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by pixodaros 2y ago
In the first blogging boom (funded by Google to get people posting more so they had more results to serve and get them reading more to be advertised to) most blogs were hosted by LiveJournal, blogspot, Automattic, etc. In the second bloggi
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by pixodaros 2y ago
When cholera spread around the world, we did not pretend it was 1830 again, we started cleaning the water we drunk or we died. When AIDS spread around the world, we did not to back to boinking like we were flight attendants in the 1970s, w
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by pixodaros 2y ago
I'm out of the web dev game but wouldn't you just write code to search for links to the ten or so most popular wrappers for Paypal or Stripe and then an API to perform the transaction? That should cover 99% of the actual payments
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by pixodaros 2y ago
If your site has no tracking, it does not need a cookie banner in the EU. AFAIK Wikipedia or Archive of our Own have none.
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by pixodaros 2y ago
Now count how much money and time is wasted loading all the spyware of typical commercial websites to generate a tiny value from selling ads and personally identifying information (the mobile data costs alone ...)
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by pixodaros 2y ago
The Internet and social media create the illusion that everyone is talking and making because people get as many 'votes' as they are able and willing to post. Face to face we see the people who are just listening and are perhaps
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by pixodaros 2y ago
I don't have access to your "many friends and acquaintances who are going bankrupt and shutting down fantastic independently run websites." I absolutely don't have access to the internals of their businesses to decide w
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by pixodaros 2y ago
Visits from Google to one of my independent sites have been about the same in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Visits to another have roughly doubled from year to year. I don't use Google Search or surveillance ads but I don't have the iss
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by pixodaros 2y ago
You might think so, but if you do the math, the difference between 165 cm tall and 180 cm tall scaled to an 8 cm wide hand is only 7 mm. And Roland is rather tall, so if he can hold a sword in a certain way, smaller people certainly could!
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by pixodaros 2y ago
Meta-analyses such as the 2023 study need a lot of attention to interpret correctly, and I can't spare that time right now. Have you read the 2005 study? Note 25 of the 1945 article says that its stature estimates are based on a total
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by pixodaros 2y ago
I am told that there are websites where people post scans of academic books and articles without asking the publisher for permission first. One of those might hypothetically have the three articles which Kron cites, but the URL is likely t
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by pixodaros 2y ago
Because a peer-reviewed article published in 2005 which I did link says "Lawrence Angel's anthropological studies of Greek skeletal remains give mean heights for Classical Greek males of 170.5 cm or 5' 7.1" (n = 58) and
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by pixodaros 2y ago
Its not open access because it was a book published in 1985! You have to do a little bit of work to research this like any subject but I provided a link to an open-access paper which summarizes it and two other studies (your local public l
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by pixodaros 2y ago
You are citing the preliminary study by Angel in 1945 (published when Greece was recently liberated from military occupation and moving towards civil war!) not the 1985 study by Angel and others which Kron cites. In his later work, Angel an
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by pixodaros 2y ago
See this paper by Geoffrey Kron which shows later studies (some of them by the same authors) in which adult males from classical Greece were about as tall as the dead men from Tollense battlefield https://www.academia.edu/36
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by pixodaros 2y ago
The problem for people starting in the world of work in the USA is that its very hard to get a job that pays real money without degrees, certifications, and contacts. Its also much easier for most people to do the 'looks good feels go
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by pixodaros 2y ago
Your example of having engineering degrees but spending much of your working life writing is a good example of how income and academic degree don't necessarily go together. If you get training rather than an education you have a clear
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by pixodaros 2y ago
Think of people who started a Computer Science degree in 2019 or 2020 (yes, individuals can maximize their chances of getting a software development job after university, but as a collective many of them will have to do something else for t
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by pixodaros 2y ago
The problem is finding that intersection. If you are really suited to journalism you will have a hard time financially in 2024. And the experience of studying a thing and doing it for a living are different, and in 2024 its hard to try dif
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by pixodaros 2y ago
There are no guarantees in education. Lots of people have degrees in engineering, finance, software engineering, etc. but are not working in that field, either because they find they don't like the work or because that field is not hi
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by pixodaros 2y ago
Pinboard is Maciej Ceglowski's only visible source of income but he seems to be having jerkbrain troubles (moving from the open web to Twitter makes those worse, kids, don't do that)
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by pixodaros 2y ago
1. depression sucks 2. don't go on Twitter kids, it always ends badly 3. trusting a company with a bus factor of 1 is always risky
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by pixodaros 2y ago
The alternative search engines are powered by Bing, Yandex, or only index a small part of the web https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
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by pixodaros 2y ago
News organizations have been assigning "summarize who won the game and any notable events" stories to computers for a while, although having the computer narrate the story is less common
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by pixodaros 2y ago
The problem is that if you have 2 years of experience and the job wants 5 to 7 how to compete with all the laid-off people with 10 years of experience
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The Creature on the Persepolis Staircase(spraguedecampfan.wordpress.com)
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by pixodaros 2y ago
There are also search engines for the small web or indy web such as https://ooh.directory/ (blogs) and https://wiby.me/ Sites like that don't tend to have a lot of ads, surveillance, and other things
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by pixodaros 2y ago
I start by treating Javascript as whitelist only. If the site is blank without Javascript, I ask myself what is the chance its worth enabling scripts one by one. HTML CSS and reasonably sized images are quick, its videos, scripts, and cal
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by pixodaros 2y ago
It can't get that book authentically aged, printed with non-PoD methods, and in to libraries and publishers' websites, with contemporary reviews and advertisements, etc. AdVon was having overseas workers and LLMs write online pro
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by pixodaros 2y ago
I suggest these things printed on dead trees called "books" with publication dates in 2021 or earlier or from established publishers which don't print a Word doc emailed them by "T.T. Notchatgpt"

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