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by tacosx 7y ago
We built an entire industry around increasing engagement stats and trying to convince the permanent servant underclass to buy more stuff. You'd have to be utterly insane to find meaning in that.
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by tacosx 7y ago
I tried to register for this and after fixing multiple CSS bugs that prevented the form from being rendered correctly I was able to actually trigger the submission which kicked off a wave of javascript errors. Good old IBM, still the exact
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by tacosx 7y ago
If I never hear the argument that "tech is just too hard and bandwidth too unaffordable, poor Zuckerberg/Bezos/Brin are so destitute they would just have to shut down the web and phones completely without behavioral advertisi
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by tacosx 7y ago
The chargeback is one of the few tools consumers still have with real power. Sure fraud is still a problem, but it's a really uncomfortable proposition to start making chargebacks an abstracted cost sink for the corporations. Of course
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by tacosx 7y ago
It's not impossible to make it work, and in the future I'd expect more and more automated systems in planes for sure. But you have to recognize the whole engine hack is just a convoluted workaround to avoid as much pilot training
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Facebook Says Social Media Users Can't Expect Privacy(law360.com)
1 points by tacosx 7y ago|0 comments
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by tacosx 7y ago
I hope the irony of Facebook sponsoring a CTF event after having given away all their literal flags on purpose and accidentally over and over again for 15 years is not lost on anyone.
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by tacosx 7y ago
The revolt against surveillance capitalism seems to just be starting in earnest. I think a lot of smart people are finally realizing they have wasted their considerable talents on advertising tech while pretending it was something else and
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by tacosx 7y ago
This is a really good read for stats people, this paragraph in particular kind of freaked me out: > After 100 years of projected extinctions, the global composition of mammals and birds is predicted to shift to smaller (permutation test:
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by tacosx 7y ago
People were predicting this as the Chrome endgame years ago. It's playing out exactly as everyone cynically expected. It's time to eliminate Google from your life as much as possible if you haven't already. Too many wake up c
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Elizabeth Warren puts a giant tech breakup billboard in San Francisco’s face(theverge.com)
42 points by tacosx 7y ago|24 comments
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by tacosx 7y ago
It is amazing when you consider both the number of and the sheer depth of the problems that would be fixed instantly by moving to publicly financed campaigns.
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Colorado Springs students secretly photographed for facial-recognition research(denverpost.com)
4 points by tacosx 7y ago|0 comments
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by tacosx 7y ago
I know of more than one organization that have decided against Angular in recent years primarily because of Google's backing of the project. Skepticism of the big three (four?) tech giants is growing, especially if you've had some
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by tacosx 7y ago
I had the same experience, but never actually got the groups page to load. Hey googlers remember a cool little thing called the URI? Can we make that just work again without all this session/auth nonsense wrapped around everything? I a
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With His Job Gone, an Autoworker Wonders, ‘What Am I as a Man?’(nytimes.com)
2 points by tacosx 7y ago|0 comments
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by tacosx 7y ago
Judging by the massive growing homeless encampments everywhere I don't think it's really theory anymore. Where I live they have started drilling into trees to set anchor points for clotheslines down by the river, and even have set
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by tacosx 7y ago
They have a very strong defense thanks to the CDA and DMCA act which these large tech platforms wrote. They wrote themselves blanket immunity for nearly any type of content, in any type of context. https://www.copyrightcontentpla
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by tacosx 7y ago
21 years ago was the first time I saw malware delivered over advertising on the web. 1998. I started blocking ads by manually managing my hosts file that day, for the most part I haven't look at ads since. I'm still not sure why w
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by tacosx 7y ago
It's an open secret that many of the "anonymized" datasets that the large tech giants pass around are very easy to de-anonymize. I don't know much about how Apple works, but people who work with Google Ad products and an
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by tacosx 7y ago
Having a bunch of white tech dudes show up with a startup to "solve" something like mass incarceration is just absurd, and reveals both the massive naivete of this project and the extent to which startup funding has become a meani