A paper on this phenomenon would certainly get the Ig Nobel prize!

He still has the user base. But not for long, one might say.

YouTube should be public infrastructure.

As does Reddit, Twitter still contains some valuable information.

Nitter is also blocked.

My biggest pain point with Duck is that the minus operator doesn’t seem to do anything. Have to use Startpage (!s) when in need of excluding a word.

The most immature billionaire. Scary.

Could one argue that a monolithic kernel such as the Linux kernel also goes against that principle?

I suppose it’s not that unclear if you compare the revenue of all other industries combined to the revenue of the advertising industry. The ratio is pretty large and every type of industry buys ads, so it trickles down from everywhere.

I wonder how universal that phenomenon is across different cultures.

What a depressing read, thank you!

It certainly is somewhere around the peak of the hype cycle.

I really cannot understand why advertising is such a huge business. Where does all the money spent on advertising really come from?

Browsh is pretty cool for a text-based browser.

It appears that users in this case include agents such as software. A bit confusing for the general public.

For instance, a malicious app obtained from an app store could use the Downfall attack to steal sensitive information like passwords, encryption keys, and private data such as banking details, personal emails, and messages.

—Official website

It can theoretically even be exploited via a browser:

[Q] What about web browsers?

[A] In theory, remotely exploiting this vulnerability from the web browser is possible. In practice, demonstrating successful attacks via web browsers requires additional research and engineering efforts.

—FAQ at the official website

Weren’t we all supposed to become “prompt engineers”?

A “sassy personality” just puts the assistant into the uncanny valley for me. I prefer it to just do its job and not try to fool me into anthropomorphizing it.

But the name was pretty cool, though, as noted by another commenter, not the easiest to pronounce.

I’m just happy that (relatively) a lot of people recognized the reference.

The Hands Resist It!

TIL banana is a berry! 🤯