Was it all that surprising to you though?

By the time honey hit the scene we had been ten years into “sketchy Browser extension that monitors your browsing habits and injects ads”

I guess getting flogged by your favorite influencer ads a veneer of legitimacy for a lot of people.

I mean they already show ads when you pause. It’s just a tiny jump further to play video ads when you pause.

Nah I like the term recall. Just because the fix is “easy” doesn’t mean the product wasn’t broken. Automakers should take the software in their cars seriously especially the ones that market their cars like a cell phone.

They pay for access to yandex’s indexes to help provide their search product. Whether you consider that “funneling money to the Kremlin” or not is up to you.

I think this is just the US returning to its pre super power roots. More and more it seems like the last 80 years were seen exception and now they are returning back to where they were before the world wars.

I think if COVID was leaving people paralyzed it would never have been what it became. The fallout from COVID was bad but maybe not bad enough.

It isn’t really captive.

People are rapidly moving away from laptop/desktop computers and applications now a days are predominantly web based which means people can use anything that runs Chrome.

Gasoline prices in the US are very low. Your cost is likely double or triple the price per liter.

Didn’t the first Gen leafs have absolutely terrible battery quality such that they were junked in just a couple years?

I used to get EVGA bstock which was reasonable but they got out of the business 😞

I swapped to AMD this generation and it’s still expensive.

Tossed it in the microwave and here we are

Fair enough it was a 2.5 nvme but 8tb m2 2280 disks have been on the market for literal years. You could get them in PCIe gen 3 …

The reason it costs so much is because the chip industry is limiting supply again again to drive prices up after a few years of over producing. Not because there is something fancy in this drive.

This isn’t bleeding edge at all. Just put a 15tb drive in a machine the other day and they are a couple years old at this point.

You know I’ve not seen a bonzibuddy in a long long time.

For reference Bing chat is still confidently sure there are 2

Ask an LLM how many Rs there are in strawberry

So… Just another Tuesday for consulting then?

They can be tracked back one by one but if you have any amount of traffic it’s a constant game of cat and mouse.

You can block entire ASNs until they start using residential proxies provided by less ethical companies. Then you end up blocking all of France or destroying user experience by enforcing a captcha on everyone.

The type of request is not relevant. It’s the cost of the request that’s an issue. We have long ago stopped serving html documents that are static and can be cached. Tons of requests can trigger complex searches or computations which are expensive server side. This type of behavior basically ruins the internet and pushes everything into closed gardens and behind logins.