wise_pancake
@wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ 6 days ago:
The IT guy who set up that backup deserves a hell of a bonus.
A lot of people would have been happy with their multi region resiliency and stopped there.
- Comment on Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ 6 days ago:
There were several months with people complaining their data was getting deleted and Google just ignored the whole thing until it blew up on hacker news.
- Comment on Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ 6 days ago:
The most surprising thing here is they got in contact with a human in Google cloud to resolve the issue.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 2 weeks ago:
Math is never irrelevant
- Comment on Calculus made easy 2 weeks ago:
This is the nicest I’ve seen this info presented.
They didn’t even need to draw a chart of decreasing deltas and partitions, or talk about tangents and secants.
- Comment on When you do it yourself and it looks like you did it yourself lol 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know anything about the trades, but this looks about as good as I’ve ever seen in new apartment buildings or expensive offices.
- Comment on Deciphered Herculaneum papyrus reveals precise burial place of Plato 3 weeks ago:
Yeah… I w trying to be tonight in cheek but then I felt like a total assshat.
Sometimes I just get pissed at how far we’ve backslid.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, kinda
You watch TikTok, someone shills a product, you buu it with a button that pops up, or you click into their store to buy their cosmetics line.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I think they’re angling for a reversal, if not they’ll sell and probably take some massive non voting share of the venture along with a bunch of billionaires.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
5% of customers driving 25% of revenue is a market you want to invest in.
Amazon wasn’t profitable for how many years? It’s the exact same play. Take a loss to create something artificially desirable, strangle the competition and lock up your walled garden, then crank the prices.
I’ve talked with merchants TikTok Shop recruited, TikTok was paying them a ton to sell there, eating their processing fees, their shipping costs, and paying for massive discounts to customers so they could juice their metrics.
They’re starting to crank up their fees this spring and summer.
Same with advertising, advertisers want to go to TikTok, but I’m sure most of the actual spend is happening outside the app on influencers. TikTok wants that pie too.
Taking a loss means nothing in this context
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
I read it as a bluff too.
They’re between a rock and a hard place, their best position is to play hardball and rile up their users.
Yeah, it means nothing to us to leave. We’re losing money!
If that were really the case why are they in the US at all? Because they know they can make money and their market position is strong.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
This means absolutely nothing.
How much of their advertising revenue comes from the US. They have shopping, I’ll bet the US buys the most.
China already has livestream shopping, it’s still relatively novel in the US. Bytedance has to compete with other local competitors in China, hating a nice external source of revenue in the US fuelling these Chinese battle is a huge boon.
- Comment on Still wondering why people from Alaska didn't post about the eclipse 5 weeks ago:
Glad to see Alaska got it too!
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 5 weeks ago:
I fully do not expect Roku to face any consequences except more sales, sadly.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 5 weeks ago:
You know, this a good thing. Now nobody else can do it, so I just need to never buy a Roku.
- Comment on I have attempted science. 1 month ago:
You can be pro life and still see that those policies are needlessly cruel.
There’s a big gap you can fall into while being pro life between forcing women to carry dead fetuses until they become horribly sick and suggesting that healthy fetuses be carried but maybe given up for adoption. Plus you can be against abortion privately without suggesting it be banned altogether.
Honestly his response there sounds like he’s not one of those insane people.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 1 month ago:
Blind is full of the shittiest coworkers you didn’t know you had, so take it with a grain of salt
- Comment on My stupidity saved me from being hacked today! 1 month ago:
They can’t swipe your password if it’s wrong
They could of course enter it on the target website and see it’s wrong though, so this only works against the crappiest phishing attempts
- Comment on mice 1 month ago:
They chopped out the middle section of the chart, so slugs actually look 12x larger than they should. In fact, all the other bars are 12x larger than they actually should be v
- Comment on Economics is in 'disarray', having placed efficiency before ethics and human well-being, says Nobel laureate 1 month ago:
Thank God, I’ve been saying this since I took Econ 101 and the prof called me an idiot because taxation is economically inefficient and clearly provides no dividends for society.
Capitalism (or rather markets) is good for economically efficient allocation of resources, but it does nothing for the human side of the equation with inelastic demand and things humans require, like healthcare and housing and food. It also has natural propensity for creating monopolies which are less efficient, and for rent seeking behaviour, which you cannot ignore. Capitalism assumes the lowest cost paid and the highest value extracted.
I’m glad we can finally discuss that we are not a network of supply and demand centres, but living breathing humans who may or may not be able to meaningfully contribute economically.
And for the record, I am a capitalist, but I don’t believe in libertarian free market states. A well regulated market for inelastic good with demand, plus well considered social safety net so people can feel secure and take risks is in my opinion the best trade off.
- Comment on My stupidity saved me from being hacked today! 1 month ago:
I’ve adopted a policy of always ebetering my password wrong the first time.
It started by accident.
- Comment on More ways to play your GOG games – we’re teaming up with Luna cloud streaming service! 1 month ago:
GeForce now
- Comment on More ways to play your GOG games – we’re teaming up with Luna cloud streaming service! 1 month ago:
Does gog work with nvidia?
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 1 month ago:
You a speyside or a highlands fan?
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 1 month ago:
You can generally do firmware updates over USB if you actually need them.
Also sont devices will grant Ethernet over hdmi, which doesn’t require authentication like wifi, so make sure your set to box isn’t granting internet access to the tv.
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 1 month ago:
I bet Horrid Hill is actually a nicer place that tried to keep people away. Like a real life Scooby doo town.
- Comment on Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter 1 month ago:
Yes sorry I was being sarcastic.
I think it’s a tragedy we’ve lost individual websites and services, and the modern web is dying.
- Comment on Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter 1 month ago:
What are you talking about? The web was always about capitalism and centralization!
You would never want to run your own email server, or run your own blog. It’s good that the big corps systematically block you out so you as an individual have to use their services. Who wants privacy really? Sounds like criminal stuff, we just need to peek at your data to serve you better ads. Ignore law enforcement paying us for your data, nothing bad will come of that.
- Comment on ancestors 1 month ago:
Ancestors, do you need some Managed Denocracy?
- Comment on They lied to us 2 months ago:
It was a joke.
I am actually half French Canadian but my dad had us raised English only, and now I’m trying to relearn it.
It sucked going to my grandfather’s funeral and the extended family thought I was my cousin’s friend because I didn’t speak French.