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jesse_dot_id
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https://jesse.id
- jesse_dot_idGood. Apple has been making many, many bad UX decisions. It's not just Liquid Glass, either. I've been noticing the downward trend for years.
- AI is in the Radium phase of its world-changing discovery life cycle. It's fun and novel, so every corporate grifter in the world is cramming it into every product that they can, regardless of it making sense. The companies being the most reckless will soon develop a cough, if they haven't already.
- Does anyone use Claude for something other than coding?
- Same. I think that pharmaceutical industry is lot more bleak now than it was when Fen-Phen became popular. GLP-1 usage is largely off-label as far as I know, but I wouldn't trust them even if it wasn't. There is a mountain of precedent for these companies to choose profit over health, and for our government(s) to aid them in covering up evidence of negative effects on the latter for the sake of the former.
- I don't buy insta-botnets and I never will.
- https://jesse.id/blog/posts/im-telling-yall-its-adbotage
I wrote a blog about turning advertising against advertisers, and as I see more and more stuff like this, I wonder how the ad-based Internet survives this era of unfettered and unpunished scamming.
- Yeah there is...
> The Firefox brand is getting a refresh and you get the first look. Kit’s our new mascot and your new companion through an internet that’s private, open and actually yours.
Your new companion...
- Bought the Affinity Studio license less than a year ago and I'm feeling incredibly ripped off right now. So much so that I'm going to cancel my Canva subscription. When you do things like this, Canva, you are sending a loud and clear signal to me that even though I paid a lot of money for your product, I am STILL just a product to you and not a customer, and thus can no longer trust any of your offerings.
I'm so sick of sellouts.
- Neat, another brand I don't have to consider when purchasing appliances in the future. Saves me time at a glance!
- Right, but if millions of people suddenly began clicking on every ad they see, I think that would create a big problem. Clearly they lie about their numbers, and they probably engage with their own bots, but I feel like adding millions of clicks per minute for months would be difficult to mitigate.
- Well, the way to perform the attack is to organize millions of people with instructions to click on every ad they see. That's not really my thing. I think to try and do it programmatically would make it trivial to filter for talented engineers. However, my question is how would they defend against it if people were manually clicking on ads with their free time? I'm not sure how it would be possible.
- Ahhh, interesting, hadn't heard of it. I think that an extension-based approach is too easy to mitigate, though. I think to be effective, it would need to be people clicking on the adds themselves, because it would be much harder to separate their traffic from legitimate traffic. When people are manually clicking ads, their traffic looks organic, whereas an extension clicking everything in rapid succession probably looks programmatic and would be trivial to filter out.
- 5 points
- The ever-present feeling that, at any time, you can be swept away in a wave of firings with 10,000 other employees, into an abyss of uncertainty, regardless of the quality or quantity of your contributions.
FAANG companies do not care about their employees at all and it's clearly just getting worse over time.
Also, I will never work in an office again, and I don't trust FAANG companies to allow me to have that luxury, even if it's in place when they hire me. Money turns groups of people — like boards and shareholders — into sociopaths.
No thank you. I'd rather work at a University or a small company. Less money, but a lot less stress, a lot more stability, and having experience makes me feel useful instead of feeling like a bullseye with a dollar sign in the middle.
- I'm an awesome engineer and I'd never even apply to a FAANG company. I value stability over pretty much all else.