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- Comment on OpenAI ChatGPT's Search Marketing Share 1 day ago:
But… they aren’t even really in the same market. There’s some overlap, sure, but not entirely.
This is laughable.
And then at BrightonSEO, Marcus Tober from Semrush shared a slide that assumes ChatGPT has continued growth of 13% MoM growth rate. It would then catch up to Google in four years.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps 1 month ago:
Idk, a tablespoon is the largest spoon-based unit
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 1 month ago:
Yes. A very large part of what made the holocaust so terrible was that it was very effective at killing people.
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 1 month ago:
Compared to dumping white phosphorus over hospitals and refugee camps, killing 2 (?) children during an attack that targeted hundreds/thousands is many orders of magnitude more precise. I hate dead innocents as much as anyone, but you gotta admit the pagers were effective and included way less collateral damage than the methods Isreal has employed in recent history.
The point of the post isn’t to praise the pagers attack. It’s to point out that Isreal is capable of causing less collateral damage in Gaza but chooses not to.
- Comment on Sony Increases PS5 Controller Prices in US, Europe, and More 2 months ago:
I mean, what other type of controller would you buy on PC if you’re looking to buy a game controller? Unless you’re not including 3rd party controllers as “console controllers”. Afaik, the xbox pro controller is still considered the best controller to use on PC, and while it is made by Microsoft, it’s not a controller that comes with the console.
The PC controller market just isn’t large enough to support pc-only controllers. Of course the recommendation is to always buy a console controller, pc controllers don’t exist! 😂
Yes, I know some games have their own controller type like flight sticks, game pads, and OSU, but nobody is seriously using those for rocket league and elden ring.
- Comment on Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable 2 months ago:
The post is saying it’s difficult to discover lemmy without someone telling you about it. It’s not really about searching lemmy.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
The headline focuses on the wrong thing. Making a bunch of crappy songs and uploading the to Spotify and other streaming services is perfectly legal, AI or not.
The illegal part is that he created lots and lots of fake accounts that constantly streamed his songs and masked them to look like authentic listens. So much so that he was making $110k per month. That is straight-up fraud, which is what he was arrested for.
It has nothing to do with AI, but that makes more people click on the article.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
LOL the Steam launcher is literally just a web browser. It’d be Electron if it were built today, but it was built before Electron existed.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
Thank you! Ever since the start of the Epic Store, I’ve always thought this whole “exclusive” scandal was blown out of proportion. There is a MASSIVE difference between a game being exclusive to a $400+ console vs to a free launcher that you can install in 5 minutes and add your already multi-launcher platform.
- Comment on Colorblindness check! 3 months ago:
I’m at a loss
- Comment on is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google? 3 months ago:
I thought the real reason was that RCS was finally kicking off, but Google wasn’t exposing an RCS api to normal apps. Signal never said that was the reason, but it was the only thing that made sense at the time.
- Comment on More than 75% of popular takeaway and restaurant food is unhealthy, study finds 3 months ago:
They came to their “hugely alarming” conclusions after analysing the nutritional content of the 10 top-selling items bought at 19 of the UK’s biggest “out of home” outlets, including chains such as Subway, Pizza Express, McDonald’s, Greggs, Starbucks and Pret a Manger.
They only reviewed the 10 top-selling items at each chain. Headline could have read: “Breaking News: People Like Buying Comfort Food and Sugar”
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 3 months ago:
No they aren’t!
- Comment on Dishwashing 3 months ago:
Fake. Squidward is eating a Krabby Patty.
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2 update plonks new crates on Dust 2, which could be game-changing 3 months ago:
An I going crazy? I vaguely remember running up there without a boost, but it was years ago and I’m probably misremembering. Was it ever possible without a boost?
- Comment on Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded 4 months ago:
So… nobody?
- Comment on _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 months ago:
We should follow Calculus’s example and represent all lowercase l’s as ℓ
Or just add serifs to I even in sans serif fonts
- Comment on _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 months ago:
I was assuming it was all uppercase
- Comment on _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5 months ago:
Only if you’re using a bad font that doesn’t differentiate between I and l
- Comment on Young people buying large knives on Telegram and TikTok, police say 6 months ago:
You know what they say: the only thing that can stop a TikTok with a knife is a Facebook with a knife.
- Comment on 2024-05-06 downtime 6 months ago:
Thanks for your hard work!
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 6 months ago:
ReVanced, NewPipe, SmartTube. You’re correct that their mobile browser experience sucks.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 6 months ago:
If they said or implied anything else, they would lose all leverage. The public couldn’t care less about who owns tiktok, so they need people to think they’ll lose it to have any public support.
- Comment on Gotta get on that grindset 6 months ago:
I do NOT consent to Elon flashing me for $250k 😉
- Comment on Selfhosted messenger/community software like discord 6 months ago:
If you’re worried about unauthorized access to the physical machine, you could always just do disk-level encryption instead or store the app’s data in something like a Veracrypt virtual disk. They’d still be able to access the data if they go through your OS/user, but wouldn’t pick anything up by accessing the drive directly.
Nothing short of E2EE can truly stop someone from accessing your data if they have physical access to the server, but disk encryption would require a targeted attack to break, and no host is wasting their time targeting your meme server. I seriously doubt they’d access it even if you had no encryption at all, since if they get caught doing that they’d get in a heap of legal trouble and lose a ton of business.
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 6 months ago:
The EU is not at all equivalent to the USA. The US federal government has a looot more power than the EU and the states a lot less autonomy than EU countries. Also, culture is more homogeneous across the US than across the EU.
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 6 months ago:
Please do! I must know the longest possible drive in every continent.
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 6 months ago:
Someone show this pale blue dot to Isreal, Palestine, Russia, and Ukraine, stat! /s
All I’m saying is, if we’re comparing data we gotta at least keep the confounding variables consistent. Not that it matters, it’s literally a bean meme lol.
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 6 months ago:
Oh, the entire continent is fair game?
5 days 20 hours to drive from bottom of Panama to top of Alaska
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 7 months ago:
That’s assuming your interest rate is higher than inflation, which it typically is not. Even when it is, like (debatably) now, it’s not that much higher. Over time, you’re losing money without spending a cent.
Now, if you invest in some ETFs you might be able to keep going for a while, but there’s the chance that the market crashes and stays down long enough that you run out. That’s pretty unlikely though, especially if you get a few good years to grow that egg before any crash happens.
It wouldn’t be that difficult to live off that investment, but a savings account and interest would not suffice.
