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brucethemoose

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8h ago

Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 8h ago

No, you've got a point... Actually you're right. To an extent.
I should have qualified my post.
But I'd argue the "bad" part of SEO is just too tempting. It's clearly winning out, across the entire internet, unless you can look at me with a straight face and say "Google search is fine." Or that discoverability of genuine services is fine. It's definitely not; it's a miracle any legitimate business is surviving from web search anymore, amongts the sea of attention scams and corporate behemoths.
In other words, the I feel like the "honeymoon" where we could trust SEO to happen ethically is now behind us.

12h ago

Your mileage may vary

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 12h ago

Naw, now we’ve cut out the abstraction and worship demagogues directly. :(

12h ago

Fact-check: Moscow internet outages spark coup rumors — experts say it's 'wishful thinking'

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 12h ago

That would’ve been interesting.

Gah, what if he had made it to Moscow with an army and possibly that? What then? It’s wild how close he got.

12h ago

Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 12h ago

When the Digg beta launched, we immediately noticed posts from SEO spammers noting that Digg still carried meaningful Google link authority. Within hours, we got a taste of what we'd only heard rumors about. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn't appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they'd find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough.

I love how the SEO industry pretends they’re anything but a caustic cancer leeching off literally everything.

“Oh, but discoverability of small business!” Yeah… I’d punch you if I saw you, SEO jerks. The Futurama movie was right.

13h ago

Well that's a review

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 13h ago

That's because she has money.

13h ago

Well that's a review

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 13h ago

Gender affirming care for ultra-rich.

Fixed that for you.

18h ago

Iran Rejects Trump's Ceasefire Proposals Twice

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 18h ago

Maybe they're going for "destabilize the U.S?" You know, like the U.S's explicit war goal for Iran?

19h ago

might be a form of Jevons Paradox

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 19h ago

used to take 1 minute just to display a single raw photo

See, that’s a great example!

RAW processing (at least in that context) hasn’t really changed in 10 years. It’s probably the same code doing all the heavy lifting.

But most software doesn’t have that benefit.

1d ago

Fact-check: Moscow internet outages spark coup rumors — experts say it's 'wishful thinking'

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 1d ago

Except one

That one though.

Man, that was a day. I was refreshing the ISW page every minute. And I figure that proves it could happen, as with a slightly different dice roll Prigozhin could've made it to Moscow with an army.

1d ago

Four Loko

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 1d ago

Oh I remember this stuff. It was one of those “we definitely don’t market it to teens, nope” things, and everyone in school drank them.

2d ago

Streaming didnt exist in 1970

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

I mean, any YouTube creator is neck-deep in streaming. It's probably more unhealthy than long-form TV.

EDIT: Though to this influencer's credit, she seems more low key and avoids other social media. It appears she only does YT, Patreon, Ko-Fi, Peertube(!) and her own site, and uploads on a modest scheduile. That's quite reasonable.

2d ago

Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

I don’t buy that. No way they “open up” iOS to be more OSX-like, as that would spoil their cash cow (the App Store).

I hate to sound so cynical, but I just don’t see any incentive for Apple to do that.

2d ago

Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Eh, but will they? There’s a whole lot of OSX legacy Apple would have to throw away.

I mean, I guess they could; they’ve done it before with architecture transitions. But this is different in that stuff on existing devices would stop working, whereas Intel or PPC Macs keep chugging along as-is.

2d ago

Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

Well, technically, System76 and a few other white box laptop makers did. But they don’t actually make laptops.

And to be fair to big OEMs, “it uses Linux!” was a much harder thing to market before. I can see (outside of the Framework, which caters to enthusiasts) they only dabbled with it but didn’t invest.

Also, an HP or Dell Linux distro would be an unholy abomination. I can only imagine what they’d ship.

2d ago

Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

As I always say:

...Most people need an iPad with a better keyboard, and a touchpad.

That's all they use their computers for. They don't want to mess with filesystems or specs or any concepts like that, they just want to add text to their kid's picture or send an email or read a PDF or scroll YouTube, or do things like banking or streaming that are honestly better supported as iOS apps anyway.

And that's basically what the Neo is.

Laptop makers are up shit creek if they insist on staying with Windows, as Microsoft stupendously bungled that experience.

2d ago

Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 2d ago

It's basically iOS at that point.

3d ago

EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 3d ago

So we call them what they are: megacorp games!

I just don't like the term "AAA." It feels like these mega studios are hiding behind that as a badge of quality.

3d ago

Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 3d ago

“If this is all surprising to you then you’re not talking with the women in your life.”

To be fair, maybe Lemmy is less social than "average"? I'm certainly contributing to that statistic.

...Still, as a guy, it's kind of my experience everywhere. The longer I live, even as isolated as I am, the more I'm bewildered by other men being incapable of following the "don't be a jerk" rule, incapable of shutting up and listening to women, or doing/saying straight up terrible, sexist things, all while knowing that's the tip of the iceberg.

I can't even imagine the experience of being a woman using Uber. It's mind boggling that so many male commenters wag their fingers like they somehow do.

3d ago

System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 3d ago

I buy that. It fits with literally all of Meta's previous behavior and lobbying efforts.

3d ago

From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT

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brucethemoose @lemmy.world 3d ago

I remember playing with Stable Diffusion in 2022, and thinking "Oh. That's the end of NFTs."

NFT art was stupid to begin with, of course, but SD was such a blatent, extreme inverse of the "artifical digital scarcity" angle. If I wanted a shitty, albeit "unique" and deterministically reproducible digital image, I could just make it in 30 seconds on a desktop. If I wanted a certain look, I could use img2img or eventually controlnet and all sorts of augmentations.

Yes, junky AI was junky AI, but ironically it was the antithesis of everything NFTs stood for. Instead of "digital information is worth commodifying at great expense," it was "digital information is basically free." And I still find it amusing that Tech Bros and con artists jumped from one ship to the other so quickly, or somehow have feet in both.