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- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
Yeah… I’m pretty sure the white space is part of the spec for a QR code.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 1 month ago:
I think the actual take is probably closer to “I wish we went back to a time when record companies would take a bet on anyone, regardless of the overall package, looks etc”
Which tbh, is probably more of a fairy tale view of years olden days than anything else.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
I’m really curious if they can make video injection of ads cost effective.
It feels like mangeling video streams into one, potentially re-encoding the video as they go… sounds expensive
- Comment on Mental hell 1 month ago:
Partner has a phd. Can confirm she recommends no one ever do it.
She only finished it out of spite, so her paper work no longer has miss/Mrs and no relation to her marriage status.
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 months ago:
is it decades of hacky code, or decades of battle tested code?
I haven’t touched wordpress in… many years, but I’ve seen far too many developers look at old code and call it junk… only to break things horrifically when they attempt a rewrite.
- Comment on Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months 4 months ago:
DAM DAM?
ACDSee even shows thumbnails for Affinity Photo project files
You’re telling me there’s an image managing program out there, that works with Affinity, and for some reason people aren’t talking about it???
- Comment on Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months 4 months ago:
If they had library management even close to what lightroom offers, I’d be there.
I may yet jump ship for photoshop.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
Honestly, I think almost everything else is worse than Google.
I set my default to duck duck go, and it’s getting better, but I still fall back on google with some regularity
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 6 months ago:
This is pretty much it.
The city knows about your protest so they can plan accordingly.
They may also make requests of your protest, eg, could you self organise your own traffic wardens to ensure the safety of everyone involved.
- Comment on Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion 6 months ago:
It’s just that in America they realized if they complain enough, they get to rub they’re hands gleefully at the thought of all that electricity they’re going to sell, AND all the public money they’re going to get to upgrade the grid!
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Assumedly, to deal with a race condition.
- Comment on CFCs 8 months ago:
Tell me you don’t live in NZ without telling me you don’t live in NZ
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
Congratulations on being old e ough to buy property when it was cheap.
For the rest of us, we all adapted to the low interest post-08 world. Now, we need to adapt to the higher interest post-21 world.
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
You need more upvotes.
High interest rates are here, and it’s likely to be some time before we get back down to the 1% interest rates we saw during covid (or even before).
Companies are shifting either to real or imagined pressures of the stick market. And those pressures are less about chasing unlimited growth and want to see some return.
Ergo. Layoffs. Meta producing dividends.
If interest rates stay high, I’d expect to see large megacorps shift more and more to profitability over growth.
- Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature 9 months ago:
Time to donate to the internet archibe.
- Comment on Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March 9 months ago:
If Facebook hasn’t had a mas exodus, neither will Reddit.
Facebooks death is slow and ongoing, and I’m pretty sure Reddit’s will be too.
- Comment on Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla 10 months ago:
Ding ding ding. We have a winner.
He sold the shares, why should Tesla reimburse him for his folly? If he wants to have those shares back, he can rebuy them on the open market, just like anybody else would do.
- Comment on Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla 10 months ago:
I believe in order for that to work, the shares have to be set up for that during IPO. I’m not sure of any company that’s done it mid-flight (but I could be wrong).
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
It’s on purpose.
You spend longer IN Google, so you see more Google ads, on a Google platform, so Google gets a bigger cut of the pie.
It’s the same reason Google started summarizing Wikipedia (or other highly rated results) on its search results where possible. Why they built basic functionality (timers etc) into their search engine.
- Comment on Does anyone feel like an actual adult? 1 year ago:
Feel like? Maybe not. Accepted? Maybe.
More often than not now, I find myself having to be the adult in the room. My father recently died, and while my parents both have wills sorted, they didn’t have other things like power of attorney sorted, or a real discussion of what his funeral arrangements he would like. It was not a sudden death. That was a turning point for me.
I guess that’s where I’m at, I’ve accepted I’m an adult. I’m losing backstops, but also becoming other people’s backstop.
- Comment on youtube getting more agressive 1 year ago:
I might read the article later, but your thesis is right.
This isn’t a arms race, it’s also convenience race.
Is it more convenient for me to turn off ublock, or go through ublocks menus and update its filters? Do I dislike ads that much? Maybe I do, maybe I don’t. But some people will turn off their adblock of choice, even if it technically still works if you update it. Their conversion rate of viewer to ad consumer will (probably) go up.
- Comment on youtube getting more agressive 1 year ago:
It’s often far easier to attack than defend.
Google has to find and block every way, ublock just has to make a new way to bypass the blocks.
- Comment on youtube getting more agressive 1 year ago:
It’s currently working, but every few days youtube will tweak something, and sometime later (minutes to hours) there will be an ublock update for it.
Sometimes you have to wait a little longer, but this is the arms race.
- Comment on Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. 1 year ago:
Are you sure? Or is it because you’re not in the test group?
I’m on nightly/up to date ublock and i see it.
- Comment on Ad blocker Cause Invalid Traffic For Content Creator on Youtube 1 year ago:
CPM/RPM isn’t per day, it’s pay per 1,000 views.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
No.
I acknowledge I’m a selfish asshole with ads, but also that some ads and ad platforms are abusive and virus ridden.
I know that platforms like Facebook and YouTube couldn’t exist without Ads, but I choose to block them anyway.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
Again, im not naive enough to think that everyone can block all ads without consequence.
So i don’t use sponsorblock.
If I’m that offended by a sponsor spot, i can always skip it (an option usually unavailable with typical ads) or just close the video.
f you’re pushing crytoscams, im pushing close.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
This is a naive take TMHO.
Youtube has been rolling this out, phased, slowly, for the last few months. Judging peoples reactions and engagement levels.
They are only mildly foolish and know that ad block users are some of their most engaged and tech savvy. Just like ad block users, they generally know that youtube can’t exist without ad blockers, and if everyone used them, we might all be worse off.
Roll it out quickly, and you create awareness and ignite the fuckery out of the arms race, do it slowly, watch the engagement, and try to find the best messaging to bring “us” “back on side”, and maybe they stand a chance to shift the needle.
(Firefox nightly + ublock origin for the record, had ad block messages on/off from Youtube for about a week)
- Comment on Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement 1 year ago:
So it’s only insider trading if they get it right? But not just kind of right, like, really right.