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> Things like OnlyFans, Chaturbate, and the Pornhub shift to user-made content are resulting in more money and control for creators and, at least in my opinion, a much better marketplace for porn consumers.

I don't think that's specifically better because it has led to a massive industrial fragmentation of the industry with Pareto distribution. The top 20% of creators of OnlyFans make up 80% of the platform's revenue, and maybe we could even double-Pareto it, with 4% of the creators making 64% of the revenue.

To be in the 66th percentile of OnlyFans, you must earn at least USD 100 monthly, meaning everyone behind it makes less than that.

> It's also gradually transforming/marginalizing the traditional porn industry, which is where a lot of the worst parts of the sex industry thrived.

I kind of agree, but at the same time, creators/models who don't know how to manage themselves are getting managed by the so-called OnlyFans Agencies. These agencies have strong incentives to be exploitative towards the model, and especially towards the chat agents that sell the content.

The usual deal I've seen is that the model gets taken away as a percentage of the total revenue produced on her account (nothing wrong with that), but I've seen it's about 50%. OnlyFans takes 20%, then the agency takes 40%. That means the model is down 70% of the revenue, getting her the remaining 30%. Models that don't want to pay their own staff to do the chatting for them end up getting the short end of the deal.

As for the chatter, I applied for a job on one to understand how it works, and the shifts are at least 8 hours and at most 14 hours continuously (with low base pay of course, around USD 400 monthly for a junior chatter and averaging out from USD 600 to USD 1100.

I'm not saying the chatter should be a highly paid professional, but do you see where this goes south regarding sweatshops?

> In reality, it needs to be regulated like any other major industry that occupies such a sensitive area.

I'm not against regulation in general, but I suspect this is one of these cases where regulation will do more harm to the industry rather than help. People have in their nature to act under certain circumstances and act under a set of incentives. And whilst there are some incentives for human/sex trafficking (and I'm not saying we should let it regulate itself), I have this opinion that, in this case, even more regulation will make it almost impossible to do porn as a business.

PornHub was not a heaven, I know, but PornHub is already crippled. Asking for the devil to come is different from the devil actually coming.
Disclaimer: I work in the public sector.

If you really think the public sector could build anything closely resembling any cloud, you are dreaming. Imagining that one cloud working for the entire public sector, we are entering delusional territory here.

Public sector projects are insanely expensive, take ages to develop and often flat out fail.

Not only that, we are starved for engineers even now. If we ran such a custom cloud, we would shoot ourselves in the leg by not being able to hire from a pool of experienced engineers.
Follow an organised system such as schema.org if you want your metadata to be widely understood. And it need not all be in meta tags in that case.

Try this tool against pages such as YouTube or www.earth.org.uk:

https://validator.schema.org/
He's saying you don't have to understand set theory to use and understand set notation.

In the same way that you don't have to understand number theory and abstract algebra to use and understand numbers and their basic operations (such as +, -, ·, /).
Theverge article on this words it as "adapt their ipad apps for vision pro".

Sounds like not so much an explicit opt-out as holding out for apple to make the headset run their existing apps.
no, there are thousands of Blaze build files that each have their own binaries, tests, libraries, etc.
This looks like Spam to me. There are only 4/180 total repository are sources. The rest are forks of popular packages and I don't see any of your own commits.
Manta Network faces money laundering allegations amid global exchanges listing.
Korean BD’s token dump prompts a $5.16M ETH conversion and transfer.
In a shocking turn of events, Manta Network, a zero-knowledge Layer 2 blockchain, has found itself embroiled in controversy as allegations of money laundering surface following its listing on major exchanges such as Binance, Bithumb, and KuCoin. The storm began when approximately 2 million MANTA tokens were reportedly transferred to the personal wallet of MANTA’s Korean Business Development (BD) representative on the day of its Binance listing.
The BSV Blockchain Association is looking asap for DevOps
Android update support is still just around 2-4 years and countless other devices come with their own charger as well, while chargers last much longer and usually just become obsolete (no fast charging etc)
If they can't get it working, they're probably not aware of the risks and should move to newer mail solutions anyway.

This only affects Workspace accounts, so I'm sure the users stuck with Outlook 2007 can call IT to get it working again.
This is surprisingly non-shitty by Google. I must admit that I didn't know that before. Can you limit such a passcode to just IMAP/SMTP, or can it be used to log in to other parts of Google?
Your account password is too powerful, for example, it allows anyone who knows it and can provide the 2FA to change non-email settings, such as the preferred languages, the list of bank cards attached to the account, see the places visited, read and modify Google docs, or change the password. The app-specific password has a scope attached to it, and can thus be used only to do what the app needs to do, without any possibility to take your entire account over.
The real question is why nobody ever looks at the smaller regional cloud providers when the big ones pull some stunt they don't like.

