I've noticed this kind of thing a LOT lately. Evidently this book is out called Nudge that tells its readers to annoy the shit out of their customers until they 'install the app". Because evidently running in the background and draining your battery constantly harvesting your data and monitoring your location is more profitable than actually selling the service.
I booked air tickets on a website and it was deliberately irritating, pausing for a long time between screens, showing a QR code and saying, 'tired of waiting? our app is much faster!" Hell, even Youtube is unwatchable without a Google account and giving them your real name, address, phone number for 2FA, email, backup email to cross-check databases. And once you've done all that. the jack-in-the-box pops open and it's like, let's get your social, your tax return info for last year, last three places of employment, and then upload a photo of yourself holding your ID. And your selfie cam photo wasn't clear, our facial recognition can't read it. Nice try scammer, your application has been denied. We'll be keeping the info you already entered, though.
China is like this, an entirely real-name internet. You can't so much as order food delivery without all of this. Simply entering the country requires facial scan and fingerprints.
1984 was a warning, not a role model.
... was how to disable it.
So you missed the part that the book/paper/presentation was authored by a woman, then?
Trump appreciates you donating him permanent space in your thoughts.
...until the punishment is terrifying.
Simple as that.
Most HR personnel are women, and some might assert this is the problem, they are the vanguard of the overwhelming feminization of workplaces.
https://www.compactmag.com/art...
"...Everything you think of as âoewokenessâ is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.
The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently.
She presented it a little more compactly (not a great public speaker, ngl) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Adsense payments dropped off a cliff. This is why so many websites are laying off staff. Google wants all traffic to stay on its site. Gemini AI (yes, the one that, when asked to draw Scottish people, drew only Blacks and then asked to draw a group of diverse people also drew only Blacks.
What do you need to click through to a website for? Those can contain dangerous information like warning people not to take the COVID-19 vaccine. That disease is still out there and still dangerous. Get your boosters, everyone!
imagine how many more thousands they could save by replacing 200k in toy computers with a real datacenter platform.
My, we are an aggressively stupid dipshit today.
The only thing that meaningfully matters to a cargo ship is size.
Vessels are already slow sailing to artificially constrain bandwidth and prop up rates, and have been since COVID.
Nobody on earth is trying to build FASTER cargo ships, and haven't for 50 years. Jesus Christ. If only slashdot had a "doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about" filter.
Well, no, there's no law against shipping single containers at a time either. It just means a banana costs $100,000.
We have an entire thread here where you have ecological doomsayers are telling the world's most efficient transport industry how they can do things better. Sure.
Think of it! With VLSI we can pack 100 ENIACs in 1 sq. cm.!
