holy shit gabbo

[citation needed]

Kinda surprising that this comment got downvotes on this video.

His ideas aren’t monetizable. They’re a throwback to the golden age when tools and utilities were built for passion or need.

Now, tooling is built by for-profit corporations. It satisfies users enough that there isn’t enough room for passion projects. For-profit tooling tends to get usability right.

Look at the fediverse: it’s a workable system that users would be fine with, if more usable for-profit alternatives didn’t exist.

There are so many great reasons to hate on Disney. This one is so incredibly over the top.

Considering the lawsuits, now seems like a good time.

Our volunteer ambassadors will attend local Linux and open-source events, meet with other Framework laptop users and potential community members, answer questions, gather feedback, and showcase Framework laptops and parts to those interested. Ambassadors will be in close touch to Framework employees and they will represent the Linux community, feedback and requests directly to our engineers and to our internal Linux team.

That sounds way too close to unpaid labour. I’m all for recognizing community members with perks, merch, and other freebies; but this looks more like soliciting volunteers for unpaid PR.

I think this misses the cultural shift around the popularization of the web/Internet.

There used to be a high barrier to entry for creating content. The folks who were capable and willing to surmount that barrier posted stuff that nerds like us enjoyed. It was really hard to monetize (unless porn), so it was typically free.

Then social networks came along and made it easy for everyone to post. Just like normal society, the non-nerds started drowning out the nerdy early adopters.

Certain networks became cool (Twitter, Medium) because cool normies were on there (aka the network effect), and that pulled many nerds of self hosted software.

Other social networks were monetizable and incredibly accessible (YouTube), which pulled many other nerds off self hosted software.

Proprietary networks suck morally, but they’re incredibly easy to use and democratizing. That cranks their network effect to 11 and makes the old school web less rewarding.

I think there are much better social media platforms for sharing clips. From what I’ve seen, most of Twitter is people angrily typing opinions at each other, so your target demographic may not be there. The UI is designed for text rather than video, and responses/reactions don’t integrate nicely with videos.

Sharing game clips on video-oriented social media makes a tonne sense, however.

I guess they’re discovering that your grocery store trip on Feb 17, 2017 does not help them target ads.

The data has costs associated with it: they’ll want to back it up, they need to migrate it when they change formats, they need to maintain the hardware it resides on.

And, as the article mentions, there are liabilities around law enforcement requests, costs due to data breaches, and regulatory requirements.

Three months is plenty for them to target ads.

That’s pretty interesting. It looks like they define inaccessible links as urls that get a 404 or the server doesn’t resolve.

I wonder if there are any real implications of this. We seem to know it and work around it in some cases, e.g. StackOverflow saying answers need to contain quotes from pages they reference.

needing a login that would require an email address is sketchy as hell on the surface, and there’s no explanation given.

The link to the explanation is right beside the text saying you need an account.

https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/

From a comment on the original: https://fogofworld.app/

things want to mimic the X interface and that promotes more following of individuals and whatever they post about rather than ideas. I do much better over here because you follow a general topic and the posts are about that thing or related things

That’s a really insightful comment. I bounce off Twitter/Mastodon, but really enjoy the Reddit/Lemmy interface. The focus on topics rather than people is probably why.

Low effort but honest Lemmy users unite!

I’m too lazy to read this, but the title fits my preconceptions. 👍

Why, I couldn’t even get into the article before it faded into a paywall.

I get people want to be paid but splashing cash on every page is not the internet as I knew it.

Speaking solely about news, the Internet as you knew it was unsustainable. For the first decade or so of online news, the ad-supported newspaper publishing business subsidized free online news, because they couldn’t figure out payment.

Then Google and the other ad-tech companies took the advertising dollars, and the old publishing companies took on debt to try and switch to ad-supported online publications. And failed miserably.

Then the old publishing started running out of money, and slowly switched to online first.

The remaining published are a shadow of themselves, drowning in debt, and low readership.

There are alternative models that sort of work, maybe, but they haven’t gone mainstream. They’re held back by the belief that content should be free.

If platforms like flattr had taken off then the conversation would probably be different.

I found one of mine developed a crackle after a year. It would eventually go away if I put it in the case and took it out a few times which seemed kind of silly.

Stuff like the Fairphone Buds seems like a good alternative.

Like other commenters here, I got something like three years out of my AirPods until they wouldn’t hold a charge.