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How a Spanish virus brought Google to Málaga

techcrunch.com
5 points·by mrkramer·7 bulan yang lalu·0 comments

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mrkramer
·11 hari yang lalu·discuss
I remember watching Sky News and hearing that UK political parties were from then on forbidden to take donations in crypto which is just another nail in the coffin of crypto. All started going downhill when Satoshi left his Bitcoin project.
mrkramer
·bulan lalu·discuss
One more reason not to use social media. Except anon discussion boards.
mrkramer
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Stop funding cyberterrorism.

>the deal means that the hackers have returned the compromised data of some 275 million users across more than 8,800 institutions.

Yea sure, they didn't keep the copy of stolen database. You know, criminals are very trustworthy people.
mrkramer
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I feel like they overhired over the years and now they reap what they sow. AI just accelerated their awareness of overhiring. I think if Cloudflare or any other well established software company stopped hiring this year, they would be doing the same as they did last year. At the end even the management will be replaced by AI.
mrkramer
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I actually think the good old Page rank[0] is crucial because if the authoritative sources link to some website, webpage or content it means that particular item provides some kind of value to the entity that linked it. I'm also a big fan of metadata which can be used to describe web content and make the content more usable to the search engines and the Web users.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
mrkramer
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
The importance of good search engines and good discovery engines will grow even more.
mrkramer
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I meant this https://www.federalreserve.gov/central-bank-digital-currency..., this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_euro and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi
mrkramer
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I meant digital dollar and digital euro, you won't need Visa and Mastercard anymore.
mrkramer
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Pix is for domestic use right? So tourists who come to Brazil still use Visa and Mastercard as well as Brazilian tourists who travel abroad. Visa and Mastercard are companies of the past, crypto and stablecoins will destroy them sooner or later.
mrkramer
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
All empires are to some degree evil because their agenda is to dominate weaker peoples and nations. They almost all committed crimes against humanity and genocides if you look retrospectively from the todays point of view. Even our beloved Roman Empire that the Western civilization is built upon was genocidal empire.
mrkramer
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Some things are better when they are outsourced because other companies specialized for that problem set. Just like you won't roll your own cryptography, you won't and can't do everything in-house.
mrkramer
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Good luck competing with Google which has "unlimited" budget.
mrkramer
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Epic lost billions of dollars when they were kicked out of the App Store and Google Play and they were out for a long time. Only now Fortnite is coming back to mobile.
mrkramer
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I vibe code web apps with Google's Gemini and I think it actually mimics Google's UI and UX because I see similarities between my vibe coded web apps and Google's web apps.
mrkramer
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
This looks like something I would vibe code with Google's Gemini. Interesting concept.
mrkramer
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I use to have wired headphones for years but wires always get damaged over time and then headphones stop working. Now I got wireless headphones.
mrkramer
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Isn't this a risky way to transfer intelligence information because when people see gibberish data they will know something fishy is going on. Better way would be to use subliminal channels[0] for intelligence exchange.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subliminal_channel
mrkramer
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
At least nobody will be able to sue you for things you say when you are dead. Zuck will get all the lawsuits.
mrkramer
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
It was just one of my numerous thought experiments....starting with text only social network (like Moltbook) is probably way easier than to go with full blown Facebook/Instagram type network.
mrkramer
·4 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Tbh I don't care if I speak to a human or a bot as long as they are "useful"; by useful I mean if they provide me useful information but then again humans can provide unique information that bots can not. But I think identity is not relevant anymore, what's relevant is reputation. People think internet bots are bad per se but we need to build useful bots, just like there are chat bots that are useful on various platforms like Telegram, Discord or whatever other platforms people use.