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I haven't used Google for my search engine for years. However, all that advertising revenue supports their free mailboxes and mapping software.
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Amazon and Meta have agreed to not use data collected from their marketplaces to unfairly benefit themselves, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority announced on Friday. Freudian typo: "Now, Amazon has committed to stop doing less of that."
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Sean Ewington wrote: Amazon and Meta have agreed to not use data collected from their marketplaces to unfairly benefit themselves
Ok... we all safe now. They have publicly agreed.
yeah, right!!
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As Wired reports, this rollout has led to “hundreds of thousands” of uninstalls, not of YouTube but of ad blockers. The figures apparently come from various ad-blocking companies, where October saw a “record number” of people uninstalling ad blockers. We start carrying semi-automatics, they buy automatics. We start wearing Kevlar, they buy armor piercing rounds.
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In the article I read it said the same, but added that there were a lot of installs too, of people trying different constellations. Some of them still work, for how long? I don't know.
On the other hand, I stopped watching TV films due to advertisements that made a film be twice its length.
In youtube I have got two adverts (one around 25 seconds and the second one can be mostly skipped after some seconds) every 2 to 4 minutes. That's a lot.
I would not have any problem to pay for the "premium" service, if I would not already pay with my data. But as it is now, it is a matter of principles for me.
So... you want it this way? Bye bye Youtube.
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Yes I was this bad person who had to remove ad blockers from my YT immediately (including Malwarebytes Browser Guard) or else ...  , and, as a reward I got Quantum AI (claiming to be from Elon Musk) scams all over the place ... I had to complain via feedback to YT, and now I may keep my Malwarebytes Browser Guard, and, luckily, Quantum AI tornado went away ... It was a lot of fun ...
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Ever waved goodbye on Zoom and felt super awkward? It remembers all the other things you'd rather be doing?
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Article wrote: Ever waved goodbye on Zoom and felt super awkward?
As if feeling awkward after a Teams meeting were better.  
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On the whole, it would rather be in Philadelphia.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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One question has relentlessly followed ChatGPT in its trajectory to superstar status in the field of artificial intelligence: Has it met the Turing test of generating output indistinguishable from human response? Or that's what it wants us to think
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Article wrote: Has it met the Turing test of generating output indistinguishable from human response?
Depending on which human response, it might even get better marks  
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 indeed ... lately I've seen research papers about Theory of Mind for LLMs (for example https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01660 - this one dates from 4 Sep 2023), but I am not sure if this supersedes the Turing test. Intuitively, I would say yes ...
modified 7-Nov-23 9:02am.
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JetBrains' high-performing compiler moves to beta for all platforms and can be used in all Kotlin projects. It's the second highest compiler in the world?
After whoever created that Br**nf*ck compiler
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Pardon me, but everytime I see that name I can't avoid to smile a bit because of german[^]
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On October 25, 2023, the Windows filesystem team released an early preview of copy-on-write (CoW) linking in the Windows 11 Insider Canary channel. Do you copy?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Do you copy?
No, I write.
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Microsoft's Insider builds often tend to reveal interesting features that are hidden from plain sight as they are not a part of the announced set of features, changes, and improvements in release notes. Less UWP, more like OOPs
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Article wrote: Microsoft's Insider builds often tend to reveal interesting features that are hidden from plain sight as they are not a part of the announced set of features, changes, and improvements in release notes.
And that will probably be the source of some amusement in the insider news...
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Bankman-Fried convicted on seven charges, faces maximum sentence of 110 years. Crypto crook is a crook
Maybe a little too redundant there
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There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile;
He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
-- Mother Goose
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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1 down, too many to go.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Article wrote: faces maximum sentence of 110 years.
From which how many will he really sit?
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If he gets the maximum sentence, he'll probably be eligible for parole sometime around 2100. And good riddance.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If that's true... nice.
It's about time that such people get hard consequences for their acts.
As Maximilian said... sadly there are still a lot out there waiting for their part. 
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Microsoft has changed the terms and conditions for its online services to include a warning that “excessive” users of its generative AI services will have their access restricted. By 'All you can eat', we didn't mean that you could eat all of it
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