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by uniqueid 6y ago
"people who don't like YouTube" Whether people like Youtube isn't that relevant to my comment. The argument for breaking up Bell's monopoly in the 1980s wasn't "I dislike telephony"
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by uniqueid 6y ago
YT is much more valuable to human civilization in general Netflix might be a safer bet, for that reason. I think many people, including people with standing and influence, would prefer Earth's public repository of historical v
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by uniqueid 6y ago
A proper, popular search engine is incredibly expensive to run Is it? Google rakes in a lot of money, and so has the rope to publicly hang itself with silly, expensive initiatives. That doesn't mean the Search product categor
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Woman born in 1881 discusses the “information society” (1979)(youtube.com)
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by uniqueid 6y ago
The theories that social media popularizes have elements like galactic lizard people, vast conspiracies of baby-blood-drinking liberals, the earth being flat... If the people who argue for these theories aren't "idiots" they&
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by uniqueid 6y ago
They should start with Project Veritas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I'll answer: for starters, I want a protocol for articles that puts the dev into a straight-jacket: no dynamic features, no control of font or font-size, no ability to position text boxes. Basically, a protocol to present text articles
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Many, possible most, young people today have nothing to compare today's internet with. I recently read someone here arguing that "without ads, there's no incentive for anyone to create new content!" If you're older,
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I don't pay much attention to which is which; if you search for "pihole adlist" you'll find lots of recommendations. FYI: You can add the list URLs in the web interface to "Group Management > Adlists" It too
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by uniqueid 6y ago
The book is "The Demon-Haunted World" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon-Haunted_World
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by uniqueid 6y ago
15% That's actually low! Once you add some custom lists, it'll go higher than that. The lowest ratio of blocked requests I see is 38% on mine. When I use a news reader app on my phone, it goes up to around 55%.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Amazon: "destroy small businesses" If you want a picture of the future, imagine an "Amazon Essentials" boot stamping on a small business owner's face — forever.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Finally, a way to give Google my voice-print without having to buy Google Home!
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by uniqueid 6y ago
If Tesla made humans, that fact would be a problem for them.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Unfortunately that still chills legitimate negative reviews. That is true, but it is a question of degree. If my legal name is attached to a review, I, personally, will not post ever . If I know the only way someone can find my le
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Ideally, one entity should know the user's identity, and the user can choose what information that entity can make public. Most sites don't need to know a user's legal name, though they may need to know that the user doesn&#x
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by uniqueid 6y ago
The alternative to "link to custom fonts on a third-party server" isn't "don't use custom fonts" though, it's "host them on your own server". In any event, the point about accessibility is wrong
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Whichever font a designer uses, it won't look any worse if they store it on their own server instead of link to it on fontawesome.com or fonts.google.com
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Good, host them on your own server. It's one point of failure fewer, anyways!
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by uniqueid 6y ago
That whole section rings true... By comparison, the gap between a 2010 MacBook and a 2020 MacBook is shockingly narrow. Looking at this spec sheet from 2020 eyes, I'm imagining that this computer would run today's softwa
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Stop using externally-hosted fonts, too! It's 2020. I don't visit websites to marvel at their beauty; I just want to read the article. So I'm not going to compromise my privacy just to read seven or eight paragraphs of text i
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I'm quite happy to defer to your take on this particular protest. In general, I just find the issue of "sedition" interesting. On the one hand, it makes sense that a minority not take it upon themselves to override a democrat
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by uniqueid 6y ago
A lot of democratic countries have restrictions on plotting against the government; America, for example (18 US Code 2385). I should add, I don't know the details of this story, and I'm not a lawyer.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Ha, good point! Maybe the balance of those who have already quit is the inverse of what I assumed. To my point, though, I'm envisioning a longer-term culture-shift.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
My thinking is that it takes a certain personality type to whistle-blow, or push back against SOP for moralistic (or customer-focused) reasons. I don't want to overplay my hand here — I don't know for certain — but Coinbase's
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I could see this working out badly. I think Coinbase will now attract/retain fewer conscientious employees. The kind of employees who definitely won't leave are the ones with careerist/mercenary personality types. If that bec
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Allowing FB to decide whom to censor isn't ideal, but better than what we have at the moment. At least, if the public kicks up enough fuss over the egregious cases, FB might respond. I think, left to FB's own devices, in a decade
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by uniqueid 6y ago
If free speech in the real world created a world of "superstition, poverty, social unrest, and war" would I consider removing free speech there too? Well, no. If we except social networks, I don't believe free-speech
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Hypothetically, if that (ie: maximizing free speech on the social networks) created a world of superstition, poverty, violent social unrest, unchecked pollution, and war, would you reconsider your position?
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by uniqueid 6y ago
One thing that annoys me about the internet is that many forums tend to vet claims of discrimination more thoroughly when the injured party is a minority, as opposed to a member of the majority. Granted, it's not a new phenomenon (see

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