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by phreack 6y ago
The elephant in the room is Disney I'd say, basically. Disney owns all blockbuster movies now, and wants to sell them around the entire world, and no Disney property shall have sexuality. Same goes for Apple, who forbids any adult cont
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by phreack 6y ago
The article talks about AdNauseam, an extension that autoclicks every ad it finds to try and poison the data well, and that the creators found out that Google would accept most of those clicks and charge advertisers / pay out websites
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by phreack 6y ago
If I may ask, who found you, and how did you figure it out? Do you have anything you'd have done differently to avoid it?
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Godot maintainer removes controversial satirical piece from documentation(github.com)
386 points by phreack 6y ago|493 comments
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by phreack 6y ago
It's inherent inasmuch as that if companies are able to profit by using 'smartness', they will do it, absolutely. I've yet to see one company large enough to sell TVs with a proven track record of not selling data for ad
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by phreack 6y ago
Yeah there's a 30% 'solidarity' tax and then another 35% tax once we're at it, but the second one you can discount from income tax or get a rebate if you go through some bureaucratic processes.
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by phreack 6y ago
Yeah that's exactly it. If your coin loses value by the second, you end up turning to whatever other asset you can find. If you can't acquire a state-based currency from a more stable country, real estate, or any other stable asse
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by phreack 6y ago
There's a lot of legal exchanges, and also a booming black market and p2p, all of them with a similar spread. And there's a lot of legal projects aiming to control crypto trading going on at the moment, but it's uncertain wha
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by phreack 6y ago
There's a bit more nuance to it, in that you're not even allowed to buy at the official rate, and buying something in USD with a credit card gets you slapped with a 65% tax, so it's more like the 140-160 rate actually reflect
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by phreack 6y ago
And even then, only barely, since all of the open jobs are US/Canada only. There's a bunch of countries even on the same timezones being skipped, so I'd say it's pretty geographically centralized too.
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by phreack 6y ago
That's entirely right - here's an article you might like about your idea in case you haven't read it already. It's lately got me thinking a lot about the difficulties in simple organization. https://slatestarc
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by phreack 6y ago
One of the reasons I get weary of going through the unsubscribe route is that it's always a gray-on-white link incredibly hidden at the bottom of the email, like every single time. It's a miracle it's there at all. It'd
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by phreack 6y ago
It definitely gave me Clippy vibes, and suddenly thrust me into a Black Mirror type of situation where a current day Clippy would literally forward all of your work (keystrokes, open programs, files) to sales and ad representatives so they
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by phreack 6y ago
But even then, there's really no point in trolling the PR section of Github besides griefing. Just fork the thing and make a better Signal if you believe so harshly that there's no hope with Moxie at the helm.
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by phreack 6y ago
I know the usual explanation is that they're too big to respond, but at this point I've become of the mind that if you can't handle the most basic explanation as to why lock out a user from your service, and at least one way
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by phreack 6y ago
It is kind of frustrating when everyone talks about this like it's this obviously famous thing, acting pretentiously, lamenting how there's nothing like it anymore, shunning everyone else - and it turns out it's basically a m
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by phreack 6y ago
Yeah, same here, the only explanation I can think of is that the scammers have someone on the inside approving these fake apps.
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by phreack 6y ago
Even assuming you're right, they've taken a massive PR hit and the public is convinced that RH screwed over their users by choice, and made a profit out of it. I don't think they'll come back in one piece, unless no one
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by phreack 6y ago
That's conceivably manageable if you're Facebook's size with tons and tons of moderators, while improving the data set.
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by phreack 6y ago
Does anyone know how long these kinds of reviews last until passed? Getting into this will be a bloodbath, and I wonder if it'll be with or without notice.
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by phreack 6y ago
Whoa I opened this on mobile (Opera) and it was a mess of overlapping text. I suggest you add a screen saying it's desktop only.
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by phreack 6y ago
There's a lot to take from this development besides Schadenfreude, as I see it living far from Europe. UK founders for one need to be made aware of this since it likely impacts their business directly. But also, from an economic perspe
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by phreack 6y ago
Closest I can think of is Droidcam, which works great on Windows at least - on a wired connection.
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FCC fines white-supremacist robocaller $10M for faking caller ID(arstechnica.com)
2 points by phreack 6y ago|0 comments
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by phreack 6y ago
Anecdotally, I've seen a few places that instead of mentioning the protocol just say 'download G Auth' or 'download Authy', and so far all of those worked with Aegis when I tried.
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by phreack 6y ago
There's an effective monopoly on web browsing, and then any private decision here becomes de facto censorship. How can this be constitutional, ants need to rise and get some rulings down on this topic, the web needs to be brought back
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by phreack 6y ago
> It also doesn't help matters that data plans from ALL telecoms in my country come with FREE WhatsApp bundles. Is that a lack of net neutrality? Does your country have laws about it?
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by phreack 6y ago
The writing was on the wall the moment the acquisition was announced, and we all grieved about it, but it still makes me very sad to see such a graph. I miss Keybase.
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by phreack 6y ago
Have you ever heard of people pronouncing it like that?
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by phreack 6y ago
I had zero knowledge of what any of this was (Sia, Skynet, etc), tried looking it up on the page but the technical terms were too many and there was no glossary I could find. So I started searching, read the Readme on Sia's project on

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