cyborgx7

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by cyborgx7 8y ago
Or independent reporting. Or public information offers. Ads are not a good way of distributing good information. And people who argue otherwise are naive, or doing so in bad faith.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
Inspired by Google Stadia announcement, I wanted to see what the state of open source game streaming was. This is what I found. If anyone has any other projects, I'd love to hear about them.
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GamingAnywhere: An Open Source Cloud Gaming System(github.com)
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
This is something I have been looking for and couldn't find to the point that I was considering just building it myself. Thanks.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
What do I do to get a finished version of my work without the watermark?
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
Liberapay is not the only platform that allows for free software to be funded. Here are two projects that are very well funded on Patreon. The platform itself is obviously not open source, but the projects themselves are: https:/&#x2F
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
Amazing video
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
Video, all told, isn't that old. We had a society before capturing video. We will have a society after video is trustworthy. The brief window of human history of trustable video is coming to an end. We will get used to it, and be fine.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
>Update - Two days after the publication of this blog post, Google seems to have fixed the issue, after TechCrunch asked the firm whether it was planning on taking any action. Although no official announcement was made, it looks like the
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
Here is the (overly) simple explanation: Something being Turing complete means that it can compute anything that can be computed.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
Which we both agree, is a bad thing.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
When you think having giant corporations dictating your policy through lobbying is normal and good.
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There are a couple of english words/phrases in German that no native english speaker knows. Like, if you talk about a "jump and run" people will look at you weirdly.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
And your point is what exactly?
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
This article makes Amazon sound about as powerful as my impression was. Which is way too powerful, btw.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
I visit https://news.ycombinator.com/show and most of what you get there is new and exciting repositories. I don't think personalized suggestion are without merit.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
Why does a completely static blogpost have a loading animation? Some really bad engineering decisions have been made here.
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>Instead replace that thought with the idea that a nontrivial number of software engineers - likely the supermajority - will be materially impacted by significantly changing the amount of tracking enabled by advertising. The argument tha
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
>GDPR is not meant to be followed to the letter, it's legislation on principle and will continue to be ineffective and only cause further problems for the EU, while entrenching the very companies that it most wanted to protect peopl
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
I am talking about the tracking here, not the advertising. Reasonable people can not disagree on weather or not tracking everyone individually is harmful or not.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
This industry does as much harm as it does good. It will be good for it if you can't make money anymore by getting people to look in your direction long enough to show people something they might actually want to spend money on.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
>I'm one of the few in the industry who actually spent time and money on regulation. I've met with Senators and major CMOs to make it happen. It's not that simple. GDPR has good intent but is poorly executed and has no mea
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
The GDPR is a great piece of legislation, that significantly improves people's privacy. Your arguing about how terrible it is will not convince anybody that your industry's practices aren't evil. They will only reinforce it.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
>efficiently connecting people with a message inherently involves targeting The point of this thread is that maybe it doesn't.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
You seem to misunderstand what this thread is about. This thread is not about "marketing". It is about personalised targeted ads.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
>Is generating trillions in economic activity and allowing billions of people to be employed and connected not adding value? By itself? No, not at all. At least not more valuable than giving the same people the same money for doing nothi
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
How about we built a society in which people don't have to choose between loosing their livelyhood and being a moral hazard. In the meantime, I'm not going to cry about the deaths of immoral industries.
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If you already acknowledge that it's just a bullshit job because people need to make money to live, maybe they could do something that is not actively harmful.
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I hope that whole industry just dies and the hordes of wasted software engineers can instead be used on something that actually adds value to society.
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by cyborgx7 8y ago
Here is my personal recommendation for getting more comfortable with git. Use "git status" a lot. Everytime you do something in git, and before you do something, do a "git status" and see what you change with your comman

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