sofifonfek

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by sofifonfek 14y ago
not really no. Compare to how many humans use the web or are simply connect to the internet, now that's impressive. But knowing that many humans use the internet as a transport to a walled garden aware of their IRL identity and holding capt
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by sofifonfek 14y ago
They're only doing the right thing for them, this move seems to incidentally benefits users too but not really. it prevent outcomes such as users 1) closing their account / switching to another website 2) creating an additional fake profile
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
An interesting view of slavery in Mauritania, it's important to raise awareness about slavery which has a natural tendency to fly under the radar. But the sensationalist title is misleading, old style slavery is much more prevalent than thi
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
So according to your post, having more money = freedom ? Does it not look like what a slave to money would say to deny slavery ? Or as stated in the article: Various religions in many countries have been used to justify the continuation of
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
Does anyone know how the japanese judge story [2] and the german trickster Till Eulenspiegel [2] are related ? I knew the story as an adventure of Till Eulenspiegel. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Coka_Tadasuke#Famous_cases [2] ht
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
Google web search's secret: it's not searching what you tell it to search. - suggest spelling corrections and alternative spellings - personalize your search by using information such as sites you’ve visited before - include synonyms of you
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
Paradoxically this is also the reason why the biggest advertiser's search engine sucks more and more. This fuzzy search where he looks for all kind of synonyms instead of what he's asked means it often returns no useful results and misses t
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
You're only looking at one side of the coin. If you look at it from a FB stand point, FB connect is effective whatever the market. See you can make money in a casino, some games offer better chances than other but in the end it's always the
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
It seems like a more or less reasonable solution but it defeats the whole point which is to use and abuse users' data and circle of facebook friends. If you remember several years back when it was discovered that ads had become inefficient
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
Having to deal with registration and account management is a choice, not a necessity. From bugmenot to mytrashmail, examples of websites not having to solve account management are numerous. The registration is often a barrier preventing peo
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
Chances are it is connected to the other personas and facebook has a more complete than you think profile, heck they don't even need you to be registered to have a profile on you, from being in registered people's addressbook to going to we
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
Same here and sometimes I wonder if those who provide facebook only login would consider answering the phone 1 out of 10 times by saying "fuck off" and hanging up a good business practice, because that's basically what they are doing. "hey
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
>2. I think the Facebook hate is miss-placed. Do you really hate Facebook (provider of a tool) or those who spam you via Facebook (users of the tool)? If you're so worried about Facebook tracking you offsite, why have an account at all?
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
The funny part is that for a long time they just did it without informing you and no one complained. cough zynga cough
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
John Gabriel's greater internet fuckwad theory is a joke about people playing video games online, it's not really relevant to the general internet. While chatroulette arguably offers anonymity but the very instant a website requires regist
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
Two different shows, one is about showcasing techniques in extreme situation and feature an ex british special forces with a heavy background in adventuring while the other is about putting one guy alone in a survival situation for a few da
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
1) you're missing a few figures and the whole picture, by the conservative estimation Zuckerberg will make 16 billions with the ipo so he personally made ~20 bucks per registered user. Selling ads is pocket money, at the end of the day the
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
I trust facebook for doing every wrong thing and the other that I can imagine. It's their business model and whole reason of existence. I don't appreciate the repeated attacks against personal freedom (they like to call it privacy) and agai
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
What's so special about beacon ? It's no more business as usual at facebook, with the additional twist that it caused public uproar.
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
I never register a facebook account and there's no way I will regsiter to facebook just to use an app even if its the killer app. I trust facebook for snooping in on the data provided by 3rd party apps, they've been doing all the dirty tr
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
it doesn't really help the point the author is trying to make that this post is flawed, biased and laced with logical fallacies and FUD. Let me point out a few things: - google says it analyzes gmail contents algorithmically, but do we real
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
Here's your rebuttal: shine another light on your situation and suddenly instead of having half the messages ending up on google servers anyways, you have half of your email freed from google servers which is better than having all on it th
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by sofifonfek 15y ago
AFAIK google has broken its own privacy policy, gmail's databases have been compromised and they did change default settings to be more public at least once. This makes a strong contender of gmail for privacy issues.