These companies can sell your personal information in a microsecond in an advertising auction, but somehow can't figure out how to give you timely alerts that stop their cash flow.

Big shock.

Which boils down to "Use something incredibly expensive that we have very few of, instead of something that we have a number of that is comparatively cheaper. How dare you question the holy, sacred internet!"

During the Artemis launch it was very briefly mentioned that the launch window isn't a continuous window, but a series of windows interrupted for short times. I wondered if that was because of the thousands of satellites in orbit.

I actively dislike the notion of spaces.

What do people assume Spaces is a Windows thing? It was on Unix systems decades ago.

Well, at least they're dogfooding support.

If you spend any time on the big rez, you hear it said

  There's "in time…"
  "on time…"
  and "Navajo time."

Might just be that a lot of people on HN skew that way. Kinda makes sense.

I got 47/62.

My special savings account where I deposit the settlement checks from the various tech companies that have violated my privacy or other rights disagrees.

Sometimes it's 43¢. Sometimes it's $400.

In the last three years, I've put… checking… $5,351.83 in that account because tech companies think laws and morals don't apply to them.

Saying that these lawsuits only benefit lawyers is both false and yet another lazy tech bubble cliche.

Yes, the lawyers get way more than I do. They also did 99% the work, so I don't hold it against them.

Just read the newspaper. Every time you see an article about one of these suits, check it out to see if it applies to you.

As they say, "95% of lawyers give the remaining 5% a bad name."

At the same time, 99% of social networks give the remaining 1% a bad name.

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https://www.wsj.com/science/dice-research-humans-gambling-e6...

Same here.

I no longer post photos, code, or pretty much anything other than short comments on the internet.

I'm not going to do free work for trillion-dollar AI companies.

I do, however, find it interesting to watch AI destroy the whole "content creation" industry.

All of the "creators" and "influencers" and "I wanna be a YouTube star when I grow up" people are all going to have to look for real jobs soon.

I've seen in the newspaper that there are real companies paying real money for fake AI-generated "influencers" to flog their products.

Why pay dollars to a wannabe, when you can pay pennies to an AI corp?

Very common.

Band X is playing at Stadium Y. Promoter Z buys 10,000 commercials on the local radio station, paid in part with cash and in part with tickets that are given to radio station sales department, which gives them to the clients; and the station's promotions department, which gives them to contest winners.

Suddenly you start seeing and using all the wonderful ADA affordances that have been installed in plain sight all around you.

When I run into this (most recently at a hospital), I tell them "The court doesn't allow me to have a smart phone because I'm a hazard to national security.†"

When they argue (very rarely), I tell them "Take it up with judge Kelso in the 225th District Court. He's in the phone book." That's usually enough for them to break out the backup non-smartphone plan. In my experience, there's always another way, but they're just too lazy to do it.

† Absolutely a lie, but I really don't GAF.

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What world-class city doesn't?

And if you think there aren't hookers in Dubai, then I don't know what to tell you.

For those of you who weren't there:

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If all LLMs did this, people would trust them more.