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PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)

Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....

Aermis ,

I use PayPal mastercard but that's run by synchrony? Is this part of PayPal's problems?

Aermis ,

Ooh nice, cuz cancer 1.0 sucks

Aermis ,

Dude I can't even run the website anymore. It lags, won't click links, can't even get into my settings. I thought I had malware but it was exclusive to every time I opened a reddit link.

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What does some kids leaving trash out have to do with air bnb?

Edit: didn't read about how Airbnb insured property damage. But still, it's hard to be responsible for the actions of others.

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

Aermis ,

Your example is 9 billion difference. This would not cost 9 billion. It wouldn't even cost 1 billion.

Aermis ,

Whats ARM? And how does it replace a GPU?

Aermis ,

How does x64 architecture play in this? I that x86 was out dated and not used. Something about fat32 and ntfs hard drives? Man I know so little of computers even thought I've been tinkering with them most of my life.

Aermis OP ,

Wow that looks like an amazing software. I think I saw this year's ago when I was messing around with plex before plex became as big as it is. I guess the question is what hardware would I use? Would a raspberry pi have the necessary processing power to stream through wifi my pc content, or play it's own content online?

I'm very ignorant when it comes to small devices like this, and I've never dabbled in anything besides windows, As much as I'd love to have the enthusiasm and knowledge of the Linux community here on lemmy.

Aermis OP ,

Sounds like an easy solution if you have a TV and TV remote that can turn it on and off.

This seems like what I was thinking. A pi with software, and kodi seems the best so far.

Aermis OP ,

Thanks for the information and pointing me in a direction I can work with.

Aermis OP ,

I'm thinking of the odrioid N2 after doing a little bit of research. It's the finding the TV that might be an issue as you've said. I don't want those smart tv's and their countless user agreements and BS ads. I don't want ads so bad, I'll burn my TV down if I see any.

Aermis OP ,

What about the odrioid N2? Looked pretty promising in other forums.

Aermis OP ,

That might be a solution. A little over powered compared to a Vero or odrioid. Are you planning to game on it?

Aermis OP ,

I've never liked voice activation but my wife might like that. Idk why Nvidia shield keeps coming up, it's like the only mainstream streaming device that keeps popping up for people who like to stay away from streaming platforms.

Aermis ,

If you like deck builders and poker style card games this is an excellent imagination of the 2. Very fun.

Aermis ,

He's implying the writer of Genesis should have known that the flood only covered their area instead of writing the whole world. Because someone in Greece already calculated the circumference of the earth at the time.

Either way the great flood is not just documented in the Torah which is interesting, and if findings are reported as true, it's not the first documentation of the flood.

Regardless, what was written and how the actual events transpired doesn't break the writings or purpose of them in Christianity/Judaism

Aermis ,

Oh I wouldn't know about the earth's circumference being measured. The comment about calling Christianity backwards because of some "enlightened" idea that there were mathematicians during the time of (in their eyes) "magic" being reported is insensible. Atheists will atheist.

Aermis ,

He was in the alcove

Aermis ,

I have a 2002 acura mdx. The old console finally gave away and now I can't control air ventilation in my car. The only physical button I have is auto and defrost. So I'm either full blast heat or off. I hate it.

Aermis ,

Hi. I'm on lemmy. I haven't switched. Why? Because there an insane amount of incorporation into Google. Email, my phone communicating to pc, passwords, auto fill, saved cookies, credit cards.

I want to switch. I want to get off chrome from what I've been reading regarding it's practices. But I'm so engraved and the undertaking of switching is not something I've committed to yet. Or might never. I already have a Google Home in my kitchen. I feel like privacy isn't something I have a privilege of anymore.

They've got me.

Aermis ,

Yes 😢

Aermis ,

I mean... There's not a lot of people who wouldn't take $193 million for that.

