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Tell that to the surviving members of families who died at the hand of isis who do their recruiting on Facebook of all places.

Disagree. I found the channel to be useful and educational. For example, I knew people could crack WiFi passwords but never actually understood how until I watched null byte videos. Now I can be more vigilant about protecting my WiFi. I really hate these generalizations about these wannabe hackers being kids playing League. I’m 33 and I would venture a lot of people watching those vids have legitimate interest in exploring the ethical hacker profession. You may not get the proper education nor exposure but it’s a start. Also I feel like mischief is part of adolescence that’s required to develop interest in a more serious pursuit. As a kid I did plenty of this type of “hacking“ but on a more basic level. This in turn made me more fascinated about how things work, got me into game exploiting, which lead to virtual sales, e-commerce and ultimately a decent paying job.

I’m not happy that today’s society wants to monitor and deter everything. It leaves no room for exploration, growth, mistakes and learning.

Lack of a stable career, terrible health insurance, high premiums, lack of community involvement, isolation from people, increased screen time and media consumption, hopelessness from always on sensational news, hopelessness in the face of global catastrophe to be coming near you due to ever worsening climate problem, student debt, not being able to afford a home, lack of healthy food options, diet and exercise misinformation, overprescribed medication, always on notifications never allowing you to relax, binge watching Netflix no time for brain to relax, shortened sleep cycles disrupting circadian rhythm.

I wonder what could possibly make people feel like shit and wanting to end it all...

The job loss and displacement due to improvements and automation are quite scary to me. I often find myself thinking about what people will be left to do after automation displaces most workforce and the leftover jobs get so efficient that 1 person will do the job of 10.

Look at where web development was not that long ago. It used to take a few people and many moving pieces to put together a website. You needed a designer to design it. A developer to code it. A hosting company to host it. A maintenance person to keep updating and make changes. Now, anyone can fire up a webflow site in under a day. No coding needed, no hosting, do your own maintenance.

Now this is only efficiency we are talking about. What happens when we get to a place where you just pick some parameters and any website imaginable is spot out on your screen for you? Imagine how many websites exist already, what’s to stop that data from flowing into a large dataset where design is no longer needed, code is unnecessary, updates are done through a cms. Algorithms already draw art, ok, let’s modify them to make illustrations, logos, anything creative. We just displaced 2 professions. Why stop there? Feed the machines every imaginable font and let it create new fonts for us. Font designer gone.

This is only the industry I’m aware of. I can imagine others are no less prone to automation and complete efficiency disruption.

What will people do when to get a basic job requires 20 years of education? Are we to believe all humans will have advanced degrees to do those jobs? What about those who simply can’t or won’t like doing that job?

If and when I go somewhere, I try to go in off season. And if there is no such thing as off season for a place, I just avoid it.

This is not that helpful. We marketers have aged accounts to post from. Reddit is highly manipulated but in a fashion that looks like genuine curiosity and being helpful.

Goes way beyond that. Ton of advertising on here, Facebook groups are probably 95% ads, half or more of the Reddit subs are ads. People who do not work in the advertising industry sometimes have no idea when they are being sold to. These people are not dumb either, they are engineers, doctors, lawyers, you name it, but all are equally prone to psychological manipulation. The Instagram article is mild in comparison to some of the other market research and sales strategies out there. Paid content advertising can be so well done that most readers won’t have a clue they are being taken advantage of. Some will even go to lengths to defend the advertiser saying that the ad was relevant to them.

As much as I don’t like PayPal I will never sign up for any subscription that does not go through PayPal. Reason being, I can log into PayPal and stop my subscriptions any time without jumping through hoops.

Yep. I read behavioral studies by scientists so I can use this info to manipulate others. This is my job and I am good at it or I wouldn’t be doing it. There are hundreds of behavioral tricks to make people buy. Even when one is aware of them. It’s funny when people say sales don’t work on them. Those are EXACTLY the people sales work best on.

I was just thinking about this. Also their deals “end” within x hours. The number of sites doing dark patterns is disturbing and the way marketing professionals openly brag about manipulating people is disgusting. People are so wrapped up around the masters finger that they convince themselves their work is meaningful. Sorry, but we are all just cogs in the misery machine.

