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> There even was an official program to replace your old lightbulb for a new LED one for free Wow do they still have incandescent lightbulbs? Mental.
Say, in Norway we largely use (hydro-) electric power for heating, anyway.
So, the 2% efficient (for lighting) incandescent bulb doubles as a 98% efficient space heater, utilizing the 2% loss to light said space. 100% efficient!
"We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs." Ehh, so this is a click farm?
"We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs." Ehh, so this is a click farm?
How inspiring. In a war torn country, a man perseveres and continues making the internet worse. The founder's LinkedIn describes his job as "Automating phones for you - Dead internet as a service", and also has a post where he proudly states that this post was "banned on Hacker News", so I don't doubt that he's abusing the phones here too. It isn't a click farm, it's a bot farm.
"We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs." Ehh, so this is a click farm?
At this point, is the most "effective ethical" career path for a software developer to work on LLMs to flood social media and ad-clicks to speedrun the collapse of digital marketing? And thus freeing competent but money-driven software engineers to work on something else?
I cannot say I would miss them, but I doubt it will solve the problem.
Because yes, software engineers would love to work on many interesting things. But they also love being able to buy food and pay rent.
If the ad companies don't pay money anymore, who will replace them?
(I still dream of a world with donation for free services as default, but I am usually not taken serious with this.)
And .. about ad companies and LLMs - I think the madness just started. Once the marketing companies get their product placements directly into the models and the agents sophisticated enough, that you cannot trust anything posted online anymore, it will just destroy anonymous communication, as you cannot trust any anonymous account anymore at all. And will have a hard time finding out who is, who they say they are.
> There even was an official program to replace your old lightbulb for a new LED one for free Wow do they still have incandescent lightbulbs? Mental.
That depends on what the source of your heating is. Say, in Norway we largely use (hydro-) electric power for heating, anyway. So, the 2% efficient (for lighting) incandescent bulb doubles as a 98% efficient space heater, utilizing the 2% loss to light said space. 100% efficient!
How inspiring. In a war torn country, a man perseveres and continues making the internet worse. The founder's LinkedIn describes his job as "Automating phones for you - Dead internet as a service", and also has a post where he proudly states that this post was "banned on Hacker News", so I don't doubt that he's abusing the phones here too. It isn't a click farm, it's a bot farm.
"We now continue to work as before, getting social media engagement for us and our clients, applying to YC 2026 and other VCs." Ehh, so this is a click farm?
No no no, it's far worse than that, it's a bot farm.
Why would YC fund a clickfarm? Besides that, there's something frustrating about these people setting up emergency infrastructure specifically to profit off making the internet worse.
How inspiring. In a war torn country, a man perseveres and continues making the internet worse. The founder's LinkedIn describes his job as "Automating phones for you - Dead internet as a service", and also has a post where he proudly states that this post was "banned on Hacker News", so I don't doubt that he's abusing the phones here too. It isn't a click farm, it's a bot farm.
Can you give some examples on what are these people specifically doing with all these phones for those unfamiliar with click farms?