dirt cheap ones. Similarly, there's a reason so many…
This is because of the Google I/O (developer conference) announcements this week. They're about to overhaul their regular search and make it even more garbage, to the point - so it sounds - of it being more just a…
If you don't use their sync service, all your vault files are local only, and there isn't any mysterious telemetry happening in the background. If you do use their sync service, it's end to end encrypted with your own…
When I started using them, they did this by checking against Paypal, with whom (admittedly to my regret) I had already verified myself. I wasn't asked to provide a copy of my ID to them directly, at least, or to provide…
Some electronics insurance providers will do that in the U.S. I'd say that kind of refund isn't typical otherwise. But if the RAM was sold with Umart's promise to replace it (or the local laws' requirement that they…
Are you suggesting all messaged photos should be scanned, and potentially viewed by humans, in case it depicts a nude minor? Because no matter how you do that, that would result in false positives, and either unfair…
I think it was clear what they meant.
Sure, but then everyone moved to Facebook. The monopolist changed, but not the monopolistic market and the lack of consumer choice. And nobody gained privacy in the process (I rather think everyone lost even more of…
Most people couldn't tell you how their car works, at least not enough to fix it. Is that handholding, too? People can't be knowledgable about everything. There's just too much information in the world, and too many…
It definitely ignores that many people don't have time. If someone is working over 40 hours per week, plus maybe doing unpaid labor taking care of kids or elders, where are people supposed to find the time and energy to…
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…
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…
^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…
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…
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…
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…