Advertisers wish that could be true. Easiest way to know, dear submitter, create a throwaway account in Adsense or Facebook Ads and look for yourself is not a great deal, everything is aggregated. Fellow nerds like to think that you can pick individual people to advertise to, that might happen on Facebook, you can spam with ADs your friends but thats about it.
You are not an individual on the ad systems, you are part of a lot of groups of people based mostly on demographics, locations, and lastly, your browsing habits. You are not seeing ads because someone paid to show the ad to nerd#1, it just happens that nerd#1 in between ages 40 and 50, lives in nerd town, has college education and, yeah its looking for some tool.
Now if you are asking what the AD SERVERS (the system) knows, they know enough to put you in these groups. Now if they share the data or use another provider to correlate their info with someone's else they might have a bigger picture about you.
Oh and it does not matter how much you block scripts of use hostiles and whatnot, unless you are spoffing your device and modem MACs each time you open a new tab, theres ways to track you.
But please, don't let that stop you from doing it, make it hard for them to track you, so more companies can pop up to address your specific way of anti tracking. You might end up on one special list where no Ads are delivered but is instead sold to the ones that like and can take a detailed look on your browsing habits Then and only then your are tracked because you are you. Otherwise you are just a rounding error in some db.
If you focus on the ends (intention); Send LOTS more with enough initial acceleration and better gravity assist tricks as to cover more destinations faster. This is, taking the proverbial message in a bottle but dropped in mass from an airplane all over the world's oceans.
Now if you focus on the means (tech), not long ago/. had an article on a way to store information etched in the structure of some special crystals. Cant find it right now but I doubt it was spaceproff in any way.
Maybe we cant really do it any better 50 years later, same as with music:)
... but now they might have the bulk of processing power for the next big thing, scary shit. Maybe the "Meanwhile in America" meme is in order here.
Can anyone in the know point to what tools and/or open resources can an empiricist use to get started on the AI field? What are the must reads on this field? Do we really need all that processing power to do anything meaningful in/with AI?
No, their right to speech was not my point. My point was WTF happened to America that ended up divided against something that back in the day united the world. Anybody who takes this incident and spins it over A or B party talking points is taking a big DUMP over the graves of the people that fought the real Nazis, IMHO. All because both party followers cant accept that they fucked up. Grow up.
IDK about muslim immigrants where I live now, those that came more than a hundred years ago and they all set successful business and there is no muslim mosques or culture whatsoever around here they all assimilated the local culture probably because we weren't bombing the shit out of them since the dawn of industrialization... oh wait you thought I was from Europe. Carry on
Correct me if Im wrong but weren't you, Americans, the ones that beat the crap out of the nazis and chest pounded over that fact for the next 60 years? And now you are getting all triggered because some wannabe nazi gets bitchlapped on the street? What the fuck happened to you America? How many RPMs do your grandparents are getting on their graves? How come you got so easily manipulable all for defending a $party that does not give a fuck about you.
Is this karma for all the presidents you planted on "banana republics" that now you are going even lower in the cognitive dissonance regard?
Thanks for your input. But, why do we even care to reply to this lame guy that always bitches about "pissin muy tax dollars" whenever something about space exploration gets posted?
Its always the same guy, the same sad argument, you can almost hear the guy cry to sleep over some traumatic event in the past. Maybe an astronaut stole the love of his life?. In any case. Please do not feed banquets to the trolls.
This. Later I was moving to Linux so I used and loved Amarok in the 3.x era, Then when I got back into windows and went to look into winamp, fuck, it was like it froze in time, so stale. Swapped to Foobar2K and have not looked back, the audio quality and plugins are way beyond anything else. Where else can you split/upmix stereo DSD tracks to 7.1 speakers while using WASAPI or ASIO? while only using around 3% cpu and no fancy audiophile sound card.
On the Mac I use VOX, Is the only one free that supports hd tracks, its decent, but meh I dont use it much.
On android AIMP3. Plays 24bit files even without a DAC for them, and even then, its easy on the battery.
