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forgot how incredible 2003 was & shaking atm  
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Apr 3, 2023 21:42
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Mr. Sharps posted:the internet has become so intolerable to use that I spend my time on it on maybe a half dozen (non-work related) websites at most. and every time I get directed away and into a cookies thing or a wall of mobile ads or an interesting looking article that gets chopped off by some request to subscribe I just close the window and forget about it i use SA, twitch, and an RSS feed of blogs i like because you can in fact live like its 2005 through sheer force of will
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Apr 3, 2023 21:54
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mawarannahr posted:forgot how incredible 2003 was & shaking atm From "shock and awe" to mock-and-guffaw
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Apr 3, 2023 22:12
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Tulip posted:i use SA, twitch, and an RSS feed of blogs i like because you can in fact live like its 2005 through sheer force of will 
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Apr 3, 2023 22:55
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https://lite.cnn.com the last static page. always good as a reminder that consumer internet really has been getting better. still blows my mind to click a link and get the full article in milliseconds
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Apr 3, 2023 23:16
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Ruffian Price posted:https://lite.cnn.com Yeah it's amazing it's still up. I assume it might be so their reporters in the middle of nowhere or in natural disasters can access things. Riding a bus in rural Turkey it was one of a handful of sites that would load on 2G.
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Apr 3, 2023 23:20
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RSS feed reader, SA, and Tumblr are the primary ways I interact with the internet.
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Apr 3, 2023 23:20
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Cup Runneth Over posted:*runs into thread out of breath* Okay, how does the scam work? Are there people out there renting sight unseen?
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Apr 3, 2023 23:58
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ikanreed posted:Okay, how does the scam work? Are there people out there renting sight unseen? You list an apartment in a hot market with limited availability and people send you an application or hold fee without looking at the place first, bingo bongo
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Apr 3, 2023 23:59
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ikanreed posted:Okay, how does the scam work? Are there people out there renting sight unseen? the way the scam works is that they take advantsge of desparate people, usually ESL speakers, and have them put down a deposit to "reserve" the listing then disappear
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Apr 4, 2023 00:01
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why even use AI to create the pictures at that point? why not just steal some from another listing?
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Apr 4, 2023 00:03
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It just occurred to me that if you consider what type of work is most amenable to having lots of outputs with absolutely zero quality control, fire-and-forget scam artistry is right at the top of that list. The poo poo I get saying my Netflix account is frozen and I need to put my ssn, mother's maiden name, and blood type into a shady form to unlock it is already less believable than an AI.
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Apr 4, 2023 00:03
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ekuNNN posted:why even use AI to create the pictures at that point? why not just steal some from another listing? The listing sites would stop you if you just copied an existing listing 
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Apr 4, 2023 00:04
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The Oldest Man posted:The listing sites would stop you if you just copied an existing listing No they don't, or they'd stop the corporate shops putting out a billion identical listings
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Apr 4, 2023 00:06
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The Oldest Man posted:It just occurred to me that if you consider what type of work is most amenable to having lots of outputs with absolutely zero quality control, fire-and-forget scam artistry is right at the top of that list. The poo poo I get saying my Netflix account is frozen and I need to put my ssn, mother's maiden name, and blood type into a shady form to unlock it is already less believable than an AI. this is actually part of the scam, they want to hook the kind of person who wont stop and think "hey this all looks pretty unofficial, somethings fishy"
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Apr 4, 2023 00:06
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Ruffian Price posted:https://lite.cnn.com "Go to the full CNN experience" No
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Apr 4, 2023 00:07
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ikanreed posted:No they don't, or they'd stop the corporate shops putting out a billion identical listings You can put up as much garbage as you want as long as your images aren't copied from a different landlord's account.
