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by zentiggr 5y ago
That's why there are usually progressive disciplinary steps. I've been on the receiving end of that in a couple of situations (which I'll admit after the faact, were due to my own issues). It's not pleasant but it was
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by zentiggr 5y ago
I'm in the long slow process of rebuilding parts of my life that were stunted in childhood, and learning how to feel and show honest emotions instead of fearing that I'll be rejected just for showing myself. It is hard, and runs o
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by zentiggr 5y ago
My Psion Series 3A got lots of use until the third time I dropped it and wrecked the wiring in the hinge area, and it refused to power up again. Was sad.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
It won't be nukes. It'll be the biggest naval / air / amphibious battle since the Pacific theater of WW2. Just resolved a LOT faster.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
FWIW, I went from building single board computer and learning COBOL in high school, to lots of personal / freelance projects, to lots of menial jobs, to the Navy, to C/C++ programming in 2000-2007, to tier 2 tech support until abo
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Talk to the RIAA etc. They seem to believe that only their own sanctioned releases should be allowed, and that they should all be paywalled so that every view is paid for. Or we could fight the whole damn robber baron system and return to s
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Sure, that's step 2. Step 1 is walk away from the biggest, most obscure and capricious banning system around, to pull the biggest teeth of that copyright industry.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Again and again the same basic "but it's free" refrain. Sure, building on quicksand is free. No one wants to pay for a service that is as undependable, and impossible to appeal in case of fraudulent or just mistaken bans. So
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by zentiggr 5y ago
But the other rely to this comment makes a very good point - post in as many places as possible/desired _in addition_ to YouTube, and point to all the other places in that YouTube posting. Also a good way to inform viewers about Google
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by zentiggr 5y ago
... or the small content creator gets a random permanent ban for "REASON WE CAN'T TELL YOU SO YOU CAN'T GAME US", and the easy road turns out to be a dead end. And you wind up doing the extra work anyway.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
I'd say it's more like: Go ahead and build your initial business on quicksand. Know that you'll get lots of traffic, but it might sink into the ground at any time. Use the profits to build up a solid future property that isn&
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by zentiggr 5y ago
It's that assumption of "dying in obscurity" that gives Google their damnable network effect. If there isn't enough marketing advice out there about finding as many channels and methods as you can, I'll eat this com
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Does your brain get full and have to empty itself before you can read more?
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Don't get silently accused of a crime that's the result of someone else's actions, unless you're prepared to accept years of unexplained personal losses?
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Something about "pride goeth before a fall" and "the one thing you can expect a manager to do is whatever shields them from liability".
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by zentiggr 5y ago
I think we're already over the edge of that, it's more urgent than you think. A couple of insensitive Facebook posts gets you dropped from consideration for a job... no matter how long ago and how much you may have matured in the
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Without tracking-fed ads, the internet would work like a super powered version of the directory style setup like we had before Google suborned the very idea of 'the web'. I'd love to see an internet of individual directory si
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Not when the algorithm is controlled by Google. Just like SEO efforts. Google will tweak their FLoC generation to ensure they get what they want out of it.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Your last point would more accurately be stated as "If we are going to have tracking, ..." To which I say, let's not have tracking at all, instead of choosing between crappy cookies and even more potentially crappy FLoC. Reve
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by zentiggr 5y ago
So just like the rebuttals I've seen elsewhere... When one of those cohorts is narrow enough to reveal something specific and highly private (like a specific disease / medical / legal / societally high interest issue) -
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Had Palm's management not had a series of stroke-like horrible decisions, I can imagine a present where the PalmOS 5.0 clusterfuck and just-barely-good-enough Treos gave way to WebOS devices that could have recovered the company, and t
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by zentiggr 5y ago
If Google is going to shift to using almost unblockable tracking calculations, then servers are the next most logical place to push back against it. Anyone who runs a site and wants to opt in against a default block should have to take extr
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by zentiggr 6y ago
... and ... and ... and ...
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Very adept adaptation of the Mark Twain original!
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I see that "duty" as avoiding using YouTube and encouraging others to do so as well, until YouTube goes the way of MySpace and Yahoo and every other service that's lost their way. Eventually even Google in general. MySpace wa
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Paying less attention to YouTube also solves this problem. People still can't figure out that not watching YouTube solves all moderation problems? Google doesn't care about those posting on YouTube. They care about advertisers pu
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I've thought that something like the spamassassin model would be sufficient - calculate a 0.0 - 1.0 range of likelihood to block, and set cutoffs on the 0 end to auto approve, and toward the 1 end to auto block, and moderate the middle
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by zentiggr 6y ago
An open platform to everyone... Apparently you missed a few decades of their development of the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" tactics. As well as their tendency to throw exorbitant licensing conditions on nearly everything they so
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by zentiggr 6y ago
So you've seen the move "The Circle"? Complete transparency for everyone then?
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by zentiggr 6y ago
> I had to explain that the meaning of a fraction changes when you move stuff between the top and the bottom. Sounds like it's time to communicate that to the entire editorial staff, request a refund, and never submit anything to th

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