Plus if it messes up, you can just roll back.

I don't vibe code my config but this is still my favorite part. If I had it working at some point, I can always get my full system back to there

How long until adverts are injected into LLMs?

Watermarking, contextually biasing llms to output specific tokens, can be rather easily usurped for ads.

The advertiser can buy logit "boosts" to specific tokens in a given context (the more preceding context, the cheaper). Once an activation has happened, dont do it again for the session.

The LLM will end up pushing a specific product contextual to the conversation. It just needs this slight nudge at the logit level to start talking about it and will fill in the rest.

will you ever know?

To be fair, that comment is by Boris Cherny, the guy who developed Claude Code. You have to give him a bit of slack for wanting to use his tool for literally everything.

I think a lot of people pay their phones off with a contract over several years.

Signing up for a new phone contract, you start looking at a $600 phone. Thats $25 a month plus $15 for your calls and data, so $40 a month. Then you see the next phone next to it thats only $1200, it's so much better, and you're only paying $65 a month for it.

And then they flash this one in front of you, only $67 a month (just ignore the fact it's now over 3 years instead of 2)! 5 minutes later, you are in.

I wish we'd go back to subsidized 2-year contracts with one lower price upfront for the phone, the 2 year contract all-in price per month, and then walk away satisfied or walk off paying the $3-400 ETF.

Instead carriers played a funny game to uncouple the phone from the now month-to-month service contract (so they can keep changing the fees, prices, and plans on you with no recourse) but then couple the contract to terms of a 0% APR finance agreement that becomes immediately due in full when you cancel the month-to-month service agreement.

And now we're about to go to charging interest on those finance plans... because the phones are getting more expensive and carriers are starting to realize there's a lot of risk letting a family's worth of 4-6 phones upwards of a $10,000 transaction out the door in a single blink of an eye.

The point of decoupling the phone from the contract is you don't buy your phone through your carrier. Why would you want to do that?

Too complicated, I just do AT&T prepaid now, only side effect I noticed is getting ads in Spanish.

How much of this is just down to your mail server being randomly assigned an IP address with dubious history or not?

Hard to tell. My server's IP was not on any public blacklists (confirmed by https://multirbl.valli.org/) and it was whitelisted on DNSWL.org at medium trust level.

I have ad blockers everywhere apart from the instagram app. I have bought a ton of stuff off the ads on there. I'm not proud, but have to admit I am powerless against them. Underwear, t-shirts, soap, online courses I have never used, I am a sucker, which is why I need these ad blockers.

If you have android phone, you could try Instander, even though the last update was ~3 years ago, works like a charm for me

I get an occasional request from a friend who is trying to build a following to interact with their posts to boost their visibility. I'll go through, like a few then sit around for a while desperately trying to think of something non-generic to say in a comment, fail to think of anything and just add an "I agree" comment.