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> or if this was some old guide about How to Use Microsoft Office 97.

Materials like that may be very valuable to software / tech / HCI archeologists soon.

I can't get the tools or local know-how to straighten my scythe blade in a country where every cottage had a scythe less than 100 years ago, with the last scythe-native generation rapidly dying out.

Fast forward a civilizational collapse and that M$ Office 97 for Dummies might be as groundbreaking as a Guide to Using Roman Concrete

> Binance last year handed Russian authorities details of cryptocurrency donations to Ukrainian fundraising campaigns that were used as evidence to bring terrorism financing charges against a Russian IT specialist, law enforcement documents show.

> While it is normal for companies like Binance to comply when law enforcement agencies in countries where they operate make legitimate requests to see client information, the world's largest crypto exchange said in 2023 it had fully exited Russia. [...]

> Binance was under no obligation to provide the data, having quit Russia, and may in fact have had an obligation not to provide it under European Union data protection law, said Mike Bystrov, founder of law firm Stellar Consulting that advises on crypto regulation.

Really sounds like the guy would've been better off just doing a bank transfer through a proper financial institution.

GPT 2 didn't have a chat interface but had made a splash in some circles (think spam-adjacent).

Edit: mixed up my dates claiming DALL E came out before GPT 3

I'd assume active user count

I do not believe that advertising and purchasing is at the top of the list of things what make software sticky

> Your comment made me lol. And it’s very rare for that to happen to me via reading text.

If anyone else reading this is in a place like you've described, try 1900hotdog.com

>search access comes at the cost of tracking

don't you have your identity (through payments) tied with every search query you make when using kagi?

> However "good" native ads are really just a company paying for priority reporting in the style that would otherwise be done anyway, and are probably content that readers/viewers want.

That's akin to saying a person wants some of that "good" cancer.

If I am paying, I am supporting the editorial staff. It's their decision what to report on and how. Paid-for content, even if it's just for priority coverage, compromises the integrity of the editorial staff as well as their ability to curate (not to mention a clear disincentive to be critical of the ad buyer's claims).

It starts when TheBrink publishes a high quality behind the scenes piece about a scam mobile game instead of a truly great indie game just because the latter is not as profitable and cannot afford to buy the ad.

It ends with the entire catalogue of the publication being paid for by advertisers. Much like some influencer's instagram feed. Paying for access to an ad feed is unacceptible.

To add: "the firewall" between the editorial and business sides of a publication is the basic prerequisite for ethical journalism, even if it's an entertainment rag. Advertising that masquarades as reporting is therefore the worst and most toxic, i.e., cancerous, of the bunch.

So I do not agree that native ads are something that should be desired.

from tfa:

>Russian darknet markets control 93% of the global share, generating approximately $1.5 billion in revenue in 2023 alone

from tfa: > Russian darknet markets control 93% of the global share, generating approximately $1.5 billion in revenue in 2023 alone

does seem very relevant to expose Russia's outsized influence.

And building something yourself could be the most valuable way to spend it. For some, it might even be the only respite from the monetization of the entire human experience, i.e., beyond priceless

Indeed, some people would value a device they'd built themselves at way beyond any monetary number.

Most shockingly, someone might feel that such a device was better than free, more satisfactory and empowering than anything $200 and a ton of time wasted on side hustling could buy!

>the more of a black box Meta’s advertising becomes the better the advertising results, even as Meta makes more margin

this one screams 'citation needed' and is not what I'm hearing from people in the field. Would anyone care to share their experience?

tbf, they still work, but my educated guess would be that the overall ROI distribution looks similar to the gambling/adult industries: a minority of the population bringing in an outsized return due to peculiarities in how their brains work