Google is perversely incentivized to send traffic to sites using their ad placement services creating demand for what they are supplying.
Sending someone searching for information to sites without ads enshitifying the experience breaks the business model Google depands on.
Now scraping the content to use in “AI summaries” without attribution? That seems likely.
@zachimusprime44@lemmy.world invisible bird people can intervene in your life if you ask to speak to their supervisor
Also, how many of these sales are actually leases?
This is just my personal experience, but thenumber of people I know who had always paid cash for a late model used car in the past who leased for the first time because of their income excluded them from taking advantage of the tax credits is shocking. I think many of these people will likely go back to an ICE option if the cost hasn’t come down or they aren’t offered a deal on the buy out option.
It’s going to be a VERY interesting market in 2-3 years.
@OrganicMeatbag@sh.itjust.works Zoom Meeting Barbie - dressed for work waist up. Still in stained PJs and slippers waist down. Hair looks good from the front, but back of her head is a rats nest.
@Abraxas@feddit.uk Never banned. Started exploring alternatives during API changes. Staying on federated because it makes more sense.
Everyone understand how ridiculous it would if you could only email people on same email service, but for some reason we accepted that limitation as normal for social posts for many years.
@return2ozma@lemmy.world That’s a pretty short sighted view considering just ~150 years ago the Democrats were the party against abolishing slavery. Times change, but American politics really don’t.
Limiting the choice to the lesser of two evils only benefits one of the classes in the real fight. As Alaska (since 2022) and NYC (this week) have shown, RCV allows voters to select who they really want to lead regardless of whether polls say they are “wasting” their vote.
@RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world you are correct. After researching this for just 5 minutes, I was definitely mis-informed. It’s shocking that so many brands sell very expensive versions of this like https://www.kohler.com/en/products/bathroom-accessories/shop-bathroom-accessories/bottle-trap-1-1-4-x-1-1-4-9033.
@RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world based on the image, I think a bottle trap would work and be to code most places.
https://tapron.co.uk/blogs/news/bottle-trap-vs-p-trap-choosing-right-plumbing-component
@pirat@lemmy.ml @stopforgettingit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I think the new Drupal CMS install profile + Recipes via the Project Browser makes Drupal MUCH easier to maintain than WP for anyone already familar with Composer or other package managers like npm, gem, homebrew, etc
The idea that most WP sites (that aren’t hosted by WP.com) are still maintained by downloading the plugin files from WP.org and then uploading the files to the site blows my mind.
@danishdude1944@feddit.dk my parents bought my brothers and I an Apple IIc a year before the first Mac made it obsolete. We had a Commodore 64 with a cassette tape drive for games.
The first computer I bought with my own (borrow student loan) money was a 120MHz Mac 8500. I bought it before I graduated, took it to the graphic design lab and cloned one of the lab 8500 drives with all the software onto it. A few years later I ended up working at that same university and disposing of hundreds of worthless 8500s.
I was still paying mine off :(
@Sunshine@lemmy.ca you are talking about a traditional human pedals, bike goes bike right? Because most ebikes batteries won’t last more than 10 years.
@Deceptichum@quokk.au we’ve moved/added to TinkerCAD and 3D printing.
I’m a big fan of SSG for smaller project and don’t think you should pick a stack based the social media preferences of developers… but if that’s what you are doing, I’ll see your single developer on the Fediverse and raise you an entire developer community. https://drupal.community/ ~600 accounts and ~150 MAU.
If you are going to evaluate Drupal in 2025, I STRONGLY encourage you to start with the Drupal CMS install. There are so many optional modules with Drupal, it can be overwhelming.
If you are already familiar with Docker, you can spin up a Drupal CMS instance using DDEV. You’ll have no problem Googling that.
If you aren’t familiar with Docker and want to try it, https://new.drupal.org/drupal-cms/launcher is a ridiculously easy way to start on most operating systems. That approach gets a little trickier when you want to move the site/cms application instance to a host. There is documentation, but I would look it over before getting too far into this approach.
My recommendation for spinning up a Drupal CMS instance is on a free sandbox on https://docs.pantheon.io/drupal-cms. Acquia offers a free trial in exchange for the information they need to target you with marketing, but it is only a 4 hour trial. Pantheon lets you keep your sandbox as long as you account remains active.
Unfortunately ActivityPub isn’t included in any of the Drupal CMS Recipes (yet), so you have to add it with composer require 'drupal/activitypub:^1.0@alpha'.
Composer is npm for PHP. If you are familiar npm, apt-get, homebrrw, pip, gem, etc, you’ll have no problem understanding Composer.
@ramble81@lemm.ee I don’t understand how this is profitable. We were shopping for a kitchen light fixture. Found the same light at several stores. Ordered it from one that claimed to be in Italy. Item shipped from China. I understand A/B testing and having multiple storefront you treat live burner phones when you get a reputation/review issue, but these sites were all using the same retargetting to place ads in my socials for weeks after the light was installed. Normally I add users to a list NOT to retarget after conversion. The other stores carrying the same product kept advertising something I had already purchased.
@Thomas2024@feddit.org how do you do, fellow humans?
@abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es @pastermil@sh.itjust.works
Many years ago I worked on a project with some FSF staff who refused to use non-FOSS solutions to coordinate or conduct meetings. While the developers involved where all prolific contributors to open source projects used by millions of people, they were all willing to compromise on some of the tools we use to develop and communicate for “the greater good”. The FSF staff weren’t willing to make those compromises. At the time I was frustrated by this. As Slack ownership changed, costs increased and policies around what they could do with “our” data evolved, I now have a lot more respect for the FSF staff who are “holding the line”.
We are taught as Muslims, that we must do whatever we can when we see an evil.
It is funny (sad, not haha) that christians and jews claim to be taught the same thing.
@IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I had the same issue with my 3. Took advantage of one of the offers Samsung had to trade in even with a cracked screen. They gave me $600 towards a Fold 5. I bought my 3 used for $800, so I was only out ~$400 to go from a 3 with a broken internal screen to a new 5. Still very happy with the 5, but I get why you wouldn’t trust Samsung again.
@58008@lemmy.world I recently read a developer compare AI to lead pipes or asbestos… something that seemed cost effective at the time, but ended up being a REALLY bad idea. Communities are already realizing that the power and water required for this are not compatible with human life in the same place and the market reflecting the cost of increasing electric production.
Being “off grid” was something only peppers did, but as connection fees increase and battery technology improves, it makes less financial sense to keep residential homes connected to subsidize data center consumption.
Elon’s work around for the lack of cheap electricity for his data centers has.been methane. While the US is a top methane producer, the next 3 countries are Russia, Iran and China. The cost of methane is impacted by global conflict the same way gasoline prices are.
While the efficiency of data centers will increase, so will awareness of the impact these facilities have on the places they are built and the toxic ewaste they generate driving up their costs.