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He can do whatever he wants, as long as he's not helping enemies of America.

Ok let me rephrase my comment:

Maybeeeeeeee Musk shouldn't be helping America's enemies?

>> You can sell ads without targeting.

> You can, but that's not really what Google is selling anymore.

Wrong again. Google's thing is search ads. Those target keywords, not user data. User data is a side-gig for Google, mostly thru youtube, maps, and gmail.

No, it's not semantics, and it shows that you have no clue what you're talking about.

You can sell ads without targeting. In fact you can even sell ads without users.

Source: I worked years buying and selling online ads.

If it's not available for download, it's not something I would be interested in :-) I understand that people are different.

Maybeeeeeeee Musk shouldn't be conducting personal foreign policy?

The advertisers don't pay for google storing my data. The advertisers pay for ads displayed and ads clicked. How google does that is an implementation detail.

Google does that by storing my data, many kinds of my data. You making the distinction between data that "the user knows and understands" versus data that "is obscure to the user but advertisers care about" is a matter of marketing, in that as the former is easier to charge the user for.

My point is that the argument of "you're not paying for storing data X therefore fuck you" is a silly one, because you're also not paying for storing data Y, and neither are the advertisers.

> but you're not paying Google to host your data.

Funny, because they never seen to have problems hosting the advertising/surveillance data they collect on me. They never went "sorry we can't track you any more for free, will you type in you card number so we can keep surveilling you?"

My take-away is that you should use reliable tools, and as few as possible. If you read it like that then the reason to not do what you said is that `find` and `xargs` are more reliable than what I realistically be able to achieve with ifs and cats.

"We can do this now" is not an optimistic timeline, it's a lie.

> extremely confident

There's also "this is quite deep" - it's usually not.

> Download the MP3 from where?

My guy, this has been solved for about 25 years.

> I will try this out as a tool to manage my private tasks.

I'd like to hear more. Do you think that full-fledged issue tracker is a benefit, even if you're not working with other people?

My intuition is that if you have multiple tasks in a project, and you're the only one working on them, a simple list should be enough?

Django ;-)

My kid is only 2 years old, but when he can understand the concept I will be sure to teach him that he doesn't have an arbitrarily large choice, he can only choose from within the options we have available.

- Download mp3

- Play on VLC.

Not complicated.

They're both bad in different ways. The right only understands one thing: spend less. The left only understands one thing: spend more.

A country is a system too complex to make decisions top-bottom like this.

Getting an appointment with the NHS to pull a wisdom tooth, right now, takes between 6 and 9 months.

I had never used the term "socialized healthcare" unironically before, but now it's starting to sound like there's some truth to it.

> But they historically had several feed systems [1] [2] which were fully under their control.

I don't think Google's fear is who's in control of any one particular RSS. I think Google's fear is what if people realize that, for the purposes of subscribing to updates from a source, RSS is objectively better than Google. They're afraid of losing the mindshare of being the unquestionably better option for everything.

Don't worry, your website won't be on the first page.

You sound like those guys who don't go to the gym because they're afraid of becoming huge and muscular. Don't worry, it won't happen by accident.

Exactly, thank you my friend. I'm happy to see that such ideas are entering the mainstream.

(Ok, you and I are probably not the most "mainstream" people in the world, but what I mean is these ideas aren't understood exclusively by antitrust lawyers anymore)

Companies are catching up too though. Google coaches its employees on what language to use internally.

Am I the only one finding interesting that this

> This is the story of one of the world’s greatest (but least famous) con artists. Ghana’s John Ackah Blay-Miezah bilked investors on several continents by promising he knew where lost gold was hidden. Exhaustive reporting by the author makes this a riveting addition to the canon on great swindlers.

is under the business?

Google has an interest in our depending on Google to find stuff, so of course they see RSS as a threat.

Cue some "googler" show up defending this move and how it makes the world better.

Is a GPU the same as a graphics card?

I hope your vim doesn't take hundreds of milliseconds for anything, other than possibly opening huge files.

Maybe I'm the crazy one here, but I can't remember last time firefox speed was an issue.

You want your software to be really snappy, we all agree on that. But past some point, it's physically impossible for a human to tell the difference. I believe a human can't detect if a tab takes 10ms or 1ms to open.

Firefox has been past the point where "fast" matters for a very long time (and that's a great thing!)

Elon Musk playing 5 dimensional chess to save freedom of speech.

You choose not to care, I get it. But why are you so upset that others care?

maybe because the scale isn't even close? Crazy idea I know.

> In my social circles, the conversation about injustice in Palestine is over a decade old.

Indeed, I would say that anyone older than 10 has participated in such conversations. The person you're responding to makes it sound like it's a new thing.

> There are ethnic conflicts worldwide that often have more bloodshed, many occurring simultaneously right now, but this gets all the rhetoric and attention.

That's funny, because you sound like the kind of person who says the same about every conflict.