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Maybe a lack of signal? I would certainly buy a more expensive product that's certified not to be made in genocidal or slave-labor countries. I've seen lists of 'blood-free' chocolate brands online before and they certainly had an effect.
The elephant in the room is Disney I'd say, basically. Disney owns all blockbuster movies now, and wants to sell them around the entire world, and no Disney property shall have sexuality. Same goes for Apple, who forbids any adult content to even touch an iPhone, barring (through gritted teeth) what you can find in a browser and Reddit. Power is consolidating into fewer and fewer companies, who want to cater to all world powers, some of which say a naked human body is The Ickiest Thing and must be forbidden.
I'm hopeful that in the future though, as costs of producing and distributing high quality movies go lower and lower, more and more indie or low cost films will look as professional as we want today's blockbusters to be, and also be free enough to explore cinema as an art form as they see fit.
The article talks about AdNauseam, an extension that autoclicks every ad it finds to try and poison the data well, and that the creators found out that Google would accept most of those clicks and charge advertisers / pay out websites for them.
What worries me is that running something like feels close to what would piss off Google the most, and be one of those things that suddenly and without explanation or recourse makes them kick you (and anyone associated with you) out of everything Google, like Gmail, YouTube, Drive, etc.
It's inherent inasmuch as that if companies are able to profit by using 'smartness', they will do it, absolutely. I've yet to see one company large enough to sell TVs with a proven track record of not selling data for ads if able.
Yeah there's a 30% 'solidarity' tax and then another 35% tax once we're at it, but the second one you can discount from income tax or get a rebate if you go through some bureaucratic processes.
Yeah that's exactly it. If your coin loses value by the second, you end up turning to whatever other asset you can find. If you can't acquire a state-based currency from a more stable country, real estate, or any other stable asset like stocks or index funds, you turn to crypto. There's lots of people with no tech background investing in stablecoins.
There's a lot of legal exchanges, and also a booming black market and p2p, all of them with a similar spread. And there's a lot of legal projects aiming to control crypto trading going on at the moment, but it's uncertain what'll end up as law.
There's a bit more nuance to it, in that you're not even allowed to buy at the official rate, and buying something in USD with a credit card gets you slapped with a 65% tax, so it's more like the 140-160 rate actually reflects the current real value of the currency. Having an 'official' rate nowadays is more of a performance to pretend that the already high inflation rate is actually a lot higher, and incredibly it works.
And even then, only barely, since all of the open jobs are US/Canada only. There's a bunch of countries even on the same timezones being skipped, so I'd say it's pretty geographically centralized too.
That's entirely right - here's an article you might like about your idea in case you haven't read it already. It's lately got me thinking a lot about the difficulties in simple organization.
One of the reasons I get weary of going through the unsubscribe route is that it's always a gray-on-white link incredibly hidden at the bottom of the email, like every single time. It's a miracle it's there at all. It'd be much simpler to have it at the top and actually visible by eyes instead, if you just want to keep engaged users on your list.
It definitely gave me Clippy vibes, and suddenly thrust me into a Black Mirror type of situation where a current day Clippy would literally forward all of your work (keystrokes, open programs, files) to sales and ad representatives so they can sell you more stuff. Every day I'm more and more paranoid of big companies now!
But even then, there's really no point in trolling the PR section of Github besides griefing. Just fork the thing and make a better Signal if you believe so harshly that there's no hope with Moxie at the helm.
I know the usual explanation is that they're too big to respond, but at this point I've become of the mind that if you can't handle the most basic explanation as to why lock out a user from your service, and at least one way to appeal and get a response from someone able to make a decision, then you shouldn't be allowed to scale at all. Even if it would become a bottleneck, this can't keep happening.
It is kind of frustrating when everyone talks about this like it's this obviously famous thing, acting pretentiously, lamenting how there's nothing like it anymore, shunning everyone else - and it turns out it's basically a microculture from not just America, but a very specific location in America, from a very specific time. "Things were so much better back then, but you wouldn't get it you weren't there and I'm not going to let you understand". Gah.
If you want whatever this is to come back in spirit, stop lamenting at very turn and be more open, make friends, build stuff, or at the very least explain what's going on and share the magic, we're all interested in niche stuff here and who knows, maybe you'll get in touch with someone with the same brain frequency you're looking for.
Even assuming you're right, they've taken a massive PR hit and the public is convinced that RH screwed over their users by choice, and made a profit out of it. I don't think they'll come back in one piece, unless no one capitalizes on the movement and gets some competition going for a while.
Does anyone know how long these kinds of reviews last until passed? Getting into this will be a bloodbath, and I wonder if it'll be with or without notice.
There's a lot to take from this development besides Schadenfreude, as I see it living far from Europe.
UK founders for one need to be made aware of this since it likely impacts their business directly. But also, from an economic perspective I find it very important as it highlights that MasterCard is in such a controlling position that they can price hike like this (and possibly more) as soon as they're able to, possibly indicating a lack of competition in the space. It's an interesting example of how consumer-helping rulesets are needed since clearly MC was doing fine before this hike.
Anecdotally, I've seen a few places that instead of mentioning the protocol just say 'download G Auth' or 'download Authy', and so far all of those worked with Aegis when I tried.
There's an effective monopoly on web browsing, and then any private decision here becomes de facto censorship. How can this be constitutional, ants need to rise and get some rulings down on this topic, the web needs to be brought back to how it was.
The writing was on the wall the moment the acquisition was announced, and we all grieved about it, but it still makes me very sad to see such a graph. I miss Keybase.
I had zero knowledge of what any of this was (Sia, Skynet, etc), tried looking it up on the page but the technical terms were too many and there was no glossary I could find. So I started searching, read the Readme on Sia's project on Gitlab, and then came upon this website [1] which harshly demonizes both Sia and Skynet due to maintainers banning a critic, and allegedly being generally toxic.
This is very much not a good look at all for the whole thing, and I suggest the developers should both solve this problem amicably ASAP, and also add very clear 'WHAT THIS IS AND HOW IT WORKS' links on every page related to the project, with many real world examples of how/why use this and with nearly no use of specific jargon that's not introduced clearly during explanations.