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Re:SlowDownAndWasteMemory() on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:39PM (#36577150)
Which is not "inaccessible".

I just accessed it. Which means it's accessible. here's a screenshot of the accessible tweet: https://i.imgur.com/XLlIVFe.png

Y'all's hatred of Musk is driving you to lie.

Re:SlowDownAndWasteMemory() on Monday July 03, 2023 @02:13PM (#36576798)
false.

"When you do uint8array.buffer in JSC the first time, it calls slowDownAndWasteMemory()"

and links to: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/ab10a90523e06df54bbb8a...

Devil's advocate: What if they gave a comment the publication didn't like (but readers would) and hid it?

Publishing what was said is more "just the facts, please" than editorializing the response, as shitty PR-speak as it is.

FTC, if they weren't captured.
Full disclosure, I'm an author who has self published a few things on Amazon and setup author stuff on amazon and goodreads.

>as demonstrated by the fact that it hasn't done anything.

There are links between the two. You can buy my books on amazon (the dropdown supports other vendors) from their Goodreads pages.

But to your point about anticompetitive, I completely agree.

Why are corporations even allowed to just buy other corporations, at all?

A shitty bank bought my bank and promptly made everything about it shittier. Why is this even allowed at all? Companies buying other companies is about the most fundamentally anti-competitive thing there is.

Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:21PM (#36544604)
I can't speak for him, just relaying the information.

But I'm happy to speculate: Organizations violated the twitter TOS by scraping, and he's going to sue the organizations for it.

Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:56PM (#36544351)
I've had zero issues all day. Didn't even notice there was a problem, but I'm logged in.
Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:55PM (#36544337)
"Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.

What should we do to stop that? I’m open to ideas."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674898695534309378

"1. Scraping is already disallowed by T&C.

2. The scraping orgs dgaf & mask their IPs through proxy servers or through orgs that appear legit. For example, a recent massive scraping operation originating from Oracle IP addresses was just using their servers as a laundromat.

3. We absolutely will take legal action against those who stole our data & look forward seeing them in court, which is (optimistically) 2 to 3 years from now."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674898695534309378

Yeah, in advertising there's supply side and demand side. So even more parties can get screwed!
Didn't you hear? It's now EAT VERIFICATION SANDWICH: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/get-diablo-4-early-beta-ac...

They're doing another promotion for cosmetics too. And it's not even per sandwich, it's per purchase. So to get them all, you have to have 4 separate transactions.

Using the Brave browser on iPadOS at least, YouTube will just refuse to served HD content after one video. Enjoy your 4K video downscaled to 360p.
I know this isn't exactly the same, but I used to work at an adtech startup and my boss was very savvy in the industry, and right in front of me did some quick napkin math showing that Hulu probably makes about $20 a month off of people in the free tier, and only $13 from their ad-free* subscription.

So by subscribing Hulu makes less money off of you.

The main reason is video ads pay the most, which doesn't apply to papers, but does apply to websites. So what's their excuse now?

*Their "ad-free" tier has ads.

I realized a truism years ago: Anytime there are 3 or more parties involved in a business deal, at least one of them is getting fucked. And it's usually the least powerful party, which 99% of the time is just the ordinary user/consumer/taxpayer. However, not always. And sometimes it's two parties getting screwed. This happens a lot with government contracts. Where the people paid for it, the government got garbage, and the contractor(s) got rich.

Here's is the quintessential example: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5... We paid $400 billion dollars to entrenched ISPs and got absolutely nothing for it.

And advertising is almost always a 3 party business deal. The merchant. The advertiser. The unwitting public. Sometimes the merchant gets screwed. Sometimes it's the advertiser. But almost always the target audience.

So when it comes to adblocking, I have zero sympathy for the advertiser or the merchant. I want zero advertisements in my life. But I get them anyway.

>To those men in their oddly similar dark suits, their cold eyes weighing and dismissing everything, the people of this valley were a foe to be defeated. As he thought of it, Dasein realized all customers were "The Enemy" to these men. Davidson and his kind were pitted against each other, yes, competitive, but among themselves they betrayed that they were pitted more against the masses who existed beyond that inner ring of knowledgeable financial operation.

