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by gdulli 3y ago
I don't think those are the bots he cares about, just the read-only unauthenticated users. For the value they extract from scraping, the costs they incur, and the opportunity cost of not advertising to real people who browse anonymousl
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by gdulli 3y ago
> So, this is literally, "an allegation is enough" scenario. If you're a private entity without the investigative powers of law enforcement, then public knowledge and your best judgement better be enough, because they&#x27
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by gdulli 3y ago
I don't want to maintain an account and surveillance footprint on my phone for every brand or restaurant I deal with. I don't ever get delivery and prefer to eat on site rather than get takeout so I don't have a need to order
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by gdulli 3y ago
I will absolutely not install an app to order food. But if it means Taco Bell is no longer part of my diet I'll take it as a win.
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by gdulli 3y ago
I've also noticed that the economics of fast food make no sense anymore compared to groceries and casual restaurants. Inflation has hit everything, but fast food has not retained the relative discount. A footlong basic chicken sub at a
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by gdulli 3y ago
If technology through streaming, AI, and other enshittifying forces are scaling up pre-existing bullshit from annoying trends into absolute omnipresence, that's worth recognizing and talking about as its own phenomenon.
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by gdulli 3y ago
They absolutely do sell your data, they just launder it through various ad tech obfuscations to achieve a veneer of anonymization.
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by gdulli 3y ago
TV ads haven't been unskippable since Tivo came out in 1999. Try exercising that much control over an internet stream these days. We're going to look back at cable/DVRs as the last time advertising was strongly separated from
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by gdulli 3y ago
My Verizon Fios set top has a feature where it periodically flashes a warning on the TV when the remote's batteries are low. The problem is, these warnings start when the batteries still have several months of life left. So my choice i
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by gdulli 3y ago
The point is that in an alternate reality, in the absence of terrible experiences like Twitter and Reddit controlling what we see with algorithms, RSS tools we have greater personal control of are what we could be/should be using inste
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by gdulli 3y ago
This argument is like saying that Napster didn't change anything because we'd previously been able to trade MP3s on FTP servers.
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by gdulli 3y ago
Great, now I have to figure out whether to go by the standards of mycologos or Mortimer J. Adler.
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by gdulli 3y ago
What's the right number of times to read a book, and what's the right notion of what a book's supposed to be, and what degree of flexibility to it is required? We're all eager to start reading correctly but can't un
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by gdulli 3y ago
The email in my bio would love to get started there if you happen to have any invites left.
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by gdulli 3y ago
It had been going downhill since before Musk, he's not to blame for the start of that. But it's certainly spiraled and become unusable since the acquisition.
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by gdulli 3y ago
They probably meant RIP Twitter, RIP what it once was and used to be capable of.
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by gdulli 3y ago
Has a good cross-media site ever been done, for books, games, shows, movies, and music in one place? Or is there anyone else who has that vision? I could see myself spending a lot of time on a site where I could maintain one profile/ha
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by gdulli 3y ago
You're not damned if you practice judgment that keeps you from using machine learning anywhere just because you can, inflicting others with the hassle of inevitable false positives, false negatives, and false sense of security in a sol
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by gdulli 3y ago
Southern New England, contact me at the email on my profile or if you post yours I'll contact you.
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by gdulli 4y ago
Twitter was profitable as recently as 2019. A simple round of layoffs to fix the pandemic overhiring could have brought them back to that, or close enough that they wouldn't have had to blow up the service in bigger ways. Although this
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by gdulli 4y ago
My client stopped working and I deleted an account that I'd used daily for over a decade. It would have been hard for me to break that habit on my own if I'd actively tried. Twitter is a lame duck. Its problems and missteps are mo
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by gdulli 4y ago
I'm a big SNL nerd and have favorite sketches/memories going back over 30 years. I find it very rewatchable, but streaming services don't have full episodes, and even downloading full episodes wouldn't make it easy to fi
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by gdulli 4y ago
Yes and you can technically also email an admin to request manual deletion of comments, but neither is that in the spirit of having the level of control over your own provided content that you'd expect anywhere else.
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by gdulli 4y ago
You're commenting on one of the few sites on the internet that doesn't give you the freedom to delete your own content. It's the main reason I don't take my participation here very seriously and can only treat it as anon
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by gdulli 4y ago
But you have control over your perception. If you tell yourself only futility is possible, yes you'll experience futility. Some amount of stress is something we need to be able to deal with, not avoid altogether. It's not cyanide.
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by gdulli 4y ago
> Why the fuck would I ever put in more effort than absolutely necessary when I will not be rewarded proportionately for the increased effort? Because it's unpredictable how and when you'll be rewarded, so why not put yourself
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by gdulli 4y ago
I really this attitude is too dire. Effort is not always rewarded quickly or transactionally. But over the long run, it does make a difference. Even if there's more bullshit and frustration than there should be along the way.
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by gdulli 4y ago
As is usually the case, what they decided was something much narrower than the general case. LinkedIn still can and does make efforts to prevent/restrict automated browsing at scale. What they can't do is selectively block traffic
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by gdulli 4y ago
That's not an apples to apples comparison. It's more like people shafting themselves for not evaluating the space of money market savings accounts. You can stay with the same bank and go from a 0.01% rate to 4%+.
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by gdulli 4y ago
> I just have no idea how someone could possibly be this diluted. A few years ago on my doctor's suggestion I started making a point of drinking water throughout the day.

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