Yeah that’s a fair point. I don’t think Dropbox does ads but the others I mentioned and the ones you mentioned all show/play ads for the free tier.

I guess OpenAI will be pretty keen to get ads into their free tier too, once they run out of investors’ money.

Thanks for the numbers, you were saying the subscriber percentage was embarrassing so I was curious about that rather than their fairly infamous losses.

You’ve said OpenAI have about half the subscriber percentage of Dropbox, but if Dropbox is that profitable then that seems like they are doing particularly well and perhaps that subscriber percent is above average?

What’s a normal amount? What proportion of people with Dropbox or Google Docs or Hotmail are paying customers?

Having a little over 1% doesn’t seem that bad, I am faar more surprised that over 1% of users pay for ChatGPT (if your numbers are accurate).

Is it just me or does this government blame everything on Labour? As we head into another election year, somehow things happening now are still Labour’s fault.

There’s an argument to be made that actions tthe government have taken over the last couple of years may have directly increased the need for people to use this service

Wow, that’s quite some nerve to steal voting papers and vote on behalf of people! Hopefully this is publicised enough that no one votes for those candidates, I’m not sure you could meet the burden of proof required to actually prosecute them.

Interesting that this was picked up by a petition and not from people double-voting. Surely some of these people would want to vote but didn’t get voting papers, and so would ask for new ones, then be identified as having voted twice?

The thing is, it’s not true about any E2E encryption where all parts of the codebase are controlled by the company.

It could be as simple as updating their website to send your password to them in plain text while logging in, now the encryption is useless as they would have your password.

Very cool! Good luck on your trip, don’t forget to let us know how it goes!

As someone with a public facing website, there are significant volumes of scraping still happening. But largely this appears to come out of South East Asia and South America and they take steps to hide who they are so it’s not clear who is doing it or why, but like you say it doesn’t appear to be OpenAI, Google, etc.

It doesn’t appear to be web search indexing, the scraping is aggressive and the volume will bring down a Lemmy server no matter how powerful the hardware.

I have a completely unrelated question but is the US the only developed country where without health insurance you get no medical care at all?

Due to the federated nature of Lemmy, and the need to prevent one account voting multiple times, and the ActivityPub protocol it’s all built on… all votes are effectively public, though Lemmy does try to obscure this a bit. But anyone can set up an instance, link to other instances, and be sent all the votes and who did them.

Lucky for you there is a site https://lemvotes.org/ that saves you this hassle, it’s in the form of looking up votes for a post rather than bulk data.

I don’t know the answer but does tab to autocomplete work in other contexts? E.g. you type ‘cd ca’ and it fills it to ‘cd catpics’?

I’m not at a PC right now but from memory you’d have to be in bash or similar, it won’t work in sh.

What’s your solution to this problem for the rest of your digital life?

or canned produce (for reasons no one understands)

I think the beans speak for themselves, as does the corn. Does it need any more explaining?

So testing on animals?

I didn’t see anywhere in the article where they subtracted this emissions value from the current petrol/diesel dominant fleet’s carbon emissions to work out the huge drop it would bring regardless?

The article seems to assume a much deeper capability that current function, being run over 10 cameras, while assuming that such ability will not become more efficient over time with dedicated hardware.

Does it say Weird Al?

I remember every parody saying Weird Al, and online campaigns to have people label things “Not Weird Al” so it would still come up in searches but people would know it wasn’t actually Weird Al.

Great write up of the potential, thanks! I think the ambiguity is part of my concern. You are right, this has the potential to be a good thing, but most of the detail is yet to come and the devil is in the detail.

I agree that planning for population growth has not been a strong point, and I’m curious to see if something actually comes of this plan.

Wow, that’s amazing! Must be pretty cool and/or scary to be going through the canal alongside giant oil tankers.

Been anywhere good over the last year? Just up and down the east coast or have you been elsewhere?

Yeah that’s a pretty good argument for it.