If you have a bunch of people guess how many M&M’s are in a jar you can average the guesses and you’ll come very close to the correct amount. A recommendation system can be very democratic in that way. When reddit still had their public API I would take advantage of this fact and use it to decide if something was a “deal” or not on PC parts. I was tracking the prices of computer ram at the time as an experiment. It worked very well. If they are federated properly, then their content can be filtered and appear on an instances front page.

I can definitely see certain brands doing well with their own forums. Sports teams would be a very good niche for hosting their own instances. Another one would be the entertainment industry. It’s just not feasible for companies that aren’t interesting to talk about. Like there won’t be a Coca-Cola instance worth a lot of users.

The easiest way to deflect criticism is to claim it’s racism or antisemitism. China does the exact same thing. It’s obvious and lazy. I can’t believe people still fall for it. Israel is not the representative of Judaism. They have a far right militant dictator running their country right now who is killing many innocent people. The fact that they are still recognized as a country is beyond reason at this point.

“Metaverse” was the idea that you would use only Meta services instead of the wider Internet. Much like AOL and Yahoo tried back in the 90s and 00s.

I don’t see how this is much different from u.s. police. You could easily be charged with “assaulting a police officer” in the u.s. if a cop wanted to be a jackass. You could get thrown in jail for months or years until it gets sorted out even if you are found not guilty.

Qr code tattoo…

The bill text excludes video game consoles completely.

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB244/id/2813977

It’s hurting the commuting industry.

I ran it for a little while, but it was too much work to set up what I ultimately wanted it to do. On top of that I don’t want to have touch it after I set it up. I use a lot of dumb motion sensors instead. Not the best solution sometimes, but better than having constant downtime at the worst time.

Marketplace became the defacto replacement for craigslist in my area 😔

Yes, you can rewrite something in your own words and as it isn’t copied verbatim, then it isn’t infringement. You can’t copyright the idea of something.

I read an article in NYT and then I used the information to make money. Come sue me.

This CEO just started like yesterday, they’re still in their probationary period.

There’s a lot of dumdums out there who will fall for this shit.

Seems a little inconvenient to carry a Nintendo switch in your pocket. Plus the battery life is probably not as good.

I remember having some issues with Ubuntu 10 because I had a janky pentium 4 built out of scrap. I think it was an pci ide card I had issues with.

Rich kids

He’s Targeting a younger audience as they are more likely to spend money on stuff.

Ah, you see, in order to get around the 4th amendment there are companies that lease license plate cameras to the government, the government then pays a subscription to that company in order to access the collected data.

Any other subscribing agency can look at the data, including local police in Texas.

It wouldn’t be legal for the government to track you like that without a warrant.

The law states that it’s not illegal for one to give information to any law enforcement agency, however what people do in Illinois is their own business.

It’s not like it would be hard to figure out either. You know she has a DUI conviction on x date, you know the amount of time that you have to wait to get your license back after that, it’s basic math.