Thanks, the article was accessible for me so I thought it would be also for others.

Not really https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/technology/kaspersky-lab-antivirus.html

Very creative how Kaspersky used SEO to hide this story. When searching you have to exclude all of their sites to find it.

To be fair, he provided instructions.

We saw other similar news from China which turned out to be a bunk. I wouldn’t hold my breath. I would love to be wrong though.

If after 16 years you still have to be asked if you believe in crypto, then chances are that it is a scam.

That’s how I understand Mastodon’s meant to work. You have your instance like you do a mail server, then you have full control over it.

Penis, got it!

Yes, to me Tesla switched from the most desirable car to the least desirable one, exactly because he turned out to be a cunt.

Also in California I see more interest in other electric cars. There are tons of Teslas, but pretty much all new EVs (with temporary license plates) seem to be different brands.

This is great, but we also need a law that mandates leasing of existing last mile, to bring a competition like we had during the days of DSL.

Ideally the fiber from POP to my house should be owned by my city and leased to whichever ISP I want to do business with.

I was able to get it from here: https://archive.is/20240425003720/https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/23/spotify-earnings-q1-ceo-daniel-eklaying-off-1500-spotify-employees-negatively-affected-streaming-giants-operations/

But you just did…

I’m in software engineering. One would think that English would be a useless class for my major, yet at work I still have to write a lot of documents. Either preparing new features, explaining existing, writing instructions for others etc

BTW: with using AI to write essays, you generally have subject that is known and that many people write something similar, all of that was used to train it.

With technical writing you are generally describe something that is brand new and very unique so you won’t be able to make AI write it for you.

The LLM isn’t really thinking, it is auto complete trained so the average person would be fooled thinking that text was produced by another human.

I’m not surprised it has flaws like that.

BTW here on Lenny there are communities with AI pictures. Someone created a similar community but with art created by humans.

While the AI results are very good, when you start looking and comparing it with non AI art, you start seeing that the AI while it is unique it still produces a cookie cutter results.

I am so puzzled by this. I’ve been using the Internet for 30 years, and in early 2000 people were much more standing up to principles. The greatest example was when digg changed how it operated with v4, people left it overnight. Now they prefer to be fucked over and don’t have any intention of changing it, and excuses are really lame like “alternatives are too hard”.

I think Yuval Harari was right and social media figured out how to hack our brains and control us.

Heh, now as you mentioned, the logos do look very similar.

I dunno, uBlock never showed any.

fuck spez, fuck Reddit

Though I must say I’m still upset at the losers that are still on twitter.

I feel like people changed drastically over the last two decades and are more likely to accept being fucked in the ass by corporations.

Remember what happened to digg when they changed the site to control the articles that are being posted? Or to Myspace when it was purchased by Murdoch?

What the hell happened?

I would imagine Gmail is the primary reason people create an account with Google.

Not sure what you do, but 2021 and part of 2022 was crazy in the tech industry and those big companies were hiring like crazy. Smaller places actually had problems finding new employees.

In my company (which normally has a lot of longtimers) a lot of coworkers left during that time, because they found a job somewhere else.

Can you elaborate?

When layoffs were happening we got doom and gloom messages that recession was imminent and that it was primarily caused by interest rate increases.

A lot of people from tech industry were saying that this is because those companies were over hiring in 2021 and 2022. Now Zuckerberg is saying the same thing, but you are stating that it is a lie. Why?