This is why I need something like uMatrix to explicitly whitelist the text and leave the marketing wibble on the server.
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It's bullshit allright. Thousands of cpu hours, megabytes and dollars wasted on some user spying turdheap the marketing guys NEEDED to put in an app, 'to track user behaviour'. What a euphemism. Without spilling too many beans, we're using a solution that records an actual movie of the user using our app, each time a session is started. In six months, the only thing we learned: half of the users that finish setting u…
How do you know if the client has an error and the content was not loaded/displayed as expected? How do you know if placing the content on the right side or the left side increases conversion rate by 10% if you don't do A/B testing? There are huge business advantages when you use analytics. You don't care about creepily "tracking" a specific person, you just care about getting better conversion rates and happier user…
Over all I think that this type of metric has had a significant detrimental effect on the quality of news items. I understand that there is a business advantage to knowing things like this, but I think that there would be much less rage porn and click bait around if this information wasn't known to an entity that can use it to forgo relevant reporting on things that matter and manipulate our tendencies towards morbid curiosity and outrage.
I'd go as far as to say that it isn't only unethical to collect this information, but that it's unethical not to take active measures not to share it.
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#463I see no one mentioned the extraordinary "Reader mode" of Firefox. [0] It's literaly the one feature for which I stopped using Chrome at work. It's just so damn good. For instance, [1] becomes [2] [0] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu... [1] https://radiobruxelleslibera.com/2018/06/26/intermediated-of... [2] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/smexxUICwLXKbzEEbLlIPQ_qGc... (that's a screensho…
There are many chrome extensions that do the same thing
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> I saw a discussion on HN a few months back about a survey of computer hardware, and one dev in the comments was shocked - shocked! - to find out that the typical user didn't have 16 GB and a 4k screen. That definitely rustled my jimmies a bit.) This is extremely common in dev circles, it's an area where we're completely detached from average users. Just to make the point, here is the mozilla hardware survey that sh…
Oh, I recognize that Mozilla survey as actually the specific one that user was talking about! Let me see if I can track down the actual comment thread; it's probably less ridiculous than I actually remember it being. Ah, found it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16735354
I'm really surprised at the reaction to the resolution. I like 1080p for movies on my (too) big TV but for coding I was more than satisfied once we got to 1024x768 and haven't thought of it since. My home coding machine is a cheap dell at 1366x768 and I've always been happy with it.
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#465I've said this before, but it bears repeating: Moby Dick is 1.2mb uncompressed in plain-text. That's lower than the "average" news website by quite a bit--I just loaded the New York Times front page. It was 6.6mb. that's more than 5 copies of Moby Dick, solely for a gateway to the actual content that I want. A secondary reload was only 5mb. I then opened a random article. The article itself was about 1,400 words long…
I can't agree more with the points you make, I've spent a decent amount of time and effort reducing the overhead of my blog, for example - https://goose.us/thoughts/on-the-purpose-of-life/ That page includes images and "embedded" youtube videos, but loads 454kb of 3,187 words with 10 requests in 450-600ms - if anyone has any suggestions on how to reduce that further, I'd love to hear. Going to bookmark that txti.es s…
Ditch the "embedded" videos. Use a screenshot linking to the videos directly.
Embedded videos still load a ton of shit and track visitors without their consent.
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Can you run recent versions of Photoshop? How about Premiere, or Final Cut? SolidWorks? CATIA? Matlab?
I find that the best way to do this is to just VNC to a windows or Mac dedicated slave computer to do graphic arts work. VNC is so good nowadays that I can use my QHD phone screen as a second monitor for all my Adobe apps- and the lag nowadays is almost non-existent thanks to super fast wifi.
FreeRDP for connecting to Windows is a good option too.
Should say that KRDC is a good RD connection manager, but it's KDE only unless you wanna install a third of it.
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There is no such thing as "the ads are well done and blend in with the webpage". Especially on a website where you pay for a subscription.
Moreover, there is a tipping point, beyond which the ad blends too well and becomes plain deception. This is even more of a problem for journalistic publications. See also: native advertising.
Indeed. In print, you had dedicated pages to advertisement. Not optimal, but much easier to ignore. Nowadays, you never know if an “article” is simply a marketing agenda.
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#468Appstore based browser.
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#469Very relevant: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com
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Both of the public transit systems I use on a regular basis sell me monthly unlimited-use passes.
That’s nothing more than marketing. Do you ride more because it’s unlimited? When you get to your stop for your office or dinner or whatever, do you go back home and then back again before getting off? Do you go all the way to the end of the line to minimize your cost per mile, then walk back to your actual destination? Of course not, you use it as efficiently as possible to do the thing you used public transit to ac…
I definitely use public transportation more often instead of walking or riding my bicycle than I would if I had to pay per ride.