As you point out, the Internet used to consist of sites run as a hobby. It also used to be exclusive to universities. If the Internet were to shrink to again consist of sites run as a hobby, would those sites alone cause enough demand to justify upkeep of the infrastructure for high-speed access at home?
All I see is an impostor joe-jobbing APK with a racist diatribe.
But the Better Ads Standards don't cover the content of ads. The Standards cover only ad formats. This means that as I understand it, Chrome won't block antisemitic ads unless they're pop-ups or something similar.
Preroll ads before "video content that is relevant to the content of the page itself" are not one of the eight ad formats that the Better Ads Standards ban. The ban on autoplaying audio explicitly does not ban preroll ads.
How much have you donated to Slashdot to ensure its financial ability to continue to publish what you wrote? Would you prefer that your favorite sites all go behind a paywall? If not, I'd be interested to read about your third option to fund full-time operation of a website other than ads or paywalls.
Do those "standards" include websites not showing ads that originate from a network, or contain content, not under their control?
No. The standards ban eight distinct ad formats deemed unacceptably annoying in tests:
- pop-ups (other than exit intent pop-ups) - autoplaying audio (other than preroll before relevant video) - vertical ad density over 30 percent of article space - sticky ad taller than 30 percent of the scrolling area - prestitials (with countdown on desktop or at all on mobile) - postitials with countdown - animated ads that include flashing elements - screen-height ads that appear as a float rather than inline, thereby pausing scrolling of the article behind it (a format that I haven't personally seen in the wild)
They do not discern whether the ads are served by the publisher or by a third party, nor whether serving them relies on surveiling the viewing habits of each visitor across numerous unrelated websites in order to infer each visitor's interests.
Currently, the standards page includes a pile of 404 errors with -archived-0 in URLs, but the links from the research page still work.
Reminds me of this one time I put cyanide on the pizza and pretended like I loved being starved of oxygen so that nobody else would eat it. Unfortunately Little Joe thought I was bluffing, so his last meal came with a healthy dose of crow.
Perhaps you were missing an ingredient. Did you try putting both cyanide and happiness on the pizza?
I ask because I'm trying to convince my roommate that it's worthwhile to trim our cable bill. She doesn't play fantasy sports, thank God. (If she did, I'd try to get her into Games Workshop's tabletop game Blood Bowl instead.) And she watches a lot of NCAA football, whose student athletes don't get traded in the same way that professional athletes do. The idea of a "team" in this case largely draws from the schools that her relatives attend(ed). She admitted to me that she watches pro football in order to be able to make small talk with her client. And she disputes that MSNBC's talking head Rachel Maddow has "a bad writer".
Any tips for converting the addicts in the lives of many of us?
Or you're tied to Microsoft OS's because you need a mission critical application. [...] There's also still a lot of small business that just can't operate without Windows.
Let's say you work in an industry that requires use of an application or operating system that spies on you all the time. An extremist might claim that such industries ought to cease to exist, and affected workers ought to retrain to work in a different industry with a different "mission". For example, bingoUV has recommended that someone become a meat butcher.
But I sincerely doubt that this is practical for most.
I file my taxes using TurboTax.
And for the last two years, I filed my individual tax return using Credit Karma's web application, which is cheaper than TurboTax or H&R Block and works on Mozilla Firefox for Xubuntu. I plan to use Credit Karma again this year.
I just said that his not having SolidWorks on Linux is a personal problem. 99.999% of people don't need Solidworks (whatever that is).
Say 99.999 percent of people don't need each particular application that is incompatible with GNU/Linux. This means 0.001 percent of people do need each such application. If there are 10,000 such applications whose user bases don't overlap much, then roughly 10 percent of people will need at least one such application. More likely than not, eventually you, a family member, a friend, or a co-worker will experience such a personal problem and expect you to help solve it.
Many don't. And for some that do, such as myself, the server that we are leasing is restricted to run only web hosting because it is shared hosting, not a (more expensive) VPS.
