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by shortformblog 1y ago
You’re describing socialism (wealth redistribution to be exact). At this point, just make that money a tax and give it to the publishers directly. Cut out the middlemen.
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by shortformblog 1y ago
LOL, you don’t. You really don’t. As I told you like four hours ago, ads are impression-based. Just because you bought something that helped them buy an ad doesn’t mean you did shit for my website. In fact, you did the opposite.
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by shortformblog 1y ago
Maybe in the cosmic sense you are, in that they have a giant pile of money, and you contributed a few pennies to it, but this is not how accounting works. Your transaction and their ad budget are separate things. Also, advertising does othe
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by shortformblog 1y ago
It’s up to them how they spend their money, not you. You can complain if they somehow damaged your product, they got your money unfairly, or were somehow doing something bad with your data, but at some point it is their money to spend how t
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by shortformblog 1y ago
Your point is illogical. It’s like you’ve invented a theory as to how companies advertise that has zero tethering to reality. It’s especially stupid because it doesn’t include publishers in the equation at all. It’s just you looping over yo
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by shortformblog 1y ago
Publishers don't get paid a dime if you block the ad unless they are doing a direct ad transaction. Adtech has largely made that transaction a rarity for like 30 years. It's not like newspapers where advertising is paid in full be
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Most personal websites started in 1995 disappeared long ago. Not Newgrounds(fastcompany.com)
3 points by shortformblog 1y ago|0 comments
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by shortformblog 1y ago
I, for one, think it’s hilarious that a company that put so much energy into being ultra-exclusive ended up getting acquired by a company with such a mainstream reputation. Grammarly’s target audience is the people who couldn’t join Superhu
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by shortformblog 1y ago
There is. It can be heavily customized to your needs and built to leverage a large ngram data set: https://dev.languagetool.org/finding-errors-using-n-gram-dat... I would suggest diving into it more because it seems like yo
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by shortformblog 1y ago
LanguageTool (a Grammarly competitor) is also open source and can be managed locally: https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool I generally run it in a Docker container on my local machine: https://hu
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by shortformblog 1y ago
Hey, just to offer more details on this piece: After I saw the initial video with Perifractic, I reached out to him via fax (a 20th century technology) to set up an interview over Zoom (a 21st century technology). Over an hour-long call, he
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by shortformblog 1y ago
I’m sorry you can’t tell the difference between a 2,500 word profile and an AI piece.
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by shortformblog 1y ago
This is a fresh interview with him with many additional details.
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A Retro YouTuber Wants to Take over Commodore. Yes, He's Serious(tedium.co)
15 points by shortformblog 1y ago|12 comments
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by shortformblog 1y ago
Our tire was shredded so that would not have worked.
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by shortformblog 1y ago
We know how to change a damn tire. We just couldn’t easily buy one because Gatlinburg didn’t have any garages open on Sunday morning.
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by shortformblog 1y ago
The problem was less that we had to replace it and more that it was a fairly significant distance away. (A distance made longer because we weren’t on the freeway but heavily trafficked roads in a tourist-heavy area.) We were near downtown G
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by shortformblog 1y ago
There are plenty of places where it would make sense, actually, but Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg are very much not on that list. They are towns surrounded by mountains where once you get off the strip, you may not even run into a gas station
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by shortformblog 1y ago
The irony being, of course, that it is surrounded by an area where it is basically impossible to get by without a car. My wife and I once left Gatlinburg after a week there and our tire blew out on the way out of town. It was a Sunday morni
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by shortformblog 1y ago
This is good to have. A few months ago I was testing a S3 alternative but running into issues getting it to work. Turned out it was because AWS made changes to the tool that had the effect of blocking non-first-party clients. Just sheer cha
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Marriott Hotel Website Is Blocking Linux Users [video](youtube.com)
8 points by shortformblog 1y ago|2 comments
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Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software(tedium.co)
573 points by shortformblog 2y ago|342 comments
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I respect that you did this. Nice quick data grab.
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I mean, threads can be awkward discussion mediums, but what’s democratizing about them is that they can atomize engagement. If every tweet is a roll of the dice, it raises your odds of reaching an audience when you have a bunch of them. And
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Ghost-MCP: A Model Context Protocol Server for Ghost CMS(fanyangmeng.blog)
2 points by shortformblog 2y ago|0 comments
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by shortformblog 2y ago
I actually helped with some of the beta testing for it. They worked on it very early on in the Apple silicon Mac lifecycle, and it hasn’t been updated in nearly half a decade. I consider it a proof of concept. https://github.com&
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by shortformblog 2y ago
As a 20-year Mac enthusiast who knew a thing or two about Hackintoshing, Marcan got me excited about Linux. The idea that someone could just say, “we can solve this difficult problem and make it work, with little external help”? That is the
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Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?(tedium.co)
641 points by shortformblog 2y ago|473 comments
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by shortformblog 2y ago
Seems like a kit that can be personalized across broad categories might be a better bet. By putting the onus on one list you don’t solve the main problem, which is that the list might block things you’re fine with.
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by shortformblog 2y ago
The problem with a list like this is that a “bad website” is in the eye of the beholder. I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with you personally not liking the Shopify or the Semrush blog. But I think that everyone else has their own

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