Three things would be enough IMO:
- From ghost town to exploding in popularity.
- Beans.
- No poop challenge.
Oh, Lower Silesia. Some of my relatives were from that area. Wouldn't be surprised if one of the hackers was my Nth removed cousin.
NEWAG said “Our software is clean. We have not introduced, we do not introduce and we will not introduce into the software of our trains any solutions that lead to intentional failures.
Watch the weasel word there. If its software leads to failures to its trains, NEWAG can always claim that it was not intentional, and that it was not lying. Including this "workshop detection". Or the bloody telemetry unit; together they did introduce a failure to the trains, regardless of "muh intenshun".
“Hacking IT systems is a violation of many legal provisions and a threat to railway traffic safety,” NEWAG added. “We do not know who interfered with the train control software, using what methods and what qualifications. We also notified the Office of Rail Transport about this so that it could decide to withdraw from service the sets subjected to the activities of unknown hackers.”
"Fear, uncertainty, doubt" comes to my mind.
In addition to right to repair laws, I feel like governments are utterly unprepared when it comes to businesses trying to bully the government's population into submission. This should be addressed, and the legal apparatus being misused by those businesses should be checked and fixed.
I'm tired of watching human children eating theropod tendies. I need a time machine, let's see how things were when theropods were the apex predators...
/me sees juvenile theropod eating theropods Goddammit!
Serious now: it's interesting to note that Gorgosaurus isn't one of the biggest members of the Tyrannosauridae clade. Sure, an adult was, like, 1200kg large? A T-Rex in comparison was five times heavier. (That would make the Gorgosaurus even more dangerous and agile.)
Hanlon's Razor
It fits well here.
Perhaps, in Twitter's case. I don't know.
In Reddit's case it's simply a moron aping another; I don't think that Huffman has the depth of thought necessary to evaluate the impact of his own actions.
I'm curious on how a federation would handle an Eternal September. If we [the community] play our cards right, we could get "newbie instances" - in those the newbies would either adapt themselves to the rest of the culture of the Fediverse or forge their own, in a non-conflicting way with the others. It would be kind of cool.
I don't know what's the right thing to do. But in your shoes I'd probably cut off contact with him.
Therapy will help a bit but it'll keep eating at you. Perhaps distracting yourself when it comes to the past might help, it does for me a bit.
This music immediately reminds me Bramble Blast. I had a tough time with it as a kid - looking for the DK coin and the last bonus, both were in this level.
25 min. I just restarted it after kernel update.
It was around 3~4d or so.
Given the source (The Economist) I'm expecting trash, but I'll still comment it.
TL;DR: advertisers collectively dug their own grave, do not pity them.
As the rich pay to banish commercials, advertisers hunt for their attention elsewhere
Correction: "as water is wet, advertisers hunt for the attention of everyone everywhere".
You don't need people paying to avoid ("banish"? Come on TE, don't be disingenuous) ads, to get advertisers circling them harder and harder over time, like vultures circling putrid flesh.
They'll still do it no matter what you do, because ads compete for your attention so every ad that you see makes all other ads less valuable; as such, each advertiser is encouraged to make its own ads a bit more obnoxious and frequent, to get a competitive edge.
And by doing so they degrade a common resource shared by them - your willingness to put up with their obnoxiousness. Eventually you say "screw this shit, uBlock Origin here I go". Or go with a subscription model, like the aforementioned rich people do.
As the internet has eroded the value of their ads, newspapers and magazines have made a decade-long pivot to other sources of revenue.
Newspapers and magazines were among the first businesses do litter their own webpages with more and more ads.
As such, "the internet" did not erode the value of their ads. They did it themselves.
Social media seemed like a safer space for ads. For years Facebook promised it was “free and always will be”. Two things have changed that. One is regulation.
Regulations don't change much in the big picture. The reason why non-personalised ads are worth nothing nowadays is because they're outcompeted by data-invasive ones. Remove the later from the picture, and the former becomes more attractive again. (And yes, you got to do it through regulation and legislation. It's the only way out of Tragedy of the Commons.)
Tech firms are also watching Brazil, Indonesia and Australia (where Snapchat is testing its ad-free option).
Odds are that ad-free subscriptions will fail hard here in Brazil, and likely the rest of LatAm. There's a strong "if you can get it for free, do it" culture here, and people tend to underestimate the worth of their own attention. They're a ripe market for suckers who see ads.
Since 2021 Apple has let customers opt out of being tracked by apps, crippling the ability to personalise ads and triggering a rush to alternative methods of monetisation.
Emphasis mine. That's why I said that I expected "trash" from TE: it's fine to be biased, as long as you're explicit with it. That is not what TE is doing - through the text it's using carefully picked words to cast privacy measures in a negative light, but never outright saying "privacy bad mkay, think on the advertisers".
Or alternatively you skip all that crap with personalised ads, advertisers and the likes, and hop into a non-profit social network. That is a truly ad-free internet.
Fediverse? Do you mean, the Threadiverse?
I'm being cheeky to illustrate a point - Threads will almost certainly harm the overall health of the Fediverse in the long run, with users relying increasingly more on Threads' instance[s] to use Mastodon services and connect to people.