Audioplayers have come a long fucking way dear submitter, the question SHOULD BE. why people still linger and long for an inferior player like Winamp?
Such lower standards. I Use Foobar and have around 200000 tracks in the autogenerated playlist (at least half of them FLAC, APE, DSD) And foobar2k starts up instantly. I can open and close foobar 3 times in 10 seconds. And the music and db is stashed on a slow WD green drive FFS.
The only thing I miss from Winamp is the visualization studio.
The news was the Sourceforge was adding adware to the packages and the one that caused the outrage was FZ. Is not the developers that added the adware on their side, they might have signed up for the Ad program offered by SF which they dumped once they realized whats was all about.
Also because I even got to download one of the bundled installers for FZ on windows and the AV picked the Adware package. Easily removed with 7z and FZ installed cleanly afterwards.
Cut the BS, Venezuela does not have gas (or medicine or food or toilet paper) because it has a bus driver for president who's self admitted plan is to turn Venezuela into Cuba. Venezuela got run down into the ground by pure good old incompetence, you cant even blame socialism on this one.
You think a handful of guys in 70s era station wagons smuggling GAS across a border have enough "bandwidth" to dry out Venezuelas oil reserves? Even when they used to send crude oil for free to any friendly leftie government in the region? Get real.
Even tho English is not my first language, I respect it very much to put the words "Trump" and "Evidence" in the same line. But thats not even the problem:
Ive come to the conclusion that the late preaching on/. Is just the response from an underrepresented community in fear of H1B visa workers, community who in the midst of the cognitive dissonance and their political fuck ups, decide to turn into God and preaching in order to be more like those Indian guys that believe such funky shit, because maybe thats their secret.
That you cash a check made entirely out of science and logic work is where we already won our argument, down voting is just taking out of sight the shameless freeloading that you and your kind represent. Wanna impress people with your faith? Leave fucking everything to the poor and go preach in Africa, aint nobody hearing faith preaching from a fucking neckbeard that has prolly never ever gone to bed hungry in his life.
It was know in the campaign that Drumph supporters were told to say they would vote for Hellary if asked by pollsters. Who told them? idk, maybe your average Crumb supporter on the web,.. oh wait.
Ahh the knee jerk and the hand wringing, I bet Putin is more than pleased to pass on the history books as the guy who trolled the democratic process in the land that "invented" democracy. Putin is happy to be able to say "look I egg faced America" while the only thing that he did was putting the eggs in the table. The whole world gets it, your exceptionalism blinds you to the most obvious forms of attack.
Good to know tho, for all the bs propaganda gets from the people in here, theres a non legible share of people that are still programmed by the McCartism era propaganda and can spring up the discourse like it is fucking 64. Pavlov would be fucking proud.
No, America is closer to flip thanks to meme than a nuke, you can blame how you raised all that bunch of millennials that would give up their constitution if it gave them more stickers in snapchat.
BS. And I'm not even in the US neither I'm a gun "loving" person but guns don't kill people. Please get it already.
Xenophobes are not know for being the sharper crayons in the box, that you can't tell apart an Indian from an Arab is quite telling. It is stupid, uneducated, people with psychological issues that kill people, not arms. You don't even have to add a political slant there, i.e. Columbine was for the lulz basically.
No doubt, Frump shenanigans are motivating lots of xenophobes to get out of the closet, but the psyco will always find a justification to kill you, skin color happens to be the simplest parameter they can parse, so they go with it.
What does this have to do with the cloud? Cloudflare is a reverse proxy and a CDN. Last time i checked/. runs on a cloud, because I'm sure as fuck it is not running on that old iron under some advertising agency desk like when it started.
Also don't forget about Universal SSL, which I think is related to the problems here (?). Having a central point to manage name zones is another unintended feature, you can swap domains from hosts with minimal DNS downtime. The firewall features are nice, you can block single IPs and challenge whole countries on arrival.
If you site got buggy after enabling Cloudflare most of the time is because you "optimized" the JS with a (forever beta) feature called Rocketsomething and checked JS for tidy. Or you forgot to stop caching while doing changes in the code and now you browser's cache and the updated files conflict.
