A potential explanation is this is the Russian fall of communism / transition to oligarchy moment, where regular people will get rid of the “worthless” stocks fearing no bottom, and the top 1% will buy them for pennies on the dollar.

The WW2 generation died and immediately everyone is like, “Hey, why didn’t we like fascism again?”

Yep. “My draconian DRM loosened the straight jacket a little.”

Yayyy.

Thanks, I didn’t see this, there was a different embedded FAQ that didn’t have the specific Q & A below.

But, if anything, it seems to confirm the ad itself is just legitimately clicked from the user’s IP address and hidden from the user, and that there is code execution protection, but not that there is any privacy protection? It’s still very ambiguous.

How does AdNauseam “click Ads”?

AdNauseam ‘clicks’ Ads by issuing an HTTP request to the URL to which they lead. In current versions the is done via an XMLHttpRequest (or AJAX request) issued in a background process. This lightweight request signals a ‘click’ on the server responsible for the Ad, but does so without opening any additional windows or pages on your computer. Further it allows AdNauseam to safely receive and discard the resulting response data, rather than executing it in the browser, thus preventing a range of potential security problems (ransomware, rogue Javascript or Flash code, XSS-attacks, etc.) caused by malfunctioning or malicious Ads. Although it is completely safe, AdNauseam’s clicking behaviour can be de-activated in the settings panel.

Yeah, I can’t find an answer whether the “click” is behind some obfuscation, or if the “click every ad” is the obfuscation step itself by attempting to poison the data. The latter may work but yes, may actually increase tracking. Wish that answer wasn’t so hard to find on their site.

I managed to catch the end - amazing he was lucid and charismatic and compelling after doing that for 24 hours. I supported it symbolically but didn’t guess at motives. But when I saw it, it came off as a sincere, genuinely convincing and energizing act.

The woman left the house before 13News arrived. She returned just after noon accompanied by a lawyer. The group of ten or so investigators left a few minutes later.

So the FBI were in there, the woman left and came back with a lawyer, and then almost immediately the FBI left. Boy, that doesn’t sound at all like they were conducting an illegal search.

It was a poll conducted using the same process by which he declassified those documents in his bathroom at Mar-a-lago.

“Whoops, we pushed to prod and have no backups. Sorrryyyy!”

We’ve decided not to investigate ourselves, and found no wrongdoing.

I mean, when you collapse that logic you’re effectively saying random is the same thing as non-deterministic. But they’re different things, because even if an infinitesimally exact moment in time may “always” produce the same result, because the arrow of time only points in one direction, no such deterministic result can ever be replicated, and if the result cannot be replicated, then what is the difference from random?

I remember it was not really a surprising set of metrics: gameplay, graphics, and fun.

It was about having an experience you couldn’t have at home (or anywhere else) because the games were always noticeably ahead of the curve.

Graphics were what was most attention-grabbing. It’s hard to communicate how impressive it was since we’re in the diminishing returns era for graphics. But a jump from Pac-Man to Rush 'n Attack or Contra, and from that to Street Fighter II, and from that to Ridge Racer, and that to Daytona USA, and so on… Every step was so imagination-bending.

What would it feel like now? Maybe like if you could play an actual Pixar movie as a game? Something like that, but there’s nothing that really expresses it, photorealism isn’t even that impressive anymore.

Jesus christ. Unidentifiable people just kidnap you for expressing an opinion. This was a legal resident, so we’re watching the rule of law disappear.

I hoped I was being dramatic when I made a comment a few months ago how Hitler took full control in only three months after being appointed. I thought we’d have a few years at least.

But here we are, two months in, and right on track.

Exactly as Project 2025 envisioned.

Google Assistant: Let’s build a product around functionality.

Gemini: Let’s build functionality around a product.

Any guess which method works better?

Emulators with rewind and save states mean regular humans can finally enjoy this game.

Freemium dark patterns are also enshittification. It’s slight clickbait/ragebait, but not far off.

I get that it’s usually just a dunk on AI, but it is also still a valid demonstration that AI has pretty severe and unpredictable gaps in functionality, in addition to failing to properly indicate confidence (or lack thereof).

People who understand that it’s a glorified autocomplete will know how to disregard or prompt around some of these gaps, but this remains a litmus test because it succinctly shows you cannot trust an LLM response even in many “easy” cases.

Seven figures? Try nine. Musk spent an absolutely staggering amount getting Trump elected.

Thanks, I didn’t know that!