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No, I don't think it is. I didn't want to reach the mods necessarily. I wanted to check what the picture was regarding the general opinion on this kind of practices, hopefully with…

Wait. Is it not against the HN guidelines to regularly submit links to your own sites? Isn't that considered self-promotion and, thus, against the rules? I've got nothing against t…

>Powerful LLMs will be deployed at global scale in the next few years, and will dominate the Internet, and increasingly, ordinary life. This kind of judgements or predictions tryin…

>We could’ve just paid for the content, directly subsidising the creators we like. That wasn't an option. And if it had been, they would've rolled out monetization through ads anyw…

Ads have destroyed our culture. Just look at the fundamental change YouTube underwent in 2012 when they made all users eligible for monetization. It turned it into junk/infomercial…

>the level of effort being put into journalism seems to be on decline Under late stage capitalism, the main driver in any industry, not just journalism, is unscrupulous opportunism…

Noise, in a wide, aesthetic sense, is rich. "Clean" is shapeless, soulless.

Hmm... To my mind, the best way to commercialize software is the old way: pay for the binaries of every major version. This, of course, bars the option of using the software online…

You might think to look for it through a smartphone app; I certainly wouldn't. That's some projection right there. And no, it's not there, still. If you knew anything about the dee…

>I think everything changed when Eternal September happened. That was a critical turning point, to be sure. But what came about with the conjunction of social media and the smartph…

It's mostly devoid of content and participation, unfortunately. We need more people to join in.

We desperately need to develop more for I2P. Make it a real place to thrive instead of just a curious piece of technology or a mere repository of pirated media. Let's say right now…

I'll say it yet again. The Internet has become the very thing we used it to escape from.

One step closer to the great exile from the clearnet. I'd say "accelerate".

Absolutely. If they end up making access to the deep and dark web impossible through commercial Internet infrastructure, the next logical step is cracking down on alternative Inter…

We'll move permanently to the dark web, then. Ideally, we should maintain resilient wireless community networks that can withstand government abuse, as well.

>If people attend university for certification instead of education I think the battle is already lost It's been a lost battle for decades, then.

Advertising and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

"Commercial speech" being protected by free speech laws anywhere is abhorrent. The advertising industry, in and of itself, seems abhorrent to me. It's one of the worst things human…

>"well what specific laws would I write to combat addictive design?" Hear me out: banning advertising on the Internet. It's the only way. It's the primordial domino tile. You knock…

From another article: >"Social media app TikTok has been accused of purposefully designing its app to be “addictive” by the European Commission, citing its infinite scroll, autopla…

...and the global oligopoly grows ever smaller.