While I agree that CF is in a position to be even more scary that Google (but that would break the meme) It comes down to the bang for the buck scenario, CF gives plenty in exchange for what? the swarm numbers so they can predict stuff better? Are we simply freeloading on the big corps dime? Yugedata? What? You never know, just that it is free and theres no evil stalking pushing you to upgrade, the paranoid in me "knows" but just can put the finger on it.
But judging by the quality of your tap water, yeah most babies are born with PTSD right now. At least now we know this is entirely hereditary, luck of the drawer of sorts, but whats your excuse to don't even fucking know what schizophrenia is? feelings? trauma? These are people hallucinating shit 24/7, this is some brain malfunction where it literally flips the bird to your senses and proceeds to mix shit at random in the buffer before your perception.
Sound like someone's salty with schizos, takes a special kind of loser to hold any grief against people not completely aware of their self.
I agree completely: notepad++ a browser with decent developer tools (FF Cr) and a plugin for the browser to auto reload on changes for said HTML file, literally 5 minutes set up.
Html and CSS is not programming as mistrelmike pointed out, but if you can't put up with it then programming is not for you, because those don't even qualify as hard or easy "languages" it is about if you find it fun to work with them, walls of text, sintaxis, tools, your focus.
I want to learn to code myself, haters will point that programming is something to get into very young and they are right, if you happen to end up working on it for the rest of your life, otherwise, who cares?. Some people just want to check that box in the list of things todo before the brain starts to become mushy.
I think I'm going to try C# this year as per all comments above. Wonder why nobody has mentioned COBOL.
Yeah I know all the places where you can find sprinkles of flash here and there, I was focusing in the uses of Flash that always seem to piss people off or actual vectors of attack. You're right that Flash will keep being installed by default for a long time, I think Chrome approach is the best, to bundle flash in a sandbox and have it set off by default or only when really needed, sadly I need Flash to work on Firefox too so I have it installed updated and by default fiewalled (plugin-container.exe) anytime flash wants to connect to the net, I have to manually approve.
I'm ok with websites that uses Flash for what it was really designed, even for some content that might be better approached with interactivity or a graphic layout. It's a tool that was absurdly overused where it wasn't needed in its time. Jobs slapped Flash in the face with the iPhone and when watery-eyed-flash turned to daddy Google, daddy looked in disappointment and you knew Flash was done.
I think the only thing that was preventing mass adoption of HTTPS as default was the associated costs/return: Cert and IP. Mom-and-pop shops that probably make the most of the.com really didn't see the advantage of it until you need it for setting up payment processing. Now certificates are free or mostly free and SNI takes care of the IP side, setting up HTTPS with cloudflare is trivial for example, all this greatly motivates the adoption. But still, FLASH vs HTTPS adoption history is apples and oranges.
Oh and as for millennial, by some definitions I might be one, 34, but I've been labeled generation X, Y not-remember-what-wankery-in-2000's and now millennial, those tags are created by Marketing so you can rehash the same books and conference tours with the same babble but with new keywords. While demographic studies are certainly of serious interest by marketers the reduction of those concepts until the creation of tags like "millennial" is where you can spot the hack from the real marketer. They are meaningless, and in that regard, I use the word for whats it is: a meme.
Yeah I get it, I have script blockers in all browsers but the AV catches everything before the browser gets a single bit. If I were to search "Nod AV keys" "Crack nod32" the AV will bitch. I'm aware of the AV having to know the content you're browsing, but from that to offer ads based on this data, and in a paid version nonetheless, nope.
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Advertisers wish that could be true. Easiest way to know, dear submitter, create a throwaway account in Adsense or Facebook Ads and look for yourself is not a great deal, everything is aggregated. Fellow nerds like to think that you can pick individual people to advertise to, that might happen on Facebook, you can spam with ADs your friends but thats about it.
You are not an individual on the ad systems, you are part of a lot of groups of people based mostly on demographics, locations, and lastly, your browsing habits. You are not seeing ads because someone paid to show the ad to nerd#1, it just happens that nerd#1 in between ages 40 and 50, lives in nerd town, has college education and, yeah its looking for some tool.
