I am fairly sure it just tokenizes the card number and it’s not to prevent tracking. Most retail stores have been only storing tokenized card numbers for a while now, Apple Pay or not. With Apple Pay, it would be for card skimmer protection. Regular cards would still be vulnerable at the scanner.
The payment processor, your bank and the store still know who made the purchase.
I suspect many people aren’t talking about this because many Lemmy users don’t use the platform.
Just use an alternative service instead of trying to find more ways to use Musks personal propaganda platform. Honesly, It makes more sense to open up apps like this again, quietly, since it was was a serious strategic flaw to block it in the first place.
I don’t disagree with the concept of this front end, but there are just better options out there.
You still need an Internet connection…
Their marketing department is lagging it seems. They are running Chinese language ads on YouTube to US audiences.
It has a still frame of someone skiing or snowboarding, a QR code and the Chinese language description. Wut?
Nuke your watch history. It’ll generally go right back to your subs and start recommending “normal” stuff later.
The proper metric to plan around is longevity, unless you absolutely need performance now.
Performance and cost should be divided by time. Do you think that bit of hardware will be able to support software for the next two years, or five? That is one way to “compute” value, anyway.
A 4090 will eventually be outdated and unable to run new software, but that may not happen for a good number of years. If you want to get super deep, start crunching the numbers on power costs too. It may simply become too inefficient to run, eventually. (Hell, it’s probably super inefficient now, actually.)
I almost always buy top-tier “last-gen” tech, right after “new-gen” is released when I am saving money. When I have the extra cash and it makes sense, top-tier may also be a good investment.
Be honest with yourself and determine what matters most to you and put your money there.
That was one of the reasons I put “time” in quotes, actually. However, I had to lean into determinism fairly hard to make a “point” about how chaos is not really chaotic and that humans haven’t created any disasters because the disasters “have already happened”. (Don’t read into that. My jumble of logical fallacies was intended to sound more like an acid trip.)
Time is a funny thing though. We perceive and experience time, but time relative to the rest of the universe is basically irrelevant. Que my rant about how our measurement systems need to have better scaling, but I’ll save that topic for the next reading from the Book of Ian.
If a god created the entire universe and even time itself, that would lead us to believe that everything is happening according to a grand plan. Fate is the ruler of the universe and every action is predetermined. If a god has the ability to create every single atom and set it in motion, it should also know the atoms entire journey through to the end of “time”.
However, if the universe is simply a metaphorical byproduct of a kid with a chemistry set, then that would explain a few things. Chaos is king. However, our true Lord and Savior, Ian Malcom, tells us that order arises from Chaos, and that every system will eventually self-arrange. Through his teachings and wisdom, we can also prove that the universe is deterministic even if it was born into Chaos.
From these points we can infer that without any doubt, Ian Malcom is the creator of the universe and all that we know. In Ian’s name we have already prayed and were always destined to pray. Ramen.
“Your TV has become a digital billboard.”
It’s been a digital billboard for at least 40 years of my life. Radio was no different, so be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
Have you never seen a commercial before? Cheap subsidized hardware? Bloatware loaded on phones? Bloatware on TVs? Games that require 5 mins of ad time? Google’s crippling of Chrome to break ad blockers? Unskippable ads on YouTube? Sponsored ad spots in YouTube videos? All the 3rd party logos on Smart TV boxes? Product placements in movies? Ad placements before the movie starts? The list goes on.
The entire entertainment industry is based around advertising. Every delivery platform is designed to show you ads first and entertainment second.
People have problems figuring that out?
This isn’t a new concept and it’s really stupid that Ars is presenting it that way.
If companies didn’t know this, then they are already out of business. If the viewers didn’t know this… well… I can’t help you.
They are ordinary Mastodon posts that happen to be on Lemmy, you mean. Everyone on a thread getting tagged on every comment and hashtags aren’t the Lemmy norm.
I’ve blocked most Mastodon posts on Lemmy, but it’s not because they are “bad”. Its just that if I wanted short-form social media, I would go to Mastodon directly.