You gotta wonder what the hell facebook execs are thinking, knowing that people who specifically go out of their way to block ads are the ones their engineers are fighting tooth-and-nail to show ads to.

Anyways my solution to this on youtube, anyways, is to click every ad i dislike, training my algorithm to advertise shit i dont want to me and bleeding money from them while promoting the creators i like/YouTube

Or; dont block anything and wait for people to stop using meta products altogether :)

Deleting a torrent is probably the most heartbreaking thing i can imagine. My most prized possession is a ratio 1.00 torrent from 2014 that was 0.00 until 2021.

Rechecking, it is now at 2.00 which makes me unreasonably happy

For education, plus some more before real traffic

So, be worried in about 6 months then?

“Man attempts to stop corporatuons from leaking data”

“Hey fuck that guy!”

???

I think donation/investment based freemium is the future of internet content once the bots kill ad viability

Yeah, its not handling “my grandma is dying pls send emt” calls, but more “The concert hall is on fire” call #450.

That being said, I disagree with most applications of AI that prevent human interaction. Just because im the 40th person calling about a situation doesnt mean my call is useless, it means i might have new information on an evolving situation.

Local small businesses are being priced out of self hosted server options since ~October (Source: MSP)

Reddit did that a decade or two ago. Most arguments about a posted news article are just fights over the headline

Usb-c covers so much that something like 75% of the onea i have are entirely useless for data transfer, or dont have fast charging capabilities, or just… Suck? And sometimes i do feel the need to flip them for troubleshooting purposes or whatever.

I also had a laptop charger that needed to be flipped one specific way. Usb-C will one day die and be replaced with an extremly expensive usb-Delta that everything i wanted but also costs a bajillion dollars

Oppai decensored wholesome gyaru be like

There are also real people who would have a great time doing this with you. Ai does not need to exist in this scenario.

Either way, its still a bad look. Peer review is even worse than Op Eds, or fiction, or what have you… But its all equally socially degenerate

Only pro is laborious, tedious programming tasks have become significantly faster to do, along with testing edge cases and stuff a programmer should be able to do but maybe doesnt need to.

Just about everything else is negative.

“I dont write anything but i take credit for everything”

Ive been begging us to adopt booru-style tagging for videos for decades at this point.

(For the uninitiated, this would mean i could search something like “Brunette curly_hair -horse_penis score:>500” and get every video known to man with a curly haired brunette who does not interact with a horse penis and at least 500 people liked the video)

The current tell is “weird eye-lines and physics” no one looks anyone in the eyes and everything is very “dream where youre trying to run but gravity turned off for some reason”

He seems fairly prone to ego stroking, which internet goers would typically label as narcissistic.

Kind of the target audience for the sycophant machine

As former IT, most people seem to go from iphone 12/13 to 17 in the last year. Anecdotally, my wife and I went from S17s to $300 motorolas. My parents take the rotating yearly “upgrade” offer and seem fine with that