There is hundreds of companies offering nextcloud hosting, and yet the presumption is that only the big 3 is viable.
It appears their "no bullshit" slogan is gone.
From the outside, it looks like many in the industry assumed Covid-induced changes would be permanent. They hired accordingly, beefed up their headcount and in the process ended up getting a lot of talent which wouldn't have gotten in pre-pandemic. Once you recalibrate, you are not left with much choices.

I might be wrong here, but part of newer product releases from Google over the last few years (not Deepmind) reflect the quality of motivation/talent they have at their disposal. I have heard stories about Gmail, about how Waze was integrated with Google maps over a weekend, and today you see half baked products which are shutdown within a year. We still use many of the early products today, but I find it hard to think of any new product which has been released in last few years I use regularly, except Google Pay maybe. Not talking about enhancing existing products but new products.
My opinion is that google only ever presented as a new type of company - without ever being that.

It was marketing spin - and I bought into that.

I since found out it was funded from inception by inqtel, the CIA's venture capital arm. There are lots of articles to this effect, eg:
https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...

So, the hype, the free canteen, etc was all just spin to move people from a more messy handmade internet, into a corporate one. A way to dominate and intercept everyone's actions online when searching. And you have to say, it was a good strategy! Do the younger generation even know that there are pages outside of the corporate held companies?
I clicked "Fast Fashion" (default suggestion) and waited about a minute for the results to load, but this is all that came out: https://imgur.com/a/5W4UOPa

Maybe cache some queries so you don't have to re-search them every time?
Wow. Fridge full of food for thought in there.
Would syntax highlighting have saved them here? That's how I usually spot any subtle typo bugs I write. Never seriously used fortran, but a line looking a little bit off usually draws my eye to it.
I suppose it technically doesn't require a WebViee, but that's the easiest solution in most cases.

I'm not sure how you're going to implement Google's 2FA in a non-WebView solution, but if you can get the right UI and data flows to work, I'm sure you can do without.
This is timely. We just lost our unborn son unexpectedly. He had been diagnosed with some issues with the heart and other organs. We were gearing up for multiple surgeries, a high-care situation, and him potentially not lasting until teens.

We didn't get to make memories with him, or see who he would grow to become. This is a blessing and a curse. But I believe that you and I will both meet our sons again one day in a place where there is no sickness, sadness, or death.

Romans 8:16-17

[16] The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, [17] and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

Everyone suffers in this life. The choice is whether to suffer with him or without him.
> most devs are not comfortable with linking/packaging/dependency management

Using `macdeployqt`, `windowsdeployqt` and `linuxdeployqt` takes care of that in mostly one click. I used to look at other open source apps workflows to figure it out. Now, others can look at my app's workflows for a complete packaging experience for Windows, Linux, and macOS[1]. Huge credit to contributors for my OSS app for implementing and perfecting it.

[1] https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes/tree/master/.github/wor...
>The average person does not do backups. No, he will not do backups. No! He seriously won't. Cloud storage solves this very real, very basic problem.

It should be technically feasible to make setting up backups to your own NAS at home as easy as backups to iCloud. So if people are backing up to iCloud, I do not see why they would not backup to their own NAS. Same for why they do not need to understand a file system just because they have a NAS.

> Combined with the previous, a 1TB HDD/SSD in a NAS at home is "WTF" and "WTF" for him.

I don’t know what WTF means here. 1TB is cheap these days, so not sure what the issue is being pointed out in your 3rd bullet point.
Did more come out or did Reiser make up claims that he though would help his case? That would make him an idiot but doesn't really give any real evidence towards the murder being pre-meditated considring all his other bad decisions in court.
> With Safari, and Safari’s ability to run sites like apps (assuming this will make it to VisionOS), I don’t see this as that big of an issue. Not like it was for Windows phone.

It's not like Windows Phone didn't have a browser too (IE). And it's not like Apple aren't the ones making sure Safari doesn't support everything for Progressive Web Apps which could have come handy here.

> Spotify isn’t something that should need a dedicated app to play music in the background, it could run in the browser just fine.

