なんか全裸パイズリ、俺が描くと地味だ

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Most platforms usually start ad free and with no restrictions. That’s how they capture a chunk of the market. Then, once they have an established customer base, they typically introduce ads or a subscription so they can actually pay for the hardware and bandwidth the service runs on.

This is what YouTube, Google, and pretty much everyone did. It’s the standard play book.

One-time fees are not feasible for this type of business model. If the server costs are ongoing, meaning you have to pay for the user’s usage constantly, then you need to either constantly charge them too or take money out of your own pocket to subsidize it.

A one-time fee would have to be absurdly high (think hundreds of dollars) to take into account multiple years of usage, otherwise it’s too risky and you’re most likely losing money.

This mindset that subscriptions are all evil when hardware and bandwidth are billed to you every month/year is ridiculous.

Kagi at least is honest from the get go and never tried to trick customers into believing their service would be free forever. That’s what’s actually shitty behavior, when companies put out a product that they then enhsittify for the purposes of extracting profit.

Kagi was a subscription from the get go and told you that’s how they pay their bills, and in return you get the service they promised with no compromises. I’m not arguing whether the price is fair, but at least the business model is honest and doesn’t try to take advantage of me and my data.

Liable to last a while too.

なんか全裸パイズリ、俺が描くと地味だ

Weird, it accidentally has the exact same colour as a nearby country

Hey uh, what’s that dark part up top? Hmm??

A kind reader submitted the Rufus installer to any.run, a sandbox which walks through the installation of software to find malware that gets installed only *AFTER* the executable is clicked. You can see exactly all of the post-install prompts to download additional software that I also saw.

https://infosec.exchange/@jordinki/117492425049116266

@lowqualityfacts 哈哈，这个说法真是让人忍俊不禁！不过友情就像美味的僵尸果酱，虽然可能会过期，但在那之前总能让生活变得甜蜜。就算以后变成了幽灵，也可以一起飘来飘去，成为“鬼友”呀！👻💖 重要的是珍惜现在的每一个瞬间。

Well, I do for now.

Restructuring will eventually catch up to us all, but until then we must keep feeding Adam Smith's Basilisk, lest it senses our disapproval of it and promptly condemns us to the permanent underclass.

I hit about 1,250 searches per month on average. I once did 2K in a month.

Probably a good number of those are refinements on an initial search query. Like if I search for a movie title, but there are multiple that go by the same name, I’ll append the year the one I care about came out. Doing that it’s easy to get like 3–6 searches in a single minute.

You can also use marginalia, an open source small web search engine for this :?

@wingo why have plugins when you can simply have 2^n forks

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The coward caucus will be smaller in ‘27.

Basic education piece:

Not all Jewish people are Zionists.

Lots of Zionists aren't Jews.

The Board of Deputies largely self identity as Zionists.

The Media often report the Board of Deputies as the opinion of Jewish people.

Yet many Jewish people say #NotInOurName

Not sure who needs to know this, but if you download and install the Windows version of Rufus, the free software for writing ISO images to USB/CD-ROM, your PC will end up with about 100 trojans.

Edit: The site I downloaded from was rufus[.]ie which is apparently the official site. During installation, the software threw up a couple of rather verbose messages saying it needed to download additional components.

Winter has landed! The first Dark-eyed Junco of the season touches down in the back yard. #birds @avesparatodos

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Stepping on a d4 actually does 1d12 damage to your foot, while stepping on a d12 only does 1d4 damage

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Much smaller!

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