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Victorian Artistic Printing (2009)(sheaff-ephemera.com)
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The Canadian Type Scene(luc.devroye.org)
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by jfil 2y ago
I'm building something similar for 7 grocery vendor in Canada and am looking to talk with others who are doing this - my email is in my profile. One difference: I'm recording each scraping session as a HAR file (for proving proven
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A gentle reminder that the "fluff" is people.
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The History of ASCII (Text) Art(roysac.com)
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You might like the "Tildeverse" There are also things like active Telnet-based BBS servers, for a pre-web social experience...
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It's great to see more non-programmers realize how ephemeral Web content is, and taken bare-bones archiving efforts. If you or someone you know are looking to archive content from the Web, but don't know how, I'll be happy to
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by jfil 2y ago
I'm a fellow Canadian, and in my early 20s I realized that the normal hunger pain I was feeling... wasn't normal. Instead of pain, others experienced a different feeling that told them "I could eat right now". After an e
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Monetization and Monopolies: How the Internet You Loved Died(radicalcontributions.substack.com)
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I've been in the Marketing Technology space for over 14 years (SEO, Affiliate, Programmatic ad networks, Analytics, Email). Here are my thoughts: * I agree with Rand that this change is happening and it heralds a big vhange. It is also
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by jfil 2y ago
On the Marketer side, the people who took individual effort to block ads & cookies were always too few to make an impact. I think the turning point was European legislation, and the current war on cookies (I.e. requiring clear consent f
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by jfil 2y ago
I've been working in the difital advertising space for >14 years, and I'll second Nextgrid's comment. >Is it a ruse to oversell ads to gullible business owners, maybe with some help of complicit marketing departments? A
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The "kids clicking ads" sector drives a lot of money + content production on YouTube. Check out "Elsa-gate".
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The reason we are paying $6k/year for something that normally costa $20 is that we've been with this Marketing Automation provider fir many years, and a lot of our internal training/documentation/integrations are tailore
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I wrote about a few of the secret sauce tricks here: https://jacobfilipp.com/blocklistings/ It's very challenging to maintain good mailer reputation when you let "the public" use your IP addresses (easie
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I'm going to die in this hill: solving Canada's problems has to start with abolishing the first-past-the-post voting system. The electorate's will is being ignored, and politicians have few reasons to keep their promises.
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Janet Stephens – independent hairstyle researcher(en.wikipedia.org)
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"Mindat" might be another one that fits. It is a community-built database of minerals. New minerala are still being diacovered and named by hobbyists & dealers.
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UK heritage crafts, by risk of extinction(heritagecrafts.org.uk)
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>>And for me the question is always how to make it "more active" Some ideas: * Write a summary/synthesis of what you read * Annotate content as you read (with your own comments). Write in the margin of books - so readin
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"Omnibus bills" in a legislature. Where a politician can inject an unrelated law under the radar. There are also templated laws that are written by a corporation to its benefit and preswnted in different regions as though they are
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Archive and Survive – preserving music for a thousand years(klangmag.co)
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This ia truein a free and conpetitive market. In the case of Meta's properties, consumers do not have agency. They are locked in (through a friend-graph that they cannot export to a competitor) and monopoly abuse keeps killing viable a
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And for the in-demand FAANG jobs: we only accept applicationa written in blackletter on vellum
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Beyond Peace and Quiet – A Craving for the Hermit's Life(theguardian.com)
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>>I constantly ask myself why I shouldn't make more money every month. The worst part is I truly do not know whether this is a ‘good’ mindset to have. If you are Sking yourself the same question as the author, consider an alterna
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I'm also interested in talking with you, acuozzo. Do you have an email addr for people to reach you? I can offer encouragement and a set of attitudes that enable me to do archival/writing on top of parenting + day job duties.
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My original comment was only focused on construction approvals and the challenges with the City' Committee of Adjustments. Things are changing, where power to approve projects is moving more towards the Provincial level (which has pros
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As a stopgap, you can download Streetview spheres to your computer. Start with one place that's nostalgic/important to you. For one-at-a-time downloads, use a set of bookmarklets [1] I created for this purpose. For downloading an
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When I first moved out on my own, I went to live in a very hip neighbourhood in Toronto - West Queen West. It was gentrifying, and had a lot of artsy spots, cafes, hole-in-the-wall nightclubs. It was an amazing time living there. A little b

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