wybiral

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by wybiral 9y ago
> Tell me how I can refuse to bake a cake for someone because their personal views differ from mine. I think you should be able to. But I also think that people can boycott you for doing so.
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by wybiral 9y ago
> You don't get "free speech" on Youtube. Its not a government censoring you. Its a private company doing whatever they want on their private website. Oh, I agree. But this topic keeps coming up over and over recently. It
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by wybiral 9y ago
But they're also in the business of responding to search with facts. YouTube is a strange platform in that respect, but if someone searching for the moon landing gets a conspiracy video in the results because it's popular I don&#x
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by wybiral 9y ago
They can't really win. If you try to squash conspiracy theories like this there will be those free-speech hardliners who see it as crossing a line. If you allow the crazy conspiracy stuff then there will be people who complain about th
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by wybiral 9y ago
Sorry, I didn't think it was that effective anymore. Updated. btw Chrome seems to have some kind of protection against that dialog DoS. From what I've been told Firefox actually downloads the content in the background before you e
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by wybiral 9y ago
Detecting popups like this automatically seems like it will be more of a cat & mouse game with developers trying to find ways around it and then a bunch of legitimate use cases being blocked out. And Firefox still hasn't fixed thei
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by wybiral 9y ago
No, they are TWO different things. Yes, data can be used to improve the effectiveness of advertisements but that doesn't mean they're the same thing. There are also data brokers who are in the business of buying and selling data n
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by wybiral 9y ago
Fair enough. But animals don't have to follow the set of ethics/morals that we seem to value as a species. I'm not saying that this system wouldn't be more prolific or that regulations would somehow cause it to evolve qu
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by wybiral 9y ago
I mean on an individual basis. And I'm skeptical about your assessment that this is merely a problem with "Western Capitalism". This is a problem of any system that doesn't have proper regulations to define the rules of
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by wybiral 9y ago
I think the problem is at a much lower level... This is the nature of competition and evolution. It's the natural progression of a game called "maximize the resources" where there are no rules against exploitation. Which is w
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by wybiral 9y ago
For some services I agree with your sentiment. But we don't have metrics so there's no way to know if this is a fair deal. Remember, they're showing us ads in addition to collecting volumes of information on us, so we're
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by wybiral 9y ago
All we really needed were embedded comments on pages and RSS feeds. It's sad that everything turned into bland walled gardens incapable of interaction between services. Shakes fist at MySpace and Facebook Edit: What I mean by that is
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by wybiral 9y ago
Amazon should do what they can to weed out this kind of thing. But consumers can also be more aware of the sellers on Amazon.
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by wybiral 9y ago
We got rid of Flash, for the most part. But people seem to be in denial of JS being an issue even though it's been used time and time again to bypass security. Personally, my JS has been disabled since Meltdown/Spectre. There are
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by wybiral 9y ago
True, you can track people using plain old cookies and the likes. But JS can do much more shady things than tracking people.
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by wybiral 9y ago
It's not ads that are the problem. It's JavaScript. Plain text or image ads are fine. They can track passively without JS. The problem is that they're using JS to do all kinds of shady stuff.
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by wybiral 9y ago
> Glad you found one of the Easter eggs :D Easter egg? I never have JS enabled on random websites.
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by wybiral 9y ago
I've noticed that too. They seem to have a decent army of people spreading nonsense on social media right now. If you post something negative about IOTA you're likely to get a bunch of troll responses from accounts with histories
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by wybiral 9y ago
It makes the IOTA team look naive and dismissive of serious concerns. I'm not sure how this was meant to "expose" MIT or be pro-IOTA in any way.
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by wybiral 9y ago
Well, Texas...
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by wybiral 9y ago
I live in Austin, Texas and we have a ban on single-use plastic bags. People just have to bring reusable bags when they go shopping or pay extra. It did seem to cut down on the number of bags you see littered about.
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by wybiral 9y ago
Why don't you define Expr to be: type Expr interface { Eval() float64 } Instead of that being an empty interface and ditch the "Eval" interface? Or just require the structs to take instances of "Eval"? That way
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This server code crashes Firefox desktop-based browsers (without JavaScript)(gist.github.com)
2 points by wybiral 9y ago|0 comments
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Procedural video game music in real-time(wybiral.github.io)
2 points by wybiral 9y ago|0 comments
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by wybiral 9y ago
Is there an advantage to using chunked streams like this over using WebSockets like this: https://github.com/wybiral/hookah (this will take newlines from a programs stdout and send them over WebSockets, even aggregatin
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Hookah: Tool for orchestrating WebSocket pipelines/firehose streams(github.com)
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by wybiral 9y ago
You can serve infinite pages like this without JS or weird text issues: fan-pages[dot]herokuapp[dot]com
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by wybiral 9y ago
Better process management and limitations between tabs on browsers can help. For instance, this site will crash most Firefox browsers but not Chrome because they limit the modal dialog rates: fan-pages[dot]herokuapp[dot]com (be warned that
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by wybiral 9y ago
It depends. I watch plenty of maker/electronic/mechanic channels on YouTube and having them recommend a product to me would definitely be more effective than putting an ad on social media or between videos.
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by wybiral 9y ago
Don't go blindly throwing money at random YouTubers, but yes if you can find social media influencers who aren't morons like these two then it's probably more effective than ad placement.

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