hagelslager

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To paraphrase an answer I read elsewhere: de-orbiting would be like pushing it down from the first step of a long flight of stairs. Pushing it away from Earth would require ascending the long flight of stairs, which is much harder.

If folk want to have a chromium-based browser made by a company, take a look at Vivaldi instead (which will keep the old plugin architecture, so adblockers work). It has a limited built-in blocker and extra features, but for now still runs uBlock.

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And yet, still better looking than the cybertruck.

Android is a fenced garden compared to the fortress that is iOS.

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If I understand this correctly, this is an open source processor architecture?

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I know the title is clickbait, but why RIP uBlock? There's more than just Chromium browsers.

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Tesla customer service seems to be based on deflection, rather than responsibility.

Libertarians and questionable behaviour when it comes to money, name a more iconic duo.

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Screw MS, go Mac? Why go from questionable closed source software to questionable closed software and hardware?

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This sounds like a nightmare.

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Instead of relying on "startups" you could go for (selfhosted) Nextcloud with the notes app.

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Here you go:

After nearly four years of vague and fluid timelines, Google finally seems resolved to begin phasing out the third-party cookie in 2024. While there’s been a great deal of focus on what the deprecation of cookies might mean for advertisers in terms of delivering relevant ads to the right audiences, less has been said about the potential impact for publishers.

The vast majority of the open internet is funded by advertising. Key tenets of the internet that we value so much, such as journalism, depend on it. It is estimated that 75 percent of funding for journalism today is derived from advertising. And if advertisers suddenly lose the ability to understand who’s reading the news, the value of those ads will crater. And that means less funding for trusted news.

While it’s easy to outline the risk, there’s also a tremendous opportunity to rethink our approach to authentication on the internet in a more privacy-conscious way. And let’s face it, cookies were never designed to perform the tasks that have been asked of them for the last 30 years. They were initially designed in 1994 so that consumer preferences could be stored in virtual shopping carts on then-emerging e-commerce sites.

They were never intended to do the advanced digital advertising tracking and relevance work they do today. They are not fit for that purpose. And they only work in display environments, not the fast-emerging channels of the open internet, such as streaming TV and digital audio.

But it’s in those new channels that we can understand the importance of audience authentication. Since the pandemic, consumers have shifted, en masse, from traditional cable TV to streaming TV, and from traditional radio to digital audio. And one fascinating aspect of streaming TV and digital audio is that in both cases, advertisers can work with authenticated, logged-in audiences. And that’s why advertisers are placing an increased premium on those channels as the new identity fabric of the internet emerges. In these new channels, advertisers have a very clear sense of who they are reaching.

It’s also no coincidence that streaming TV leaders are also among the early pioneers of new identity solutions such as Unified ID 2.0. Not necessarily because they need it to validate their own audiences for advertisers, but because they understand the critical role that new post-cookie identity currencies will play in omni-channel marketing campaigns. And they want to be a central element of those campaigns.

So what are traditional publishers to do? In an attempt to lessen the blow, Google has been touting offerings such as Topics (contextual segments, limited to site-level classification, mapped into Google defined categories) and measurement APIs such as Private Aggregate API and Attribution Reporting API — which store data in Google’s Chrome browser. It’s a highly complex and opaque solution, and one that means publishers have to yield more power and control to Google. The Department of Justice’s allegations in its recent anti-trust lawsuit against Google underscore Google’s willingness to use power and control to benefit itself to the detriment of publishers. Publishers will survive or die at the whim of Google, with little ability to manage their own destiny.

Amidst this latest churn, there is an opportunity for traditional publishers to redefine the rules of engagement, just like their peers in emerging channels, such as streaming TV and digital audio.

The solution is likely two-fold. First, publishers need to deploy new, consumer-friendly, lightweight single-sign-on authentication solutions — such as OpenPass. In doing so, publishers can gain vital information about their consumers. This first-party data should be the lifeblood of any publisher, containing key consumer information and preferences. It’s also data that can be shared in a privacy-conscious way with advertisers to preserve the value of their advertising impressions.

