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Pitcairn, the tropical island that covered up a child-sex scandal(telegraph.co.uk)
6 points by aleppe7766 4y ago|0 comments
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by aleppe7766 4y ago
It works with any device you can install it on but not for example on cheap tv sticks, smart devices and other IoT stuff which still may be infested with adware phoning home every second. I’ve been using pi-hole at home and NextDNS/VPN
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by aleppe7766 5y ago
This is too stupid to be true. For a 6-hour outage to significantly increase the ad frequency (and lower the conversion rate) you should pressure the system to recover the outage in a day or two; do they really need it? We're not even
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by aleppe7766 5y ago
A striking difference from the former intelligence official led competitor.
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by aleppe7766 5y ago
Only the most relevant topics from the big tech news fanfare percolate inside HN; all the rest brings to the light a part of the tech web which would otherwise remain mostly unknown to me. HN us a community-driven curation process and it wo
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
As much as Futurists did want to shape reality rather than describe it, their best contribution was the description of such troubled yet somehow exciting times. The manifesto is from 1909, fascism yet to come. The tension in the form and la
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
It's easy to discard the futurist movement on the basis of its relationship with fascism. Here in Italy it happens all the time. When such skewed filter is removed, futurism appears as the embodiment of a troubled and exciting phase, o
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Frequency and Range of Musical Instruments(contrabass.com)
2 points by aleppe7766 6y ago|0 comments
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
Wonder what Apple’s reaction will be. Their relationship with Nvidia has been bumpy to say the least. Any ARM licensee now has a competitor as a supplier. The smaller ones will have to swallow but the larger licensees? Do they have options
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
Totally agree, in theory. In practice US regulators are too short sighted, incompetent and possibly corrupt (in that they benefit from the status quo, and are heavily lobbied) to deal with the situation; also, if Firefox dies, it’s another
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
Even non users should donate to Firefox: the presence of a independent browser in a market dominated by browsers following the agenda of this le that huge tech company benefits the whole market. Of course using it (or any other independent
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
You’re right. Then is Apple going to use IDFA without asking while the others will have to ask?
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
No need for pi-hole, there’s an app for that and does exactly the same job.
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
Apple’s own ad service is long gone and won’t come back (if some sanity is still left in Apple’s board). They’re just playing nice with some core partners.
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
They won’t buy companies that bring their margin down; automakers have been struggling on hair-thin margins for years.
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The golden age of computer user groups(arstechnica.com)
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
Doesn’t sound legit. ARM was purchased by SoftBank in 2016 for 32bn USD.and from then it might have grown more than 20% per year. Selling a growing company with bright perspectives today for the same price you purchased it 4 years ago makes
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
A wide coalition must form: every single OEM acquiring ARM will reduce its value. BTW Apple won’t let Nvidia control a central part of its Long term hardware strategy.
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
This is a small eco chamber after all. The billions willingly share all their “private” stuff on FB and Google, which are concentrating orders of magnitute more data than any legit or fraudulent data company on the planet, and putting them
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by aleppe7766 6y ago
TL:DR If you want to do any good to a newspaper, buy a subscription. Advertising hasn’t been enough since the late 2000s. More monetization options arised and were rapidly adopted because news venues were hungry for them, when they figured
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Recovering paleontologic data from vintage 8” floppies(youtu.be)
2 points by aleppe7766 7y ago|0 comments
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by aleppe7766 7y ago
Agree with the first comment. Landing pages should be customized to the specific point in the customer journey. If you’re targeting a clueless user you should keep it simple and educate all the way to conversion.
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by aleppe7766 7y ago
Sadly, it’s an industry that can’t regulate itself and has been overpromising to less and less gullible clients. Unfortunately advertising is still the main revenue source for publishers, good and bad. Google, Amazon and Facebook will find
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by aleppe7766 7y ago
Yet the research is all about self driving cars.
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by aleppe7766 7y ago
I think the proposed improvement to the web in its intentions should mostly benefit the "ignorants", not those that can already navigate through the biases of today's technological gatekeepers. Please note, ignorants are not
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by aleppe7766 7y ago
That’s a very useful distinction, that brings me to a question: are we sure that automating ranking in 2019, on the basis of publicly scrutinized algorithms, would bring us back to a pre-Google accuracy? Also, ranking on the basis of the so
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by aleppe7766 7y ago
That would bring to an even bigger filter bubble issue, more precisely to a techno élite which is capable, willing and knowledgeable enough to feel the need go through the hassle, and all the rest navigating in such an indexed mess that wou
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by aleppe7766 8y ago
Basically the author is calling Apple to be its clients’ privacy guardian. What if somebody prefers the much touted Apple design and is perfectly fine with his/her data being used and misused by anybody? Apple’s positioning as a “force