wise_pancake

wise_pancake , 1 month ago to 196 in Trumpet rule

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

wise_pancake , 1 month ago to Technology in Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’

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 , 1 month ago to Technology in Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’

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 , 1 month ago to Technology in Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’

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

wise_pancake , 2 months ago to Technology in ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

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.

wise_pancake , 2 months ago to Technology in ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

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 , 2 months ago to Technology in ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

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 , 2 months ago to Technology in ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

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 , 2 months ago to Technology in ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

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 , 2 months ago to Privacy in Ask: How do you handle your résumés?

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 , 2 months ago to Technology in Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV

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 , 2 months ago to Technology in Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV

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

wise_pancake , 2 months ago to Technology in Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV

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wise_pancake , 3 months ago to Technology in Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV

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

wise_pancake , 3 months ago to Privacy in Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade

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