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You Will Not Understand This

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Re: You Will Not Understand This

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Post by camiller »

TheCoelacanth wrote: post #228
camiller wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"takeaway pizza near me" Google knows where I am right now after all, I used waze on the drive here, and have an android phone. but even using the employers PC in front of me it knows where it is. Note: I have hast a few instances where "near me" didn't work as expected.

Where else would I be trying to find takeaway pizza? Are you suggesting that if I just search for takeaway pizza Google should point me to the best takeaway pizza place in the world and only if I specify "near me" should it provide me with information that might actually be useful?

Was addressing the suggestion that "takeaway pizza " would provide less than optimal results under certain circumstances described in other comments in this part of the thread. For example If I lived in Omaha Nebraska on the north side of Harrison street which also is the dividing line between Omaha and Papillion a search on "takeaway pizza Omaha" might fail to include the pizza place I can see across the street in Papillion.

Personally, I would do the search on maps and not include either the city name or "near me", but the discussion was about the regular text search and I was suggesting an alternate phrasing.

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Post by [deleted] »

Micoloth wrote: post #153
kome wrote: post #88

Beautiful! I agree 100% with it. Commercial web sucks, and what it's worse: it's boring and predictable. The resistance has started. So many people share the same feelings, that's why things like the tildeverse (tilde.club, tilde.town, neocities) do exist. Revolution won't use JavaScript.

Thanks for the javascript part. By the way, here on HN there's been plenty of post about "websites" been cool lately. Please let's not confuse healthy individual control over the web with purely subjective old technology nostalgia. Tbh, 90s pure html was UGLY lol.

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Re: You Will Not Understand This

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Post by corford »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #227
corford wrote: post #155

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Yep. Not sure how old you are, maybe it's an age thing? I'm in my early thirties, live abroad and don't have an FB account. I stay in touch with my friends and family back home with phone, sms, whatsapp, skype, email and birthday/christmas cards in the post. Works fine.

You should be aware that WhatsApp _is_ Facebook, or at least is owned by them. It'll become crap over time. Watch this space.

Very aware MZ needs to find a way to get some ROI on his investment. If/when it becomes shit, I'll drop it.

Re: You Will Not Understand This

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Post by jon_richards »

leephillips wrote: post #212
jon_richards wrote: post #176

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I get furious that it threads conversations automatically instead of with the "reply-to" built into the email protocol. It usually just threads emails with the same subject, but... It sometimes doesn't thread emails with the same subject, but after someone else has replied to the first one. You have to put "Re:" in the second email, since the reply automatically added "Re:" and I guess that's too different for gmail…

Another option is to use a non-broken email client, like mutt.

I'm the one sending the emails, but lots of people receive them. Can't have them all switch.

Re: You Will Not Understand This

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Post by hzay »

endorphone wrote: post #179
hzay wrote: post #74

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Pretty sure OP gets the idea of personalization. Google's personalization is like piling up chairs in order to reach the moon. It's nowhere near its promise of reading the user's mind and helping him. Instead its present implementation simply stops your world view from expanding in any direction, by serving you the same stuff that you knew over and over again. This is not personalization. This is a child's imitation…

How does this sophistry get a pass? Google's search is dominant because it provides the most meaningful, useful results to most people. If you think this is chairs to the moon or a child's imitation, surely there is a market for you to exploit. Otherwise your argument sounds ridiculous, with sentences that together become ridiculously meaningless beyond smearing Google.

> surely there is a market for you to exploit

Yes I do believe it's up for grabs.

Re: You Will Not Understand This

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Post by zaarn »

kome wrote: post #168
zaarn wrote: post #58

I haven't used Facebook in well over a decade and I'm not even 25 years old yet. I don't think I missed out on much. (Though Facebook tried to get me back in not too long ago by claiming somebody was hacking my account which I had deleted... they also demanded a passport)

Perhaps you didn't delete the account, but just deactivated.

Either way, it's definitely deleted now. I don't have much use for that website.

Re: You Will Not Understand This

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Post by ilvez »

I'm just adding one drop to the ocean of social-network quitters. Last year about the same time in November, I left Facebook for good. Life is so much better without it. Less stress, less stupid media, less time spent mindless scrolling.

Sometimes I feel left out, because FB is so overwhelmingly taken role of event organizing etc, but I still hope that one day something breaks, people take back their freedom and more natural independent communes appear.

Re: You Will Not Understand This

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Post by leephillips »

jon_richards wrote: post #255
leephillips wrote: post #212

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Another option is to use a non-broken email client, like mutt.

I'm the one sending the emails, but lots of people receive them. Can't have them all switch.

It seemed as if your complaint about incorrect threading was about the client, hence my suggestion to use a better client. Are you saying that if people reply using the gmail client the reply-to header is wrong? Then yes, using mutt will not fix this.

Re: You Will Not Understand This

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Post by ori_b »

busterarm wrote: post #247
ori_b wrote: post #245

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I run eigenstate.org (and the associated emails) using physical hardware in a colo. OpenBSD's OpenSMTPD makes it relatively easy to set up, although simpler spam filtering would be appreciated.

Nice to know, thank you. As an OpenBSD user, I've thought about going the OpenSMTPD route for a while now, but I've been debating whether to do that or Mail In A Box. Have you used MIAB at all?

Never even heard of it.
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