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Missing: Billions of Views(12challenges.substack.com)
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Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?(12challenges.substack.com)
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Crap and Gold(12challenges.substack.com)
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by louisbarclay 3y ago
.er TLD does exist, but not available for registration AFAIK But since you mention GambiNO, if I were to move to Norway and become resident, I could claim gambi.no, I think it's available I'd then have to petition Glover to also m
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Giving Glover Gil.ga: a linkname pitch(12challenges.substack.com)
5 points by louisbarclay 3y ago|2 comments
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How to hunt down TikTok's top videos(12challenges.substack.com)
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Today's top TikTok is [shrug](12challenges.substack.com)
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by louisbarclay 3y ago
Love it - will add a section with more innovative approaches like this e.g. was just chatting with a fellow cease-and-desist receiver, Mohammed Shah, who finds comfort in using a different misspelling for the name of the lawyer harassing hi
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by louisbarclay 3y ago
Thanks brother. By which I mean, you are literally my brother
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by louisbarclay 3y ago
I am completely unclear on whether publishing your project open source gives it (at least, the code, if not any deployed version) any kind of protection if Facebook etc. target it I would love to get a lawyer's take on that, although I
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by louisbarclay 3y ago
Good point. And thinking about it, I know cases where people have received C&Ds anyway while only using official APIs and services. Will edit
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by louisbarclay 3y ago
Yep, that's true - also something I need to reflect in the guide is it's important to understand which jurisdiction you're under, since that'll affect your rights Usually the terms of service you sign up to make it clear
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by louisbarclay 3y ago
super useful to know - could I interview you about this to add to the guide? you can find contact details on my personal site louis.work
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How to deal with receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Big Tech(12challenges.substack.com)
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TrojanTok, or using social media against social media(12challenges.substack.com)
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Giving Kingcharl.es to King Charles for Xmas(12challenges.substack.com)
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Linknames(linknam.es)
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by louisbarclay 5y ago
After they kicked the guy out of the store, they told him that for the rest of his life he can't help anyone else use the store less, because he was once in the store
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Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less(slate.com)
620 points by louisbarclay 5y ago|264 comments
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You only need 2,450M True Fans to be successful(cloak.ist)
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by louisbarclay 6y ago
> It got more upvotes because of the errant Show HN than it would have otherwise. I'll trust you on that and reiterate my apologies. I have never thought that Show HNs get more votes by default (look at the Show HNs in my history, y
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by louisbarclay 6y ago
Ah, this is my bad. Sorry. I thought I saw a Show HN the other day that linked to a blog post. And I also did it because the ‘How’ got removed from the title when I tried it originally, which I guess is house style. Is this why the post has
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by louisbarclay 6y ago
Thanks a lot! Just to clarify, I’m not taking myself down (I’m really happy with where Cloakist is at) - I just felt like writing some satire to mock all similar serious articles in that genre, including my own. And congrats on the awesome
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How I got to $9.99 MRR after 7 years(cloak.ist)
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How to put Ghost blog at /blog for $5/m(cloak.ist)
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by louisbarclay 6y ago
Good point. I had that debate with myself. And I concluded that since I'm going to be adding quite a few domains to Unweb in the near future, and since I don't want users to be asked for new permissions every time they install a n
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by louisbarclay 6y ago
Hi HN, I built Unweb which is like adblock for distracting stuff. It default-hides things like feeds, related content etc. on popular sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, HN, LinkedIn. You can always show these distractions when you need
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Show HN: Unweb – adblock for distractions (including HN)(unweb.app)
4 points by louisbarclay 6y ago|3 comments
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Bad blocking will be the new ad blocking(hackernoon.com)
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by louisbarclay 7y ago
Aha, that's an interesting thought. Nudge theory is exactly why I've named the extension Nudge. It's a theory that was designed for good, by Thaler and Sunstein - the idea being to alter default environments so that people fi

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