zephyreks

@zephyreks@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ads are a core component of how search makes money. They’re also a core component of how YouTube makes money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also just often completely inaccurate. The standards it uses to cite works make them pretty much useless: any good information on Wikipedia is on there by accident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish Network⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Space junk is highly deterministic, though. No atmosphere to fuck with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia, China, Iran state media see boost on X after removal of ‘state-affiliated’ labels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Does that claim remove the existence of conflict of interest?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia, China, Iran state media see boost on X after removal of ‘state-affiliated’ labels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  State funding describes a conflict of interest, whether perceived or actual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia, China, Iran state media see boost on X after removal of ‘state-affiliated’ labels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk wasn’t wrong in applying the state media tag to NPR/BBC/CBC. At the end of the day, they are funded by the state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar power and storage prices have dropped almost 90%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, China.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The entire point of E2EE is that it doesn’t matter who the host is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, what if the problem is simply one that’s no longer important for most people? Isn’t technological advancement supposed to introduce abstraction that people can develop on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Junior doctors in England launch fifth round of industrial action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How can the NHS be so incredibly underfunded? Hell, even Canada is bleeding doctors because of long hours and low pay, and our salaries look downright exceptional compared to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the future of Lemmy vs reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Google should be finding searches with “lemmy” keyword, but it isn’t at the moment.

  Lemmy needs some SEO people.