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dazc
4y ago
Yes, getting straight to the point; it will never catch on.
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dazc
4y ago
Speaking as someone who often recovers a friend's laptop from near oblivion, you'll be surprised how much some people will click any link that is presented to them.
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dazc
4y ago
'I don't understand how so many companies let their marketing department get away with this.' Probably because their marketing people are highly skilled at marketing themselves.
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dazc
4y ago
That'll be one of the boxes he/she ticked or unticked that expressly gives that consent. Admittedly, he/she probably didn't read it that way.
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dazc
4y ago
I think you missed the point? We have a saying in the UK that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. In other words, you may think some other job would be a lot easier or more enjoyable until you are doing that exact jo
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dazc
4y ago
'I feel like if my job were just to cut wood in the forest all day, then I'd be golden.' I imagine there is a guy cutting wood somewhere right now, thinking the exact opposite?
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4y ago
'You can create emails on the fly. ntflx@ disney@ gh@ cf@...' Face-palm moment, I've been creating custom account email addresses for ages - never thought of doing it via catch-all.
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4y ago
I'm sure you already know that your pets don't consume much sugar and that's the main reason they don't get cavities? Maybe humans will, eventually, evolve to a state where our teeth renew themselves naturally, without i
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dazc
4y ago
Good oral hygiene is all that is needed, and (in the UK, at least) we've been mostly failing at this basic level of common sense prevention for eternity. I guess it's the same for dieting, people looking for magic solutions when t
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dazc
4y ago
If you experience negative seo attacks against your site then being de-indexed by Bing/DDG at some point is to be expected. They are simply not as smart as Google in this respect. You can go through the procedure of registering with th
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4y ago
Mainly aesthetics, the new 5G masts are much larger and need to be sited in densely populated areas where there is already a significant amount of unwelcome street furniture. Conspiracy theories regarding harmful radiation can also be a fac
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dazc
4y ago
In Southampton, there are lots of places around the city where 4G coverage is simply not reliable. Even with a strong signal you can get speeds that vary from literally nothing to 60MBPs. I once lived within half a mile of the centre and co
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4y ago
Some are also British of Asian/Pakistani descent.
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4y ago
> 'He still has the @sussexroyal handle on Twitter' And, apparently, not any more?
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dazc
4y ago
Don't hang up your gloves just yet, we need bots that can buy stuff (with their own money) first.
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dazc
4y ago
I would say pin lock on the device would render such an attack very unlikely until I read he claimed the device was pin locked? Maybe it was simple to guess , or something else going on? I should congratulate the thieves on accessing his Ba
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dazc
4y ago
A lot of small scale UK retailers have already proven to themselves that internet retailing isn't worth the bother. I know of some who've invested huge sums of money, sometimes as much as £100, creating social media channels with
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4y ago
Intermittent, UK
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4y ago
> Did the printing press also increase the amount of crap in circulation? I think the answer is, undoubtedly, yes.
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4y ago
> So now you need something like ChatGPT to cut through the noise? I once employed a journalist to write about the pros and cons of wedding insurance. Just to give you a clue how long ago this was, it was a unique article at the time. Ma
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4y ago
> 'It would be very interesting if companies and site owners wished to self-certify their site as organic with something like an /ai-free.txt.' I'm sure you can appreciate that such an initiative would be wholesale ab
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4y ago
Cynical me thinks Airbnb is doing this to protect Airbnb.
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4y ago
> If this was a small debt problem, or about individuals I might feel different... The King of England v One of the richest men on the planet?
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4y ago
You can stay within the given limit and fear nothing though.
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4y ago
Everyday you can see the affect that speed has where cars are driving far too close together at speeds where a collision will occur before the driver has mentally registered a need to apply the breaks.
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dazc
4y ago
The cars are better but not so the drivers of these cars. The laws of physics, meanwhile, stay the same. In my part of the UK there is a growing trend of cars 'flipping over' all by themselves despite the considerable 'skill&
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4y ago
Sites get de-indexed from DDG and Bing all the time because negative SEO attacks (intended for your Google traffic) have a devastating effect. Why, Bing does not totally ignore bad links. The good news, all sites I've seen affected by
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4y ago
> Add a robots.txt Likely not the cause but not having a robots.txt can cause weird crawling problems. Since it takes two minutes to set up, why not. And, here's a tip, don't try and be clever, keep it simple: User-agent: \
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dazc
4y ago
Unlikely to be a source but a good benchmark is to have this stuff in place because a)It takes almost no effort, b)You don't know if it makes a difference or not, and c)There is pretty much zero chance it's going to have a
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dazc
4y ago
May help if you say what kind of product/service you're offering? I have found you can make a return with low value, impulse buys but it was hard work and sucked time away from other projects that would have been more profitable,
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