MikeGale

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by MikeGale 7y ago
The architecture of the system is important here too. 1. Do the regimes buy the software and set it up themselves, or does NSO set it up and they use the service provided? 2. If the former is there a route to go for Saudi, Mexican, UAE, B
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by MikeGale 7y ago
I'm not familiar with a survey of how many know these things (and the good suggestions made here). My suspicion is that few know, and fewer are doing it. An important goal? Help those who care enough become aware enough to take action
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by MikeGale 7y ago
Very interesting. Read a 2012 study a few days ago on what kills coral. Have not found a more recent follow up yet. (I was snorkelling on the reef a few days ago, the parts I saw looked pretty good, so wanted to find out more.) They studi
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by MikeGale 7y ago
I've observed that Stack Exchange is worse now than when it started and that the points award system moulds and warps respondents. Now that it has gone overtly commercial they face issues which may not be solved. What will programmers
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by MikeGale 7y ago
It might be better to allow people to make their own choices instead of forcing something on them. Your reasoning is going to be wrong or irrelevant for many.
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by MikeGale 7y ago
I feel sympathy for those who feel this envy but don't share it. When I realised what this thing is, I realised it's a nothingburger for me. Pity I can't control the monster instead of having some decisions, made in a remote
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by MikeGale 7y ago
An important area on which a lot of nonsense is published. By some analyses over 80% nonsense. (When I look at the other material you often can't take any action based on it anyway.) Some interesting observations in these comments, m
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by MikeGale 7y ago
In that regard Facebook has improved recently. Their export now has a JSON format which is useful. They still exclude so much that it may be better to scrape from the UI though.
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by MikeGale 7y ago
People who want to take control of their own lives, and curate the mix of knowledge / fact / falsity / opinion / propaganda / disinformation / useful-idiocy in their own heads can technically head in this direc
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by MikeGale 7y ago
I have no idea whether this is relevant. I noticed that the site has reviews of anti-tracking products like Ghostery and Privacy Badger. (The reviews are a bit thin in my opinion.) Google may view those as existential threats and work to
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by MikeGale 7y ago
I find the obvious propaganda (like this) both amusing and useful (well in this case not very useful). It exercises the immune system against the ever flowing rubbish that is so much of the Internet, Press, Politician bit dribble... In this
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by MikeGale 7y ago
I don't really see the issue. These appear to be real humans. I see so many fake accounts, sock puppets etc. just about any place I look, that I just accept that to not be an idiot myself I need to spend time thinking through everythi
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by MikeGale 7y ago
As a user I want the option of choosing for myself. (Whatever I want.) From that potential designs should be obvious.
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by MikeGale 7y ago
Logical error here. Some people avoid Google Search, Chrome etc. They are still subject to this.
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by MikeGale 7y ago
There's some talk of regulation, and people who never knew individuals getting in on the act. For those who so choose, I'd prefer to see options: 1. Person can set who gets to see their content after they pass, before they pass a
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by MikeGale 7y ago
Needs a study of different kinds of people. The difference being how they respond to surveillance. I'd guess there's a very high performing group that hates surveillance, and when it's noticed finds something else to do. Mi
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by MikeGale 8y ago
There are different audiences out there and the "metrics" reflect some of them but not others. Simplified version. Type 1: Think that metrics (followers, friends, likes, reposts...) have meaning. Pursue that meaning. Have no ef
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by MikeGale 8y ago
If you can list them we can consider what to do about them.
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by MikeGale 8y ago
I can imagine an improvement in many UI's if I had a way to tailor it for what I want, not some corporate one size fits all. Like: 1. See no likes. 2. Filter out comments that are deeply nested quotes. 3. Filter out specific p
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by MikeGale 8y ago
It seems tied to having a single bucket for everybody. I'd probably participate in some discussions if I couldn't see and wasn't involved in the likes, up/downvotes, brownie point scramble. If I just saw similarly incli
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by MikeGale 8y ago
For years I've essentially not consumed sugar except for that in vegetables etc. I still suffer from this rubbish though: 1. I often can't find any meat in the supermarket that has not been denatured by having the fat removed. 2.
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by MikeGale 8y ago
If the stores are hurting and channel that into destroying the communities that support them, something is going to change. Communities vanish, big stores are destroyed, the old smaller outfits come back, Amazon takes over, whatever???
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by MikeGale 8y ago
Good luck with filtering algorithmically. There was a recent stupidity that Sony was claiming all to rights, to all performances of the work of long dead, famous composers. Now if they got hit with a few billion bucks for such blatant non
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by MikeGale 8y ago
The legislators in the EU are an example of what happens when the clueless, make law. Their GDPR has apparently only benefitted Google, with Facebook taking the smallest hit of the rest. Many want these behemoths to get less power but thes
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by MikeGale 8y ago
My question. How does it go when Linus does get out of it?
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by MikeGale 8y ago
I still use RSS and it's, in many ways, better than the web stupidity that surrounds us. The title is misleading. People who captured the feedreader market, killed the competitors then dropped it did a lot of damage. Maybe deliberatel
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by MikeGale 8y ago
I always thought this was pretty simple. Google wants surveillance of everybody. AMP is a way to advance that. You can generally revise an AMP URL to make it normal.
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by MikeGale 8y ago
There is nothing to stop you encrypting your comms, except to convince those you talk to.
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by MikeGale 8y ago
I wish the venture good luck and hope its users gain. I decided not to use it for various reasons including: 1. The situations I deal with cannot be reasoned through the skein of a boolean network. 2. The core of a useful discussion, in m
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by MikeGale 8y ago
This is what happens when you don't have many staff and your algorithms aren't nearly as good as a decent person. Facebook has no way out of this, as currently set up. Would you believe it: If you want to have others vouch for y

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