Now if you are asking what the AD SERVERS (the system) knows, they know enough to put you in these groups. Now if they share the data or use another provider to correlate their info with someone's else they might have a bigger picture about you.
Oh and it does not matter how much you block scripts of use hostiles and whatnot, unless you are spoffing your device and modem MACs each time you open a new tab, theres ways to track you.
But please, don't let that stop you from doing it, make it hard for them to track you, so more companies can pop up to address your specific way of anti tracking. You might end up on one special list where no Ads are delivered but is instead sold to the ones that like and can take a detailed look on your browsing habits Then and only then your are tracked because you are you. Otherwise you are just a rounding error in some db.
Sorry to burst so many bubbles.
You can BUY optical media based on gold substrates, this is not new tech at all. Try finding a working DVD player in a billion years tho.
If you focus on the ends (intention); Send LOTS more with enough initial acceleration and better gravity assist tricks as to cover more destinations faster. This is, taking the proverbial message in a bottle but dropped in mass from an airplane all over the world's oceans.
/. had an article on a way to store information etched in the structure of some special crystals. Cant find it right now but I doubt it was spaceproff in any way.
:)
Now if you focus on the means (tech), not long ago
Maybe we cant really do it any better 50 years later, same as with music
... but now they might have the bulk of processing power for the next big thing, scary shit. Maybe the "Meanwhile in America" meme is in order here.
Can anyone in the know point to what tools and/or open resources can an empiricist use to get started on the AI field? What are the must reads on this field? Do we really need all that processing power to do anything meaningful in/with AI?
Waiting for someone to somehow spin this piece of tech news over the wannabenazisafespace gate. I give it 30 minutes, cause its late.
No, their right to speech was not my point. My point was WTF happened to America that ended up divided against something that back in the day united the world. Anybody who takes this incident and spins it over A or B party talking points is taking a big DUMP over the graves of the people that fought the real Nazis, IMHO. All because both party followers cant accept that they fucked up. Grow up.
IDK about muslim immigrants where I live now, those that came more than a hundred years ago and they all set successful business and there is no muslim mosques or culture whatsoever around here they all assimilated the local culture probably because we weren't bombing the shit out of them since the dawn of industrialization... oh wait you thought I was from Europe. Carry on
Correct me if Im wrong but weren't you, Americans, the ones that beat the crap out of the nazis and chest pounded over that fact for the next 60 years? And now you are getting all triggered because some wannabe nazi gets bitchlapped on the street? What the fuck happened to you America? How many RPMs do your grandparents are getting on their graves? How come you got so easily manipulable all for defending a $party that does not give a fuck about you.
Is this karma for all the presidents you planted on "banana republics" that now you are going even lower in the cognitive dissonance regard?
Thanks for your input. But, why do we even care to reply to this lame guy that always bitches about "pissin muy tax dollars" whenever something about space exploration gets posted?
Its always the same guy, the same sad argument, you can almost hear the guy cry to sleep over some traumatic event in the past. Maybe an astronaut stole the love of his life?. In any case. Please do not feed banquets to the trolls.
This. Later I was moving to Linux so I used and loved Amarok in the 3.x era, Then when I got back into windows and went to look into winamp, fuck, it was like it froze in time, so stale. Swapped to Foobar2K and have not looked back, the audio quality and plugins are way beyond anything else. Where else can you split/upmix stereo DSD tracks to 7.1 speakers while using WASAPI or ASIO? while only using around 3% cpu and no fancy audiophile sound card.
On the Mac I use VOX, Is the only one free that supports hd tracks, its decent, but meh I dont use it much.
On android AIMP3. Plays 24bit files even without a DAC for them, and even then, its easy on the battery.
Audioplayers have come a long fucking way dear submitter, the question SHOULD BE. why people still linger and long for an inferior player like Winamp?
