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Blogs with photos and videos are being replaced by Vlogs hosted on primarly video-based platforms. À la YouTube, TikTok, Instagram. But these content distribution platforms promote short videos because of users's short attention span.

I think that people who like traditional blogs (i.e.: long reads) won't become attracted to those visual blogging forms. Substack and Medium used good strategies to onboard them.

Without your intervention, I would have kept some speculations as reasonable opinions.

What will happen is that new use cases will be set in place. Some people might head to Google for diversity of results. Others will prefer ChatGPT for one single search result.

In my opinion, only the "I'm feeling lucky" function on Google will be challenged or replaced.

How can a tech journalist imagine that noobs will modify the default search engine on their Chrome browser and Android smartphones? These guys are not realistic.

One of the heroes who allowed my teenage musings to be published on Tumblr. It's so wild and fascinating to know that the same single is behind one of the top podcast player app. Source: https://marco.org/2013/05/20/one-person-product

I've never seen a major actor act out in the good interest of a black foreigner, inexperienced in film, speaking unoptimal mandarin.

My encounters with him were mainly professional, in the span of 6 months. Hard for me to judge his character in a bad way. He might an overworker who shoulders the image of an entire nation's film industry. But he is success is well-earned. His later alignment with the CCP during the HK protests angered me a bit. But I had my fair share of unfair treatment by the CCP. I know they can be cruel. But Jackie is no bad boy, I swear.

The new thing is the "onboarding cards" which I dismissed because I'm already familiar with GitHub and have a set of habits when using the platform (managing my own repos).

Definitely, I do not understand the title. Don't see proof of unusability.

Basically, all land on Earth has an owner. Be it individuals, corporations or governments. It's finite, so highly valuable.

I'm currently unable to return safely to my homeland because the current land owners marked me as an adversary. I wish it wasn't the case but societal rules have been this way since ever.

It's thousand times easier to me to build something, by using software, in the metaverse/on internet. In the real world, I now have no place to call home, except refugee camps and squats in abandonned buildings.

He backs up and advises crypto startups, AI startups, no-code startups, biotech startups... He does it while wearing his hat of a venture capitalist. Not a blockchain expert, developer or academic. He is in the tech game for fast company growth and high returns on investments.

As a disclosure, I must that I check his videos about company/brand building, targetted at online startups. For technical knoweldge about blockchains, I maintain other sources of info (Github, online forums, Twitter). For financial knoweledge related to blockchain, I consult different sources, mainly established economists, Arvix papers, retired traders or fintech books.

I resorted to putting my website under a Cloudflare firewall. I benefit from it by getting web traffic stats and keeping away the bad requests. Many bots are set up with Tor and automate their browsing.

It would be impossible for me to pay fees in order to fend off DDOS attacks. My site is awalkaday.art. The amount of bad requests, per Cloudflare classification, goes up to 70-90% of regular web visitors. Imagine if you have to service 9 unidentifiable/shady customers, out of 10 people visiting your online store? It's not financially wise to allow anyone to deplect hardware resources (i.e: servers) of a new internet services. Moreover, these bad requests don't improve the growth or bring in revenue. The world wide web is too wild. Its unregulated in the sense that anyone from anywhere can start and successfully run an army of bots to scour the Internet for specific purposes.

I'm happy that Cloudflare can help mitigate some security issues before they occur.

Let me tell you about another third party that is not mentioned here. The telecom operator. Once, in 2019, I was reinstalling WhatsApp on my smartphone. I checked the Internet traffic records (outbound) with curiosity. This led me to finding out that my phone was reaching out to *whatsapp.com (Meta's servers) and Belgacom (Belgium's telephony provider). So, my phone's data was being routed through the parent company's devices and some other third party services like a national telecom company. I don't if it's still the case nowadays, but since that day, I have more worries about their encryption and data relay practices.

I didn't have in mind the scenario of a keyboard logging user inputs besides the normal functionality of WhatsApp. I find this theory to be very plausible. Not at all happy with Meta's privacy policy, but I agree that it is worth considering other threats.

