> where most things work out of the box

i really doubt this very much. i hope i am wrong.

torrent

It did, just not the usual people. If you go to yandex, you can see that the russian mafia makes good money with trackers.

I love torrent, but it's legal used are cripple by corporate infra, so it's mostly florishing thanks to illegal stuff paid by shady ads.

> If you go to yandex, you can see that the russian mafia makes good money with trackers

What's the business model though? Most Russian torrents are about giving away copyrighted stuff for free.

Have you ever seen what kind of ads they run?

So their business model is good old conextual ads? That's pretty innocuous by modern standards.

UPD: I've checked what ads it shows me on Rutracker - it's VPN services and online gambling. Youtube and Facebook have shown me worse

Online gambling, most of which is about good ol’ money laundering, and thepiratebay seems to not censor their ads at all, so you may get all kinds of scams and malware spread via ads.

I dunno, but torrenting sites gladly use networks that use malicious redirects, especially on mobile. I also saw ads specifically for gambling companies that were known bad actors, at least to me, given what people were behind them. Won't give you examples, it was years ago. It was like that, you go to a site to get your Linux ISOs, and it's plastered in certain company's ads. Wham, in a month you get investigative articles about that very company's owners and who they are tied to.

It's also of note that on Facebook I don't get many online casino ads, I get mostly reMarkable ads, there was one from Roli when they launched their new instrument, and others were mostly advertising stuff to me that I already bought elsewhere. I think it might be because I had banned the first dozen of such ads, and they stopped coming.

Same. Also I probably get more Russia-sponsored content from Meta than I can see on Rutracker. The internet, lead by big tech, has long passed the point where a banner advertising online gambling could be seen as something outrageous

No. Too many ad blockers.

i hope they can put some price pressure on other small form factor gaming pc

the asus rog nuc is extortionate pricing, and beelink are constantly raising their prices too now

> It’s funny how “ownership” in the digital world has become an illusion.

it's like every "innovation" now brings with it convenience at a higher cost and takes away ownership and often features

personally i'm quite sick of digital nothingness. its all transient.

i want to get more into real world things that have texture, weight and permanence.

the irony here is that you are studying AI and looking for work in AI,

presumably to reduce future jobs in the outer edges of the distribution curve

AI was a convenient vessel for shadow QE these last few years

Now, with rates falling, they can pivot the story - call it an AI bubble, let it crash

then use the crash as justification for renewed, open money printing

Thanks for the pointer (and first HN comment!) on shadow QE.

July 2024, https://x.com/stealthqe4/status/1818782094316712148

> We’ve all been wondering where all of this liquidity is coming from in the markets. Stealth QE was being done somehow. Now we have the answer! It’s all in the Treasury increased t-bill issuance. QE has now been replaced by ATI.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22shadow%20qe%22&type=all

there was a clear timeline, each one enabled by the previous

...covid

...remote work

...moving away from HCOL areas

...quiet quitters

...layoffs

...RTO

...no jobs

workers got too much leverage and it had to be taken back.

"Major investor calls on Google owner to ‘aggressively’ cut staff and pay" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/15/major-inv... (2 years old)

why not?

seems like the entire US tech economy is putting their resources into this goal.

i can see it happening soon if it hasn't already

this is like if patrick bateman read the 4 hour work week