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2023-10-22 08:04 from Nurb432
Bye bye Reddit.. if you cant search for content. they have no real
value to the general masses, just the few.
"But after the Post corrected that story, only one major detail had
changed — the Post no longer suggests Reddit users would need to
log in. The publication now writes that if Reddit can’t get AI to
play ball, the company may block Google and Bing’s search crawlers,
which means Reddit posts wouldn’t show up in search results."
This may actually hurt Google so so so badly, because many people is using Google specifically to search Reddit results... since Goole's results are so bad they have become useless.
I thought Reddit was already in slow collapse due to the protests and such. And AI.
Figured this would be one of the final nails.
2023-10-31 12:06 from Nurb432
I thought Reddit was already in slow collapse due to the protests
and such. And AI.
Figured this would be one of the final nails.
Reddit has never been profitable nor sustainable.
Their only asset was that lots of people can only find answers to their questions via traffic generated from Google torwards Reddit. If they forfeit that, they are goners.
Odd. no spam/scam emails today. At all.. Hardly any real mail either ( a little.. so i know things are not broke ).
Wonder what is up. ( or down.... )
Maybe Ham Ass accidentally bombed the shit out of India.
Sun Nov 05 2023 15:16:45 EST from Nurb432Odd. no spam/scam emails today. At all.. Hardly any real mail either ( a little.. so i know things are not broke ).
Wonder what is up. ( or down.... )
Reddit is basically just a big BBS. No one ever got rich running a BBS. And the best ones are a non money making labor of love anyway :)
It is believed [by whom?] that YouTube has never turned a profit either, which is why they are now scraping the bottom of the barrel with their attempt to foil ad blockers.
It won't work, of course. In fact, it's already backfiring. People are trying different ad blockers until they find one that works. And the noise about it has made a lot more people aware that such a thing as an ad blocker exists. (Source: Louis Rossman)
As for the scammers in India, they exist at the pleasure of their government. If the Indian government really wanted them gone they'd be gone, but the fact is they're making real money and they're allowed to break the law for that reason, just like the 419ers in Nigeria and the fentanyl smugglers in the US. In the event WW3 starts, it won't be HamAss that bombs India, it'll be Pakistan.
Yep. That is always a danger when you try something like this and piss people off, and get it in the news in the process. Streisand effect is real.
Just look at the cartel that is attacking 'ip-rights violations', as they just make it more visible to the common person "oh, i can get stuff for free? how does this work". I believe in the live streaming market, the media cartel created their own worst enemy. if they had just wrote off the small % and moved on... ( i need another term for piracy. decided not to use it anymore in the wrong context. If its not boats and and actual theft, its not. Period )
Mon Nov 06 2023 08:17:51 EST from IGnatius T FoobarAnd the noise about it has made a lot more people aware that such a thing as an ad blocker exists. (Source: Louis Rossman)
It is believed [by whom?] that YouTube has never turned a profit
either, which is why they are now scraping the bottom of the barrel
with their attempt to foil ad blockers.
I think Alphabet released accounting reports according to which they actually made a profit until 2015 or so. Then they stopped releasing those reports. Conspiracy theorists such as me think that is about the point in which they stopped generating a profit. This sort of execs would not let go of the opportunity of release an accounting report if it showed they were making money.
I also heard ( cant prove ) that they acquired UT for 2 reasons:
1 - free product placement ads to masses
2 - as a money sink to show a loss, to balance out the parent profits.
Some would say to be able to push narratives as a close 3rd, but i honestly dont see google doing that all that much, as they are more concerned about profit than agenda ( unlike lets say Zukerburg.. ) Sure if it helps the bottom line, or keeps government off their ass, but its not super high on their list.
Well, that was interesting. Got one of the typical 'payment wasn't accepted, please update your payment method' sort of scam emails. Showed a visa symbol, and a bunch of *, then the last 4 digits.
Normally 'ignore/delete' but those numbers look like something i had in the past. Not current however.
Luck? Someone get hacked? Sort of concerning to be honest..
2023-11-10 14:38 from Nurb432
Well, that was interesting. Got one of the typical 'payment wasn't
accepted, please update your payment method' sort of scam emails.
Showed a visa symbol, and a bunch of *, then the last 4 digits.
Normally 'ignore/delete' but those numbers look like something i had
in the past. Not current however.
Luck? Someone get hacked? Sort of concerning to be honest..
Some scams are getting quite advanced.
An employee here got an email from the boss of an associate company asking for some secret details he was actually entitled to know. Alarms were triggered because it was weird for that employee to take those sort of request. Turns out they had hacked the email server of the associate company and they were impersonating their employees and bosses.
An international percel delivery agency sent me an email asking me for payment in order to get a package through customs. They had the tracking number, delivery address and delivery weight right. The sender domain had a typo (think of cases in which they replace an "l" with a one). It turns out they had hacked the parcel delivery agency and were trying to scam receivers.
I think "cybersecurity" is losing the battle. I dont know what the answer is, but clearly we are not winning this game
The problem I see is with best practices not being followed. If security best practices were followed, no leaks would occur.
Sun Nov 12 2023 18:43:46 EST from Nurb432I think "cybersecurity" is losing the battle. I dont know what the answer is, but clearly we are not winning this game
You have more faith than i.
Sure, you can reduce, but i really dont think you can eliminate..
Just recently ( i think i mentioned it somewhere ) we had a system that had a back door placed in it by a contractor, turns out they had Chinese ties that no one knew about. And some of the recent exploits i mentioned over in security.. i dont think any amount of 'due diligence' would prevent bad things.
2023-11-13 00:12 from LadySerenaKitty <ladyserenakitty@uncensored.citadel.org>
The problem I see is with best practices not being followed. If
security best practices were followed, no leaks would occur.
Was just having a conversation with someone last week about the absurdly draconian path our IT security has decided to go down, and brought up that no matter what they do, the weakest link will always be the employees themselves. Like Nurb said, I don't have an answer to it, either. PCs were a mistake.
Was just having a conversation with someone last week about the
absurdly draconian path our IT security has decided to go down, and
brought up that no matter what they do, the weakest link will always be
the employees themselves. Like Nurb said, I don't have an answer to it,
either. PCs were a mistake.
Security problems are rarely technological.
The biggest data breach I have suffered in any of the firms I have worked was some guy who had a suitcase worth of documents stolen. Ironically, the most supersecret stuff was in an encrypted USB, so the worst data was IT-protected.
2023-11-14 07:24 from Nurb432
I guess now the far left is pushing that Zoophilia is morally
acceptable.
No. Its not.
I can't say I am surpised. Do you have any source for that?
https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/article/3/2/255
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnOHirFy4Ls
And a host of others too, unfortunately. .