alaricus

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by alaricus 4y ago
I hate the modern designs like this in apps or websites.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Don't use Gmail. Here are some better alternatives: https://proton.me/ https://tutanota.com/
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by alaricus 4y ago
Bug or malice, the end result is the same. I hope EU regulators pick on this and land a hefty fine.
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by alaricus 4y ago
It doesn't matter either way, the end result is the same.
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by alaricus 4y ago
of course it is a monopoly.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This is textbook anti-competitive behaviour. I hope the EU regulators jump on this and give a hefty fine to Twitter.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Not necessarily. How did the economy benefit from retail investors driving up the price of memestocks? Financial activity can be extractive.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Added to my DNS66 and PiHole, thanks.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Inflation isn't a single number. It's reported as a single number because anything more doesn't fit into a headline. Different things inflate in different amounts. Right now the inflation on fuel is much higher than the inf
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by alaricus 4y ago
I've seen this implemented in hilarious ways: https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-pakistan-knocked-youtube-of...
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by alaricus 4y ago
https://github.com/jkrejcha/AdmiraList/blob/master/AdmiraLis...
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by alaricus 4y ago
This is probably the worst time to be buying fixed income assets like bonds. You'll get crushed as the interest rates go up. Commodities is a good place to be. This war does not look like it's going to end. You can expect high
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by alaricus 4y ago
When government prints money, people don't go and drive the price or bread and butter up. They go and invest in financial markets, driving the price of financial products like stocks up.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I agree, but it's not just regulators. It's also politicians and to a lesser extent anyone else whose position depends on "the status of the economy". Furthermore, if the stocks didn't go up liek they did, there wo
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by alaricus 4y ago
Youtube ads are not a problem because of uBlock Origin / Newpipe etc... I have not seen an ad in Youtube in more than a decade. But you are right. This could motivate them to move to a single domain for all Google content. But this
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by alaricus 4y ago
> Why would an ISP “block ads”? "Pay 5 euros per month for the ad-blocker privacy feature!" They could probably make a lot of money from this.
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by alaricus 4y ago
Do you have pointers on what Admiral is doing? I just remember they tried to get their domains removed from blocklists via DMCA.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This is basically what youtube is doing. PiHole does not work on Youtube, but uBlock origin does (so does NewPipe, FreeTube and a bunch of software). This would solve Google's immediate problem, but it's such a huge escalation th
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by alaricus 4y ago
Commuting does not make any sense for most white-collar jobs. Let people work from wherever they are, everyone will be happier for it.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I can see ad-blocking as a feature an ISP can try to sell. Imagine an ISP-level PiHole. (I can see this selling easily given how many family and friends asked me to install PiHole for them.
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by alaricus 4y ago
The same way as PiHole does. It's not hard to block Google adds on 3rd party sites with a DNS or IP-level block.
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by alaricus 4y ago
It's probably better to outsource manual map updates to OpenStreetMap
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by alaricus 4y ago
Google is fk'ed if wide-scale ad blocking really picks up. For example ISP-level adblocking.
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by alaricus 4y ago
I think Apple Maps is basically TomTom with a Apple logo slapped to it.
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by alaricus 4y ago
TomTom is mostly a B2B company now. Their main customers are other companies like Apple. I doubt they make a lot of money from consumer devices.
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by alaricus 4y ago
This is pretty much my story as well. I work less and get paid much more after leaving academia. Idealism can last so long before one gives in.
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by alaricus 4y ago
The more important question is: why is anyone still on facebook?
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by alaricus 4y ago
not necessarily
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by alaricus 4y ago
then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31563667
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by alaricus 4y ago
It's really not hard. Again, I bring up my boomer parents. Also, they don't want to learn? Seriously? Since can people get away with not wanting to do their jobs?

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