froztbyte

oh yeah - wasn't so much saying it wasn't, as I was meaning to say "given what you grump about, there are other things on here that you may enjoy"

I blame at-boot brain for not making that clear

LLMs continue to be so good and wagmi that they've progressed to the serving ads part of the extractivist SaaS lifecycle

oh, didn't get you meant as a reference, right

a non-zero amount of the time, yeah

also, that poster's profile, holy fuck. even just the About is a trip

ut the moment the next “digital disease” comes along, one’s days are numbered

wut

remember to carry the thumb drive with your personal frame of a blade of grass falling - you should all have been issued one in your welcome packs by cult greeter upon arrival

Ed zitron (talking about the rot economy, and other present tech/internet downslope garbage) features pretty frequently on here, as does Brian merchant (search “blood in the machine”)

There’s a couple podcast threads as well, search for “behind the bastards” on here and you’ll find them. Search on my phone isn’t great

Someone else I’ve been following recently who also posts (practical) hope amidst the trash is joan westenburg

Re db0: awful is on lemmy as well so it mostly works. So you should be able to sub to techtakes easily. Read the sidebar/about for an intro about the place tho

you just gotta love how vacuously pointless the wording is

You must disclose

google-rfc "must": "we want something we can bend you over a barrel with if you're caught out by one, but that's all we'll bother committing because otherwise it eats into our lovely extortion profits"

via this I just learned that google's about[0] to open the taps on fingerprinting allowance for advertisers

that'll go well.

I realize that a lot of people in the rtb space already spend an utterly obscene amount of effort and resources to try do this shit in the first place, but jesus, this isn't even pretending. guess their projections for ad revenue must be looking real scary!

edit [0] - "about", as in next month. and they announced it last month.

and introduced me to some regional forum that went offline many years ago

every so often when I do password manager housekeeping, I take a browse around some of the older entries here and there. resultingly: I have a stunning and diverse collection of bitrot, comprised of more than merely a bunch of dead links!

(I still fairly often ponder what happens to all that data that almost definitely wasn't handled "rm -rf at company shutdown" way...)

you're not alone, I myself have lamented in passing around here

unclear from your post whether you've been following the spaces of people talking about this, been following along on here, or anything such. so first I'll ask - have you? if not, there's a whole bunch of threads and commonly-followed names to be found on awful that may provide references, touchstones, and more

Edit bored on a train so I did the math, in the comment thread, this user has made 30% of the comments by count and 20% by “volume” (basically number of bytes in the plaintext).

tha's a lotta posting