Maybe. Would it work if your browser is on the background while you're reading something from another app on the Vision Pro?
I have to say, I'm not convinced by all of the AI hype, but it makes a bloody good search engine for a lot of the things I want to search (things where I am in a reasonable position to evaluate the truthfulness of an answer). It's only a matter of time before someone realises that and ruins it in the aim of making money.
In my experience the threshold is high enough that it only helps you distinguish between "incredibly sudden but non-emergency stop" and "full-on emergency stop"
I can relate to this as well. Father figure with narcissistic traits. Everything had to be done his ways and other opinions were never respected. No empathy at all.
As a result I think I formed some kind of protection shell. Outwards I appeared indifferent, apathic or stoic while the kernel was very sensitive. In my teens I suspected psychopathic tendencies because of this shell. At other times Aspergers but it didn't fully match.
Nowadays I guess I have developed some kind of schizoid personality.
I'm accessing my Google Drive through rclone, I should check if this affects it.
Double standards all the way.
So will mircosoft pledge to reduce the size of windows updates? Pledge to reduce the bloat that is a fresh windows install? Will they place any limits in the size of Xbox updates?
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"It would seem that either it wasn't possible to run a full Linux distro, or it was simply too much of a hassle to get it to work"

If it could get that far, getting an older DSL distro or similar is probably not that far behind, honestly. Using a BSoD as an environment bootstrap mechanism is hilariously jank, but I've seen worse in my hacking days.
You can store an insane amount of plain text or low-res jpegs. My collection of papers and ebooks far exceeds 20 GB though.
I've been looking for exactly that, for exactly the same reasons, for a few years now. Never got the motivation to start digging back into my old math university books.

Thanks for the post. It does read a bit like an ad, but it feels authentic, and meets exactly my current need, so i'll just jump right into it !

Thanks again !
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> A system is scalable in the range where the cost of adding incremental work is approximately constant.

The part that nobody ever says out loud: and where the cost of removing incremental work is also approximately constant.

A solution targeting server or desktop environments doesn’t necessarily scale down to microcontroller scale. One of the things that makes both SQLite and Linux so popular is how they scale well into really small environments.
the microsoft phone missed an incredible opportunity to undercut the established platforms by both supporting native (windows) apps, but also encourage web based mobile "apps" (this was the era that pwa would've been able to take root). Unfortunately, microsoft thought they would get enough native clout to own a platform instead of giving in to a standard.
This is such a naive point of view. Imagine seeing somebody getting assaulted, genocided, murdered in front of your eyes and then closing your eyes for the sake of 'peace,' or the idea of it that you have in mind anyway.

You should tell the Polish people in 1940s that they should only treat wounds and not fight back.
You claimed "only some countries" which seems to claim that most of the 200-something countries in the world are building coal plants.

Now you say that you only think of Germany, Poland and China.
I'm not sure what mechanism you're ascribing to reach falling due to "political pressure". Who's exerting this pressure? On whom? Why am I still using the site despite being a dyed in the wool leftie?

You say a company should have the goal of generating profit. According to what moral imperative?
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Hi, I'm Alex, Curriculum Director at Math Academy.

It is on our radar to allow students to "place out" of certain topics and modules if they feel ready. We'll call them "mini-diagnostics" or something similar when they're ready. I believe it will be worked on within the next few months.

Unfortunately, these things do take time to implement, but we are listening. FWIW, we're a tiny, bootstrapped company with literally two programmers (Justin, our ML/backend dev, and Jason, our founder and solo UX/UI) working on the entire codebase.

The content team is a little larger. We have around 12, mostly PhD mathematicians, working on the content, which is why the context is probably a little further ahead in some respects.
Appeasement didn't work in 1939, it wouldn't work now.
Which plan are you on?
No.

Hardware keys are a second factor. But if you allow passwords to be compromised just because there is a second factor, then you're back down to one-factor auth and you've solved nothing
I love it. I can sync my Gmail to it seamlessly as I slowly transition all my accounts to my new email address.
It's a password that allows access to email, but not to the "change my Google password" page, or to push app installation to the Play Store, or to invite other people into Google Meet links. These passwords are contained to very specific APIs surrounding email and Caldav and such.

That means you're not completely screwed when your Outlook password database gets stolen by malware.

As a user, it also allows you to revoke an application remotely without having to change your password and log in to every device again. One click of a button and new emails won't appear on a lost laptop or phone, even if they manage to bypass the screen lock. It's all about risk management.
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True, it’s garbage.
> You are perhaps describing prolonged abuse, but we were talking about typical one-shot tragedies or losses one has to endure. They don't maim you for life unless you choose to hold on to the pain extensively.

No, I'm even very literally talking about things like an industrial accident that yanks your arm off, or a problem that arises in surgery that leaves someone you love without any of their previous mental faculties (see original post). I'm talking about major tragedies, major losses, major grief.

