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wise_pancake ,

One time my brother played the recorder using his nose, we were all thoroughly impressed and never again touched that thing.

Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)

More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed.

wise_pancake ,

The most surprising thing here is they got in contact with a human in Google cloud to resolve the issue.

wise_pancake ,

There were several months with people complaining their data was getting deleted and Google just ignored the whole thing until it blew up on hacker news.

wise_pancake ,

The IT guy who set up that backup deserves a hell of a bonus.

A lot of people would have been happy with their multi region resiliency and stopped there.

wise_pancake ,

Fewer than one a month?

I guess a good heuristic is if you don’t watch one or two movies a month on Disney, you should drop Disney makes sense.

wise_pancake ,

This means absolutely nothing.

How much of their advertising revenue comes from the US. They have shopping, I’ll bet the US buys the most.

China already has livestream shopping, it’s still relatively novel in the US. Bytedance has to compete with other local competitors in China, hating a nice external source of revenue in the US fuelling these Chinese battle is a huge boon.

I know the article says loss making app, but I bet a lot of money goes back to R&D creating the loss. They pay massive sums to get merchants to sell on their app for example.

wise_pancake ,

I read it as a bluff too.

They’re between a rock and a hard place, their best position is to play hardball and rile up their users.

Yeah, it means nothing to us to leave. We’re losing money!

If that were really the case why are they in the US at all? Because they know they can make money and their market position is strong.

wise_pancake ,

5% of customers driving 25% of revenue is a market you want to invest in.

Amazon wasn't profitable for how many years? It's the exact same play. Take a loss to create something artificially desirable, strangle the competition and lock up your walled garden, then crank the prices.

I've talked with merchants TikTok Shop recruited, TikTok was paying them a ton to sell there, eating their processing fees, their shipping costs, and paying for massive discounts to customers so they could juice their metrics.

They're starting to crank up their fees this spring and summer.

Same with advertising, advertisers want to go to TikTok, but I'm sure most of the actual spend is happening outside the app on influencers. TikTok wants that pie too.

Taking a loss means nothing in this context

wise_pancake ,

Yeah I think they're angling for a reversal, if not they'll sell and probably take some massive non voting share of the venture along with a bunch of billionaires.

wise_pancake ,

Yeah, kinda

You watch TikTok, someone shills a product, you buu it with a button that pops up, or you click into their store to buy their cosmetics line.

Ask: How do you handle your résumés?

Usually I rely on my network & haven’t needed this kind of document in ages, but I’ve been tasked with creating a résumé for myself. I’ve grown more privacy-conscious every year & I think it’s weird that we are expected to give out so much information about ourselves to companies that lie about their culture & don’t...

wise_pancake ,

I don’t think you need to post your address like the old days, I would never notice nor care about such an omission.

I do always look at job history, and I don’t out a lot of stock in the skills section because most of the time people lie or exaggerate there.

wise_pancake ,

You know, this a good thing. Now nobody else can do it, so I just need to never buy a Roku.

wise_pancake ,

☹️

wise_pancake ,

I fully do not expect Roku to face any consequences except more sales, sadly.

wise_pancake ,

Yes, that’s what I’ve learned.

Everything is just about lowest cost and least effort.

Like Twitter, nobody I knew left, despite it being free to do so. Same for Facebook, Reddit, WhatsApp, etc. Each scandal nobody seems to do anything.

I expected people to so watching ad supported Netflix, but it has seen huge growth and is their highest profit source.

I’m disappointed because I know I’m going to get ads everywhere no matter what now, and it’s on every electronic device, which need “secure boot” and whatever else so you can’t circumvent the ads. .

wise_pancake ,

But I thought we cold have free support in realtime with security updates for free forever?

wise_pancake ,

That’s the guy who appears in my head when in playing with my cat

My cat has this ability to drive me to the weirdest ways of playing with him

wise_pancake ,

I watched that expecting it to be meh, but it’s legitimately a very very good movie!

wise_pancake ,

Same here, I loved Fio’s family, Porco was great, the pirates were also super fun. I particularly enjoyed the ending

wise_pancake ,

macOS is the best OS for screenshots. I just right click the preview and save to clipboard, then paste wherever.

There’s a bunch of hidden screenshot options too.

wise_pancake ,

Just one screenshot key?

laughs while awkwardly spreading hand to press cmd+alt+3/4/5+space to select a window

wise_pancake ,

Ha, you fool, now I know what time zone you live in, mountain. The android OCR without screenshotting is a clutch feature. I keep coming across blogs that disable right click assuming that makes it so AI can’t read it, but really they just make it impossible to quote the author. That feature is super handy for that, or copying text from a video.

wise_pancake ,

I’m the product of two failures with histories of depression, so I just feel like every ounce of joy costs a pound of numbness. No exploitation or too much joy needed.

wise_pancake ,

Blind is full of the shittiest coworkers you didn’t know you had, so take it with a grain of salt

wise_pancake ,

I’ve adopted a policy of always ebetering my password wrong the first time.

