pickledoyster

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by pickledoyster 1y ago
> Which is that Apple and Microsoft are the only real system vendors, corporations who can offer an entire integrated system and aren't just either single components or many different components packaged together, but without the in
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
Absolutely. And turning off Siri's "Learn from this app" should not require the user to navigate to every single app's menu, when Siri has a top level page in Settings.
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
>I wish I could get import OpenOffices icons into LibreOffice. I haven't tried it, but I think it's quite possible: https://documentation.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Documen...
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
>large blocks of IP addresses This could be at least partially solved by starting legal and cybersec (bulk blocks, flagging SDKs as malware) action against botnets for rent[0], forcing their SDKs out of app stores[1]. 0 – https:/&#
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
kudos for the format and not wasting the reader's time
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
I would chip in the average Facebook user value for my country if, and only if, Mozilla completely reversed course on ad tech, selling user data, and 'private tracking'. The fact that it acquired Anonym (with its close ties to Fac
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
>take a "Cost Accounting" course do you (or anyone else) have a good course to recommend?
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
> don't we get that from long-running TV series, audiobooks, visual novels, videogames, manga? Different media affect and engage us in different ways/modes, and reading is a process that requires a particular set of skills that
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
Lewis Black had this golden reaction to his audience applauding a smartphone: "Don't you ever, ever applaud an inanimate object again. I believe that's why they have that section about the golden calf." https:/&#x2
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
yup, many mobile app developers do this (inject any SDK that'd pay them) too. Doesn't need to be open source, though
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
Ad view counts and random comments praising the ad are just part of the ad.
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
> your ancestors impulsively tasting mushrooms There are other animals humans can observe instead of impulsively risking their lives.
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
some of us do but the adoption is too low for any meaningful network effect
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
> it's easy to stop using Facebook. It's a lot harder to stop using Google or Amazon. Not in my country, where Facebook owns basically the entire messaging space through Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. I have been able to s
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
The event organizing space in my country is all Facebook events, it begs some proper disruption. I'm no fan of Apple's walled garden, because I believe public events should be fully accessible to the public, but it's hard to
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
The recent Matrix movie is certainly bad, but I strongly believe that a single change would have been cool: in the scenes where it's revealed to the viewer that Neo looks like a different man[1], he should look like Cypher. Someone fam
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
then, after the damage is done, they throw some scraps to the plebs and the comment section is full of thank yous to the monopolist
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
Thanks, but I don't really see how these articles support the claim that their ad network is more efficient. As you note, the first article has a single anecdata point about it actually being 10-15% worse, while the second one basicall
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
> Meta) are not directly impacted by AI even if the cost of training these AI models becomes cheaper and $0 free models get better. cheaper spam and impersonation engines (LLMs) have a direct impact on the ad network that is strategicall
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
> By many accounts, Meta's ad targeting is even better now than before ATT. Could you please provide any sources for this claim?
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
there are some public instances that I use to check a handful of profiles that have yet to migrate elsewhere
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
...np, I guess. To be honest, I'm actually disappointed in myself for helping fb retain a user
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
>And finally: Ordering. Non-chronological ordering makes no sense, because everything is random (probably not, somehow maximizes engagement for users very different from me, I guess). So I can’t even scroll for the stuff I want to see. D
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
I use Thunderbird on a Ubuntu-based distro for a handful of inboxes, including a gmail account. No complaints.
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
Honestly, the entire blog feels that way: referencing the same old tropes and personalities in a slightly novel context. A sort of a comfort read for the web2.0 nostalgia crowd. I guess this approach worked, since it allowed the author to g
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
> The Next Generation Internet (NGI) is a European Commission (EC) initiative that aims to shape the development and evolution of the Internet into an Internet of Trust. An Internet that responds to people’s fundamental needs, including
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
If an air purifier review site is publishing research on their search traffic and affiliate site rings, I feel it's safe to say that their specialty is in seo, not air purifiers.
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
I was hoping to find an /s at the end.
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
This is really off topic, but you are confusing real-time strategy with turn-based strategy.
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by pickledoyster 2y ago
Yes. It's not the regulation but the misguided implementation that's to blame. Sites and cookie banner plugins could just accept DNT signals from browsers and no productivity would be lost.

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