TV and radio managed just fine for years without targeted ads. They targeted the ads based on the content. Saturday morning cartoons advertised toys and ceral. Daytime TV advertises medicare advantage plans for retirees. Country radio advertises white hoods or whatever.
Meanwhile, subscription services without ads also made money.
Targeted ads were never necessary. Outlaw them and the internet and media companies won’t disappear.
A lot of their revenue is also investment from hardware and software vendors that are using the revenue from the AI companies for those investments.
It’s like the Enron scheme, but instead of one company inventing fake companies to move money around to increase revenue and drive up prices to hide the fact they’re hemorrhaging money while the C-suite tries to divest their own money from the company, it’s multiple companies working together to move money around to increase revenue and drive up prices to hide the fact they’re hemorrhaging money while the major investors try to find a way to cash out.
Anthropic is anxious to do their IPO because they know their business model is fucked, and their shareholders want out.
I like the wireless. I just want more premium ones that have a cord between them. My old Jaybird X3s were spectacular, but they became a budget brand making cheapo devices.
I also miss having buttons instead of touch controls. The touch controls get triggered by getting wet.
“Nonprofit” and “Valve” don’t belong in the same universe. Valve is and has been 100/ about making money, and it’s been very, very good at it. They behave like they do because they aren’t publicly traded, so there aren’t short-term investors wanting to pump the stock and bail out, so they look at actual long-term investment and profit strategies.
People love Steam around here, but it was the beginning of modern enshittification of gaming. It was literally launched as a way to create an online activation requirement for a single-player game (Half Life 2), and they’ve fully-embraced lootbox mechanics for years.
Gabe is a billionaire yacht collector, not your buddy. Public companies exist to drive up share value at all times. Valve exists to make Gabe more money.
I want them to bring back more buds that are connected to each other, so it’s harder to lose them.
While true - this isn’t just about Brazil. It’s an Argentine MAGA broker who tried to kill a Bolivian lawyer while coordinating with an American company to boost Brazilian Nazis and damage the Mexican president’s administration.
It’s bad.
I don’t think they will this time either, but I also expect this to be a worse crash by a LOT.
Half the tech industry has basically turned into an Enron here (circular investments with each other to create the illusion of income), while the component crunch it’s caused is hurting everyone else.
This is poised to be the biggest financial crash in history. These assholes are fighting every day to push the crash further away so they can divest themselves quietly or make ot to an IPO, and in doing so are making the upcoming disaster much worse.
And so much investment has been dumped into this scheme I don’t know how our economic system.will survive. Unchecked capitalism needs to go away, but having it collapse all at once is gonna be really, really bad.
CAFE regulations are based on vehclicle footprint as of 2012. That’s why all the small trucks suddenly disappeared from the market that year. They had stricter fuel-economy standards than a sedan. The giant vehicles we’re gettimg today is the result of regulations that make it easier to just keep making vehicles bigger than to make them more efficient.
People will pay good money for a 15yo Ranger because you can’t get an equivalent vehicle new. The marketing to make oversized cars trendy is to prevent competition for the new vehicles coming from the used market.
Some datacenters could be repurposed as traditional datacenters focused on networking and cloud storage, infrastructure.
When I built a PC in 2015, I just used the cooler that came bundled with the processor and it worked just fine.
That’s what’s on the table now, but it doesn’t look good.
The Supremely Court is about to rule, essentially, on whether states can even attempt to sue the oil companies over the states’ climate-change-related expenses.
The danger for the oil companies right now isn’t final Judgement from those lawsuits, but the discovery process. If the states are allowed to proceed, the oil companies have to turn over records, which will then become public. It’s not only damning socially, but they’ll also show that they lied to their investors, and THAT would trigger a mountain of lawsuits that could do real damage.
But with the current Court, I’m not hopeful.
60 euro premium and how much money has it saved you versus buying something cheaper and an adapter at each upgrade?
As a leftist gun owner. I’m currently not interested in handing over my weapons.
Free in that you paid a $120 premium to get a $10 part every 5 years with an upgrade.
They make good stuff, but it just isn’t worth the markup. If actually you need the level of performance to justify spending that kind of money, just go with liquid cooling.
Telling someone how to do a thing isn’t aiding and abetting.
If I tell you that you can kill someone by shoving them off the Brooklyn Bridge, I’m not potentially taking part in a homicide.
Knowing where to commit a crime is not illegal.
I grew up in a town with a huge standing weekly flea market everyone knew about where everyone knew you were buying stolen stuff, fake IDs, bootlegs, etc. The way I finally convinced my family that TPB wasn’t illegal was by asking them if it was a crime to tell someone where the flea market was.
But an unclear coat on it.
Checkmate.
You can still target ads based on location, but you do it through targeted content like they used to, which also g9ves us more diverse content.
When a local business wanted to put an ad out and didn’t want to go nationwide, they’d advertise in the local paper. Now they just pay Google to target people, which is why 90% of local news has died.