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Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)

Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....

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What’s the difference? Most of what’s on there is an ad for something. A lifestyle, a look, a road trip destination, a festival, a food.

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I mean, yeah. It would be harder to track, but desperate people do desperate things when the law makes it hard to leave.

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I was hoping they’d start adding a sort of rounded plastic shell to make it more aerodynamic and cover over the sharp edges, but if customers still like them after an injury there’s no incentive to dull the edges.

If enough non-customers are killed, they may have to do something, but idk what.

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Yep, they suddenly started doing that early this morning after several hours of playing videos just fine.

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Prepaid flip phones still exist.

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Absolutely. Sometimes I consider getting a separate Bluetooth keyboard, but I seriously doubt it would be similar enough to scratch the itch. I really miss knowing exactly where all the keys are by feel and typing without looking.

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I want to be able to pull up an 80% version of a website on my phone, and have a button to open the full website on my computer for when I get home.

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Now that I’ve seen this… Most of the things people want out of a dumb phone can be accomplished by putting an android on ultra power saving mode. Except physical keyboards.

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Good. Set a precedent that you have to be careful of making wildly unrealistic claims.

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I thought I was seeing the same jeep over and over, but no… Most of them have a whole row of ducks all of a sudden

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Kind of like modern pickup trucks? Some get actual use, many more are just pretty and for the illusion of usefulness.

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I also don’t find them particularly good looking, but their owners sure do!

I like identity token for trucks that never see truck use.

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One more thing that makes Tesla hacking a profitable skill.

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If that’s all it is, then simply charge less without making any changes.

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It helped me to know that checking out items helps the library.

I always thought of it as being a consumer of library resources, but the fact that the books/movies/library of things items are being checked out helps them prove that their services are useful to the community.

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Ultra specific storage cubbies for your favorite 5 tools. Label tags. Cabinet door knobs. Print in place toy cars with rolling wheels and doors that open. Compliant mechanisms. A coin sorting device. If they can print flexible things, phone cases.

Do not expect anything 3d printed to be food safe.

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They influence the buying decisions of their audience.

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Getting out of hand? They’ve been out of hand for a while.

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Lower power density, higher cycle life, safer. Sounds good for stationary power storage.

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Yes, absolutely. For a regular daily commute to a job that allows you to afford 2 vehicles, having one of the two with a shorter range with more charge cycles makes a lot of sense.

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Yeah, a car that started out with 150 miles of range, has degraded to about 80 miles of range, and is known to be safe would be ideal.

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On Facebook… So there’s a clear trail of who is planning what and who is agreeing to go along. People with long histories of posting far right content, so when they inevitably cry “but a leftist plant orchestrated all this” there is evidence to the contrary.

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It’s not even “tracking down”. It’s public information that is easily searchable. It should be easy to stay 2 steps ahead of these groups planning things out in the open.

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Yeah, do it. Quit being a consumer of mixed source power, start being a producer of steady, good energy.

(Dirty enough that calling it clean green energy gets pushback, but far better than non-green normal sources like coal or natural gas.)

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I’m guessing that it can run multiplayer Doom with ray tracing turned on.

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It seems to be a soul-crushing job. Better to give it to the bots who have no soul.

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Can’t show ads in my feed if I don’t have a feed!

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Even if they don’t fail, knowing how to hack them, how to replace the Tesla computer with your own that functions without Tesla approval, how to make the car function without self driving that might lock up the tires at highway speeds… These are valuable skills to have.

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Yeah, but I can leave the site alone and go on with my life. Sorry to anyone who is required to use either or both for work or whatever

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Seems like ai companies should take some of that investor cash and build up their own power supply. Maybe they can be the ones to use the small, modular nuclear power stations I’ve heard a little about. Or go bananas on solar and various energy storage solutions.

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European descendants living in a very sunny place. Yep, checks out

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I try to use “because I said so” as little as possible. It’s a lot more work, but they know why they’re doing most of what they need to do, and they know why they’re avoiding what they should not do.

Edit: I’ve noticed that making an effort to avoid “because I said so” has built up a habit of thinking about why I’m telling them to do something before I say it out loud. Often times, this changes what I’m about to tell them to do.

What's your take on Bluesky?

I recently finished the episode of The Verge’s podcast #Decoder with the interview to Bluesky’s CEO and it seems a quite interesting project. At the beginning I wasn’t looking really into it because of their choice of using a new protocol instead of the existing ActivityPub, but after listening to her and the reasons...

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Ah, this is why I don’t know what Bluesky is. I had no interest in Twitter, so shrugs whatever

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If there is any way to match up new blades coming in with shipments of old blades or worn out components going back, that would be ideal.

But also large bags of sea water would do the trick.

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Bold of you to assume that everyone knows movies and shows aren’t real.

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I’m sure these sites can’t do anything at all ever to make any impact at all on this issue.

unless they’re okay with nudging their profit margins downward to get it done

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Yes, if the cost is low enough that the price per Kw is less, I think we would find more places to put it. On fences, on balconies, on rooftops of course, on awnings for parking spaces, on gazebos as a shade curtain, on pavilion rooftops… Yeah

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Also, as we realize that we don’t need 400+ miles of range in a commuter car, cheaper battery chemistries make a lot of sense, despite their shorter range per kg or lb

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I think trim packages or settings in the car that trade acceleration for range make a lot of sense.

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Yes, and varying the amount of power put into the system would increase or decrease the total range. A full power launch depletes the battery more quickly than a gentle, controlled acceleration to road speed.

I’m talking about limiting the amount of power that can be dumped into the motor at any given time, or limiting the power of the motor itself in order to get a more efficient experience.

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Yeah, it’s about the price of a full engine and transmission replacement for an internal combustion car.

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It accounts for speeding… How? Cross reference location with local speed limits? Record times above an internally set speed?

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The posted speed limit plus 5mph is considered normal where I’m from in America. 10 over is asking for a ticket.

I visited Texas once, and was amazed to see most everyone driving 20-30mph over the posted limit, even past the speed traps with no consequences.

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Huh. Seems like ai startups and clean manufacturing should invest in building their own solar and wind farms, mini nuclear power plants, and geothermal generation plants. If the AI or whatever doesn’t work out, they can fall back on selling the power they generate. if it does work out, they don’t have to pay grid prices for their power needs.

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*Shrugs

Okay.

None of my work, very little communication, and none of my entertainment come from Facebook or Instagram.

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I meant referring them to human specialists.

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Because what’s going on in your own head a would taint your treatment plan and cause it the be a self-defeating plan.

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