djflutt3rshy

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by djflutt3rshy 6y ago
A lot of failures here: 1) Caller-ID spoofing. It straight out should not be possible to spoof government phone numbers, 911, etc. My Android has "Scam Likely" show up when a scammer calls (I believe this is part of the STIR/
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by djflutt3rshy 6y ago
https://twitter.com/search?q=until%3A2019-01-01%20to%3A%40Re... Looks like they've gone by @AlphMedia and @PLRExpress in the past.
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
>The last fit of madness will be a hidden session in Chrome browsing the web on your behalf, building up a bogus profile for the ad networks, and the ad networks trying to figure out if the clicks in your fake session are sufficiently hu
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
Custom date ranges on mobile work for me, just use the before: and after: operators. For example before:2018-01-05
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
Reduce the demand for it. Include easily accessible "article only" mode, make your site friendly to current Reader Modes for all major browsers. No obtrusive ads, no 500 trackers bogging down the browser. Quick loading. Just give
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
"That is, until they discovered that Cylance also had whitelisted certain families of executable files to avoid triggering false positives on legitimate software." Surprised to see this way down in the article. No wonder that when
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
Next up, banning video tutorials on how to use youtube-dl.
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
Why would the ThredUp example not fall under current regulations against false advertising? If I say "This dress was bought 4 minutes ago!" or "Hurry now! Only one left!", those statements are obviously either true or fa
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
People trusted the news a lot more when it was 3 TV channels, the NYT, and your local newspaper. So maybe yes, it is time to do that.
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
As a left leaning person, absolutely! I viewed a few of hbomberguy's tamer videos, next thing you know I've got videos with commenters suggesting we bust out the guillotines. But hey, thats what gets the eyeballs and the ad revenu
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
A far cry from the conservatives of my time, hence the "alt" label. As the article mentions, how much discussion of a balanced budget is there in any of these videos? Do you think someone like former Senator McCain or Romney would
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
So long as advertising revenue rules everything around me, I don't see this problem going away. Whether it's addictive right-wing videos or addictive left-wing videos, websites like YouTube will always prioritize "engagement&
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha Just because someone, either by choice or necessity (have you tried to stop using all ad-supported resources? You've practically gotta be a hermit) participates in something they find m
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
Gotta give money to the winning team... Alphabet: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000067823&cy... Apple: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=D000021754&cy... Ama
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
Yes, it'd be easier to compile a list of large free Internet services that aren't evil or annoying. 1. Wikipedia 2. Hacker News 3. Stack Exchange 4. Github and Gitlab
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
How trustworthy are they? I feel very iffy about sending my DNS queries to some random company in Moscow.
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
True, but a lot of people who don't, get their browsers installed or recommended to them by people who do.
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
I try my best to pay for ad-free/premium services whenever I can, but it's one thing for me to do so, and quite another for the billions of people significantly poorer than me. Making the Internet "pay for access" will
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by djflutt3rshy 7y ago
https://i.imgur.com/wbqIOFI.jpg Just took that screenshot, it's sending about ten analytics requests EVERY MINUTE. I pay $30 a year for it. But hey, they may as well get a few cents more.
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by djflutt3rshy 8y ago
Reddit's rules against giving out personal information, so thousands of Redditors don't bombard the startup with angry comments or worse.
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by djflutt3rshy 8y ago
Do you have any data supporting this assertion that access to and ability to freely communicate information leads to less radicalization, rather than more? I look at the Internet, and wherever there is no censorship, there is not wisdom; ju
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by djflutt3rshy 8y ago
The box has made browsing using TOR insufferable! It fusses and makes me click storefronts and traffic lights until I run out of patience and close out of whatever webpage I was trying to visit. I assume it has to do with a lack of Google c
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by djflutt3rshy 8y ago
weather.us as well, they even have the 50 different ensembles for the Euro. Very surprised it's free but I ain't complaining.
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by djflutt3rshy 8y ago
Adhell 3 on Android is non-Root and system-wide.
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by djflutt3rshy 8y ago
I've seen quite a few paywalled articles posted, where someone else posts a link to "theoutline.com" to bypass paywalls, or just straight out copy/paste the article text.
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by djflutt3rshy 8y ago
What happened is Mozilla got a complaint and pulled multiple pay-wall bypassers. Source: https://github.com/nextgens/anti-paywall/issues/109 "It appears that your Add-on violates the Firefox Add-on Dis
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by djflutt3rshy 8y ago
Why on God's green earth are we evaluating candidates to a major university based on how well they're "grappling with [their] sexual identity"?
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by djflutt3rshy 8y ago
I’d start with sites that don’t rely on advertising revenue to stay afloat. So probably subscription sites like the Economist and Wall Street Journal, and public news sources like NPR and PBS. Though for the latter there is the pressure of
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by djflutt3rshy 8y ago
Would it kill companies to be honest and upfront about these sorts of issues? I feel like "Hey, we're unable to pay our bills unless we can better monetize our product" comes across a lot more honest and trust-worthy than thi
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by djflutt3rshy 8y ago
I am jealous! Pretty much any time I experience a nightmare, it's a dog biting me, or I'm being stabbed, or some wild animals are attacking me, and there's almost always vivid and terrible pain. It goes away the moment I wake

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