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by troyvit 2y ago
Whoah good point. Man for how small that market is they sure spend a lot of time screwing it up. Given their closed systems, do Google, Meta and TikTok have tighter controls over ads served to kids that they just aren't applying, or is
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by troyvit 2y ago
Even at our solar system's scale it can seem slow. Pluto gets to about 50AU from the sun, but the Oort cloud is between 2,000 and 5,000 AU from the sun. 24 1/2 days until something reaches earth vs almost seven years.
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by troyvit 2y ago
And Programmatic advertising makes this extremely difficult. Once you add a giant, automated ad exchange to advertising you've created opaque supply chains that help make it trivial to obfuscate who actually makes money from an ad. Thi
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by troyvit 2y ago
This is an extremely well formed comment, and thanks for all the sources backing it up. > Any smart nation who wants to protect the minds of their citizens would do well to extremely regulate social media in their country. Extremely reg
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by troyvit 2y ago
My guess is that journalism failed this election and social media won it. * Advertising is failing for news sites, so paywalls are becoming the new thing. Those are a barrier to entry for most potential readers. * As one of the largest soci
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by troyvit 2y ago
We are dependent on imports, and that's a good thing, but it doesn't mean we can't influence how they are created. > TVs, phones, computers, household appliances and automobiles (both foreign and domestic) are filled with
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by troyvit 2y ago
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/against-their-will-the-sit... is a good start
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by troyvit 2y ago
> Every government will do as much harm as it can and as much good as it must. [1] Claude Cockburn [1] https://jacobin.com/2024/12/claud-cockburn-guerrilla-journal...
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by troyvit 2y ago
Oh totally -- I apologize if I came across as flippant or sarcastic I wasn't trying to; it's a serious question. For me personally, if the world's economy relies on slave labor then it's a pretty broken economy and it&#x
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by troyvit 2y ago
For you personally, which is more important, the economic problems that come with this with having to re-source these materials from somewhere else, or the byproduct of (we assume) the US having less slave labor in its supply chain? I can s
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by troyvit 2y ago
Hmmm "Eat the rich" has failed, but I like this "Send the rich to Mars" alternative ... where do I donate?
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by troyvit 2y ago
This is a really good article that puts very clearly some of the WTF moments I've had since having to take over a React project. However, if the title is "If not React, then what?", then the author should've answered tha
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by troyvit 2y ago
Doh! Sorry I misunderstood you dmd
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by troyvit 2y ago
> We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins. -- Ellen Ullman
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by troyvit 2y ago
lol I think the only reason you're being downvoted is because the common belief at HN is, "of course marketing is lying and/or doesn't know what they're talking about." Personally I think you have a point.
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by troyvit 2y ago
Cloudflare is a company, not a public utility. If they want to disallow any sites that make fun of cuttlefish they get to do that. If you want a CDN that follows the rules of a public utility I think you're out of luck on this planet.
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by troyvit 2y ago
There's a cool book I didn't finish White Bread by Aaron Bobrow-Strain. It talks about the history of store bought bread supplanting home baked bread, and the marketing wars waged both for and against store bought bread. I'm
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by troyvit 2y ago
I agree, and when I see foreign currency as an option I think of two possibilities. First, moving to the country that hosts that currency. Second, waiting for the US currency to slide into obscurity and switching to whatever takes over as t
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by troyvit 2y ago
Yeah I kinda liked it. It made me stop and listen where I was, realizing all the weird noises happening around me that I was mentally trying to cancel out.
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by troyvit 2y ago
I work in an org where, despite the hell they put themselves through with GA4 I can't convince them to switch to Plausible or Matomo. Part of the reason is interoperability with their partners, but most of it is the mentality that they
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by troyvit 2y ago
God I can't believe what an evangelist I'm becoming for something I only understand a little, but here you go: https://github.com/stevendborrelli/bluesky-tech-starter-pack... https://github.com&#x2
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by troyvit 2y ago
I think that's the big question. I know jack about social media, but since I've joined Bluesky I've seen it go from 0 spam to a spammy post once or twice a week. It remains to be seen how moderation handles that with the larg
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by troyvit 2y ago
Seconded. I haven't more than glanced at national news since November 6. I still get a few rumblings on Bluesky ("Trump nominated who?!" or whatever) but for the most part it's sea worms, cats 'n mushrooms, comics (
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by troyvit 2y ago
I even felt that way reading The Onion's article about this and then listening to Alex Jones' rant on Xitter. They sounded like they came from the same writer.
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by troyvit 2y ago
You made my day with the image you conjured!
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by troyvit 2y ago
So true! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb 'The concept was originally developed by the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was seen as a "cleaner" bomb for use against massed So
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by troyvit 2y ago
Man there's nothing like finding a restaurant off the strip, ordering a bottle of wine and a big meal, and just eating and drinking and reading a book for 2 hours while your co-workers are crammed around a 16 person table in a noisy re
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by troyvit 2y ago
> no longer needed with colour. I think the increased legibility for visual pattern matching also makes SQL easier to read for many of the 350 million color blind people in the world.
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by troyvit 2y ago
I'd take this with a grain of Silurian Salt, but there is some fossil evidence that a Tyrannosaurus Rex or two healed from injuries significant enough that surviving them would almost require help from somebody. The fossil of Barbara[0
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by troyvit 2y ago
The way a dog behaviorist described it to me was, "A dog can feel jealous, but the dog doesn't _know_ that he/she feels jealous." I don't know if I believe that, but I've been pondering it for the last 20 years

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