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Agreed: Conceptually not mutually exclusive, but in practice, it would seem that problems only get fixed when they get pretty bad (squeaky wheels syndrome).

I’m personally very torn on this subject. In smaller circles where I have relationships, it’s easy: publish and recommend the workaround protection. But in humanity at large I’d really like the underlying problem to get fixed rather sooner than later?

There’s even a term for that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAAAM

I suspect, that the main problem is inconsistency in the underlying mental model, because there’s multiple individuals doing that and/or over longer periods of time.

I can typically figure out a mental model, even if designed by someone else (assuming they are somewhat consistent), pretty well and fast. — But it’s the inconsistency, that screws things up for me.

Arguably, the value of data in its modern version is much higher than mere “goodwill” including customer relationships. The data travels easily without customer consent, while a traditional customer relationship can be canceled by the customer at any time.

So the value of data is a modern day business windfall, that can be argued as unfair. Or fair. Depending on your viewpoint.

Arguably there’s pretty meaningful intersection between those two sets of information - e.g. when purchasing medicine with a credit card.

Edited to add example.

Isn’t this one of those moral hazards?

i.e. Encouraging everyone to protect themselves inadvertently slows down the fixing of the root problem?

> While the lawsuit names Lithuania-based Teso LT, UAB as a defendant rather than “Tesonet”, this is as a result of a corporate restructuring several years ago. Aside from its link to Oxylabs, Tesonet also advertises itself as a creator and investor of a number of online services, including NordVPN, Hostinger and others.[0]

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/judge-orders-mediation-after-...

I’ve taken to “open link in new tab” on any search result or listing page for years. It doesn’t solve all the issues, but makes things more tolerable.

This was my immediate first thought, too.

Arguably AI and large scale social networks have a lot in common (opportunities and problems).

Related: AI as the logical next step after “crowd sourcing”.

> finally realizing being one of their users will never stop being an unpaid, unrespected beta tester …

… and AI trainer

Nice idea! I was just surprised to see the table rows and columns opposite of what I’m used to seeing in lists where one dimension is more likely to grow much longer than the other.

i.e. I would have expected the libraries as rows, rather than columns. More like such lists are typically done in Wikipedia.

The web, just like the real world isn’t static. Becoming and staying intellectually, emotionally and physically mobile may be the only long term strategy to avoid ending up in one or the other dystopia, sooner or later.

When rates of change were slower, you might only have to “move” once in your life, but with increasing rates of change in our human experience, staying nimble is arguably of ever increasing importance.

> Hire someone.

There's no guarantee that the such hired individual will outlive the last of the original six - or that their life priorities won't change.

In the former GDR(DDR), too[0]

[0] https://apnews.com/article/b771e863afa629be5139b65784b21aba

> Not only is it materially bad, a lot of society's trust is burned.

Too much rule adherence, resulting in too much trust can also have undesirable consequences, e.g.

From "Traffic safety and norms of compliance with rules:An exploratory study"[0]:

"We use a simple model of drivers’ vigilance effort choice to show that drivers’ propensity to follow traffic rules has two opposite effects on road safety. On the one hand, it lowers the frequency of dangerous situations. On the other hand, it also reduces drivers’ vigilance effort as each driver anticipates that dangerous situations will be less frequent. These two opposite effects may lead to a non-monotonic relationship between compliance with road rules and the incidence of road traffic accidents. We present cross-country estimates that support the existence of a bell-shaped relationship between norms of compliance with rules and traffic fatalities." [0]

[0] https://defipp.unamur.be/wp/defipp_wp_2021_3.pdf

Is there something like penetration testing for projects? i.e. a business unit that is working fulltime on identifying “what could possibly go wrong” in very complex projects.

> If the contractor can lump all sorts of charges into the cost of the hammer (for unrelated projects), it's a way of hiding the true cost of anything.

You should have seen the massive number of very large enterprise IT projects in the late 1990s that were justified, approved, budgeted and accounted for under the famous Y2K umbrella.

Every reasonably smart business or IT manager figured out ways to connect their pet project to Y2K and after that the approvals were almost automatic.

Because what VP, CEO, board member or even shareholder dared to question the necessity of preventing the potentially catastrophic events if Y2K bugs weren’t properly eradicated.

It was pretty amazing times.

> One thing to note is that many Google Analytics alternatives suffer from data accuracy issues. They record and count analytics data differently from how Google Analytics does.

During my years of experience using Google Analytics, I had very limited faith in Google Analytics accuracy. For example, bots routinely poisoned the referrer logs.

So holding them as a benchmark of accuracy seems off the mark for me.

I have the strong suspicion, that nobody has really great bot detection to this day.

Even with Google Analytics, I mostly used the data for rough trend analysis over longer periods, rather than react to every little 5% blip in the data.

For example, it was useful for observing the shift to mobile at differing pace for different types of websites. And that allowed for prioritizing website redesign projects during the 2010s.

And I’m also pretty puzzled at the criticism in your article of Matomo for being too close to how to Google Analytics works, while simultaneously holding Google Analytics as the gold standard to be compared against. That seems rather inconsistent to me.

> LinkedIn lost the HiQ case. Your GC claiming it’s a win doesn’t change that you lost, repeatedly, in multiple courts of law

That would appear to be false, since after appeals, there was a settlement wich would seem to make it pretty clear that hiQ lost:

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/hiq-and-linkedin-reach-...

That makes me wonder, if it should be solved client side by translating server side colours to something different on the client, according to the user’s needs.

In response to the new TLDs I’ve made www. the official primary part of most of my websites.

www.example.com would be the primary, and example.com redirects to www.example.com

It’s my simple approach to overcome the cognitive overload issue.

Has anyone seen an analysis of what percentage of economic activity is just redistribution of wealth more adjacent to gambling, compared to economic activity that is more tightly coupled to cost of delivering goods and services?

And just in case it’s not obvious: This question comes to mind as I would categorize SoftBank pretty firmly in the gambling niche - at least compared to a local plumber or Uber driver.

> I'd just think if you write something like a programming language of all things you'd want others to use it and have a pleasant experience getting started.

You might be surprised how many different nuances exist in what motivates humans.

I have even avoided to share code in public repositories, because I didn’t want to be bothered by feedback like yours, because I didn’t bring the documentation up to a level that someone farther away from my little niche need and use case can understand it.

While such feedback isn’t going to kill me, it’s nonetheless one of a million tiny little cuts that my life is more pleasant without.

This makes about as much sense to me as the old “keywords” HTML meta tag.

It will be gamed.

It’s not just business people. Most humans seem to see security (and safety) as a burden, not as something enjoyable.

The business may be local but the owner or other management or employees may wish to keep all of their travel options wide open without fear of some obscure foreign law that might hold them individually responsible.

The golden days of global network accessibility are closing little by little.

A potential post Beatles album by the Beatles reminded me of the 1976 hype around Klaatu[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_(band)#First_three_albu...

On the other hand if your human comment is indistinguishable from a bot comment, maybe it’s ok to be kicked out?

Related: Reverse Turing Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Turing_test

At the 25 second mark: isn’t that one of the high end Roland electronic drum kits?

> It’s unclear how the arsenic ended up on the book’s pages, but it was considered safe in small doses in the 19th century, and was often found in food, medicine and even common goods like face powder. An arsenic-based green pigment was used in wallpaper in Britain at the time.

I’ve loved very old books since childhood. But it had never crossed my mind that they could contain physical (chemical) danger.

Let’s just hope that the book in the article is a real statistical outlier.