LittlePrimate

Here's the Mail from Meta in question: Kec Quirk via Fosstodon.

I'm not really surprised, I'd actually assume that sexy John Oliver and the other protests created a lot of additional traffic. People post like crazy and a lot of people want to see that, especially since it got some coverage on news sites. Add to that the big majority of people who do not care (remember that 80% of traffic was still reached) plus some who may have been sympathetic enough to join the two day protest but don't care enough to continue to stay away. It's really not surprising that we're back to normal numbers.

Thankfully this isn't the only impact people currently still make, so this isn't over. The real question now will be how else it might change Reddit.

That though process won't even cross their mind. More like "See? The reopened communities are very active and actually generate MORE clicks now. We were right to force them open!". Only if the new direction would produce less clicks or advertisers are bothered by it ("I wanted to advertise my camera in r/pics but the new direction makes it unprofitable") they might look into where that "sabotage" is coming from and care about it.

Ah, yes, they don't allow it because it muddles their data. Never forget that whatever rewards they give you aren't free, you sell your data to them for that reward. They want to know which age group or gender buys which products how often, so card sharing messes with their data because suddenly all the "young lady" purchases are on the card of an old man or whatever. It's actually not a huge problem if it happens once because they anyways need hundreds if not thousands of data points to learn anything from it (because they look at "average" purchases), but the cleaner the data set the easier it gets.

There were already trials where shops could predict if you are pregnant based on your purchases. How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did This card data is pure gold (if enough people participate), which is why stores love starting their own program to collect or join a big card provider who will share that data with them.

Found the cow

Why would they normally run into 6000+ subs going private? I'm sure they tested that their code can generally handle some (usually smaller) subs going private, but the number and size of the subs going dark isn't a normal scenario and I doubt anyone would have assumed such a successful and coordinated protest involving some of the biggest subs would even be possible a few months ago.

I studied Biology and Computer Science, have a PhD in Neuroscience and now work in an Engineering department for medical devices, where I am still in contact with Academia through students working for us in different capacities. My main occupation is Software Tester, though. :)

I don't disagree. The topics are a bit hit or miss and yes, my newest free ebook from them is from 2020, so all contents should be taken with a grain of salt. I did manage to grab some on C++, Machine Learning and different Pentesting tools, so not everything is completely obscure but as you said, usually they do not choose their most recent books. I see it more as a nice free resource on some topics in the books as of course not everything will be entirely out of date. It's also not necessarily worse than buying their 2023 books today and using them for the next 3 years... That's just a general problem with tech books, at least these outdated books are free.

I just bought Frogsong. Very cute game, I only played for around 2 hours so far but I like it. :)

Fair point, I changed it. :)

There already are patients that have implants for years, such as Nathan Copeland with Blackrock Microsystems implants. Here's a video to explain more about the process.

Progress is in my opinion disappointingly slow, considering development started decades ago. We still need daily calibration for such a task. Current implants already can last years, but it's still not easy to "switch them out". In fact, the current procedure is that you get one set of implants and if they need to be removed (after about 5 years) you can not renew them. Most BCI work is done in monkeys and other mammals for a good reason. It's great that we have some human trials although I personally feel that most of them come too early and are more about the publicity than actually benefitting research at this point in time. The most reassuring thing out of human trials for me was hearing how they perceive having an implant. There's no constant pain or whatever involved, which is reassuring for other mammals.

And without wanting to bring Elon too much into the discussion: Implants without an open wound are definitely the future, although other companies also have their own take on that available for years.

Eh, most people here would probably also laugh at a human pastor spewing such platitudes.

But yes, I'm sure such an event would draw more spectators than faithful people, who knight actually be repulsed by replacing a pastor with a machine. Hell, I left church almost two decades ago and would consider joining in to see an AI holding a service.