It started by accident.

wise_pancake ,

They can’t swipe your password if it’s wrong

They could of course enter it on the target website and see it’s wrong though, so this only works against the crappiest phishing attempts

wise_pancake ,

It’s great that Bob and Linda Belcher are narrating comics in my brain now

wise_pancake ,

Now that you mention it, I can hear Linda narrating the whole thing while watching rats in the alley eating the food she left for them.

wise_pancake ,

You can generally do firmware updates over USB if you actually need them.

Also sont devices will grant Ethernet over hdmi, which doesn’t require authentication like wifi, so make sure your set to box isn’t granting internet access to the tv.

wise_pancake ,

Now you’ve done it, you’re in trouble now!

wise_pancake ,

I wish the intended had more deranged shit like this or the time cube

wise_pancake ,

Are you sure it isn’t the kitty sticker?

wise_pancake ,

What are you talking about? The web was always about capitalism and centralization!

You would never want to run your own email server, or run your own blog. It’s good that the big corps systematically block you out so you as an individual have to use their services. Who wants privacy really? Sounds like criminal stuff, we just need to peek at your data to serve you better ads. Ignore law enforcement paying us for your data, nothing bad will come of that.

wise_pancake ,

Yes sorry I was being sarcastic.

I think it’s a tragedy we’ve lost individual websites and services, and the modern web is dying.

wise_pancake , (edited )

Edit: I misread the post to be 28% CTR, you can ignore my comment.

There's absolutely no fucking way CTR for those is 28%.

I do not believe that.

Posts don't even have a CTR that high, that would mean the average user goes no further than 4 ads before clicking one.

Now I wish I bought some stock so I could get in on a shareholder lawsuit about them cooking the books on this shit.

Edit: for context, it's 0.9% on FB, 1.9% on Google.

What's more likely, someone at reddit fucked up an analysis, or these ads are 14x better than Google or 31x better than FB?

wise_pancake , (edited )

I don't believe that number, the average reddit clicks one of every 4 ads shown?

No way.

Edit: I misread the post to be 28% CTR, you can ignore my comment.

wise_pancake ,

It used to be, they were called sponsored links, but the comment sections got filled with angry comments about the ads and people would downvote the shit out of them, then they removed comments, and after the redesign ads didn't have threads/engagement but now they do.

One of my friends tried advertising that way and it went poorly, and the ads weren't even for a real product just a test balloon for the concept.

Pepe also got very mad when your ad replaced the moose in the sidebar.

Ironically, it was spez who introduced sponsored links with comments then, so what's old is new again! I wonder if this time will be different... (Not really, I know how this will end)

wise_pancake ,

In early testing of the new format, Reddit found that free-form ads outperform all other ad types in average click through rate (CTR) by 28%, along with increased community engagement when comments are enabled.

Ah, you are right, I misread that sentence as the CTR being 28%!

wise_pancake ,

Yes, I was wrong, thank you for correcting me!

wise_pancake ,

Yes... It was me... I read it wrong

wise_pancake ,

Yep, I misread it and have updated my comment

wise_pancake ,

Thanks, I've updated both comments.

wise_pancake ,

I don't know why, but I read her voice the same as the hydraulic press guy saying "what ze fuck"

wise_pancake ,

That is absolutely terrifying.

If I made a least of where all the Christians live, they’d rightfully freak the fuck out.

wise_pancake ,

It's a trap!

Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions (www.404media.co)

An Amazon chatbot that’s supposed to surface useful information from customer reviews of specific products will also recommend a variety of racist books, lie about working conditions at Amazon, and write a cover letter for a job application with entirely made up work experience when asked, 404 Media has found.

wise_pancake ,

So this is the problem with AI, if you add guardrails you're a culture warrior 1984'ing the whole world, and if you don't now your tool will generate resumes with fake experience or recommend offensive books.

At the risk of sounding like a jackass, when do we start blaming people for asking for such things?

Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media (www.technologyreview.com)

From the article: "In particular, five fundamental attributes of social media have harmed society. AI also has those attributes. Note that they are not intrinsically evil. They are all double-edged swords, with the potential to do either good or ill. The danger comes from who wields the sword, and in what direction it is swung....

wise_pancake ,

We have two ethics systems:

The first we apply to healthcare and government, and it's best sunned up by Micheal Scott "Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what. No matter... where. Or who, or who you are with, or, or where you are going, or... or where you've been... ever. For any reason, whatsoever.",

The second is applied to private industry, and it's best summed up by "innocent, until proven guilty".

And that's why we let private industry roll along with whatever they want, until we can definitively prove harm, but society found it unreasonable to ask people to vaccinate because there was a minute chance of rare side effects less bad than the disease it was for.

wise_pancake ,

It's a pretty common technique still. Breath of the wild has some fun ones.

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