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I’m not sure this is still the case. An AdWords campaign worth its salt is going to cost a lot more money than some local advertising, and with plenty of bot fraud to boot.
I asked some magazines for print ads and one issue is 60-150€ in my niche. That’s not bad, I think I’ve blown twice that in digital ads before to help a friend and we got a 2 conversions to a paying customer.
Dunno. Maybe at a large scale digital advertising is where you have to go, but small businesses might actually benefit from… small advertising.
Got it, put all my life savings into guac.
*Cries in Belgian*. You do know that a lot of people live in places with less sunlight, right?
Given Vercel’s plunge in some circles, maybe it does run the product. Might want to install some Product Manager skills on their Claudes.
I understand the cynicism and… well, I agree.
Hopefully, Europe has learned something and our energy dependency and trade policy changes a little bit.
Hopefully, US voters are now a little more careful with the choices they make.
Not to be too Eurocentric, but we didn’t need a 2nd energy crisis in 4 years, this time caused not by Evil Russia but our old, trusted ally.
My hosting providers gives you IPv6 for free, whereas IPv4 costs ~3€/month. It seems like a no brainer, until you realise that many clients wouldn’t be able to find you with IPv6 alone.
So I don’t see how to fix this except at the ISP level (forcing them). No one is preventing this but the providers.
Zoho offers a lot of good stuff in their platform.
To be fair, train crashes happen rarely enough that the safety procedures are in place and work (at least most of the time).
It’s still a relatively decent and ambitious thing to aspire to, i.e. a lean interface/tool scope that prevents scope creep. Composability (with pipelines) also works quite well. But yes, it is somewhat propaganda.
I thought you were exaggerating but man…
Google’s issue (and many large companies’?) is organisational. Google has famously launched a bunch of products to compete in multiple markets, only to sunset these products soon after.
> … any out-of-warranty screen damage will cost $999.
Good heavens, if your Duo breaks, it’s cheaper to get almost ANY other new phone.
I don’t find a non-smart 4K television on Bol, except for a single 800€ model. Sorry but it’s not 2016, I’m not gonna sit and watch content at a resolution worse than my laptop’s.
And literal freezing of Europe at the current gas prices.
The LLM doesn’t know what’s relevant or important. It puts tokens together that are likely to make sense together. It can reason a bit, but it doesn’t think in the way you and I do, and therefore would find it difficult to guess what YOU consider relevant.
Okay, but here: I pay my main bank 2€/month to have my account. Am I not a customer? I didn’t ask them for favours. I pay for my account, my partner has insurance with them, we buy bonds and their insurance products, etc. But since their app is so immensely bad, we’re slowly moving to a different bank.
Books, and your grandma’s notes on making jam, I guess.
I empathise with GP’s anger. “You hold my money” should be enough of a reason to do all in their power to build great web apps and support alternative OS’es.
I find that banking apps deserve that extra bit of anger pointed towards them. (It’s also increasingly hard to find an ATM in many countries. What are banks up to?)
Orion’s extension bridge is really spotty, and WebKit itself is a bit disappointing. Both Orion and Safari fail to block ads that uBlock Origin will handle just fine. Both will lose a tab if you sometimes refresh it while it was in the process of loading. Both have mediocre caching that makes the back button sort of pointless.
You raise good, classic points when defending copyright. I would argue that your first examples are for the good of society, and the individual copyright protections are for the good of small creators.
Copyright enforced at this scale, for the profit of a corporation that streams their content off the infrastructure paid for by the public, does make one less comfortable.
And exclusive broadcasting rights… why is that a thing and conflated with copyright regulations? Why would the public regulator charge, say, 1M€ for the steaming right to something that will net 20M€ in advertising? That’s not really about copyright, I’d argue that it’s actually the job of the public channels to stream this content that takes place on stadiums built with public funds, streamed via a largely public TV system, etc.
I suppose the work against sports piracy is profitable enough to continue. Canal+ makes quite a lot of money, and their subscription in France is pricey compared to most other services.
They could, for starters, split the sports bundle and lower its price. Lots of people would probably pay a little bit to watch sports in 4K, instead of hunting for shady streaming websites that do 720p at best.
I understand what you mean, but I also find that my son is very much his own person. He’ll (hopefully) inherit our best traits and values, but his interests and personality are quite his own. I wouldn’t advise parents on expecting their kids to be like them, except in copying your best and worst examples (“do as I say” doesn’t work).
Except… research is showing it works? You’re thinking of the “generation” (arbitrary lines) raised by people that didn’t yet have the tools and science for more responsive rearing.
Have you interacted with a toddler? They are completely unaware of their emotional state, they’ll just cry or complain. So you gently remind them that it’s indeed frustrating, or that they’re sad, etc. There’s nothing Orwellian about it, you’re merely giving them words to name emotions. And, ideally, they’ll grow up way less confused and reactive than the generation you’re thinking about.
Emotional resilience doesn’t come from “toughen up”, but rather from knowing what you’re feeling and how/why you gotta handle it in a healthy way.
Everything GP said is basically modern, evidence-based, good parenting.
What is phenomenally stupid is that the UK is a major player in demanding encryption backdoors.
Good job :) It sounds daunting enough. Which model of keyboard was that and why were you having trouble with battery levels?
You’re gonna get a ton of “what about X” replies, which is sad, disappointing, and goes to show that people don’t understand the scale and severity of solutions like these.
What about… nothing. Nothing. A friend screenshotting an E2EE message is NOT even in the same world of trouble as an agentic automation over all their conversations.
But email… nope. Stop. A single person passing group chats to Claude will compromise the few hundred people in our parenting WhatsApp community.
Considering all our servers run on Deno… :/
I understand and agree with your concern. Hopefully a good candidate would exist that could inspire the French into a better France.
It is indeed peculiar that the French are so ready to take up to the streets, and I suspect the ghettoisation of some of its populace was a mistake. Protests are a bit everywhere; I’m close to Portugal and Belgium and both are showing signs of distress.
I fear Macron is pulling a David Cameron, “it’s not that bad, let’s leave it to the people”, only to realise that the people were indeed so upset that a Le Pen starts sounding like a good idea (polling at 48%).
How small is small? Runbox is very small but very responsive, they’ve been great to me.
But measured how? Commits per engineer or something?