They are 100% ai. They run on neural networks which were some of the first AIs.

People need money mate. Not everyone can afford to run a website.

It's a problem for users.

I'm afraid it won't last long without it. That's the key problem.

People hate ads, as do I, but what's the alternative?

And, for the foreseeable future at least, advertising is a key commercial engine of the internet, and the most efficient way to ensure the majority of content remains free and accessible to as many people as possible.

I'm afraid they aren't wrong. The majority of people aren't going to pay for access to random blogs etc. So we'd end up with only the big players having usable sites.

People kick off about ads but rarely suggest an alternative to funding the internet.

Back in the day ads were targeted based on the website's target audience not the user's personal data. It works fine but is less effective. Don't see why they couldn't go that way.

The problem with those sorts of forks is they still require moz to do most of the heavy lifting.

If Firefox stopped being developed they'd all pretty much freeze in place.

At the end of the day web sites cost money. There needs to be a way to fund them.

People 100% aren't going to pay to access every random website they want to visit. So what you'd end up with in a world without ads is only the big corporations being able to run a website.

Back in my day (lol) ads were based on the website not the user. When you set up ads you selected keywords for your website and those were used to select ads.

Like you'd visit a programming blog and get ads for computer games and porn. Made total sense. You're still targeting your target audience just not the individual.

Targeted ads are obviously way more effective and therefore generate more money. But it's not the only way.

The alternative is to set up some system where you pay a monthly fee and it's divided amongst the websites you use. But that seems like an equally bad privacy nightmare.

The thing with rust is that it is awesome. It does exactly what it promises and everyone keeps going on about.

If you want to talk cult talk to c developers. They are so indoctrinated. They say things like "undefined behaviour is fine you just have to code around it" "it's great there's almost no surface area to the standard lib as you can now trust your fellow developers to perfectly write all constructs" "yeah it causes uncountable security vulnerabilities (even when written by it's foremost experts) but that's unskilled developers and not a language problem"

For me you really aren't selling it.

When the answer to major draw backs with a language is use it better that's a dead end for me.

Some of the greatest programming minds have been using c for a long time and we still have a huge amount of dangerous vulnerabilities all the time.

The language is fundamentally flawed and other languages have demonstrated that you can get the same flexibility, expressiveness and performance without these flaws.

Again with the lack of many standard lib constructs. I now have to trust that every lib i use was written by a serious expert. as they'll need to implement so much themselves rather than trusting the core language team, who you hope would know it better than most.

And again with OOP. Why hack it into a language rather than use a language that supports it.

It's beginning to feel like people are just clinging to c because it's what they are used to. All I seem see are justifications of its flaws and not any reasons to actually use it.

If it came out today you'd have an incredibly hard time convincing anyone to use it over other languages.

No it's literally not. Being a bigot is not a political view.

Politicians may use it to get votes from bigots.

But hating black or gay people is not a valid political stance.

The notion that you group a race people (or in fact any large group) by any characteristics has been scientifically disproven. There is no evidence to support that stance it is simply stupidity and/or hate. Often stemming from a lack of understanding of genetics or a general lack of understanding the wider world.

It is also how they should react if they were a decent person. My point is they are not. They are in fact cunts.

Treating everyone like human beings is not political. It's common decency.

Homobia, transphobia and racism are not political ideas.

As you can see by the abuse they are now getting this is just shit people being shit.

And even if this was political abusing workers for a company's political stance is also not a sane way to react.

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