If you're talking about the death of your childhood hamster or something, fine, maybe we're talking past each other, but I'm talking about the kinds of losses where you are not the same afterward as you were before, and you have to do the hard work of learning how to be your new self in the world.
I am sad to inform you that we are surrounded by average people and they dictate where we all go.

You asked "how many cloud services will have to give people unpleasant experiences for those same people to stop going all in on cloud services", and the answer to that is "Ain't nobody got time to 'puter.".

No, I'm not being facetious; I'm serious. The average person wants to use computers to enrich their lives, not manage computers and be sysadmins. Cloud storage is just one natural evolution path of that demand.

Hell, I'm not an average person and I'm also buying into cloud storage now. I'm in my mid 30s now and life isn't stopping; I want to become a greybeard, not a neckbeard.
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Thank you, where have they mentioned a possible removal of App passwords?
(2017)

Unclear what has happened in the 7 years since.
We should ban computers because it allows scammers to scam people.
> wish they had valued users above all else

My interaction with Google is mostly with GCP. It's amazing how they'd invite their customers to the super swanky Google Office, and did the office tours.

I think they were genuinely thinking that showing their customers all those luxurious excess would somehow... what? Make them more motivated to put their workload on GCP?

Throughout the tour, as they were telling me about the 5-star chefs who prepared breakfast for them, about all the fantastic food that were never more than X-feet away from any employee, about the stand-up comedians who came to entertain them every Friday at 4PM onwards...

The thought that kept coming to my mind was: "Oh! So this is how you're spending the millions we are spending on you".

The tour at the AWS office was the extreme opposite of that. At their comparatively stark office, they went out of their way to make you feel YOU are the special one, the customer.
I haven't, just felt the loopholes in the law twice now; as farmers rented out a large apartment to us, promised us that we could stay there for however long we wanted, used the money to improve the value of the house, and then 1-2 years later gave us the Kündigung due to "eigenbedarf" (read: they want to sell the now lavish house)
It won't. rclone uses OAuth.
Who knew psychological analysis was as easy as homing in on a sensational tidbit? Masterful stuff. /s
> Apple's solution was to spend a fortune to develop their own Map data.

They most likely just downloaded openstreetmap database and spent nothing. Do you have any source that the logical and easy thing is not what they did?
> This isn't a startup hacking away trying to find PMF, or dealing with unpredictable marketing-driven traffic spikes. We know we need these services running long term, and can make solid predictions about usage patterns.

If you think government needs and demands are predictable, you don't follow politics (particularly uk politics in the last decade).

And then there are these things like pandemics that completely come out of left field. Being able to scale things on demand over the pandemic was one of the key demonstrators for use of the public commercial cloud by the public sector.
Mozilla does the same thing. Their website is loaded with trackers, and for security reasons, parts of their website can't be controlled by addons like uBlock.

I have a strong suspicion their "install Firefox on your smart thermostat" popups that show up every time it updates itself are also part of their tracking solution, because there's no easy way to opt out of those and they sure contain a boatload of trackers.

While I don't really trust the company behind it, Brave seems to be the one browser that doesn't insist on packing their stuff full of trackers.
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If it was a better algorithm - then of couse. You wouldn't be a very good software engineer (or scientist) if you couldn't recognise that.

This has veered off from my original point. In that saying "follow the science" is not a issue - there is nothing wrong with following the opinion of experts in their field.
Probably not, not if they bought into the o365 product hook line and sinker, which you kind of have to if your a windows shop as MS is using every dark pattern known to them to make it harder for office files to exist outside of one-drive/sharepoint365/teams.

It's teoretically possible if your vigilant of able to force users to use your published workflow to run windows with purely onprem resources but it's not the path of least resistance.
Tangential to the article, when I onboarded in 2017 it felt like showing up to a house party at 3am. You had missed all the action, everyone was now in some kind of stupor half awake half asleep. I think it was literal weeks after they moved "Don't be Evil" to the bottom of the employee handbook or whatever. I didn't make it to three years. I met some incredible individuals, but the org as a whole as I experienced it (acknowledging I'm only one of nearly 150k employees) was basically IBM with better food.
i don't see how growing faster leads to burning customers. your competitors must have been doing something else wrong.
Yet another reason to use Firefox: the addon to fix Youtube background playback has been featured in Firefox's mobile addons even since the first iteration of their addon whitelist.
> What's Linux's market share compared to the rest

Bigger than the Windows on ARM market share, that's for sure.
"Possession is nine-tenths of the law"

Physical force, the ability to wipe something (or someone) out of existence, is the ultimate arbiter. Law just an upstream proxy.

It's a nitpick that's becoming increasingly relevant as we see institutions that support that proxy collapse or transform.