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Apr 4, 2023 00:08
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HootTheOwl posted:"Go to the full CNN experience" Without all the padding it's so much more evident just how little information there actually is in a modern day article lol
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Apr 4, 2023 00:37
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tokin opposition posted:Without all the padding it's so much more evident just how little information there actually is in a modern day article lol many disinformation ascktually
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Apr 4, 2023 00:39
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Ruffian Price posted:https://lite.cnn.com thanks for this, i may actually start reading news from somewhere other than cspam/gbs. all i want is a text-only internet. SA works somewhat, but sometimes people post images, or even the cursed Twitter links
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Apr 4, 2023 01:15
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HootTheOwl posted:"Go to the full CNN experience"  vs  
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Apr 4, 2023 01:16
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What in tarnation
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Apr 4, 2023 01:21
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mycomancy posted:What in tarnation This is a picture from something called a "computer". Now go back to bed Grandpa
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Apr 4, 2023 01:31
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mycomancy posted:What in tarnation i've automated screaming at clouds, op
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Apr 4, 2023 01:40
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Old api calls at cloud
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Apr 4, 2023 01:55
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ikanreed posted:No they don't, or they'd stop the corporate shops putting out a billion identical listings after someone reports a bogus listing, it's a lot faster to prove a duplicate is a duplicate (of someone else's posting) than it is to prove a fake is a fake
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Apr 4, 2023 01:57
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Early-mid 2000s internet really was a golden age and we didn't even realize it at the time. Remember when you could go on del.icio.us or stumbleupon or before-it-got-lovely digg or even (god forbid) fark.com and find links to genuinely interesting websites that people made just because they wanted to share something cool with the world, and you weren't blasted in the face with a million ads and trackers and scams and email newsletter signup requests? Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man, idk.
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Apr 4, 2023 02:06
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no, poo poo sucks now man
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Apr 4, 2023 02:09
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ekuNNN posted:why even use AI to create the pictures at that point? why not just steal some from another listing? thats whats weird this is what the building looks like on street view  the listing looks like this  its like they ran it thru a filter to make it look like a lovely ai generated image to get past the dupe detection
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Apr 4, 2023 02:22
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duz posted:thats whats weird
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Apr 4, 2023 02:29
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AdBlock, y'all heard of it
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Apr 4, 2023 02:45
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the internet of 2023 is reminiscent of 90s warez sites, except it's every single corner of the internet (except for the dead gay corner)
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Apr 4, 2023 03:19
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Early-mid 2000s internet really was a golden age and we didn't even realize it at the time. Remember when you could go on del.icio.us or stumbleupon or before-it-got-lovely digg or even (god forbid) fark.com and find links to genuinely interesting websites that people made just because they wanted to share something cool with the world, and you weren't blasted in the face with a million ads and trackers and scams and email newsletter signup requests? Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man, idk. yeah even late 90s internet that was all webrings, blogs, vb forums, and whatever fark was was better
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Apr 4, 2023 03:21
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nobody would bother making a website for fun anymore, because really who's going to ever see it
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Apr 4, 2023 03:22
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dont forget to sign my guest book if you liked my final fantasy rumors
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Apr 4, 2023 03:23
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webrings were a cute idea
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Apr 4, 2023 03:23
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tokin opposition posted:AdBlock, y'all heard of it won't stop delaying content to do ad negotiation in the background, even if ads themselves don't load on your machine
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Apr 4, 2023 03:35
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Romochop
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Apr 4, 2023 03:47
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Early-mid 2000s internet really was a golden age and we didn't even realize it at the time. Remember when you could go on del.icio.us or stumbleupon or before-it-got-lovely digg or even (god forbid) fark.com and find links to genuinely interesting websites that people made just because they wanted to share something cool with the world, and you weren't blasted in the face with a million ads and trackers and scams and email newsletter signup requests? Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man, idk. There's definitely been a greater "centralization" of places people interact with though. For example, when Perfect Dark was coming out there were multiple fan sites created for it (the founder of one wrote about what it was like.) Nowadays there would be a single subreddit, one Discord, and/or a handful of individuals on Twitter and Twitch/YouTube dispensing the latest info. Centralization doesn't have to be bad, but obviously when it takes the form of Twitter or Facebook or whatever it has obvious downsides.
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Apr 4, 2023 06:48
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A Bakers Cousin posted:webrings were a cute idea they should come back because search engines loving suck
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