The global economy: gamblers betting on the effectiveness of bad assumptions made based on wide but shallow surveillance in influencing the distribution of ads that don’t work for products that nobody wants and nobody can afford to people who are using adblock.
@sdk@codevoid.de Well I’ve added the special datetime to my kitbashed client. I store the URL it gets but I’m not doing anything with it right now.
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: Check my tw.txt file. The specification does not allow a comment. I’ve added this now: 1970-01-01T01:00:00.000000Z▸FF:https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt. I’d use the special date/time + FF: comment as trigger. This is backwards compatible and shouldn’t really come up in anyones’ timeline.
Any thoughts about decentralized ways to discover twtxt users? I’ve set up https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt which is my following list plus whatever comes in via user-agent. If everybody would set this up with the with an added .following we could fetch each others list and discover users that way.
Worst IAP ever. 15sec w/o ads? really? gopher://codevoid.de/I/p/IMG_5270.png
I always thought about putting together some sort of micro-blog/journal where I can post my daily brainfarts and list them on my webpage. Now, after adding twtxt to my page I have exactly that. It’s kind of cool.
…and I’ve also added my last tweets to my gopher hole. I don’t know why, but this makes me happy.
The End of Internet History and the Last Ad - Rambling Space https://ramblingspace.com/posts/end-internet-history-last-ad/
Digital ads are starting to feel psychic | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/5380/targeted-ad-creepy-surveillance-facebook-instagram-google-listening-not-alone
Hot take: almost all ACTUAL statements encountered in daily life are untestable except in an ad-hoc & ambiguous way, because their referents don’t map well to physical reality.
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
Drinking a Болярка Светло (Bolyarka Svetlo) by Bolyarka VT AD - https://t.co/CgNjVCsqMR
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
Art project if you have too much money: Anonymously buy some 95% to 100% of your city’s ad space for a month and make it display only art and nature pictures; then hope for protests once the ads are back
@Leo others see the URL for @ mentions of people they are not following. Probably they also added them thinking they are twtxt users.
Is This Creepy Sculpture An Ad For Soylent? https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/soylent-sculpture-girlfriend
Just added a workaround to it to crash if connection is lost and let systemd restart it.
Ad-tech and fatigue â Rococo Modem Basilisk â Medium https://medium.com/@/ad-tech-and-fatigue-b918bee5ee75
Uh, thought I made a mistake while adding more functions to my bot but actually it is the default twtxt client crashing when doing a unfollow. :-/
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
Luckily, practical reasons prevent customer models from becoming too detailed: Nobody wants to repeat that time Google got sued by their own ad server farm because millions of theories of mind at once had become sophisticated enough to qualify for human rights
What do you think about adding aliases to txtnish’ follow file? So mentions could be collapsed for different urls of the same twtxt file?
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
For added fun, introduce extra levels until you arrive at the conceptual equivalent of “translated to Japanese and back ten times”
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
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.
@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 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?
@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?
@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.
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…
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:
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.
@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?
@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? :)
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.
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
