Why develop and create something in a vacuum when you can beta test it on everyone.

I started with the desert, reached the cliff only to turn back to the desert, through a community school parking lot, and now I am just hiding under a rock in a hole for now.

Yes, yes it is. The only deterrent really is the will of the employee to commit fraud and/or a customer noticing. I’ve had to handle coworkers in the past writing in tips on blank tip lines on the reciepts that the customer signed.

I use KeePassXC its free works on what I use. The encrypted list of passwords is synced with my phone twice a day with Syncthing. Chrome had a fit with the android app to I switched to Firefox after. I selfhost it because it’s free and I know enough to troubleshoot any problems.

If you disconnect them you can charge them fees

We’re seeing a bunch of promises made when LLM were the novel hot shit. Now that we’ve plateaued on how useful they are to the average consumer every AI product is just a beta test that will drop support as soon as something newer and shinier comes along.

Oh boy, is that a new distro??

Who is ‘they’?

Which side has the better tax benefits?

An idea.

I have thought about this but haven’t seen anything about whether or not they will regulate the ads better. I enjoy not having obnoxious, repetitive ads. I also enjoy having no ads and directly supporting the creator of the media I like.

You should see his most recent video about a video aggregator app.

That will make most points moot, I just want a less shit internet while we still have it.

It will only pass if there is a competitor that can eat their lunch. Right now, for some people, it’s hard to leave YouTube because of the lack of equivalents. Hopefully this will either cause another platform to come to challenge them or they lose enough users to cause them to adjust how heavy handed they are against ad blockers. imo, both seem unlikely.

It does feel like astroturf.

They guess.

We leverage our own proprietary data model and will provide estimates of the number of times the runtime is distributed for a given project – this estimate will cover an invoice for all platforms.

From their FAQ.