When the product is a $30 Android phone, they definitely want you to believe they are losing money on it with a 60 day unlock policy. But given how slow those phones are I really don't know how much they could be losing.
There is some good slop out there too. I don't know how to quantify quality slop, but there is at least one channel putting out some very funny videos that are complete nonsense. I would not want to see that go away but I don't think they are going for detecting AI vs not anyway. They had a bad slop problem before AI.
- You would need to steal the whole device while it is operating and unlocked to be able to access those.
Or borrow it. You know, like if you live in the same house before the divorce.
A login can be stolen and get hacked.
And particularly relevant for a divorce situation, a significant other who can grab your phone and knows your passcode certainly doesn't count as being you.
And here I thought a web hosting company getting bought out by EIG was bad enough. Turns out private equity can be even worse.
That's the silly thing. They were the other provider. If they can't even compete with Microsoft or Google mailbox sizes at $10/mo how bad are they at this?
Rackspace: 25GB at $10
Microsoft: 50GB at $4
Google: 30GB at $6
This is just lazy algorthims on Google's part. If you have any of a certain number of words in your video anywhere, it can be demonetized. That includes in on-screen graphics as well as spoken. It would almost be better if it was driven by AI. Almost.
Fast writes just means using solid state for inbound data before offloading to slower storage.
Right, because if you're on free tier and moving up to a paid tier still has ads, what would be the point?
If you use it correctly, you're a human using it who understand its uses and limitations. The grift is that vibe coding or autonomous coding is remotely viable.
I think it's more likely just an investment intended to increase supply and drive down costs
This keeps that specific copper off of the global market entirely. It makes this copper MUCH cheaper because its costs are paid up front. But it also could be used as a bargaining chip when buying copper from elsewhere. Especially if they can reinvest their savings to help scale this up.
You either want fast storage or you want slow. And honestly, hard drives are too fast and too expensive to be slow storage.
What do they call it? Post mortem?
into a C64
Which, in turn, is plugged into C4. You want someone to notice, of course.
"Not dead yet" to me brought to mind the plague cart in the Monty Python movie.
"The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to mug someone with it." -- M. Devine, Computer Science 340