Second, publishers can allow advertisers to activate emerging identity solutions, such as UID2, so advertisers can find relevant audiences across the open internet. In a recent campaign, for example, Unilever purchased ad impressions from Disney+ using UID2. Their ads were 12 times more effective in finding their target audience than with traditional identifiers.

This is the new identity fabric of the open internet. One that preserves relevance for advertisers, revenue optimization for publishers, and privacy control for consumers. Streaming TV leaders and digital audio leaders are already proving the efficacy of this two-pronged approach. And advertisers are shifting budget there because they can act with precision, measure effectively, and optimize across channels — all in ways that are not possible in the murkiness of walled gardens. It’s no surprise that streaming TV and digital audio are the fastest growing segments of the open internet from an advertising perspective.

The clock is ticking for traditional publishers. But the good news is that solutions are available. Not simply to solve the imminent threat of cookie deprecation. But to build something much better that will finally give them control over their own destiny.

Everything needs to be MoNeTiZeD today, even hobbies should be income streams.

Fuck that

Again, there are a lot of (professional) programs which only work in Windows, with no paid/free/open source equivalents for Linux or BSD.

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And DuckDuckGo lacks basic stuff such as keyword exclusion. (It's my main search engine for the last few years after Startpage got bought, but lacking keyword exclusion sucks!)

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I'm afraid peak computer literacy and hygiene is past us now. Younger folks are so used to everything just working, that the vast majority don't care or are willing to find out how things work. (Don't get me wrong, the vast majority of boomers, gen-x and millennials aren't much better, but tend to have more of a healthy suspicion because of their analog youths.)

Someone tell them they don't have to follow Steve Jobs in everything.

And are there even industry standard equivalent programs available for graphic designers on Linux?

Most FOSS alternatives tend to be a significant step back for folks used to their closed source industry counterparts like for example Adobe. The available video editing software is either a step back or closed source (DaVinci Resolve).

It's probably the proverbial chicken-and-egg situation.

Also MBA proof!

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Indeed, the job of most AAA game studios is to get as much money as possible from the gamers to their shareholders.

Welcome to tech journalism, which mostly doesn't employ journalists, nor technologists.

Thanks for mentioning LibreTube! I've installed it.

In a way Japan is both innovative and conservative when it comes to technology and business. There are still business practices going on there which have been phased out in "the west". If you look at the Japanese music industry for example it's both 21st century and stuck in the 1990s for some reason.

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Iron out the bugs? That would be an improvement compared to Skyrim.

Yeah, for around 20-30 euros you can get a cheap Nokia branded phone as far as I'm aware (105 and 106 series for example).

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Unfortunately Tencent also has fingers in "indie" pies. For example they own up to a third of Larian.

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Such as? (Non-programmer here, so I don't know the ins and outs of programming languages.)

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Same with Fairphones.

In a similar vein: check out their "The Fine Print", which tackles corporate overreach through the game "The Outer Worlds".

Just a passer-by: why a chromebook? Is their hardware less reliant on proprietary software?

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Climate change doesn't matter when it's lawyers and economists in charge, there's money to be made... unfortunately.

How many people actually go out if their way in order to obtain repairable stuff?

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While the idea is awesome, I'm certain that greedy corporations or other bad actors will abuse this.

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Not really, some older versions of premiere and after effects have bronze at best for example. Nothing recent works.

At least Vista wasn't Millennium, I had to Photoshop on that for nearly two years and regularly had to reboot during the workday.

I have the idea DDG (or Bing which powers it) is getting worse, if you search for items, you first get a load of webstores selling that item and a Wikipedia article might show up on page 2 at best.

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Which was only published by them.

Have you looked at boom arms? They reach up and over and won't get in the way of your hands/arms.

A pubic louse in this case

Vivaldi is lead by an ex-Opera engineer.