Imagine this situation: you sell online courses. FB says hey, users can pay directly via Libra thus streamlining checkout to a few clicks. Now Facebook takes a cut of every transaction. If I were PayPal I’d be very scared.

Are you me? This is me exactly. Google has become almost useless and I now have to append certain domains to find anything valuable.

Psychology of game design - Sid Meier - YouTube. Games are so brilliantly built these days - designer for maximum addiction while keeping you constantly engaged at the perception of winning. Battle royal is brilliant in the way you describe it but also because you can finish 2nd just by doing nothing.

Of course, nobody wants to play a dead game, no matter how fun. This has always been the case.

Reminds me of the latest black mirror episode with guy trying to make a mouse stun device.

I wonder how much collective human time search engines and google in particular has siphoned from us. Instead of getting straight to the point, now you have to read a bunch of “long form” content. Think about all that wasted time and multiply by billions.

Any company that offers “lead enrichment “ data has already crossed the privacy line. Google that term to see the companies involved if you care to know.

A real whiteboard with video feed? Or do you mean for collaboration?

I’ve had positive and negative experiences on both side of the fence. There was one company where I had to commute 2 hours to and from which was absolute hell for me. At that place I worked out of a cubicle which I preferred to an open office. But people also tended to just stop behind me and have a full conversation without so much giving any thought to how they may be disrupting my concentration.

Another job I worked remotely without a single problem. The whole time I only met one person from the team but I never felt isolated. It may have helped that it was a young company with young employees.

Another job I worked was a failing business that was eventually swallowed up by a larger corporation. That job was fully remote too and without issues until the merger. I was laid off in preference of a team member who I think was chosen simply due to face time in the corporate office. This was reinforced by other remote workers being laid off as well. It probably didn’t help that this was a more traditional company where very few if any people worked remotely.

Yes! I can’t stand all the pop up reminders, they never stop.

Sure, I can see that, but this is true of just about anything that includes any sort of paid promotion or linking. Wirecutter makes money off amazon but people trust them to be honest? I’m not saying we shouldn’t, quite the opposite. It wasn’t that long ago I was of the opposite opinion if you just check my comment history. Recently I’ve decided to put a little more faith into human beings and give them the benefit of the doubt. Yes money is a motivator but I think there can be a balance between earning on affiliate links and presenting unbiased recommendations.

You speak as if everyone abides by some ethics standards where people cannot make honest assessments and recommendations without being influenced by money. I just don’t get it, people here seem to have a hard on for wirecutter but mention affiliate marketing and we are all scumbags for even considering it. I’m generalizing too, but so are you.

And if they did, what’s wrong with it? People are not allowed to make money? As long as they don’t prioritize based on affiliation I don’t see a problem.

Who are these natives you speak of? Last I checked we are a nation of immigrants. If not you then your parents, grandparents and their parents.

Feels like a ton of business could just benefit from automating various spreadsheet tasks via Zapier. I mean this stuff exists and it’s not rocket science but people don’t care to figure it out. I think part of it is people also not wanting to replace themselves out of a job. Does Betty really want to take that 1 hr daily task and turn it into 5 minute weekly task? I don’t know... maybe not.

“Hey kids, did you know you can change your grades online? Check this out. Oh hey Jimmy, lets make that C into an A”

“Wow!”

“Change mine, change mine!”

I was impressed with dev tool live edit as an adult, unless kids already know about it, they’ll probably love it!

Fair point. Sometimes I just have angry moments when I realize I’m being sold to. I don’t stop to think that maybe perhaps it’s okay to do this if you are sharing something interesting.

I grew up without phones, and for the most part without computers (early years). There were many times I was bored as a kid but most of the time I found activities to fill that time. Being bored a is okay and should not be seen as time needed to be filled. Kids require boredom to enable creativity. It takes imagination to go from bored to doing something. It’s actually part of the developmental process and should not be disrupted by screen time.

My guess is you don’t have kids. This certainly feels like an opinion of a younger person and I can’t blame you for thinking that way. We were all once ignorant and if you ask a person yet older, we never stop.

Think about how long it took for humans to involve to get to where we were before instant entertainment. Now think about how long it’s been since we advanced from first mobile entertainment to now. Do you think hay sudden change is good for you as a natural evolving being?

I’ve run into issues with sites failing to validate .io addresses.

Great, an ad for a documentary. Fascinating story but still an ad.