Good boy, you're such a good boy.

Social credit? You mean like a credit score? They have those in the US...

Let's hope it gets him first

lmao that's not even a valid wiki URL

Ahoy

Digital advertising is murdering the Internet

I mean... they don't even give the real reason why a lot of these services can do this.... it's because a lot of their original content is just not being generated.

Like Google is "so good" right now that no one really cares about results beyond the first three. That gives 8-10 results that Google can now use for advertising space because no one was really going to care about those 8-10 results (although it does get absurd with travel stuff because now Google has its own booking agent).

Facebook doesn't actually have a lot of user generated content anymore between friends. Looking at the first ten friends that showup on my friend's list, one person hasn't posted in a year, eight people only seem to share stuff from groups, and one person is heavily posting for their multi level marketing business. Every time I log into Facebook I should see something new if I'm going to come back more frequently, so they fill in these gaps with advertised content, Instagram videos, and Marketplace listings.

They're slowed down and less functional because people use them differently now.

Because generations of white imperialism Had done wonders for Africa?

As an individual perhaps, but libraries have long had to buy their books (and other media) at the special (much higher) rate intended for lending/rental institutions.

There's also the issue that in this case internet archive had moved away from distributing copyrighted material on a strict 1:1 basis with a corresponding physical copy so this particular case was more complex than the lending of personal property.

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If you can buy a digital book, you can lend a digital book. Same as physical book.

NASA really needs something that's not Crew Dragon and can ferry humans. Not because Crew Dragon is bad but because they really don't want another Space Shuttle type fuckup.

I went from WebEx to Teams. Can confirm web ex fucking sucks and Teams was a huge upgrade. I have very few problems with Teams tbh. Sometimes calls will only ring on a subset of all my devices, but that’s the only bug that bothers me semi-regularly.

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Apart from the ones under 40, only some of them are (barely) ready for Twitter and WiFi, both of which gained popularity in 2000s.

You'll be looking at 2040s and all the dinosaurs are dead.

I know this probably feels like a nitpick, but I wish instead of saying:

> or that it’s sentient (it’s not),

journalists would instead say:

>or that it’s sentient (nobody actually has any idea what that means),

Every single debate along these lines has this infuriating flaw of people throwing vague words back and forth at each other based on some gut intuition that they don't have the faintest idea how to make any falsifiable statements about.

How much Social points were you paid to make this comment?

Not for most, if any users. There's a "plugins" model you can get to through a waitlist, but while there's apparently a first party web plugin being developed internally, it isn't publicly available. Everything you can actually get to is just specific APIs.

youtubeTV uses this to notify any device listening about what channel you're watching. they customize the "enjoy this moment of zen" oddball music (that it's music is a stretch) to signal what station is on.

I’m extremely dubious that this could actually be done without someone knowing

So it's just like any other business insider article

We have lawmakers that still think trickle down economics works and will work any minute now, of course they can't prepare for or understand the impending AI Boom. I'm sure we will see some semi-effective legislation in about ten years.

Decentralized social media?