Such lower standards. I Use Foobar and have around 200000 tracks in the autogenerated playlist (at least half of them FLAC, APE, DSD) And foobar2k starts up instantly. I can open and close foobar 3 times in 10 seconds. And the music and db is stashed on a slow WD green drive FFS. The only thing I miss from Winamp is the visualization studio.
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The news was the Sourceforge was adding adware to the packages and the one that caused the outrage was FZ. Is not the developers that added the adware on their side, they might have signed up for the Ad program offered by SF which they dumped once they realized whats was all about.
Also because I even got to download one of the bundled installers for FZ on windows and the AV picked the Adware package. Easily removed with 7z and FZ installed cleanly afterwards.
Cut the BS, Venezuela does not have gas (or medicine or food or toilet paper) because it has a bus driver for president who's self admitted plan is to turn Venezuela into Cuba. Venezuela got run down into the ground by pure good old incompetence, you cant even blame socialism on this one.
You think a handful of guys in 70s era station wagons smuggling GAS across a border have enough "bandwidth" to dry out Venezuelas oil reserves? Even when they used to send crude oil for free to any friendly leftie government in the region? Get real.
Even tho English is not my first language, I respect it very much to put the words "Trump" and "Evidence" in the same line. But thats not even the problem:
We are starting from the supposition that polls (the ones you get to know in news, not the real ones) were fair to begin with, they were not, most of the lead attributed to Hellary was made up "if you looked at the data just right this way" it was obvious Shillary was stomping Trump, after all, IT WAS HER TURN © Late polls were more based on reality than wish thinking and they still gave her a bit of lead, which she had in the popular vote, which does not matter for shit in your democracy, so theres that.
Ive come to the conclusion that the late preaching on /. Is just the response from an underrepresented community in fear of H1B visa workers, community who in the midst of the cognitive dissonance and their political fuck ups, decide to turn into God and preaching in order to be more like those Indian guys that believe such funky shit, because maybe thats their secret.
That you cash a check made entirely out of science and logic work is where we already won our argument, down voting is just taking out of sight the shameless freeloading that you and your kind represent. Wanna impress people with your faith? Leave fucking everything to the poor and go preach in Africa, aint nobody hearing faith preaching from a fucking neckbeard that has prolly never ever gone to bed hungry in his life.
Hey we should, like, make a Facebook group or something, Ive been missing those checks for years too!
It was know in the campaign that Drumph supporters were told to say they would vote for Hellary if asked by pollsters. Who told them? idk, maybe your average Crumb supporter on the web,.. oh wait.
Ahh the knee jerk and the hand wringing, I bet Putin is more than pleased to pass on the history books as the guy who trolled the democratic process in the land that "invented" democracy. Putin is happy to be able to say "look I egg faced America" while the only thing that he did was putting the eggs in the table. The whole world gets it, your exceptionalism blinds you to the most obvious forms of attack.
Good to know tho, for all the bs propaganda gets from the people in here, theres a non legible share of people that are still programmed by the McCartism era propaganda and can spring up the discourse like it is fucking 64. Pavlov would be fucking proud.
America is closer to civil war and disintegration than to engage in an external war with a country that can reply with more than IEDs. But of course you have to drag it to the territory of the Nukes© and MAD© to feel secure and worthy back again.
No, America is closer to flip thanks to meme than a nuke, you can blame how you raised all that bunch of millennials that would give up their constitution if it gave them more stickers in snapchat.
BS. And I'm not even in the US neither I'm a gun "loving" person but guns don't kill people. Please get it already.
Xenophobes are not know for being the sharper crayons in the box, that you can't tell apart an Indian from an Arab is quite telling. It is stupid, uneducated, people with psychological issues that kill people, not arms. You don't even have to add a political slant there, i.e. Columbine was for the lulz basically.
No doubt, Frump shenanigans are motivating lots of xenophobes to get out of the closet, but the psyco will always find a justification to kill you, skin color happens to be the simplest parameter they can parse, so they go with it.
What does this have to do with the cloud? Cloudflare is a reverse proxy and a CDN. Last time i checked /. runs on a cloud, because I'm sure as fuck it is not running on that old iron under some advertising agency desk like when it started.