Of course my ISP doesn't ban anything (otherwise I'd just switch)
Switching from one ISP that serves a given city to the other ISP that serves the same city doesn't work for everyone. Some countries have such a small allocation of IPv4 addresses that all ISPs in those countries have made it a standard practice to put a whole neighborhood behind one IP address. To upgrade to a static IP, you have to incorporate a business in order to qualify for a business-class line and then lease static IPs for a substantial extra monthly fee. (Source: comment by Bert64) Is switching worth emigrating from your home country?
What are the other choices? Do they involve a severely restricted set of screen sizes and having to buy a laptop without first having first seen its keyboard and screen? System76 currently doesn't offer anything smaller than 13 inches, and there aren't any System76 dealers in my home town.
Then let me rephrase it to sound less like "personal problems". If you were hired into a company that had standardized on SolidWorks, and it were your job to lead a company-wide transition to a replacement application that is compatible with GNU/Linux, which application would you choose to replace SolidWorks?
Nothing is more critical than keeping mega corporations from taking your data and spying on you.
Laptop and detachable computers sold in big box stores tend to come with one of three operating systems: Windows (which spies on its users), Chrome OS (which spies on its users), and Android with Google Play (which spies on its users). Though some can be coaxed to run third-party replacement operating systems, they aren't warranted to do so. In fact, many models have severe problems with broken or missing drivers when running anything but Windows (such as the ASUS Transformer Book T100TA, as reviewed by a Debian volunteer). Which is the least of three evils?
I guess this is for people who work in industries where no GNU/Linux-compatible replacement for a business-critical Windows application or device driver is available. Even Wine fails for many real-world applications.
You don't sell that to parents, but to those who are about to become parents.
There's an overlap between those two categories. And since January 2016, when the People's Republic of China changed from a one-child policy to a two-child policy, there has been even more overlap.
I still don't get how a "pro" isn't capable of self-hosting a git repo.
Say you want to install Gitea, a self-hosted Git server, and make it visible to your remote collaborators. First you have to buy a domain name. Then you have to subscribe to a VPS because your ISP bans running an Internet-visible server on your plan or its carrier-grade NAT won't forward you an inbound port.
Neither Sling Blue nor Sling Orange nor the News add-on appears to offer either of the two channels that my roommate actually watches: MSNBC and C-SPAN. The Rachel Maddow Show and Washington Journal respectively are her two biggest excuses to keep cable TV.
why do you think Duck Duck Go would magically be able to avoid the law?
Should worse come to worst, DuckDuckGo could go the way of Lavabit in 2013: discontinuing service under that brand and offering refunds to paying customers (if any).
The difference is that while some other services show ads based on interests inferred from your previous viewing history, DuckDuckGo shows ads based only on the context of your search query. DuckDuckGo also adds its referral tag to Amazon product URLs in search results.
Displays now update the charges on the liquid crystals many times faster than the crystals themselves can update.
That's been true ever since the beginning of dot matrix LCDs in consumer devices. The original Game Boy compact video game system updated its 2.6", 160x144 pixel, 4-level passive matrix super-twisted nematic (STN) LCD panel at 60 Hz, but the display had so much "ghosting" (motion blur) that a lot of games ran at 30, 20, or even 15 fps just to let the LCD catch up. Game Boy pocket didn't improve response time but was nonetheless a bit easier to see because of better overall contrast. Pixel response times as measured with the homebrew 144p Test Suite didn't improve noticeably until Nintendo switched to TFT displays starting with Game Boy Color.
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As you point out, the Internet used to consist of sites run as a hobby. It also used to be exclusive to universities. If the Internet were to shrink to again consist of sites run as a hobby, would those sites alone cause enough demand to justify upkeep of the infrastructure for high-speed access at home?
I'm aware of SoylentNews. It has no ads, but the featured articles it links to have just as many ads as the featured articles that Slashdot links to.
All I see is an impostor joe-jobbing APK with a racist diatribe.
