"I give you $50 if you vote for me, you'll get it when I win the ballot"
If someone is willing to sell their vote in the first place, they have zero incentive to vote for another candidate. They only have to trust the buyer to follow up on his promise (which is required in any other scenario also).
> Consuming and training on the whole internet doesn't make you smarter than the average intelligence of the internet.
This is only true as long as you are not able to weigh the quality of a source. Just like getting spam in your inbox may waste your time, but it doesn't make you dumber.
This is pretty interesting, I think you should do two things right now:
1. add a message box stating that it is experimental and has only a very small set of companies right now
2. add an option to get notified when you have a more complete dataset (just use a Google form to collect email addresses)
Reason: Searched for my company, no result, ok, we're too small. Searched for some DAX companies, no results either => site looks broken.
Additional ideas:
* Add information from insolvenzbekanntmachungen.de, it's a major PITA to find someone there
* Provide a (paid) API so it can be integrated into shop systems etc.
A Creditreform membership is quite expensive, probably worth it for larger shops, but for small enterprise your solution might come in handy.
If npm or Ubuntu would deliberately replace a package with their own implementation, without giving you notice or making this opt-in, would you call that a supply-chain attack? I would, unless the original package contained malicious code (which is not the case with WPE's custom fields plugin)
One could argue that at least this specific tactic would not be possible without the state granting a monopoly on "intellectual property". Without that, nothing would hinder AMD from just shipping their already existing implementation.
I do run a pretty similar setup for some projects, and in general I tend to agree with the author, especially when bootstrapping cloud services can cost quite some bucks for mediocre performance.
There is, however, one big disadvantage one should be aware of, and that is downtime. There will be downtime when you
* push a new version of your project
* install package updates for docker, postgres, ...
* install a new kernel and need to reboot
* need to upgrade the base OS because you can't stay on Ubuntu 16.04 for the next 10 years (this one can take hours)
Of course there are projects which can live with that. If your target audience is 9-5 office workers, some downtime at night might be acceptable. At least if you don't have customers in other timezones.
IMHO, the sweet spot would be to have two identical servers with automatic failover, but I did not find a good solution for that yet. Would be very interested if someone here has a solution for that and is willing to share.
Technically true, but still misleading, as the total production has gone down significantly:
2022: 491,8 TWh
2023: 436,8 TWh
So Germany is not replacing fossil fuels with renewables, it just produces less electricity overall. Which might be caused by the fact that electricity is so expensive nowadays, that especially energy-intensive industries are getting less and less economical, so they lower their production or even shut down completely and move elsewhere.
It's absolutely possible to automate an "attested" phone with a physical robot finger, which is neither extremely complicated or expensive tech. It might be too expensive for mass-scale DDOS, but it would still be cost-effective for more interesting things like click fraud.
AI companies can just scrape the content, and since the sites don't have an exclusive license to it (it's user-generated, after all) there is little they can do against that.
Actually, I'm not even sure the AI companies don't do this already. If I'd start such a company, I'd invest in a generic crawler once, instead of building countless integrations for all the different, proprietary APIs or dump formats.
There are quite a few potential replacements for Reddit, but of all the projects I've seen so far, nostr checks the most boxes:
1.) They got identity right. In nostr, your identity is a key pair, which is not bound to a server like in the fediverse (e.g. Mastodon, Lemmy).
2.) They got decentralization right. Everything in nostr is a signed message, published to one or more relays. Since relays don't do anything more but store and forward signed messages, they can easily be replaced without losing your identity or data. Also, no blocking drama ("fediblock").
3.) They got extensibility right. Since signed messages are the only building block, and clients are only views over messages, new functionality can be added unilaterally. Just write a new client, and everyone can use it instantly with the existing identity and data - zapddit is a good example.
What's missing yet are moderated groups and an algorithm to sort your feed. But this can (and probably will) be implemented at any time by anyone, and there can (and probably will) be competing implementations, which is a big plus IMHO.
In the medium/long term, this would just train people to ignore those popups. Or to use a patched browser.
There is simply no way to suppress content as long as there's enough demand. Somebody's always going to find a way to deliver. That's even true for really illegal stuff like drugs, copyright infringement or child abuse material, but so much more for content which is legal.
> "How do you stop people obtaining it and using it through their buddies on the internet" - quite simply, by telling them they'd go to jail, or get a hefty fine, for doing that.
That method does not work very well for e.g. weed.
If someone is willing to sell their vote in the first place, they have zero incentive to vote for another candidate. They only have to trust the buyer to follow up on his promise (which is required in any other scenario also).