Notices by Rupert (rupert@mastodon.nz)

You may indeed have discovered a legitimate use for snake oil, but the people you have to buy it from are still snake oil salesmen.
#AI

@cstross So the pigs have learned to follow the Ukrainian drones because there will be Russian bodies later faster than the Russians have learned to avoid the pigs because there may be Ukrainian drones nearby.

@dma @raphael @esk @thisismissem @mekkaokereke If as a society we better understood the cost of "free" we wouldn't be in this exact mess.

@kitten_tech @mekkaokereke In the marketplace of ideas, a whole system of right wing think tanks exists to dump poisonous ideas at below cost.

@cstross @grease You're not *wrong* to suggest that a lot of the world's problems could be solved by the demise of some old (mostly) white guys, but as an older white guy I mislike the precedent.

It's not a #WealthTax. It's a Guillotine Avoidance Convenience Fee.

@torparskytt @benroyce If a business whose only product is selling the users of it's platform to advertisers breaks the law and refuses to show up in court, what sanction would you impose?

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#BirdBrands
#HashTagGames

@xgebi @joeycastillo @GreenSkyOverMe Reminds me of the dotcom that raised a similar amount and spent most of it on a party.
Only at least they got a party.

@_thegeoff @rlmcneary2 @pluralistic I recall an ISP in the US that did this, but they explicitly got the end user's permission to do so, in return for free (or cheap) dial-up.

@_thegeoff @rlmcneary2 @pluralistic IIRC, it was banner ads in a frame around the web page, so not changing the html as such.
But still, if I as a user want to consume your html that way, how is that different than using an ad blocker?

@LinuxAndYarn @noondlyt The Dwight D. Opperman Foundation

@housepanther @catsalad Yes, I was on the losing side of that war. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

@housepanther @catsalad The whole point is that the reader gets to choose.
Using spaces tells the reader that you hate them and hope they get leprosy.