[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Marshall...?

WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL IT MALL-E?!

WHY?!

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He was held in solitary confinement in both Sweden and Denmark. This was reported on at the time. I'm not sure why you're trying to second-guess me when you clearly have zero knowledge about the history of this guy.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 28 points 4 months ago

“This was Microsoft's choice, not ours,” Reddit spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt told me in an email. “We are and have been open to agreements with companies who are open about their intentions and commit to treat us and our users fairly. If Bing or others want access within our policies, without training, without summarization, and without selling it to others, we are and have always been open to that. If they want to build a business selling Reddit data or using the data for training, we could be open to that, but it’s a commercial conversation.”

Mojeek, the search engine that initially told me that Reddit was blocking all search engines but Google, and which was unable to get in touch with Reddit at the time, told me Reddit got in touch after that story was published. Mojeek said it was unable to share any details about the deal because of an NDA, but confirmed that Reddit wanted to get paid for letting Mojeek crawl the site, even though Mojeek does not have any AI products.

This doesn't add up and it makes me wonder what else Google and reddit agreed upon. This situation benefits no one except Google, as far as I can tell. If reddit wants to milk search engines, and Microsoft is willing and able to pay (which I assume they are), there is no reason for the deal to not go ahead like it did with Google. Kinda makes my brain start going down the conspiracy path, but then again it's hardly unbelievable that Google would pursue anti-competitive business strategies, particularly when it comes to generative AI.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 30 points 4 months ago

Personally I think interests are vastly overrated. Relationships are not about whether you enjoy what you do together, but whether you enjoy doing it together. Part of the magic of a long-term relationship is developing those unexpected shared interests over time rather than going in from day one with the attitude of "I want to date myself".

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 28 points 4 months ago
[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 28 points 5 months ago

Safe and official are not the same thing. I'm not sure there is any pirate site that is 100% safe when downloading applications. You are always taking an educated risk based on the history of the site, the moderation, the users and the application in question. It is not a good habit to think of things as clean or unclean, safe or unsafe, because circumstances can always change and you need be actively on the lookout for warning signs.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 28 points 6 months ago

Nice to see a YouTuber with a massive audience demystifying some of the alternatives to Google. There are of course many smaller channels who have provided better and more in-depth guides in the past, but someone this mainstream weighing in on their side does a lot to help the cause.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You don't need to make an account. There is a guest login option.

The shadiest thing I am aware of them doing was the time they added a crypto miner and asked users to choose between that or ads.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 30 points 6 months ago

The funny bit to me is how obvious they are about restructuring their business model. Netflix clearly wants a greater proportion of their revenue to come from advertisers, so they're charging exorbitant prices for the 4K and, in particular, standard plan while keeping the "ad-supported" plan fairly low. They were probably seeing waves of short-term subscribers in response to big releases and are trying to bait those people into staying subscribed permanently while also milking then through advertisements. I wouldn't be surprised if the standard plan is removed at some point because it's such bad value now.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 29 points 1 year ago

The seatbelt people can kill themselves off, nothing to worry about there. Mobile phones definitely continue to be a big concern though. The number of people who are suspiciously glancing down at their lap every few seconds out on the road is pretty crazy.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 28 points 1 year ago

It has support for up to 2 TB of removable storage. Did you even bother to read the specifications...?

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