le who run/ran many of the most populated subreddits though. 98% ad revenue. I use reddit, also extensive ad blocking and have never seen an ad. They tried and failed to do the NFT thing. I didn't read their filing, but I wonder how close operating costs are to revenue.

On top of that they got rid of the paid awards to put on posts you agree with which is just fucking stupid as they then replaced it with nothing.

How many times has Slashdot changed hands? Reddit has many many MANY times more users. I used to buy shit from Thinkgeek, then they started trying to open stores in malls and shit showing they do not know thier audience at all and then died completely.

Reddit is probably similar, as with /. I only go there if I think there is something useful to see.

Those criminals are facilitated by the Chinese - as usual.

Most of them won't do that. They will just be like "the computer says it's good/bad" and grade accordingly without reading so much as a summary. School districts, who are like churches in that they generally have money and refuse to pay for anything if they can get it for "free", will use this to justify increasing class sizes and worse teacher:student ratios. No one will learn shit.

Like 8 years ago there were kids using cellphones with apps that would solve math problems from a picture (I work K12 and have a long time). This is just going to make society worse and even more machine dependent. Hunger Games just missed the AI element.

Like, "isn't that guy in jail?"

Not yet .

I'd have modded you up if my points hadn't expired.

There's more than one kind of tool, Daddy, and it can help with constipation too ;)

There are thousands of devices that I control for work. I directly asked Enterprise Support how this kind of extortion is even legal as they will cripple your MDM instances if you do not agree to whatever ToS changes they make. I got no answer.

a shit company that treats customers like shit and this is just the latest example. I randomly got an email from them a few days ago, I didn't even know I still had an account. I logged in and deleted it. Glad I did.

Welcome to the very slow boil of hardware identifiers and TPM requirements cause sek-ur-ah-tea. In reality, you control and own nothing and you can and will only do what we allow you to do with what is ostensibly yours - which, specifically, is buy shit from our 40,000 layers of DRM "store" where we get a 30%+ cut, and repeatedly buying the same thing every time we change something on a whim. Get fucked peasant, pay fealty to your Lord.

That seems about right, although Amazon famously fucks over successful small business brands on their platform by essentially stealing their ideas and putting out copycats under their own labels.

This sounds like some kind of venture capital bullshit to buy up those labels and put them under one. Think Softbank. I'm not sure how they compete with what Amazon is doing to their own retailers on their platform where they control all the information. From the bankruptcy filing, it looks like they don't.

They used AI to generate the ad that is on grubhub, it says WcDonalds with the logo and all the M's inverted. There is a picture of a Sprite that has what appears to be a fake Japanese-ish looking language under the logo too.

It's not clear if GH did this or the restaurant but either way it looks like some weird Chinese Amazon rip off version of the real thing. The restaurant is real, I've ordered from and been there before, this started literally in the last 2 or 3 days.

Do you have a DeCSS one?

You mean having their money stolen by an obvious fraud? I suppose, if you're that naive, but there are cheaper ways to learn that kind of shit.

who their customers are and how much they're using. Why don't they just ask them?

Crypto is a scam that does nothing useful and objectively, actively, hurts everyone.

companies, and one in particular, which are/were listed on stock exchanges where they turned out to be massive frauds effectively losing all the money with plenty of shady dealings, directly lying about trial progress on earnings calls all while C-suite gave themselves massive raises/bonuses, golden parachutes and a corrupt board of directors. Class action lawsuits that go nowhere, etc.

Where the fuck are the investigators for shit like that? The SEC being asleep at the fucking wheel is the reason why short sellers exist at all - particularly the really good ones like Hindenburg and Muddywaters.