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BarbecueCowboy

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  • Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

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  • There are resellers in the US who will set you up with the infrastructure to do it yourself. You don't need much and it's less expensive than you'd think, almost turnkey.

    Demand is more than high enough in poor areas too, they probably made a really good return before it shut down.

  • Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

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  • You might be overestimating how much content that was. Streaming services try to maintain an illusion of neverending content but last I saw except for prime, the amount of content they offer has been trending down.

    Those numbers are fairly accessible for an average person with 3 or 4 large hard drives.

  • I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity

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  • Honestly, I use it because it does a better job than who we usually use, the items it adds to the Job descriptions usually actually exist.

  • Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp

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  • You're right that is a real loss. Really, an Alexa that didn't require a personalized amazon account could still be huge if they could figure out how not to have to justify the costs of running the servers. I think that unwillingness to let Alexa be just a voice assistant is the key roadblock. In a similar vein, Alexa for business could have been a really big deal too if they could have worked it out a bit faster but now I think interest has mostly died out before it had a chance to be adopted.

    I'm not a huge fan of the company and I think it's a coin flip as to whether they would just completely screw it up, but I wonder what would have happened if someone like Crestron had taken a real interest instead of just half-assing an integration.

  • Factorio Friday Facts #416 - Fluids 2.0

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  • I know I'm likely alone, but I'm actually kind of bummed on this change.

    The old fluid system is janky and unpredictable and I have other complaints, but the way things flowed was sometimes part of the fun. I'll kind of miss the puzzles of 'Why are my flamethrowers not working again?'

  • Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp

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  • Google has these phases for the products they develop, right now they're in the phase where they've functionally abandoned home and are giving it just enough support to try to get some other company to manage/fix it and let them profit off of it.

    I'm not usually a fan of Apple, but they're probably going to be the ones defining where things go. If they want the market, it's basically up for grabs right now.

  • Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp

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  • Alexa has a tendency to give you the 'featured' product no matter how precisely and specifically you ask her for something. Even if you don't have to research and know exactly what you want, it's almost always easier to just go find your phone.

    The real game changer for Alexa was always having a voice assistant that you can integrate with just about whatever you want that isn't tied to someone's phone. The idea of going into someone's house and just saying 'Alexa, turn on the kitchen lights' or 'Alexa, is it cold outside?' is where the Alexa magic lies, but Amazon never could figure out how to make that profitable on it's own, just doesn't contribute to the business case.

  • I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity

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  • It's consistently pretty good for writing items with low technical importance and minimal need for accuracy.

    I'll never write a job description myself again and my need for getting with communications for mass correspondence is almost gone.

  • Biden bans U.S. sales of Kaspersky software over Russia ties

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  • [blameitonjorge] No One Can Identify This Celebrity

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  • Roger Garth claims it's based on a picture of them from around '05. No original photo found and could just be trying to cash in on the trend, but they knew about where the photo was from and offered details we didn't have before (Obviously, could have been made up).

    Filippa hamilton has also claimed it was her, but with no supporting details.

    I think Roger is a way better match.

  • ‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age

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  • I will die the way I always wanted to live.

    Surrounded by an assortment of artisanal barbecue sauces and fancy hot sauce.

  • Share your special interest with anyone who will listen

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  • But yes, what kind of unit is this?

    How lifelong friendships are made.

  • ‘Will I ever retire?’: millennials wonder what’s on the other side of middle age

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  • Man, that's a lot better than my plan.

    My plan was just to add a lot more bbq and fried food to my diet once I get to around 60.

  • It's easier to remember the IPs of good DNSes, too.

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  • If all that is true, then why do I still hate ipv6 so much.

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • If you search back far enough on some lemmy instances that have defederated others, you'll find ghosts of old content from those defederated servers, but it's all local to whatever instance you're viewing it on. A large amount of the content from the server that went down should also exist on the servers that server was federated with.

    These lemmy instances have got to start running out of storage though, I haven't heard of any kind of automated purging. I'd bet someone somewhere is already working on an archive lemmy.

  • Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.

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  • The transience and non-indexability is a feature, it's easier to manage a community if any problem can be solved by just ignoring it for a few days. Just have to hope the issue stays within Discord, sure you could search within discord, but no one is going to and on any large discord the results are likely to be so numerous that it's worthless. Worst case you lock down a chat channel, mark it as private due to 'spam' and create a new one to serve the same purpose as the old to cover it up the rest of the way.

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  • Germany and to a lesser extent Italy were supplying a significant portion as well and it's likely others would step up if they pulled out. Probably with worse prices and worse hardware, but we're not at risk globally of running out of places to buy weapons. It's horrible what is happening to Palestinian civilians in gaza, but in the end, the US armament supplies aren't strictly required to enable Israel.

  • Kbin.social down again? Are people moving to mbin instances (kbin.run, fedia.io)?

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  • A lot of the time it was technically 'up', but just non-functional/unusable.

    Most common for me was just not being able to do anything but look at the front page, couldn't click on anything without errors.