But the Better Ads Standards don't cover the content of ads. The Standards cover only ad formats. This means that as I understand it, Chrome won't block antisemitic ads unless they're pop-ups or something similar.
Preroll ads before "video content that is relevant to the content of the page itself" are not one of the eight ad formats that the Better Ads Standards ban. The ban on autoplaying audio explicitly does not ban preroll ads.
fuck you, I'll continue blocking every single goddam ad
I can think of one practical problem with your suggestion if it were to become widely adopted. It'd...
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Ads have no place on the internet.
How much have you donated to Slashdot to ensure its financial ability to continue to publish what you wrote? Would you prefer that your favorite sites all go behind a paywall? If not, I'd be interested to read about your third option to fund full-time operation of a website other than ads or paywalls.
Do those "standards" include websites not showing ads that originate from a network, or contain content, not under their control?
No. The standards ban eight distinct ad formats deemed unacceptably annoying in tests:
- pop-ups (other than exit intent pop-ups)
- autoplaying audio (other than preroll before relevant video)
- vertical ad density over 30 percent of article space
- sticky ad taller than 30 percent of the scrolling area
- prestitials (with countdown on desktop or at all on mobile)
- postitials with countdown
- animated ads that include flashing elements
- screen-height ads that appear as a float rather than inline, thereby pausing scrolling of the article behind it (a format that I haven't personally seen in the wild)
They do not discern whether the ads are served by the publisher or by a third party, nor whether serving them relies on surveiling the viewing habits of each visitor across numerous unrelated websites in order to infer each visitor's interests.
Currently, the standards page includes a pile of 404 errors with -archived-0 in URLs, but the links from the research page still work.
Reminds me of this one time I put cyanide on the pizza and pretended like I loved being starved of oxygen so that nobody else would eat it. Unfortunately Little Joe thought I was bluffing, so his last meal came with a healthy dose of crow.
Perhaps you were missing an ingredient. Did you try putting both cyanide and happiness on the pizza?
I ask because I'm trying to convince my roommate that it's worthwhile to trim our cable bill. She doesn't play fantasy sports, thank God. (If she did, I'd try to get her into Games Workshop's tabletop game Blood Bowl instead.) And she watches a lot of NCAA football, whose student athletes don't get traded in the same way that professional athletes do. The idea of a "team" in this case largely draws from the schools that her relatives attend(ed). She admitted to me that she watches pro football in order to be able to make small talk with her client. And she disputes that MSNBC's talking head Rachel Maddow has "a bad writer".
Any tips for converting the addicts in the lives of many of us?
Or you're tied to Microsoft OS's because you need a mission critical application. [...] There's also still a lot of small business that just can't operate without Windows.
Let's say you work in an industry that requires use of an application or operating system that spies on you all the time. An extremist might claim that such industries ought to cease to exist, and affected workers ought to retrain to work in a different industry with a different "mission". For example, bingoUV has recommended that someone become a meat butcher.
But I sincerely doubt that this is practical for most.
I file my taxes using TurboTax.
And for the last two years, I filed my individual tax return using Credit Karma's web application, which is cheaper than TurboTax or H&R Block and works on Mozilla Firefox for Xubuntu. I plan to use Credit Karma again this year.
What does Thunderbird lack as a replacement for Outlook?
I just said that his not having SolidWorks on Linux is a personal problem. 99.999% of people don't need Solidworks (whatever that is).
Say 99.999 percent of people don't need each particular application that is incompatible with GNU/Linux. This means 0.001 percent of people do need each such application. If there are 10,000 such applications whose user bases don't overlap much, then roughly 10 percent of people will need at least one such application. More likely than not, eventually you, a family member, a friend, or a co-worker will experience such a personal problem and expect you to help solve it.
Of course I have a server "out there".
Many don't. And for some that do, such as myself, the server that we are leasing is restricted to run only web hosting because it is shared hosting, not a (more expensive) VPS.
