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I hate the tracking too. But how to websites monetize free content otherwise? Advertising doesn’t work if you can’t price it. Without tracking, everything becomes a paywall.

Yet every website still has them.

No. The cookie banners have ruined the internet. The banners haven’t fixed anything. Business as usual, just click here.

100%. This is why many of us have a problem with the EU. And world governments in general — the more power they have and the further away from the elections that keep them accounta…

This is a country that has arrested people for social media posts. It’s also a crime in the UK to offend someone. Orwell identified the genetic defect in the British genome 80 year…

Why do people vote for large, strong governments that are able to take the power you suggest Tech is enabling them to take?

FabFilter is another independent company that make some of the best plugins around.

People care about stories.

Apple doesn’t use Leetcode. It’s often an 8 hour whiteboard interview during with you write pseudo code for the most part. You can’t “cram” for an Apple interview typically.

It would be great if editors had some kind of terms limits to avoid the WikiMafia stuff we commonly see.

Good communication should be the goal of all writing.

Trackball?

Have you used Oracle, Salesforce, Windows? That’s why.

PTA isn’t the place. The school board is.

You could look at disposable income. That’s a more objective measure.

Not having to use outlook is a feature not a bug.

Completely agree. I hate kids being stuck in a Google ecosystem. Apple’s classroom app is really good.

Why doesn’t the market respond? If people don’t like Android, it seems like a market opportunity to make another OS. People love to complain about Apple and Google’s “monopoly,” bu…

Is anything stopping you from coding your own OS?

How is AI viewing content any different from Google? I don’t even use Google anymore because it’s so filled with SEO trash as to be useless for many things.

Very true. Just the other day, another “copyright is bad” post on the front page. Today its copyright is good because otherwise people might get some use of material in LLMs. Consi…

So how do authors make money? Going on concert tours? The copyright system needs reform (Mickey Mouse for example) — but the system protects creators. If there were no copyrights, …

It’s not just corporations. Look how much tracking nonsense goes into a recipe blog.

Is it factual?

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of …