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> Given that cynical viewpoint I wouldn't even call that cynical. It's just the state of things.
It absolutely is cynical. Just another "If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold."
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Facebook, Twitter and Google (YouTube) have used that strategy to ignore their obligations to filter their content by getting into some type of "too bug to fail" situation and throwing their hands up when they are asked to do their duty. Those products didn't fill a niche by innovating, they filled a niche by ignoring the obligations that were preventing others from filling the niche.
I own and operate a flea market. I sell stall usage to merchants who sell their goods at the flea market. Am I responsible when stolen goods are sold from my stalls? I own and operate an RV park. Someone is selling illegal drugs from one of the RVs. Am I responsible for the illegal drug sales?
You might not be liable for the sale itself but, depending on the details, you could definitely still have serious legal risk.
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/criminal-acts-activi...
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Note that Tenor is owned by Google.
didn't realize that Google already bought other gif 'service' Tenor (aka Riffsy!) a few years back. Interesting/not interesting all just services for integration and tracking in various platforms. Will FB stop Twitter from using Giphy?
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Cookie-based tracking, sure. But there are plenty of other avenues for fingerprinting. This[1] help doc from Adobe Analytics even makes reference to a Subscriber ID header you can get mobile carriers to give you, if you get onto the carrier's whitelist. Nothing the vendors do device/browser-side to restrict tracking will help if your mobile carrier is transparently appending an identifying header to your request afte…
This doesn't work for SSL enabled websites, right?
But you still see nondescript references to the capability in places like that that up-to-date Adobe Analytics doc, and the carriers aren't trying to use legal means (a la lobbying) to slow down the uptick in HTTPS traffic and preserve their revenue stream. Which leads me to presume they've developed technical solutions that are compatible with HTTPS traffic. They can't really use the spray-and-pay method[2] they were using. But all bets are off when they destination site and the carriers are coordinating with each other, as that coordination can involve technical modifications to facilitate it in addition to just the whitelisting itself.
[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2015/08/31/are-mobile-carrier-injecte...
[2] Some carriers would inject a header into all traffic, and any interested party could slurp them up. But you'd have to pay the carrier to access any of the other information the carrier had for that particular identifier.
There is a considerable amount of porn on Giphy. I wonder if FB will ban porn on Giphy like how Verizon banned porn on Tumblr after that acquisition.
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I think one difference with "grok" is that, the way it's normally used, there really isn't IMO a perfect English replacement. To me at least, it implies a deeper and broader internalizing of something than saying "I understand it" or "I get it" necessarily implies.
“Comprehend” works, in British English at least.
Grok works in English, I've been reading it for, what, 20 years in English texts. It mightn't be in dictionaries but they're not the sole arbiters of language.
It comes from US English, AFAIK, a neonym from Heinlein (the sci-fi writer).
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I use emojis a lot in Slack and texting. They can remove some accidental ambiguity in your writing, by making your intent clear. For example, the tongue out emoji can work to make sure people know you're being sarcastic.
Emojis can have ambiguity too. My friends and have been using the eye roll emoji to signal we're being sarcastic for about 10 years. The un-animated version of this emoji looks like "I'm not really thinking what I'm saying", especially on Discord/Twitter. I've recently a colleague who used the tongue out emoji for sarcasm and the eye roll one for, well, eye rolling with disdain in reaction to something. The first cha…
But why would you assume this works for a random stranger? It seems much more logical to assume they’ll interpret the thing you’ve written as being said while actually rolling your eyes.
That said, it seems entirely appropriate to look down on someone that doesn’t test their code before deploying.
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I use emojis a lot in Slack and texting. They can remove some accidental ambiguity in your writing, by making your intent clear. For example, the tongue out emoji can work to make sure people know you're being sarcastic.
Call me old school but I have to look up almost every single emoji. I find them frustrating /creepy