Of course my ISP doesn't ban anything (otherwise I'd just switch)
Switching from one ISP that serves a given city to the other ISP that serves the same city doesn't work for everyone. Some countries have such a small allocation of IPv4 addresses that all ISPs in those countries have made it a standard practice to put a whole neighborhood behind one IP address. To upgrade to a static IP, you have to incorporate a business in order to qualify for a business-class line and then lease static IPs for a substantial extra monthly fee. (Source: comment by Bert64) Is switching worth emigrating from your home country?
You don't have to be limited to 3 choices.
What are the other choices? Do they involve a severely restricted set of screen sizes and having to buy a laptop without first having first seen its keyboard and screen? System76 currently doesn't offer anything smaller than 13 inches, and there aren't any System76 dealers in my home town.
Then let me rephrase it to sound less like "personal problems". If you were hired into a company that had standardized on SolidWorks, and it were your job to lead a company-wide transition to a replacement application that is compatible with GNU/Linux, which application would you choose to replace SolidWorks?
Nothing is more critical than keeping mega corporations from taking your data and spying on you.
Laptop and detachable computers sold in big box stores tend to come with one of three operating systems: Windows (which spies on its users), Chrome OS (which spies on its users), and Android with Google Play (which spies on its users). Though some can be coaxed to run third-party replacement operating systems, they aren't warranted to do so. In fact, many models have severe problems with broken or missing drivers when running anything but Windows (such as the ASUS Transformer Book T100TA, as reviewed by a Debian volunteer). Which is the least of three evils?
Or does Apple deserve a monopoly?
I guess this is for people who work in industries where no GNU/Linux-compatible replacement for a business-critical Windows application or device driver is available. Even Wine fails for many real-world applications.
You don't sell that to parents, but to those who are about to become parents.
There's an overlap between those two categories. And since January 2016, when the People's Republic of China changed from a one-child policy to a two-child policy, there has been even more overlap.
I still don't get how a "pro" isn't capable of self-hosting a git repo.
Say you want to install Gitea, a self-hosted Git server, and make it visible to your remote collaborators. First you have to buy a domain name. Then you have to subscribe to a VPS because your ISP bans running an Internet-visible server on your plan or its carrier-grade NAT won't forward you an inbound port.
And these days, most content makes it to DVD eventually.
Except sports and political talk shows. Or do only addicts ever watch those in the first place?
Neither Sling Blue nor Sling Orange nor the News add-on appears to offer either of the two channels that my roommate actually watches: MSNBC and C-SPAN. The Rachel Maddow Show and Washington Journal respectively are her two biggest excuses to keep cable TV.
why do you think Duck Duck Go would magically be able to avoid the law?
Should worse come to worst, DuckDuckGo could go the way of Lavabit in 2013: discontinuing service under that brand and offering refunds to paying customers (if any).
The difference is that while some other services show ads based on interests inferred from your previous viewing history, DuckDuckGo shows ads based only on the context of your search query. DuckDuckGo also adds its referral tag to Amazon product URLs in search results.
(Source: "How Does DuckDuckGo Make Money? DuckDuckGo Business Model Explained")
Displays now update the charges on the liquid crystals many times faster than the crystals themselves can update.
That's been true ever since the beginning of dot matrix LCDs in consumer devices. The original Game Boy compact video game system updated its 2.6", 160x144 pixel, 4-level passive matrix super-twisted nematic (STN) LCD panel at 60 Hz, but the display had so much "ghosting" (motion blur) that a lot of games ran at 30, 20, or even 15 fps just to let the LCD catch up. Game Boy pocket didn't improve response time but was nonetheless a bit easier to see because of better overall contrast. Pixel response times as measured with the homebrew 144p Test Suite didn't improve noticeably until Nintendo switched to TFT displays starting with Game Boy Color.
And the ripped WAV files from CDs don't have DRM unless you choose to add your own
Unless you have a nonconforming disc passed off as a CD instead of a CD.