GenosseFlosse
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- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 2 days ago:
Yeah, just not on the consumer side 🙃
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 2 days ago:
Booking is also pretty scummy. There was a blog post a few years ago from a hotel that always showed up as sold out, even it had plenty empty rooms. In the end it was a “feature” where hotels could “promote” their business so it would show up first, but the competition would also be listed as unavailable to force visitors into the promoted business. The other thing is that booking will show “only one room left” to pressure you into booking right now, but what ot actually means is that a hotel might only allocate 20 of 100 rooms to booking, and still has 81 free rooms if you call them directly.
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 1 week ago:
Neither will the rest of the world, if their cars fail the safety requirements in all the other countries.
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- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 week ago:
It’s just a map pack for Far Cry 3 anyway…
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 2 weeks ago:
I use AI for programming questions, because it’s easier than digging 1h through official docs (if they exists) and frustrating trial and error.
However quite often the ai answers are wrong by inserting nonsense code, using for instead of foreach or trying to access variables that are not always set.
Yes it helps, but it’s usually only 60% right.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but this only works if you connect your VPN via 3 block chain proxies.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 weeks ago:
Ad Networks use browser fingerprinting to detect duplicate clicks, which is tied to your hardware, system locale, installed fonts etc.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 3 weeks ago:
Check how many accounts pushing republican propaganda only post during St. Petersburg business hours… 🙃
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 4 weeks ago:
What are you talking about? There is more than one tax, on top of municipal or federal there are taxes for income, products and services, wealth, profit etc. - not just vat.
And tax is not “taken away” from people, ot goes back into the economy by building roads and brides, social care for the elderly can afford rent and food, employment and contracts for people working in the region.
- Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts 4 weeks ago:
Lol, go and visit some country with a very low tax rate or no tax. need to visit a hospital? That’s a 3h drive across some unpaved road on the next big city. Want to cook your food? Go and collect some wood for your brick stove, because the city does not provide gas or power to your house. Need water or power? See gas. Want to read a book? Bad luck, there was no free school service in your village to learn how to read. House on fire or crime in the neighborhood? Well I have more bad news for you .
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 1 month ago:
Ok, but why should I go to Google for ai answers when I can get the same from openai without all the ads?
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 1 month ago:
Well, time to get your eyes checked and new glasses.
- Comment on Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m 2 months ago:
Far cry feels just the same since 3. Same gameplay, different story, different setting. While the story itself is usually good, I don’t think it has progressed gameplay wise or in technical or graphics aspects in any meaningful way. Car physics are worse than gta5 which is already out for 10 years or so.
- Comment on New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony 2 months ago:
Why just pay one service a small fee for ad free streaming, when you can pay a lot of services a large fee for ad supported streaming?
- Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated 2 months ago:
Chatbots doesn’t mean that they have a real conversation. Some just spammed links from a list of canned responses, or just upvoted the other chat bots to get more visibility, or the just reposted a comment from another user.
- Comment on USA| Trump’s FCC chair investigates NPR and PBS, urges Congress to defund them 2 months ago:
It’s worse if you have large private donors or companies funding your media, see fox news, twitter, Facebook etc. who then contr6what you can see, and what not.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 3 months ago:
Video surveillance doesn’t stop crime, it only records it…
- Comment on I'm just a 20 year old guy, AMA 3 months ago:
Yes!
- Comment on New social experiment 3 months ago:
Breast_study_large/
- Comment on Nigel Farage Helps to Launch U.S. Climate Denial Group in UK 3 months ago:
It would be bad for the share price…
- Comment on Microsoft Teams is dog shit 5 months ago:
Why? At least I don’t have to download and install gigabytes of files for something I might only use once?
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 5 months ago:
Remove the user generated videos. only title, videoads and comments allowed.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 5 months ago:
Wow, I normally don’t think of England when it comes to countries who have their shit together!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
How to improve online advertising: Step 1: remove all online advertising
- Comment on Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track 6 months ago:
They will get dirty very fast, either from dirt thrown around by passing trains, or by the brake dust.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 6 months ago:
I have yet to see an app that does something a website could not do…
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 6 months ago:
I don’t know, I distrust all YouTube ads content creators slide into their videos, because the products are either useless to me, disappointing in real life like the “taste smells” water bottle or sketchy with some fear mongering like the VPNs.
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 6 months ago:
Fun fact: a lot of the content you see on big sites are advertorials, this means some company writes a fluff piece about how their lastest product can solve all your problems, and then pays the site to publish it. In print, you even have the option to have the ad use the same layout, fonts, colors etc. as the real content.
This means a portion of a site is not filled by content that had to be bought, but actually brings them money.
