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That was a founder who was pushed out over that behavior.

Those articles were also removed immediately following the the report from BuzzFeed, and Mikkelson admitted to what he had done.

Their response to me would disagree, or they would have commented as much on my statement regarding Sovrn.

I'd also be real hard pressed to call them "investors". At that point anyone who has ever operated any business, has a 401k, has bought stocks, etc, is an "investor".

What's implied here is clearly the vulture capitalist firms. Best case scenario, they used bad wording.

But the complete lack of response to anything regarding the statements about Sovrn, and instead posting unrelated and irrelevant information about Snopes disclosure page updates kind of points to that not being the case.

This post is misinformation.

Edit: I'd also recommend reading their reply to me.

Its basically "well why wouldn't they do this thing I'm claiming but have no proof of?"

Thats not a "you should know", thats a "Ive got a conspiracy theory".

I'd also note that yes, someone who ran an ad company will absolutely be the right person to run something freely accessible to the public and supported by ads.

Its the internet. Most free websites are supported by ads.

Please feel free to point me to any verifiable source that supports any of the claims made in the post or single subsequent reply.

No, they are implying it was sold to Sovrn here.

TV Tropes, Snopes, and Salon are the companies they run, Proper Media was sold to Sovrn (for the record, in 2021, not 2022).

Thats... Not "investors" as implied here, which would be a venture capitalist firm or even independent ones.

Which these two are not.

Edit: corrected my language.

Why did Snopes stop posting disclosures (formerly a yearly process), right after the current owners gained control?

This doesnt prove anything about ownership that you are alleging, which does not match any documentation out there.

So while I agree they should be continuing, its completely unrelated to your unfounded claims regarding Sovrn.

If the current owners of Snopes make their money from digital advertising businesses, why would they not leverage the synergy between Snopes and programmatic advertisement to generate further revenue?

Again, irrelevant to the claim you're making, which is demonstrably false.

Its absolutely appropriate to criticise snopes. It is entirely inappropriate to spread misinformation about the current ownership though.

Sovrn does not own Snopes Media Group. There are only two owners of Snopes Media Group, Schoentrup and Richmond.

And the current twoowners spent five years getting all shares back.

Snopes is 100% owned by Snopes Media Group.

Sovrn holdings does not own Snopes.

I read the articles posted (which are about an adtech company sale, not about Snopes, just misunderstanding that Snopes is supported by ad revenue among other sources), checked Wikipedia, and yes, Snopes has its own disclosures which can be found here:

https://www.snopes.com/disclosures/

This post is misinformation.

If it were true, I would agree.

It does not appear to be true.

Sorry but maybe I'm missing something here.

AFAIK, mikkelson got pushed out because he plagiarized and caused all kinds of issues. The co-owners took back all shares. The sale to Sovrn was their adtech company, not Snopes.

Richardson and Schoentrup still own Snopes.

Sovrn Holdings does not own Snopes based on any information shared here.

Sure, depends on needs of course. Just saying I can see how someone could arrive at a better price point than a pi with more performance.

Just not more per watt (except in more burst demanding scenarios).

The pi foundation lost a lot of goodwill with me though, so I stick to the alternatives (orangepi for example) if I need one.

Edit: I a whole word.

I think it would be irresponsible to go back to it in light of the developments since the purchase.

Absolutely agree. I'm actually shifting client hardware over from VMWare, last one is slated for end of Jan actually.

Laptops I'd say are more problematic because the hardware choices are usually less standard stuff and more whatever cheap bits they can shove in, I think the worst recent issue though with a (lenovo) thinkpad was brightness controls not working. So I used ahkx11, AFAIK no Wayland support yet, but that's fine for the like 8 or 9 year old laptop its on (now my wife's laptop).

I have a tendency to stick to the CLI for... Just about everything tbh, but regarding the shutdown bit, startup order and delay is the reverse for the shutdown process, no scripting needed if your issue is just proper sequencing.

And I get it, a bunch of my hardware has been getting decommissioned hardware one way or the other! I just mostly take home the little desktops most buy these days (can't wait to get a couple of the slightly fat ones for my rack, those little guys are monsters).

Pi 5 desktop kit is like $150 isn't it?

Yeah you can beat that performance and price with some used hardware. Will cost more in power though.

Now thats a message that makes me miss my pizza box (and my DEC space heater).

Choosing a Mac keyboard I'm unsurprised you had to put in some extra work. The supermicro is odd, unless you got that one board some years back - I think it was an x9dri? - which was all kinds of finicky, even with VMware where I had to disable some power management features or it broke USB.

Pretty much any standard hardware will do. I'd also mention you dont really need server grade hardware at this point, a cluster of desktop grade will outperform for the price (unless you've got heavy and sustained loads, different story there, but that's not the majority of self hosters).

I'm running proxmox nodes on tiny/mini/micros for the most part, where all my self hosting happens, a couple ryzen machines with arch or Debian, an OL box for some work stuff, etc. Less power use with T/M/M than my server grade hardware (which I still have sometimes for work stuff and testing), and performance with my cluster is on par or better IMO.

To be fair, I'd just recommend avoiding WiFi in general.

Intel WiFi would be on my recommended list, or anything atheros. I can't understand self-hosting over WiFi though.

Pretty much anything.... I haven't compiled a kernel module in quite a few years on any Debian system, and thats basically all I run. Was 15 years ago the last time you tried installing Linux on bare metal? Because things have definitely changed since 2009.

If you want to avoid GPU hassles, go with Intel or AMD. Everything will autodetect.

Edit: Why are people being weird and downvoting them? They have perfectly valid concerns from their experiences. No need to be antagonistic because they had a couple of unpleasant experiences.

Classic content

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/halo/almost-100gb-of-classic-halo-content-has-leaked-online-including-the-1999-demo-from-when-the-legendary-fps-was-in-third-person/

Without enough funding, they absolutely will care.

Thats between $33 billion and $47 billion at current costs. Someone needs to fund that.

I'd also note that their models seem to be getting worse, with outright irrelevant answers, worse perfoemance, failures in following instructions, etc. Stanford and UC Berkeley did a months-long comparison, and even basic math is going downhill.

Based on their funding rounds, $10 billion lasts about 18 months.

So about $555 million per month.

Yeah that's my mistake, ive only seen it with work PCs that force edge, not any other client.

Including Firefox mobile, which is what I used (and they did) without issue.

Looks like an akamai CDN, my bad. Ive only seen that issue with work PCs where edge is forced.

Stop using MS Edge.

Edit: my mistake, thats an akamai CDN. Ive only seen that issue with edge though (including one release of edge that errored out the same way constantly), so I assumed, and became an ass.