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"Problems are Solved by Method" 🇦🇺👨‍💻👨‍🦯🏹♔ 🏓⚯ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧🛥 -- James Mills (operator of twtxt.net / creator of Yarn.social 🧶)

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In-reply-to » BBC BASIC Is Back In a Big Way An anonymous reader quotes a report from Hackaday: The BBC has a long history of teaching the world about computers. The broadcaster's name was proudly displayed on the BBC Micro, and BBC Basic was the programming language developed especially for that computer. Now, BBC Basic is back and running on a whole mess of modern platforms. BBC Basic for SDL 2.0 will run on Windows, MacOS, x86 Linux, and even Raspb ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Ooops 😆🙃

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In-reply-to » Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits To Their Friends and Family Many Plex users were alarmed when they got a "week in review" email last week that showed them what they and their friends had watched on the popular media server software. From a report: Some users are saying that their friends' softcore porn habits are being revealed to them with the feature, while others are horrified ... ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is Haha 😆

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In-reply-to » Evernote Pushes Users To Upgrade After making steep cuts to personnel earlier this year, Evernote's Milan-based owner Bending Spoons is now experimenting with a new plan that would push more users to upgrade to paid versions of its service. From a report: The company confirmed to TechCrunch it's been running a small test that placed limits on the number of notes free users could create, but said the new plan is not yet finalized. TechCrunch was al ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net I feel like this is a bit of a common pattern? Company builds an awesome product, makes it free for a lot of users, then create additional features and paid plans, makes a tonne of money. But then later decide they need to make more money, so focus on converting the free users to paid users. Hmmm 🤔 Surely this can’t be the only viable business model? 🤔

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In-reply-to » Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits To Their Friends and Family Many Plex users were alarmed when they got a "week in review" email last week that showed them what they and their friends had watched on the popular media server software. From a report: Some users are saying that their friends' softcore porn habits are being revealed to them with the feature, while others are horrified ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net I’ve not gotten any such email ? 🤔 wtf?!

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In-reply-to » Broadcom Lays Off VMware Employees After Closing Its $69 Billion Acquisition After acquiring VMware for $69 billion, Broadcom is eliminating several positions at the virtualization technology company. Business Insider reports: Employees whose positions were eliminated received an email on Monday, viewed by Business Insider, that read: "Broadcom recently completed its acquisition of VMware. As part o ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Saw this coming years ago when I worked for a small company that bought into VMWare as their “hypervisor” infra 😅

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In-reply-to » I have added a webmention endpoint to https://darch.dk using https://webmention.io - let see if it work from neotxt.dk to @sorenpeter

Does this make sense? Like my post will contain something like:

Hey @<darch http://darch.dk/twtxt.txt> blah blah

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In-reply-to » I have added a webmention endpoint to https://darch.dk using https://webmention.io - let see if it work from neotxt.dk to @sorenpeter

@darch@neotxt.dk But this is what I’m confused about. Why would my Twt contains a reference to http://darch.dk/social instead of http://darch.dk/twtxt.txt – which the later is what I @-mentioned? 🤔

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In-reply-to » See, even a video I was just watching on Youtube just now, the guy said:

I’m willing to get that Google™ is losing ad revenue from sponsored advertising and sponsors of Youtubers.

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See, even a video I was just watching on Youtube just now, the guy said:

THanks for Surf Shark for sponsoring this video, it keeps the content free.

So that basically tells me that Google™ advertising on Youtube™ is utter bullshit. I have a funny feeling they’re (Google™’s) crack-down on ad-blocker is just an internal reaction to a losing battle with their ad revenue streams in the declins from their ad business.

As an aside @movq@www.uninformativ.de and I were yarning about this before… The reason this form of advertising works so well is “brand awareness”. There’s some interesting content, and you don’t mind that the guy or gal is sponsored by some company and they happen to make mention of it and even go into a special part of their video (without being annoying about it). You don’t even fast forward or anything because you already like their voice, and they’re not being completely obnoxious about what they’re promoting, and what they’re promoting isn’t complete garbage, malware or worse.

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In-reply-to » I have added a webmention endpoint to https://darch.dk using https://webmention.io - let see if it work from neotxt.dk to @sorenpeter

@darch@neotxt.dk I needn an example of where this breaks down I think. Do you happen to have one? 🤔 By all rights, looking at the code paths, the issue raised really doesn’t make sense to me. The Source is the Twt permalink on the source pod that contains an @-mention of the target’s Twtxt feed. So that should validate just fine hmm 🤔

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In-reply-to » LILYGO’s ESP32-based module comes with 2.41” AMOLED display The LILYGO T4 S3 is a small IoT module that supports 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi & Bluetooth 5 (LE) and it’s equipped with a 2.41” AMOLED display with capacitive touchscreen capabilities. This open-source board was designed for developers and hobbyists since it also supports Arduino and MicroPython. This is another recent module from LILYGO based on […] ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Same ! The most powerful form of advertising for me is word of mouth and research👌 Not ad banners which I never look at (cause I’m blind) let alone click on! 🤣

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In-reply-to » LILYGO’s ESP32-based module comes with 2.41” AMOLED display The LILYGO T4 S3 is a small IoT module that supports 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi & Bluetooth 5 (LE) and it’s equipped with a 2.41” AMOLED display with capacitive touchscreen capabilities. This open-source board was designed for developers and hobbyists since it also supports Arduino and MicroPython. This is another recent module from LILYGO based on […] ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This whole thing is a but nutso though isn’t it? 🤔 I mean seriously, online ads never worked in the first place did they?! 🤔 Or are “we” just a special breed?! 🤣

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In-reply-to » LILYGO’s ESP32-based module comes with 2.41” AMOLED display The LILYGO T4 S3 is a small IoT module that supports 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi & Bluetooth 5 (LE) and it’s equipped with a 2.41” AMOLED display with capacitive touchscreen capabilities. This open-source board was designed for developers and hobbyists since it also supports Arduino and MicroPython. This is another recent module from LILYGO based on […] ⌘ Read more

SO now Linux GIzmos a website that I regularly like to subscribe to and read via RSS/Atom -> Twtxt has now suddenly gone down this path of “Please disable your adblocker, pretty please, because ads help support us!” – Geez christ! 😱 🤦‍♂️ The answer is “fuck no”. Not only can your ads not be trusted as you have no control over them, they can be downright dangerous too! 🤬 Fuck me 🤦‍♂️ Wtf is going on here?! First Youtube, now some random little site?!

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