Jordrok

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by Jordrok 10y ago
That fucking popup is the thing that finally drove me to drop Chrome and go back to Firefox on my home PC. Of course, now Mozilla is starting to go all in on extension signing too, so the joke's on me.
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Certainly an impressive result, and may have some practical application for easing the burden of repeatedly answering the same question asked in different ways. I'm not sure I would call this passing the Turing test though. The pictu
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by Jordrok 10y ago
Not sure how I feel about this. I guess that's cool and all, but I'd rather have Steam be focused on just games. Can't see myself ever really wanting to do this. I was never really a huge fan the (non-game) software sectio
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Ah yes, we can't sacrifice the all-important branding!
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I agree, but let's be fair here. Porn brings much more value to the world than Taboola and Outbrain could ever hope for.
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Tried hackers.txt. Was disappointed.
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I agree, that analogy is way off base. Disregarding the fact that the way it's set up makes Portal, Braid, and Dragon Age sound like failures, which is the complete opposite of the truth, it totally ignores the different business mode
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Another jdownloader user here. I have similar misgivings about its trustworthiness, but so far I haven't found any concrete reasons to distrust it other than that vague sense of unease. It's just so damn useful though!
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Unfortunately, when UO was big my internet connection was too spotty for online games so I never got the chance to experience that (though that might be a good thing...). In the past few years though I had a lot of fun with another game ca
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by Jordrok 11y ago
That shift to linked "interest" pages was what killed it for me as well. My music section used to be a nicely formatted list categorized by genre sometimes with individual songs or composers. Then the change hit and they totally
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I couldn't agree more. I joined thefacebook in 2004 and at the time it was a great way to connect with peers and get to know a bit about how they think and what their interests are. (Remember when clicking on a movie title or band na
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Interestingly, I thought that was exactly the case at first. Since the domain of the link is actually signalvnoise.com, Privacy Badger blocks most of the requests to medium.com and leaves the article as unstyled text. I would have been pe
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I honestly have no idea. Chat bot mania sure seems to be in full swing though. Call me cynical, but all I can see is a lot of tech and development hours desperately in search of a problem to solve.
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by Jordrok 11y ago
To be fair, that's more of a case for "GPS for Dogs". The use case described in the article comes off as quite a bit more frivolous: > Whistle’s GPS Pet Tracker makes it easier to keep tabs on your pet’s fitness, with a
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Glad that I'm not the only one who dislikes the new style. They do have one advantage - they seem to be solvable 100% of the time (at least for now). In every other aspect though I find them to be way more annoying than the old ones.
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I really think that the importance of all that extra stuff is massively overstated. I do a large amount of browsing while in incognito mode without being signed in to a Google account and I have NEVER been able to pass one of the new reCAP
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by Jordrok 11y ago
That's a step in the right direction, but you're still only allowed to install extensions from the Google-owned Chrome Web Store.
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I actually started playing Warframe a couple months ago and have been pleasantly surprised by the game's level of quality while still having a relatively player-friendly business model. I've only spent around $30 and that's
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by Jordrok 11y ago
At this point, even total nothingness would be preferable. The mobile games ecosystem has become so bloated and malignant that we may as well just amputate the infected limb, cauterize the wound, and try to move on.
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Very nice! Any plans for integration with http://shoutcloud.io/ ? I would love to have my strings both left padded AND capitalized, but the APIs are incompatible. :(
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Good point. Instead, I'd like to nominate "The Seaward".
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Yes! That's one of my all time favorite gaming moments/memories.
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Maybe "conspiracy" is too strong a word, but I have no doubt that the key motivation behind all these algorithmic changes is to boost ad metrics rather than to better serve the users. (Free services, users, products, etc)
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Yes, but there's still nothing preventing someone from DVRing a TV show and then manually fast forwarding through the commercials. I'm sure advertisers would love to put a stop to that too, but it really can't be done unless
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I think that watering hole analogy is the the best explanation of the online ad industry that I've heard in quite a while.
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Neat idea, I'd love to see this take off. I imagine it's going to take a lot of work to reach Imdb-level comprehensiveness though. Until a certain threshold is met, it's going to be hard to beat Googling (person's name
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by Jordrok 11y ago
I think ad blockers will "destroy" the web in the same way that file sharing "destroyed" the entertainment industry. There will be skirmishes back and forth with no clear victor until new platforms spring up which allow
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Not sure I understand your point. Shutting things down early prevents them from being shut down later?
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by Jordrok 11y ago
Holy crap, that took forever to load...
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by Jordrok 11y ago
So we should just give up, sit back, and take whatever the ad networks see fit to cram down our throats? No thanks. Also, I wouldn't put so much faith in the ability of advertising companies to completely stop adblocking. Similar thi

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