From using a VPN that logs all incoming and outgoing traffic (NetGuard) on an Android One device, I've noticied that the default Google keyboard gets in touch way too many times with some distant servers. Whereas, an open source keyboard from F-Droid, FlorisBoard, does no snooping and gets updated solely through the app store.

The last paragraph got me hooked. You asked the right hard question. Tell me more if you've started working on it.

The whole time of my stay, I was in love with the city's visual identity (posters, website,..) and the effectiveness of digital services across the administration offices, public institutions and media centers. It's the one city in Belgium taking advantage, in the best way, of digital infrastructure and modern tech.

Nowadays I'm living in the Ardennes (Bastogne) where I can see a huge gap (compared to Antwerp) in Internet services and tech investments. I'm grateful to the people at Digipolis and the city offices taking visionary steps in fostering the local tech scene and building beautiful interfaces/apps.

Recently, Instagram "tagged" my account as either based in Russia or using Russian currency. I'm based in Western EU and set up the VPN to connect to the same country or neighboring ones.

I'm trying to figure out if some endpoints belonging to Mullvad have been shadowbanned by Meta/Instagram. Is there someone else who uses Mullvad to surf on Meta products whose account has been impacted by sanctions directed at Russia?

My first guess is that it's a mislabelling problem or bots going rogue for an unkown reason. And, IG support is taking too long to clarify what's the culprit. So, I'm making all kind of hypotheses to reach a logical explanation before getting an official answer.

GitHub wasn't freely accessible or access to its services were disturbed during my college years ('12-'16). Any information platform that evades the PRC control system gets blocked once it achieves major attention and onboards influential users.

My home on the Internet. I actually don't have my own place in real life. This website fulfills a deep desire of ownership. So, I built it (from a fork on GitHub) as minimal and as light as I can for less maintenance. Serves also as the place to aggregate all my online presence, to list some software projects and to host a detailed CV.

Let's see what that Prince from England will do in the next five years in North America. He's got all it takes to succeed in a capitalist country. So, can we expect for him a much brighter financial success than Musk's? I have many doubts.

Speed of access, an Internet browsing engine , contracts with non-GGL browsers, cloud data centers, maps/locations/navigation, fiber cables/internet pipelines, social networks and personal management software, AI/ML research, personal devices OS ...

Impossible is nothing, but any incumbent will likely take in capital linked to Google. GGL is dominant across the world's hundred and something countries. Excpect places where it is banned(China) or shunned(Russia), anywhere it is equivalent to a monopoly of internet services.

From a technical perspective, a challenger can rise up. From an economic standpoint, a challenger would not last long (maybe locally if favored by regulation). Even the most successfull others: Apple or Amazon would not dare take on Google's Ads or Search Engine. Microsoft tried with Windows Phones and Bing, then ended failing to dominate the market. Google is not singular business. It has so many tentacles in the tech sector that wave a web of interlocking tech products. Growth numbers in Search are boosted by integration in all of Google's own products and the rest of internet users and companies.

To answer your question is to figure out what advantage it has on any competitor starting from zero... Sadly, its network scale is too large to allow an equal challenger.

In all seriousness, the author and his project Filippo are on the right track to help bring income to humans maintaining open source software. Another team doing a similar stellar job in the crypto sector is GitCoin and their grants to software devs.

I think it would be easier to invent a new programming language or a browsing engine than having a general consesus on what you are proposing.

(founder of awalkaday.art - digital gallery of photos taken during daily walks).

Blitz or not, the destruction of wealth occuring in Ukraine will make it easily enter the club of thrird-world countries whose existence is sustained by international donations. The harsh sanctions on the invaders will make more cumbersome the task of trying to extract value from the conquered land. This will not impact negatively on UKR rebirth. RU may win the battle, but the longer the resistance lasts, they'll have on their hands a worthless asset, internal powerfights and regional humanitarian crises.