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  • Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera

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  • Tesla engineers managers treating it like software. "Ship it and we can patch it in production."

  • Machine learning

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  • Okay, this actually make me cackle like a buffoon.

  • Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2

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  • I remember a while back Microsoft did an market research thing and found that of their brands, "Xbox" had positive consumer feedback while many of their other product names weren't nearly as favorable.

    So what did they do? Did they try to understand what Xbox did differently to leverage that strategy elsewhere? Did they promote the Xbox marketing team to give them a wider purview?

    No. They just renamed Zune Music to Xbox Music and Games for Windows to Xbox for Windows. THAT'LL FIX IT!

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  • Omg I was thinking of that goat too.

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    Ads

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  • I remember when ABP started whitelisting ads as part of some twisted business model. I switched to uBlock so fast and haven't looked back.

  • I always looked forward to such mornings when I was a schoolkid...

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  • The way they presented this concept in the anime was amazing. Just so much color!

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  • Yeah, you make some good points. But I'm also wondering if it isn't the advertising companies themselves who are perpetuating the idea that all this super aggressive advertising works to sell more advertising. After all, they tout targeted ads as some new must-have evolution but as far as I am aware targeted ads haven't been shown to be any more effective than contextual ads. And maybe not everyone has the luxury to actively avoid purchasing products that annoy them with ads. But I definitely agree that it's never worth the sacrifice.

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  • I can see it working when you otherwise have NO brand recognition whatsoever, but seeing ads for, say, TikTok on YouTube every 30 seconds isn't going to convince me to get a TikTok. I'm never going to be "gee I wonder what short form video content provider I should subscribe to" and even if that somehow miraculously DID happen, I'm going to research my decision and not just arbitrarily make a decision based on a notion I might have heard about a product one time months/years ago. Maybe if I didn't have a computer in my pocket at all times where I could get unbiased reviews on demand that would work but definitely not in modern times. But apparently I'm in the minority.

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  • Okay, I have to wonder... what is the point of shoving ads down user's throats all the time? Ads make me NOT want to purchase something. If I see ads for a product it just makes me hate that product. If a product pushes ads I hate that too.

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