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[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I am sober and serious.

[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

At least it's better than Slack and Discord. Still shit of course, but it could be worse.

[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Twitter currently has $1.5 billion/year deficit which is a lot, even for Musk, to bankroll.

[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Check Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox by Lina Khan (FTC). A very detailed review of how Amazon is a monopoly and how they dodge antitrust legislation.

[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That's not how it works. Or, rather, that's not only how it works. Sure, advertisers dream of users who see an ad once and run to buy a product. But ad effects are spread over time. They build brand recognition. They fake familiarity. Say you are in a supermarket and you want to buy a new type of product that you haven't bought before. Very likely you'll pick something familiar-sounding, which you heard in an ad. Ads pollute the mind even if the most obvious effects are, well, obvious and easily discarded, more subtle influence remains.

[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Gutting defeated/ousted manager's projects is an obligatory and unavoidable ritual in corporate environment. Competent or convenient employees are pulled into other teams, pesky/unconvenient ICs are fired since everything can be pinned on the loser. Projects are often dismantled - even profitable ones to remove any possible foothold for a comeback. Shit, now I want to write a corpo book but styled like high school biology textbook.

[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it’s now your desktop computer.

Mobile apps are shit for that. Sure, my phone is powerful enough to browse internet, play video and music but on desktop with mouse/kb it's just weird and funky. And I'm not even talking about any productivity software which is straight impossible.

[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not for the seedbox, but for the personal always on VPN I would def prefer something nearshore.

[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why? I refuse to believe there's no location in SA with a decent internet and without DMCA enforcement.

[–] vvvvv@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Be ware of using VPN if you want spanish content and wanna join a private tracker; all spanish private tracker ban the use of VPNs

What's the rationale for that?

 

For many a year my needs of DMCA-ignoring VPS hosting have been met by various Eastern European hosters, who either ignored DMCA altogether or helpfully passed along all information without any further actions.

Now I'm searching for the same, but near USA. Mainly to be used as a torrent seedbox, personal VPN, and so on. What countries and hosters can you recommend?

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