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by docdeek 6y ago
Facebook did the right thing here, and the Australian media meltdown about it only seems to prove that. For Facebook (according to their press release) news stroies account for about 4% of the content on their site. They cut all of this out
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by docdeek 6y ago
Source isn't familiar to me but Newsweek fact checked it and it seems legit. https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-biden-administration...
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Biden Removes ‘We the People’ Petitioning from White House Website(ronpaulinstitute.org)
11 points by docdeek 6y ago|4 comments
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by docdeek 6y ago
Indeed. It would also be interesting to understand how much engagement is around that 4% versus 4% worth of family photos, for example. I'm not a FB user but I understand there is an audience for fighting about news stories on FB a&#x2
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by docdeek 6y ago
Facebook's statement says that news is only 4% of what is shared on their platform. I'm not sure 4% is a major hit to their platform. On the other hand, they delivered 5.1 billion views to Australian media sites last year. That wo
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Amazon acquires Selz, a Shopify competitor for small biz to build online stores(cnbc.com)
2 points by docdeek 6y ago|0 comments
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by docdeek 6y ago
That’s interesting - I looked at what was required for my country of nationality and my country of residence, and neither asked for the national ID number. They still wanted the full street address, but no ID number. Any idea why they would
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by docdeek 6y ago
I think they’ll go for news that they can access through an overseas Google portal - instead of going to Google.com.au to get news, they’ll go to another English language portal (.com, .co.uk, .ca) and grab the news there. I guess my thinki
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by docdeek 6y ago
Not sure about Chrome and Android, but iOS global market share is still very low (15%). In my country it is higher (about a third of the market) but nowhere near the market share of Windows in the 1990s. IANAL but this could be part of it.
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by docdeek 6y ago
A few months back Facebook announced that they would respond to the draft code becoming law by just not allowing news stories to be shared in Australia: "Assuming this draft code becomes law, we will reluctantly stop allowing publisher
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by docdeek 6y ago
Interesting - the ‘d’ is for non-binary, or other gender? It seems an easy fix for the headline of a job post. More of an issue is the language itself. The French language is slowly opening itself up to having a male and female word for dif
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by docdeek 6y ago
Here in France most job advertisements specify H/F (for male or female) or use language for the job description that includes both feminine and masculine terms. It had never occurred to me that any of these job posts were anything othe
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Block The New York Times(blocknyt.com)
89 points by docdeek 6y ago|95 comments
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Society for Preventing Parents from Naming Their Children Jennifer(en.wikipedia.org)
19 points by docdeek 6y ago|7 comments
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by docdeek 6y ago
>> “My son is golden because he has a degree from Stanford University.” >>I explained why employers are absolutely wrong for thinking his son is better than someone without a degree or a degree from a public university. Both of
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The Navy Just Filed Patents for New Superweapons(nationalinterest.org)
4 points by docdeek 6y ago|2 comments
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by docdeek 6y ago
Isn’t there an option for GME to issue new stock priced below 200/300/400 which can be bought up by the short sellers? That would relieve their short position, allow an influx of cash for GME, and the only ones that would be hurt
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by docdeek 6y ago
Local anecdote: the new-ish mayor here in my city in France was in the news today after announcing a plan to ban much outdoor advertising and reduce the rest to far smaller panels. [0] It’s a controversial idea for a couple of reasons inclu
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by docdeek 6y ago
Except that if the competitor (Bing, DDG) fell under the same regulation, they can’t offer to pay anything and avoid the regulation. The media organizations make their claim (likely enormous, because they are not adapting to the new reality
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by docdeek 6y ago
Exactly. I think this gets missed in the ‘switch to Bing or DDG’ argument. If Google did leave and 90% of searches started being completed on Bing, Microsoft could be subject to the same regulation (subject to the Minister’s discretion). St
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by docdeek 6y ago
There’s a bit more to it than that. In previous iterations of this fight in other countries Google either has to pay the local media organisations to link to their sites, or they might choose not to link to them, close Google News Australia
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by docdeek 6y ago
There’s the restrictions on serving any news that others have mentioned, but the proposed code also requires them to advise the media organizations of any change to their algorithm that could affect the media companies at least 14 days in
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by docdeek 6y ago
Safari, too.
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Let’s Talk Security Tech About President Biden’s Peloton Bike(dcrainmaker.com)
2 points by docdeek 6y ago|0 comments
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Face recognition can expose political orientation from natural facial images(nature.com)
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by docdeek 6y ago
No, though he was well before my time. ;)
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by docdeek 6y ago
Interesting to imagine an ex-king in disgrace qnd exile from a European country. Having been born under Elizabeth II and having her hang on so long, I can't imagine a similar circumstance for the Commonwealth.
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by docdeek 6y ago
>> The storming of the capitol was probably the most frightening single event in American history in recent times. This is surely hyperbole or else recent times doesn’t include much of the 21st century.
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State-backed manipulation rampant on social media(theconversation.com)
162 points by docdeek 6y ago|64 comments
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by docdeek 6y ago
I agree that keeping different usernames and passwords in your memory is not easy, but to my mind this is exactly the sue case for my password manager. I don’t need to sign in with Google because it’s just a couple of clicks to generate a u

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