>The alignment was apparent in everything they did, in their words as well as their actions. They spoke of "package grab level" and "container flash time" -- of "puff limit" and "acceptance threshold." It was an "in" language of militarylike maneuvering and combat. They knew which height on a shelf was most apt to make a customer grab an item. They knew the "flash time" -- the shelf width needed for certain containers. They knew how much empty air could be "puffed" into a package to make it appear a greater bargain. they knew how much price and package manipulation the customer would accept without jarring him into a "rejection pattern."

>And we're their spies, Dasein thought. the psychiatrists and psychologists - all the "social scientists" we're the espionage arm.

The Santaroga Barrier,

Frank Herbert, 1968

Re:Physicists Produce Neutrino Images of Milky Way Galaxy on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:15PM (#36529301)
>“What’s intriguing is that, unlike the case for light of any wavelength, in neutrinos, the universe outshines the nearby sources in our own galaxy,” says Francis Halzen, a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and principal investigator of IceCube.

Wild stuff.

Think about who has time to go to public meetings.
> The way that regular bluetooth headsets work fine, but AirPods work even better;

I think this is one thing a ton of people don't realize. Apple doesn't want to sell you individual devices. They want you to sell an entire electronic ecosystem that serves all of your technology needs and seamlessly integrates all of it for you.

It's why they put effort into things like handoff, copy & paste on iPhone/mac, AirDrop, iCloud photo sharing, et al. Sure there's a profit motive in having you use all their stuff, but they really do make a genuine effort to make things work together better than disparate devices, companies or manufacturers do.

I still have to use a private channel in Signal to share things like pics or links from iOS/OSX/Windows because there just isn't a good cross-ecosystem app that I've found. Discord and slack sort of work, but they're not E2E encrypted like Signal is.

Re:macOS command-line tools you might not know about on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @07:18PM (#36500059)
FYI: yt-dlp is more up to date and faster, AFIK: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

I download and save it as 'ytdl' for convenience, but I use it all the time on twitter too.

EVE has been called "spreadsheets in space" for years, so this is hilarious and the devs know it.
I think more accurately, you can't assume you've broken it, or that it works because you can't test it. It's just an unknown. Which is bad enough, IMHO.
They went from alive, to clouds of molecules faster than humans can perceive. So effectively, yes.
An attempt at an ExplainLikeImFive answer:

In a sizable volume of gas the air molecules have a lot of room to bounce around. Moving molecules and them hitting things is heat. So suddenly having a lot less room results in much more frequent impacts. Frequency of impacts is heat, so it becomes hotter. We'd sort of normally consider it the overall average velocity of the molecules, but if they never hit anything they never transfer energy, and aren't measured (or measurable). But when they hit things they transfer some of that energy and it's measured as heat as an aggregate.

So biggish volume of gas, suddenly in a tiny volume: huge spike in heat because all the molecules now slamming into each other and the people inside.

I'd say it would be very unpleasant, but it's so fast and so violent that exceeds the speed of human thought, so they felt nothing and just sort of stopped existing as corporeal beings faster than they could possibly comprehend the change in circumstances. They were. And then they weren't.

Implemented by IBM using Oracle, for some reason.
Re:Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System on Thursday June 22, 2023 @05:06PM (#36439018)
The server is running on my local network. It was blocking watching content on my local network from within my local network because it couldn't phone home.

That's broken by design.

>It's that they're being a jerk.

People define others whose opinions they don't share as "being a jerk" when they're just saying something they don't like, all the time.

>There will always be people who just want to show up in a space and act like an asshole, then cry "censorship" when they are asked to leave.

Who is an asshole is an opinion. And no one likes being censored. One man's hate speech is another man's basic truism. It's why there is no federal law in America against "hate speech" because there's no objective way to classify it. Your disdain for people who disagree with you says nothing about them and a great deal about you.

https://communities.win has been around since reddit banned The_Donald. But it allows right wing views, so probably not what 95% of HN is interested in.
Admins going rogue?

Admins are employees of reddit.com. I think you're talking about moderators, who are the volunteer petty tyrants that have always been the worst thing about reddit, and they are the ones "going rogue".

Like three people went to mastadon.
Re:Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System on Sunday June 18, 2023 @10:28PM (#36386675)
My ISP went down. Nothing I could do about it.

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