Also don't forget about Universal SSL, which I think is related to the problems here (?). Having a central point to manage name zones is another unintended feature, you can swap domains from hosts with minimal DNS downtime. The firewall features are nice, you can block single IPs and challenge whole countries on arrival.
If you site got buggy after enabling Cloudflare most of the time is because you "optimized" the JS with a (forever beta) feature called Rocketsomething and checked JS for tidy. Or you forgot to stop caching while doing changes in the code and now you browser's cache and the updated files conflict.
While I agree that CF is in a position to be even more scary that Google (but that would break the meme) It comes down to the bang for the buck scenario, CF gives plenty in exchange for what? the swarm numbers so they can predict stuff better? Are we simply freeloading on the big corps dime? Yugedata? What? You never know, just that it is free and theres no evil stalking pushing you to upgrade, the paranoid in me "knows" but just can put the finger on it.
Tell that to people born schizoprenic : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
But judging by the quality of your tap water, yeah most babies are born with PTSD right now. At least now we know this is entirely hereditary, luck of the drawer of sorts, but whats your excuse to don't even fucking know what schizophrenia is? feelings? trauma? These are people hallucinating shit 24/7, this is some brain malfunction where it literally flips the bird to your senses and proceeds to mix shit at random in the buffer before your perception.
Sound like someone's salty with schizos, takes a special kind of loser to hold any grief against people not completely aware of their self.
I agree completely: notepad++ a browser with decent developer tools (FF Cr) and a plugin for the browser to auto reload on changes for said HTML file, literally 5 minutes set up.
Html and CSS is not programming as mistrelmike pointed out, but if you can't put up with it then programming is not for you, because those don't even qualify as hard or easy "languages" it is about if you find it fun to work with them, walls of text, sintaxis, tools, your focus.
I want to learn to code myself, haters will point that programming is something to get into very young and they are right, if you happen to end up working on it for the rest of your life, otherwise, who cares?. Some people just want to check that box in the list of things todo before the brain starts to become mushy.
I think I'm going to try C# this year as per all comments above. Wonder why nobody has mentioned COBOL.
Yeah I know all the places where you can find sprinkles of flash here and there, I was focusing in the uses of Flash that always seem to piss people off or actual vectors of attack. You're right that Flash will keep being installed by default for a long time, I think Chrome approach is the best, to bundle flash in a sandbox and have it set off by default or only when really needed, sadly I need Flash to work on Firefox too so I have it installed updated and by default fiewalled (plugin-container.exe) anytime flash wants to connect to the net, I have to manually approve.
.com really didn't see the advantage of it until you need it for setting up payment processing. Now certificates are free or mostly free and SNI takes care of the IP side, setting up HTTPS with cloudflare is trivial for example, all this greatly motivates the adoption. But still, FLASH vs HTTPS adoption history is apples and oranges.
I'm ok with websites that uses Flash for what it was really designed, even for some content that might be better approached with interactivity or a graphic layout. It's a tool that was absurdly overused where it wasn't needed in its time. Jobs slapped Flash in the face with the iPhone and when watery-eyed-flash turned to daddy Google, daddy looked in disappointment and you knew Flash was done.
I think the only thing that was preventing mass adoption of HTTPS as default was the associated costs/return: Cert and IP. Mom-and-pop shops that probably make the most of the
Oh and as for millennial, by some definitions I might be one, 34, but I've been labeled generation X, Y not-remember-what-wankery-in-2000's and now millennial, those tags are created by Marketing so you can rehash the same books and conference tours with the same babble but with new keywords. While demographic studies are certainly of serious interest by marketers the reduction of those concepts until the creation of tags like "millennial" is where you can spot the hack from the real marketer. They are meaningless, and in that regard, I use the word for whats it is: a meme.
Yeah I get it, I have script blockers in all browsers but the AV catches everything before the browser gets a single bit. If I were to search "Nod AV keys" "Crack nod32" the AV will bitch. I'm aware of the AV having to know the content you're browsing, but from that to offer ads based on this data, and in a paid version nonetheless, nope.