Those are rookie numbers etc. Consider: the night before

The problem was actually caused by Google Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.

For Google Ads at least, it’s pay per click not impression

Can you not just make sure YouTube gets none of your money by using a front end that strips out all ads and sponsored segments? My kids watch YouTube but they’ve never seen an ad.

Terraria. Every time I fire up the deck to buy a new game, a few days later I am back to Terraria.

My case in point. Instead of farming out translation jobs for 12 languages in WPML to people, we now auto translate all content via AI. That’s jobs lost. Complicated legal docs is an edge case in the content world.

Cursor is agent mode with Claude 3.7 absolutely writes well enough after indexing our codebase to mean less junior devs. I’m sorry that doesn’t fit into your narrative.

That’s not to say the world isn’t full of AI slop, and there aren’t huge issues around LLMs, But there are some solid use cases for this technology in replacing meat bags.

Translators and junior level devs.

It’s nowhere near as bad here in NZ

Wait until the price of eggs and gas goes up

Proton’s CEO just crawled up Trump’s ass, so that’s worth factoring in to any decisions about using them.

Life goals

LLMs are not advancing enough any more. There just isn’t any more useful human generated text to train new models on. The net is already full of AI generated slop. OpenAI currently spends 2.35 USD to make 1 USD. It’s fundamentally unsustainable.

What enshittification? I haven’t noticed any dark patterns in the Bluesky app.

I’d gladly pay a subscription for a useable service than have ads plastered all over it. It’s infinitely better than the shitshow that is X.

https://www.twz.com/air/u-s-air-force-confirms-drone-sightings-over-ramstein-air-base-in-germany

https://www.twz.com/air/multiple-drone-incident-just-occurred-over-usaf-fighter-base-in-england

This is happening over US bases in Germany and the UK too. Sure there is a heap of noise over the NJ sightings but to dismiss the signal entirely is a mistake.

XRP at least has instant feeless payments. No consumer protection though. Some banks use it for intra-bank transfers.

This person networks

Now THIS I can get behind

Seriously though, I never got near those numbers. I did put about 2500 hours into TFC and TF2 before it became a bot hellscape.

THC and an orgasm.

Just yesterday I banned Facebook’s user agent that is supposedly only used to generate link previews. It was being extremely aggressive, making 20 requests per second. At the time I thought “I bet they’re actually building their own search index”, and here we are.