viking

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[–] viking 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] viking 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Their IPO was priced below $100, thus far the model still works. I'm guessing they'll go the way of facebook, with dwindling user engagement but somewhat stable ad revenue since people go there out of habit or through links from random google searches for obscure topics.

[–] viking 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I left with my 14 year old account after they banned third party apps. Moderating large communities (1M+) with the official app was impossible, and I was moderating 3 of those, plus a bunch of smaller ones. I did Secret Santa 4 or 5 times (move countries frequently for my job, so it wasn't always feasible), and still have the Guinness World records certificate somewhere, plus a lot of free merch from the mod appreciation giveaways back when they weren't a shitcorp. Leaves quite the bad aftertaste.

Pretty sure that by now I'd have been banned as well, I never held back with dark humor and speaking out against evil corpos. In a way I'm glad I left on my own terms before it all went fully to hell.

[–] viking 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird, youtube with ublock origin is all I need to enjoy no ads. Are you using some additional scripts that modify youtube in some way?

[–] viking 2 points 1 year ago

What about infosec.pub? Been my home instance ever since .world blocked piracy discussions, and I never had any issues there.

[–] viking 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Use Firefox with the Chameleon addon, works on Fennec as well (Android fork with Mozilla telemetry removed).

[–] viking 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Deepseek is no more or less restrictive than ChatGPT, and the American clowns are also threatening democracy. So I don't see any reason to avoid one over the other. Unless you refuse to use both, that's just hypocrisy.

[–] viking 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, capital city of my State, in a recently built gated community (2018). Corner lot with nice garden and 2400ft², 4BR. 😎

[–] viking 2 points 1 year ago

I am C-level and also German.

[–] viking 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes I do, but my office is pretty much exactly 40 miles from where I live, so I could technically commute if I had to. Takes me about 45 min to get there on a good day, with traffic can be 1:15h.

[–] viking 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Closer to 9% right now, 700 USD vs. 8k income after tax. But I generally don't spend more than 1k regardless, it's a hard limit for me.

[–] viking 6 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Damn, $200 sounds low, on the other hand 30% is a crazy share. I'm targeting 10-15% at most.

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