Anecdotally, I only keep services that require an account to get past the landing page on my VPS. (I’m very new to self hosting and haven’t figured out ways to stop bots/scrapers yet.) So I think if nothing else, that’s a pretty easy starting point.

Didn’t IHOP do something similar by claiming that they were going to change their name to IHOB?

“IHOb also issued a press release about the change and still used the original “IHOP” in its footer, suggesting the switch was a temporary promotion.”

Seems so. Source.

Well, this abstract says it’s about 20% effective over not advertising but this is a meta analysis and isn’t focused exclusively on internet ads.

The baked in biases being that the authors are “a German chaired professor of marketing at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany” and his research assistant.

Ahh, Manna.

Thanks for posting that. I was looking for confirmation or debunk and this adds some clarity.

My favorite personal fuck up was when I accidentally locked myself (and literally everyone else in the company) out of the CRM I was working on by disabling the login pages and enabling SSO before I had finished setting up the SSO inside the CRM’s config, and it logged me out as part of the procedure. Whoops.

My biggest use case has been in data formatting. “Here’s a big list of numbers, output it back to me as (String) (Number) (String) (break) (Number)” stuff like that. Before AI I made a little python program to do stuff like that for me but I lost it on my old work computer pre-COVID and never whipped one up again. Writing it out now, I should do that again lol.

Oh, I know. No preaching required. I’m from pre-internet days. That’s why I agree with you. Being this dependent on the internet is not good for me or anyone else.

It would be a big struggle for me but I still agree with you.

Wow, that’s a way better reception than I would have expected!

Some solution is better than no solution. I don’t mind having a ‘fossil’ version for a pinch. We got along okay with hardcovered encyclopedias pre-internet and this is not that different except it still being reliant on electricity. (I have different, more valuable books on hand if we ever wind up THAT fucked.)

I’d like to know more about the interesting results you’ve gotten if you don’t mind sharing.

Second everything you said, good god. If I ask HR a question I’m lucky to hear back in a week if at all. They ask us to sign shit, I sign it, they ask me to sign the same shit I signed because nobody checked their inbox for my reply.

Me either, so I’m searching up what I can and bookmarking it to read later. There’s always more to learn!

Tough times for that. Every interview or recruiter I’ve spoken with lately, I say the words “PTO” and/or “work life balance” and they act like I said a dirty word.

I’ve got my copy of wikipedia saved away and have been downloading/archiving stuff steadily this year. Even tampering aside, I fully expect things to start to get pulled down and go missing.

Pretty sure there’s been more than one sci-fi novel explaining why this isn’t a great idea.

Everything is moving very, very fast too.

You mean “Warner Bros. Games is working on another tax write off.”

I wanna believe that’s a normal cat looking out through a hole or something with a doll positioned under it cause look at those legs.