Hamartiogonic

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Clicks the link, and mlem opens the site in FF focus that deletes all cookies when I close it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

“outside of a few areas such as coding, companies have found generative AI isn't the panacea they once imagined.”

It certainly helps with coding, but a human still needs to fix all the mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

No clutter, meant faster loading time, and that was important at the time. Nowadays, you can just type the search query to the address bar, but that wasn’t available back then. Initially, you didn’t even have one of those extra toolbars with a little search box, so loading the search page was the only way. If you do like 50 searches a day, those seconds spent on waiting the page to load really begin to add up.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

People don’t read the contracts, so companies just exploit that habit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

“The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.” – Terry Pratchett

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Well, that’s exactly what the voting buttons are for.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Reminds me of Youtube. Guns and drugs, don’t make advertiser friendly videos, and that’s why the platform only barely tolerates those videos. From the predictive of YT, they demand resources without giving any direct revenue. I can see the reason why those channels tend struggle so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

People who stay there regardless, totally had it coming.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Let that sinking ship join Myspace and Tumblr already. Revolting may rise awareness of the problem, but it isn’t going to change the direction where Reddit is headed. They need to become profitable, and they’ve decided to do that by backstabbing the users.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Closer to 15 years ago. Skype and WhatsApp (before the FB nonsense) were viable options to SMS as long as your friends were also using the same app.

Although, the viability also depended on the price you had to pay for the data. If it’s like 1.5 €/MB, sending snail mail suddenly seems like a very appealing alternative. Some time around 2003-2005 there was still one company that actually charged that much while all the competitors were switching to monthly packages or even unlimited plans. The price range was absolutely wild back then.

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