Aermis ,

He's directing it to a forum of people under a topic regarding phones not being optimized to charge past 80%. Quite a fair frustration I'd say, since most people charge their phones while sleeping. The technology should stop charging automatically

Aermis ,

Its not a participation award game. It's the game of games. It's not about kelce not getting to play. It's about the chiefs losing because they're not utilizing their best weapon. It's a team sport and you're watching your team lose because you're not being used.

Imagine being on a competitive team project and you're the best speaker presenting to the state but your teacher decides to let the shy kids try to present, clearly bumbling and being incoherent, letting your opponents out argue every point your peers are making when you clearly can out speak them. You'd be pretty upset with your teacher for getting you to states, you being the reason you're there, and then once you're there you're sidelined.

Aermis ,

I'm a union commercial electrician where I spent a decade building and improving tenant spaces in commercial towers in Seattle and Bellevue. There's a huge dip in our work now that there aren't high rises being occupied. I'd like people to work from home, but my blue collar job can't be done from home. If we can change what these buildings are used for I wouldn't be worried.

Google here in Fremont area on the other hand is expanding their space by occupying a larger foot print with a smaller work force per square foot. That's a good way to keep us working.

Aermis ,

There are many different types of electrical workers. I'm a commercial inside wireman. I'm licensed to install electrical infrastructure and maintain electrical infrastructure in commercial and industrial complexes. I have a wide range of work I can do, but to put it simply I only have a job if:
Complexes are being built (I'm doing construction)
Complexes are being used (this is mostly industrial since commercial spaces have building engineers that mostly took over our maintaince work).

People working from home eliminate both my outlets of work. Residential electricians make significantly less than I do, and their work is pretty similar but dedicated to homes. But even their work would be cut because if we're talking office employees making an office at home, there's not much if anything required of any electrician for someone to set up a computer and a desk in their home. The grid will be using much less power due to drop in facilities.

But it's not just my job as an electrician. It's construction in the city as a whole and even the city economy. Because outside of the residential district in cities, people working from home in the suburbs aren't utilizing the city infrastructure and commercial goods.

Fremont in Seattle has a large presence with many employees. The tech here tries to stay very competitive so Google was providing their employees with beautiful breakfast and lunch amenities. This created such a blow to Fremonts local restaurants that Seattle had to implement a special tax for serving food in your complex. Basically food cannot be free.

This is but one industry being impacted with employees no longer having a presence in the city high rises they're employed at. Construction slowing or being fully eliminated will remove our presence in the city, majority of tradesmen. Tech will invest less because employees will take care of their own facilities by working from home. Now the economy takes a hit, we don't have work in the city, restaurants don't have customers, and the jobs of the office workers are suddenly finding themselves not needed as much either. Now residential high rises in the city are being vacated. The towers are losing employees and residents. The city stagnants. Economy crashes.

Of course this is pretty dramatic, and very generalized. But people working from home effects A LOT including a few steps down, their own careers.

Aermis ,

I watch a tiktok maybe once a day. The algorithm is mostly cooking and science for me. It's highly enjoyable content if you get past the noise and obviously don't overuse it. That can be said for any social media app, including lemmy.

Aermis ,

And the flowers taste delicious!

Aermis ,

Wow. That would make me rage so hard. But I have had galaxy phones since the 6, on 21 ultra now. I've never seen an ad there.

Aermis ,

I've had this issue with my headset forever, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't but I would ask Google a question and then Google replies with you "please unlock your device". If I unlock my device with my hands I'm not asking you how many grams of protein are in a cup of flour. My hands are dirty. Or busy. If this update makes it no longer accept requests while locked and I'm wearing my Bluetooth headset, the wtf is the point of it.

Aermis ,

Same but mostly because I like to scan each item and see it associated with the price on the screen before adding another item

Aermis ,

If you agree that parenthesis go first then the equation becomes 8/2x4. Then it's simply left to right because multiplication does not take precedence over division. What's the nuanced talk? That M comes before D in PEMDAS?

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