Dave.

The distinction is “through which users”.

Merely putting something online does not make it social media. The key is the ability for users/passers-by to add their own content and/or comments, which then allows for interaction between users.

They’re not missing funds though, it’s not a discrepancy in accounting. They overpaid , they know where the money is, and it’s simply a business decision whether to recover it or not.

They could have simply filtered on overpayment above some arbitrary value based around recovery vs goodwill.

Or they could have let it slide, but still notify people so that they wouldn’t be wondering if it was an accounting error.

But no, they want to recover 23 cents which is well below the cost of everyone’s time and effort to deal with, on both sides of the transaction.

Well you see, engagement is down, and the whole “sponsored content” thing is in a death spiral due to AI slop. So Meta has decided to cut out the middleman and generate their own AI slop, because surely their version of personalised AI slop will solve the whole engagement problem and keep line always going up, because if it’s one thing users love, it’s an endless torrent of AI slop.

Try “lspci -vv” first to see the devices on the bus and to figure out which device is causing this.

Secondly, check all your BIOS’ “performance” settings, such as memory timings, bus speeds, and etc, and set them to default.

See how things go after that.

Not carrying the flag I think is a big crime basically everywhere

Hence why flying the pirate flag is a big deal. You’re indicating “no laws here”.

And holy shit does their algorithm latch onto any minor interest in their content.

Accidentally tapped on a floor tiling video the other day, three days of tiling and handyman videos jammed into my feed and me pressing the “not interested” button on every single one.

Facebook, I am there for the rare post from my 150 or so friends and family. That’s it. Nothing else.

The reason we don’t use it anymore is because actual posts from real humans we know are buried under a torrent of shit. Sometimes their posts take days to surface leading to all sorts of chain-mail posts on how to “get your feed back”. None of which work because the whole business model is about jamming sponsored shit down your throat.

Trying to, because there is no more money to continue development.

Hopefully they can pull it off and do the same as Pebble did when they released a last firmware update for their watches that allowed third party servers to be used.

Starlink sats have enough transmit power and receive gain to use normal cellular frequencies with a normal antenna on the phone side.

You might think it’s a long way to space, but a few hundred kilometres of direct line of sight to your cellphone antenna isn’t that much more to overcome compared to say, 25 km to a cell tower on the ground.

The biggest hurdle was getting a few thousand satellites into orbit so that coverage and availability is there.

Mainly when you are building a single-purpose , “appliance” device and you have the bare minimum of RAM/storage available. You just want to get the board powered up and initialised and then jump to your application.

So you build a kernel with only the correct drivers you need, you skip initrd, you skip initscripts and (lord forbid) systemd, you just jump straight to your program, with possibly busybox available if you need debugging.

Edit: I’m talking more about building it from scratch here, not LFS. Regarding security issues, you then “only” have to deal with kernel exploits, with a limited surface as you have limited modules linked, and exploits in your application.

It’s designed and implemented for copy protection. Otherwise you can design a esp32 device that includes software you’ve written and 15 minutes later a clone device with exactly the same software will appear on <insert Chinese electronics website here>

The doors aren’t violent, they’re resolute

New sign on doors:

"The door WILL close.

Puny human flesh is not an obstacle worthy of stopping the inevitable closure of the door."

In certain countries they fall under quasi-bank regulations eg. “PayPal Australia Pty Ltd (PayPal) is a limited Authorised Deposit-Taking Institution (ADI) with authority to provide purchased payment facilities (PPFs).”

That gives some measure of protection on how they handle your funds, but holy shit I would not keep any money in a PayPal account for any longer than absolutely necessary. I use it as a convenient intermediary between my actual card and sellers, no more than that.

You can just use a soulseek client.

However I have a build of this daemon running on a Qnap storage device, which is super handy just for ad-hoc music searches, and people can also peruse my music library 24/7.

They want to see it disabled/destroyed, not just that you bought it. Otherwise a lot of people would simply provide the receipt and get a free-but-dangerous power bank which they would totally stop using, wink, wink.

There are phases of sleep that you pass through. Seems like you pass through the lighter ones relatively quickly and you’re getting dragged awake out of a deep sleep phase.

Either give it a little bit longer (like 35-45 minutes) or try 10 minute catnaps.

In my opinion, software engineering has about another 50 years before it matures to the point where it is a “proper” engineering profession.

I search for complicated things on google, because that’s when I need to search for stuff.

I take about three seconds to look at the LLM-generated summaries/answers, disregard them as tedious monotonic bullshit, and then scroll down to links where real people are discussing the real problems and the real solutions they have.

…use Windows on an air-gapped PC to do all your software development? At least then hackers won’t steal your source and post your shameful code on the internet.

“Just got to spin through a few trillion instructions to get things sorted before we go to standby! Won’t be a minute!”