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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah. I use DNS-level blocking too, but it's not something I can roll out to my non-technical family members. They understand turning off the browser extension if things don't work, but not adding a DNS whitelist and then waiting / clearing DNS.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Reddit expects to finish this year with ad revenue ... slightly over $800 million... Reddit had said two years ago it aimed to exceed $1 billion in ad revenue by 2023...

So they missed their two year goal by 20%. They had forecasted a 2.9x growth and achieved 2.3x

When it comes time to IPO, they'll just blame the economy and ad blockers, while showing how many users they forced into their app where ad blocking is harder.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Reuters has temporarily removed the article “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with a preliminary court order issued on Dec. 4, 2023, in a district court in New Delhi, India.

Reuters stands by its reporting and plans to appeal the decision.

The article, published Nov. 16, 2023, was based on interviews with hundreds of people, thousands of documents, and research from several cybersecurity firms.

The order was issued amid a pending lawsuit brought against Reuters in November 2022. As set forth in its court filings, Reuters disputes those claims.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but Windows 11 is a pain in the ass. My Internet was lagging the other day so my start menu wouldn't find a locally installed program because it couldn't search the Internet too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The go community is strongly opinionated in unique ways. For example, using libraries is generally frowned upon. You either use something included in the language itself (standard library) or copy/paste the code you wrote in another project. There's also advocacy for shorter variable names which generally seems counter to the normal "write descriptive variable name" mantra.

All in all, I hope the ideas / opinions came from a good place and then some people took them as black & white rules. But they also come off as one or two people's pet peeves who got to build a language around them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm going to have to print out the Go version for all future "it's idiomatic" and "but the community!" debates at work

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The npm package has about 4000 weekly downloads. I don't know what that means in terms of popularity.

[–] [email protected] 343 points 11 months ago (13 children)

These people don't even read their own literature. The Catholic church's ban on alchemy is about falsely claiming something is a valuable metal in order to pay for debts. It has nothing to do with the occult -- the ban was because it's a sin to lie / cheat / steal. A saint is even on record saying that alchemical gold is ok if the end if product is real gold.

With that context, of course God doesn't give a shit if you use SQLAlchemy as long as you aren't using it to defraud people. If you were defrauding people, it wouldn't matter what tool you used.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I use Firefox full time but I'm bummed at the number of sites that break in odd ways when not using Chrome. As an engineer, I understand how appealing it is to only have to test in one browser, but this monopoly is the result.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. And they push bundles that don't make financial sense but look attractive because we're conditioned to think bundles are good. $30 to check a bag OR $72 to check a bag and board in Group 2 lol.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It shouldn't be OK and Media Matters will surely file for a change of venue. They're located in DC and Twitter in California. Heck, Twitters own TOS says that your use of the service is governed by California law, so any claim that they fraudulently used the service should be handled in California.

But activist judges are also known to deny motions for made up reasons, so Twitter starts in Texas in hopes an activist judge keeps the case there to "stick it to the liberals."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nope. It's fully a marketing term and always has been. Worked at a firm that used a very, very basic bit of machine learning. But you better believe our marketing and investor pitch decks said "AI" a ton.

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