The skyscrapers mutate under the athaumic fallout and for the first time, the urban jungle sprouts concrete branches, nonsense ads blossom
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/
phase 1: ads tailored to you↵phase 2: ads tailored to each of your identities↵phase 3: ads inducing identity splits for more customers
Every morning on the commute, you spend five minutes looking at (fake, harmless) ads to inoculate yourself against today’s strains
Ad targeting so effective, anybody unprotected is rendered a consumer zombie within days, their every microexpression fed to the algorithms
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
an AI trained on ads generating ads for fake products, then bringing into existence those that get the most clicks
@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?
Fake email clients
For a few (years?) now, there has been an increase of so called email clients that are not so. I am talking about the “value added email clients” that require a third party server/service to work. Within that category there is Nylas, Polymail, and Sparkmail, to mention a few. Although they bring an array of features not normally found on an email client, they are worthless if the third party company server(s) goes down, … ⌘ Read more
@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?
fully automated religion whose prophet is a program that generates scripture and imagery, places those as ads, and learns from clickthroughs
The new Nanomoss™ grows in public places and displays ads, feeding on attention instead of light. Unattended cameras are quickly overgrown.
low planes have high planes↵within their minds to describe ‘em↵these high planes have higher planes↵and so, ad infinitum
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
advertising cyranoids in our midst are the inevitable end game of ad based business models [is your mother an ad zombie? find out here!]
Android bodies are expensive, so why not take the ad financed plan? Just one minute of your time every day for words from our sponsors.
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.
The book literally captures your imagination, conscripts it until you’ve added another chapter. That’s simply the price of reading it.
@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? :)
As a plague was carrying off the homunculi, vacant bodies grew in numbers and started posting ads: BODY (WARM, F) SEEKS HOM, LOVELY VIEW
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.
Selling out
It seems iOS 9 ad blocker, Crystal, will allow some ads to go through for a fee. From an article on the Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Murphy said he has taken Eyeo up on its offer, and plans to implement an option within his app whereby “acceptable” ads will be displayed to users. The feature will be switched on by default, Mr. Murphy said, and he will receive a flat monthly fee from Eyeo in return. Mr. Murphy declined to disclose the fee, but said he expects to make less money from Eyeo’s payments th … ⌘ Read more
IP migration
I have a deadline to meet. I must migrate all my servers, and clients to a private IP space. Servers must be done — if at all possible — by September 30th. Clients by October 30th. That is, this year. Problem is, I have never done anything close to it, and there are so many things that need to be done at once, I don’t know where to start.
I have a Linux DNS/DHCP to change (Internet facing one). I have an AD DNS to change (AD, as AD integrated zones. Three servers, actually. All for internal AD us … ⌘ Read more
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
Heavy Microsoft ads on Freshmeat
Freshmeat is, in their own words, “the first stop for Linux users hunting for the software they need for work or play.” and it also “offers a variety of original content on technical, political, and social aspects of software and programming, written by both Freshmeat readers and Free Software luminaries.”
I have been very surprised to see, more and more, Microsoft ads on Freshmeat. All over the place. Quite often. Fre … ⌘ Read more
They advertise with the best
Imagine my surprise when I saw the following Google Ad showing under one of my posts this morning:
[Was a screenshot of a Microsoft MSN advertisement on Google]
I guess Microsoft knows who is the best, right? I mean, the only way to see that advertising (other than serving adds on your own web space) is by searching the web using Google. I think it is funny… and interesting. ⌘ Read more
Longer than anticipated
Well, my hiatus and upcoming photoblog are taking longer than anticipated. That’s due, most of the time, to lack of time. We have moved our offices to a new building (I am talking about work here) and things have been hectic at times. That added to Kent Martin’s growing up and the task of educating him becoming more important –and difficult– has taken all the little free time I have on my hands.
It is true that I had had some really “free” time. But then the inspiratio … ⌘ Read more
Redesign on the horizon
Pretty soon I will be redesigning. I am not sure what I will do yet, but the main site will change. Additionally, I will be adding an extra blog using MT (Movable Type).
On the main site I am not sure whether to go simplistic or zeldmanian, but changes are due, since I am also changing the way I have been writing lately. The domain Collantes.US will become the echo of my thoughts on technology, science, religion, politics and everything else in between. Stay tuned, if you want. Or … ⌘ Read more