Attention knitters: (n) the ad-tech people who make sure your recommended youtube videos smoothly transition from lets-plays to people who are very angry that the lizard people refuse to inflate the flat earth with ghosts
Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target asemic combinations of dictionary words order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques
Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target things that are in dictionaries but could never be sold in order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques
Bad idea of the day: running a script that speaks random words aloud all day while you leave your phone at home, in order to chaff your audio-surveillance-based ad targeting
Is This Creepy Sculpture An Ad For Soylent? https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/soylent-sculpture-girlfriend
Ad-tech and fatigue – Rococo Modem Basilisk – Medium https://medium.com/@/ad-tech-and-fatigue-b918bee5ee75
Ad Scammers Need Suckers, and Facebook Helps Find Them - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them
Hot take: the lack of targetting effectiveness in Cambridge Analytica & Google Ads doesn’t excuse it. There are 4 sins here: taking the data, trying to target with it, targetting poorly, and overselling targetting accuracy. They compound.
Band name of the day: added smashing power
What do you think about adding aliases to txtnish’ follow file? So mentions could be collapsed for different urls of the same twtxt file?
Bad idea of the day: Instead of ads mining bitcoins in your browser, they run IPFS nodes and pin arbitrary hashes in browser persistent storage then store them.
This Is How Visiting A Porn Site Can Make You A Pawn In An Ad Fraud Scheme https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/porn-runs-the-internet
GANZEER - 1,000,000 A.D. PART III[[MORE]] By Ganzeer Adapted… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/167538424069/1000000-ad-part-iiimore-by-ganzeer-adapted
GANZEER - 1,000,000 A.D. PART II[[MORE]] By Ganzeer Adapted… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/167295499974/1000000-ad-part-iimore-by-ganzeer-adapted
GANZEER - 1,000,000 A.D. A story by Tawfik al-Hakim (1953)… http://www.ganzeer.com/post/167078472779/1000000-ad-a-story-by-tawfik-al-hakim-1953
Social Media Experts Say the Russian Trolls Suck at Facebook - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43n4pn/were-the-facebook-russian-ads-effective-good
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » The Return of the Slow-Wave Trader http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7625
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » My Dinner with Ramez: or, The Identity Landscape. http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7737
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » My Dinner with Ramez: or, The Identity Landscape. http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7737
Ads don’t work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/27/pirate-bay-showtime-ads-websites-electricity-pay-bills-cryptocurrency-bitcoin
Ads Don’t Work That Way | Melting Asphalt http://www.meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/
The Creator of JavaScript Just Launched a Cryptocurrency to Improve Online Ads - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-creator-of-javascript-just-launched-a-cryptocurrency-for-online-ads
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » Lizards in the Sink with David. http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7117
No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » Cambridge Analytica and the Other Turing Test. http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=7193
@kas@enotty.dk Yeah, i though about adding it for the future ncurses frontend. Maybe i could also add the urls as comment in txtnish reply.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Okay, added the new subcommand.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net What do you mean by time based? I added syncing with we-are-twtxt in 6c2038 but it simply compares the result against the last run?
@kas@enotty.dk I love the branding of Pi Hole. They even use it in their source code. So, anybody knows a good alternative dns list for ad blocking?
Let’s be honest, it seems to be impossible to use twtxt without adding new stuff to the client. So much fun.
Quake for Oculus Rift
My Oculus Rift CV1 finally arrived last week, so of course I had to update my fork of the excellent Quakespasm engine for the new Oculus 1.4 API.
While I was at it, I also fixed a number of bugs, included support for the Rift’s headphones and the XBox One controller – I’d still recommend you play with mouse & keyboard, though. Controls are set up with reasonable defaults, but you can of course change everything in the options menu. There’s also … ⌘ Read more
Just added a search field for users and tweets at https://roster.twtxt.org And sorry for just tweeting about new features…
Big changes for #txtnix: The last commits added a basic plugin system. There are currently just three plugins:
@kas@enotty.dk Read them both and loved them! Though I don’t know why Stephenson added that strange appendix to an otherwise great book.
@reednj@reednj.com Would you mind adding this functionality to your registry?
If you’re registered with reednj, would you mind being automatically added the a registry? Is reednj just the registry that won? :)
oops, I accidentally double-added a significant number of tweets. Thankfully I can rebuild this index!
added these aliases to my .profile to make sending/receiving a bit easier
@edsu I added: git push -q origin gh-pages; – so I didn’t get the warning from git about push.default since I’ve never set that.
NixOS progress report
Finally we can run all those legacy\
applications… Thanks to Michael Raskin for adding Wine
and a NPTL-enabled Glibc (which Wine seems to need). This is a
nice application of purely functional package composition, by
the way: Wine didn’t work with the standard Glibc in Nixpkgs, … ⌘ Read more
We now have KDE running on
NixOS ( obligatory\
screenshot). Just kdebase for now (Martin
Bravenboer already added kdelibs a long time ago so
that we could run the wonderful KCachegrind),
but it contains all the important stuff (Konqueror, KDesktop,
Kicker, Konsole, Control Center, … ⌘ Read more
