> I don't get pleasure out of hurting my father or showing him up - I like my father.
Sure but there's way to say something that may hurt someone... even if you don't intend to.
I think it's something that happens more on the web as we forget there's someone on the other side.
> Also, it may turn out this is a weird corner-case and MySQL is somehow incompatible with his laptop.
You started with "There's no chance" though... You may be ready to change your stance, but your first sentence didn't have that possibility. What someone understands by your sentence is that "I am the problem" instead of "there may be a problem".
I don't think OP example was the best to illustrate the issue, but I don't have a better example either, still struggling with that myself too.
> you probably wouldn’t ever hear someone say “maybe you should have had less trust”
No you would hear the exact same thing. My sensitive data on the cloud is all encrypted. Have you ever seen anyone suggesting to do backup on any cloud platform in any other way than encrypted? That's because the data is sensitive and you can't trust whoever store it for you.
> Why do we tend to treat people like they’re asking for it when their nudes get compromised?
We do that over anything that is sensitive. It's just that nowadays, people no longer consider much of their things sensitive... except nudity.
I agree entirely that we should be able to trust companies and I agree completely that the biggest issue is on them, but the thing is, we will never be able to trust them fully, there's just too much to handle. I'm not saying not to push the responsibility on them, for sure we need to do that or it's gonna be even worse, but we also need to remind people to consider their data security and how they handle it. Both are essentials if we want to lower the number of instance of theses happenings.
I'm curious, if I upload nude picture on my Google Drive and with the password "potato", and then my picture were published by someone that guessed my password. Wouldn't you suggest a stronger password? Still a victim, but still good to suggest ways to avoid it in the future.
> As a human, I am allowed to read copyrighted code and learn from it.
Plenty of examples show that it didn't learn that much and copy literal parts of code. At my school that would have been ground for plagiarism which weren't treated lightly.
> you could be alarmed that you need a Doom-capable computer to run a modern light bulb.
An ESP8266 microcontroller can be bought in low quantity for less than a dollar. I means sure any cost reduction at scale is meaningful, but at that point I don't think the silicon is the expensive part at that point. It just doesn't make sense to give WIFI devices anything less than that performance, the gains in silicon space will be meaningless and you'll spend more managing that than anything.
That's quite interesting! That's why I asked, I wasn't exactly doubting the figure, just curious about the market that allowed that kind of customer targeting.
Oh thanks, I actually did the math right the first time, kept only the result and then when I was about to hit send I thought it was too good to be true, thus I did it again and got 3.15$, which was even crazier, but couldn't find why my math was wrong.
Oh yeah that can definitely be from Google Ads too, but I remember some question quite surprising. I forgot to install it on my new phone that I got in December, so I don't remember much theses questions, but it's now installed, so I'll see. I know that they asked me for receipts a few time.
I use Google Opinion Rewards and I feel like some of their questions are meant to see if they can deanonymize identities from credit card data and a few location data point.
> So basically, companies are supposed to reward people for being gregarious/outgoing/funny/popular on Slack, rather than for getting their work done?
I just took a quick glance at their page, but don't see this, can you be more specific?
The example they give is rewarding a specific individual and rewarding a whole channel. As someone who like to quietly get things done, I have multiple time helped people around me and I'm pretty sure that active or not on the Slack, many of them would have given me the reward. A project channel contains people related to a project, them being active or not on that channel wouldn't affect the reward.
After many of my travel using Google Maps, I get a notification asking whether the route recommended was right. I never had a bad one (where they asked it at least) so I don't know what happens if I do answer no, but I guess it's to allow to optimize theses kinds of situation.
> But can't the airlines then introduce random price spikes into their own algorithm just to abuse Google?
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If they only guarantee the price of the same airline (which make sense considering that different airline offer different quality of service), then that would just hurt Google once without benefiting the airline and in fact, it would hurt the airline in Google.
The terms are clear: When we predict the price won’t decrease for select itinerarie
If airlines have unpredictable random price spikes, then they won't be able to qualify for the price guarantee. Having that guarantee seems like a good value add and may bring more customer toward theses offers. I don't know if Google would place theses airline higher in the result, but it would make sense because that's something that someone may prefer.
> It seems like a net loss to me, because ads are used to make people consume more than they need;
My SO opened an escape room a year ago. I though similarly as you before that (not that it make people consume more, but that they'll buy the inferior product), but then after a few weekend without any reservation... it made me realize how things aren't just found.
You need to be reminded that something exist to even consider it. It's not even a question of whether that's the best thing for you.
She always ask people what they think once they done and recently she got as a comment "but you aren't visible enough". We pay for ads, a few thousands, we are probably not too far from having spend 5 digits in ads. I couldn't imagine how people could be aware of our existence without ads at all.
> and while ads may make the internet "free", we are still paying for those ads indirectly.
We are paying for it, sure, but at least we are paying, aren't we? I like that I can get any ads on a channel. I love DIY channels, I seriously hate how almost all of them hide that all their tools were given. They say it from time to time, but on most videos, they'll just keep using the one from the past videos without mentionning getting them for free. That's an ads by the way, they may even directly get paid for using theses tools. With adsense though, the ads I get aren't necessarily related to the video, I'm AWARE they are ads, they are made FOR ME (thus more profitable for the channel, because I may need tool, but I may be more likely to buy a new computer for example).
> the ads are making thousands of requests downloading hundreds of mbs of who knows what quite often simply crashing the tabs
Where are you going for that to happen? Not only does a tab crashing is extremely rare for me, even on my low 8 GB of RAM which I got 8 years ago. It seems a bit crazy that it happens quite often for you.
The Daily Stormer is free to get their business elsewhere and it's still up on the internet. Cloudflare didn't want to be associated to this kind of content, and thus terminated their business relation.
We don't NEED Cloudflare to keep the internet integrity (if we did, it will go pretty badly...) but we do need DNS to keep the internet integrity.
> I'll keep using non-logging, encrypted OpenNIC servers, since you seem to selectively censor instead of only blocking terrorists and cp.
> As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not have the ability to mimic the writing style of specific individuals