[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 170 points 9 months ago

The use of the term "Dark traffic" here is to paint the use of ad-blockers as something nefarious. Don't use it, fuck these people right in their stupid mouths.

I propose using the terms "clean traffic", for ad-blocked website traffic, and "dogshit traffic" for everything else.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 135 points 9 months ago

keep showing viewers the videos that we think they’ll love

We'll keep profiling you and target you with videos that drive engagement, so largely things that inspire rage or conflict between you and others. Extra points if we drive your political and social views further to the right.

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[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 175 points 10 months ago

I developed one of the top ten apps in the webOS App Store. I released it about 6 months before they shuttered Palm and started the transition of webOS in to a vague "embedded and mobile things" open source OS that eventually ended up on, primarily, LG televisions.

It was my first big success as a computer science student. When I started working on my next big app idea it was about 80% complete when the new dropped that they were discontinuing all phones and tablets. Palm used to send me free phones and tablets too, and I spent a lot of time in the community forums, I had reviews on webOS Nation, and so on

I maintain to this day that enyo is one of the greatest app development frameworks ever written and I wonder what the landscape of web development would look like today if they'd moved faster to liberate it from mobile devices. The webOS team were also earlier adopters of nodeJS for their native services. It felt like living in the future using them at a time when the iPhone 4 was barely out.

If you can believe it, after that I moved over to Windows Phone, where history repeated without the afterlife. After that, I felt cursed but, honestly, I chose both platforms because the stores weren't saturated with 100 versions of every app imaginable.

They were great times. Five big mobile platforms, free devices, open APIs to work with - it really was a digital gold rush.

I now have LG TVs in every room and it's so strange to use webOS in it's final(?) form. Wonderfully, there's a homebrew community just as there was back in the day, albeit on a much smaller scale. I've even made a wrapper for some home assistant features.

webOS is dead. Long live webOS

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 160 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Thanks for all the $16k loans at 0% shmucks. We've kept the interest we made while rates have been up and now you can have it back while they're dropping. Of course, your money is now worth less than it was when you gave it to us during high inflation. Suck it losers. Love, T E S L A"

EDIT: deposit was $150. Still shitty but not the same impact

EDIT 2: Or $2000? ... tl;dr: shitty

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[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 110 points 1 year ago

I switched from Firefox to Floorp and haven't looked back. Less bloated, same features, haven't found an extension that isn't compatible yet.

Same with Fennec on Android.

This article is pretty poor overall. Why recommend Arc, a browser that requires a user account to even open a webpage, and which the author himself said will probably be disappearing in the near future as part of their own product strategy?

Lame clickbait aimed at nobody.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 247 points 1 year ago

I think it's fair to say that ketamine may be affecting his faculties, but this is dipping it's toe into "the drugs make him do it!" sanewashing.

Drugs don't make people assholes. They were assholes before they took the drugs, and the drugs emphasise what an asshole they are.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 172 points 2 years ago

They should put it adjacent to the up arrow key so that when I hit it accidentally, copilot can ask "did you mean to press the up arrow key?", which will cause me to smash the keyboard with my fists and then I'll need to buy another one. Sales will skyrocket.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by killeronthecorner@lemmy.world to c/listeningto@lemmy.world
[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 130 points 2 years ago

766 third parties

Facebook: look what they need to mimic a fraction of my power

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 153 points 2 years ago

You can use nano without having to read anything about nano. That might be the only thing that is better about it than vim, but it's a damn important thing.

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 281 points 2 years ago

Nothing is changing says company that keeps changing everything

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by killeronthecorner@lemmy.world to c/atheism@lemmy.world

Peter Hitchens is an author, broadcaster, journalist, and commentator. He writes for The Mail on Sunday. He has published numerous books, including The Abolition of Britain, The Rage Against God, The War We Never Fought and The Phoney Victory.


While this isn't technically about atheism, I think it's on topic given Hitchens' widely publicised views on religion. With that in mind, the post-interview section gives a unique insight into how Peter acts when he feels he has been wronged, and how his approach to reason and justification changes in that light.

Further, the interview was supposed to go on to the topic of God but Peter had already decided to storm out prior to reaching the topic (though he doesn't actually storm out for another 15 or so minutes)

You can also follow his ongoing reaction to the interview, and its subsequent release, on his X (formerly known as Twitter) feed: https://twitter.com/ClarkeMicah

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 114 points 2 years ago

It really is given that they've willingly entered a game of cat and mouse and chosen to assume the role of a blind, limbless mouse.

As others have said before me, I feel for the poor engineers who have to implement this stuff as any technical solution short of DRM is provably impractical and unworkable.

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Currently when performing a search if you e.g. click through to a result to subscribe, then press back, you end up on the page prior to tapping search. You then have tap the search tab again and enter your search term again if you want to see more results.

I'd like to see it restore the state of the search results modal on returning from a result. This would make it much easier to do things like quickly add multiple subscriptions to related communities

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 260 points 2 years ago

Do it. Not doing it is square bro.

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For making titles on shared images optional. Now I don't have to delete them by hand.

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