floss_silicate

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by floss_silicate 3y ago
Marketing traditionally encompasses: price, product, placement (distribution) and promotion. PR, advertising and sales fall under different branches of promotion.
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by floss_silicate 3y ago
...and shared on Hacker News.
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by floss_silicate 4y ago
Furthermore, both Google and Meta have quietly conceded that a lot of the digital attribution data they generate is pretty bunk. It’s why Meta developed Robyn, which uses MMM techniques that have long been used to measure effectiveness of t
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by floss_silicate 4y ago
This seems really silly. A better system would be for a service like Flathub to support bitcoin Lightning payments direct to app developers. Obviates the need for the store to handle payment, developers can handle their tax arrangements per
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by floss_silicate 4y ago
Two decades of blogging and still every company blog links to the blog index, not the brand homepage.
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by floss_silicate 4y ago
But all the comments in this thread are talking about the failure of bitcoin, when the article is about the wallet software they developed. That’s the sleight of hand.
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by floss_silicate 4y ago
There’s a bit of sleight of hand going on with this article, which conflates use of the Chivo wallet software with bitcoin. But then later the article says: “Meanwhile, many living in tourist hot spots on the Pacific coast, where Bitcoin us
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by floss_silicate 4y ago
> Finally, most of the internet is powered from warehouses that are purposely built in areas with carbon-neutral electricity. The operators are actively optimising their consumption and investing in carbon-neutral energy generation that
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by floss_silicate 4y ago
But that’s just an argument against any technology that will increase electricity demand, such as EVs. When the web was growing the electrical demands were similarly criticised: “The current fuel-economy rating: about 1 pound of coal to cre
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by floss_silicate 4y ago
What was unique about GOV.UK is that it wasn’t done by a consultancy. They managed to build an in-house, central resource (GDS/Government Digital Service) and pioneered a lot of public service design practices which are the template fo
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by floss_silicate 4y ago
The limit wasn’t artificial though, it was the number of characters you could send in a single SMS message (160 minus 20 reserved for meta data)
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by floss_silicate 5y ago
InternetWorks getting credit for ‘tabs’ here, but looks more like a multi document interface? Which Opera also adopted — before Firefox (Phoenix).
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by floss_silicate 5y ago
“Mac-er News”, surely?
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by floss_silicate 5y ago
Appreciated the gigantic RSS subscription button at the bottom of the page.
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by floss_silicate 5y ago
I can absolutely see the objectives of US foreign policy (enable citizens of foreign powers to evade domestic surveillance) conflicting with domestic policy (bulk communications collection). It doesn’t necessarily compromise Signal, but sim
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by floss_silicate 5y ago
“The internet is a government op to spy on the populace” does appear to be the synopsis of the authors book, linked at the end of the post. So I suspect this post is really just an elaborate bit of spam.
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by floss_silicate 6y ago
I tried to set up a Twilio number specifically to handle these services that demand SMS for login. Weirdly it only works for a minority of services, I expect many use Twilio to send their auth texts and Twilio blocks sending these to their
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by floss_silicate 6y ago
So this is... actually worse?