I've been using Librewolf for more than an year now, and Im using Mullvad Browser (MB) only for log into my e-mail and stuff more personal like that. Since Mullvad gives some very good filters about privacy, i'm using MB for these purposes.
However, i been thinking if i should use Mullvad Browser as my main daily driver browser. However, i need to use a dark mode/reader, since i like to have eyes and for me is super uncomfortable not using a dark mode.
I'm using the dark reader on librewolf, and i know this is make me more finger printable , but i cannot use a browser without a dark mode.
My question is if, either with a dark mode/reader on mullvad browser, this is better than librewolf in terms of privacy and security. Mullvad is more quick than librewolf in update terms , for which i search it. And other thing i know i can do, is create multiple profiles on mullvad and librewolf, to compartmentalize the things i visit / search... (for example, one profile only to check my emails, one for normal browsing, and so on.... )
and btw , on ubuntu, which is the better way in terms of security and privacy, to install the mullvad browser? via .deb ? snap? flatpak?
University libraries have long been the intellectual cornerstone of academic institutions. But as campuses expand digitally, the tools that manage these vital resources must evolve too. No longer are physical shelves and handwritten ledgers sufficient. In today’s academic environment, a robust library software system is not a luxury—it’s a necessity. This transformation impacts everything from student learning to research innovation, making library software a central pillar in the modern educational experience.
The Digital Transformation of Academic Libraries
Over the past two decades, libraries have undergone a sweeping digital transformation. This shift isn't just about eBooks and online journals; it encompasses how resources are cataloged, accessed, and managed. Library software systems enable institutions to streamline operations, enhance accessibility, and meet the demands of tech-savvy students and faculty. With automation and centralized control, library staff can focus more on academic support rather than mundane administrative tasks.
Streamlining Library Operations
A robust library software solution can revolutionize how academic libraries operate. From cataloging and circulation to user account management and acquisition, everything becomes more efficient. For instance, automated check-in and check-out systems minimize queues and errors, while real-time tracking ensures that materials are always available when needed. Not only does this improve service delivery, but it also optimizes resource utilization, making the library more cost-effective in the long run.
Enhancing Accessibility and User Experience
Today’s students expect seamless, on-demand access to information. A sophisticated library software ensures that users can search for, locate, and access resources—whether physical or digital—from anywhere. Mobile compatibility, intuitive search interfaces, and personalized dashboards are just a few features that elevate the user experience. Moreover, these platforms often include assistive technologies that support students with disabilities, ensuring inclusive education for all.
Supporting Academic Research and Collaboration
Beyond routine library functions, modern library software plays a vital role in supporting academic research. Integrated search tools, citation managers, and collaborative spaces facilitate deeper inquiry and knowledge sharing. When students and faculty can easily find and organize relevant materials, the quality and efficiency of their work improve. The library management system also promotes inter-institutional collaboration by enabling shared cataloging and resource-sharing networks.
Customization and Scalability for Diverse Needs
No two universities are alike, and their library needs can differ significantly. A robust library software offers customizable modules and scalable architecture that adapts to institutions of all sizes. Whether it’s a small liberal arts college or a sprawling research university, the system can be tailored to meet specific goals. This flexibility ensures longevity and adaptability as institutional needs evolve.
Data-Driven Decision Making
One of the often-overlooked benefits of a powerful library system is its capacity for data analytics. Administrators can gain insights into usage patterns, popular resources, and user behavior. This data can inform collection development, budgeting, and even curriculum planning. The ability to make evidence-based decisions ensures that the library remains aligned with academic priorities.
Integration with Educational Ecosystems
Modern universities use a variety of digital platforms—from learning management systems (LMS) to research databases. Robust library software is designed to integrate seamlessly with these tools, creating a unified educational ecosystem. This interoperability enhances workflow efficiency and allows students and faculty to transition smoothly between platforms, improving overall productivity.
Future-Proofing the Academic Library
Technology evolves rapidly, and educational institutions must stay ahead of the curve. A forward-thinking library software solution incorporates regular updates, cloud-based infrastructure, and advanced security protocols. This ensures that the system remains functional and secure, regardless of emerging challenges or technological shifts.
Elevating Student Outcomes Through Resource Optimization
Ultimately, the goal of any university is to enhance student success. A well-implemented library software system contributes directly to this objective by ensuring that students have timely access to the resources they need. It eliminates barriers to information, fosters independent learning, and supports academic achievement.
Case in Point: The Role of a List Management System
Consider the function of a dedicated list management system. By allowing faculty to curate and share course materials effortlessly, it ensures that students always know what to read, when, and where to find it. This not only improves student preparedness but also aligns course content with library holdings, reducing redundant purchases and streamlining access.
Reducing Administrative Burden and Operational Costs
Managing a library involves countless tasks—acquisitions, renewals, budgeting, and reporting, to name a few. A centralized software solution can automate much of this workload, freeing up staff to focus on value-added services like user support and educational programming. This operational efficiency can also translate into financial savings, allowing for reinvestment in critical academic initiatives.
Ensuring Compliance and Security
Academic institutions handle sensitive data and are often subject to strict regulatory requirements. A robust library system ensures compliance with data protection laws and institutional policies. Features like user authentication, encrypted data storage, and access logs help safeguard information, maintaining trust and integrity.
Empowering Library Staff with Modern Tools
The benefits of advanced library software aren't limited to users alone. Library professionals gain access to powerful administrative tools that simplify their tasks. Dashboards for real-time monitoring, automation for routine processes, and tools for content curation empower staff to provide better service and focus on strategic goals.
Building a Stronger Academic Community
At its core, the university library is a hub for intellectual exchange. Robust library software strengthens this role by making information more accessible, collaboration more seamless, and service delivery more efficient. This fosters a more connected, informed, and empowered academic community.
Conclusion
Investing in a robust library software system is not merely a technological upgrade—it is a strategic decision that can transform the academic experience. From supporting research and instruction to improving accessibility and operational efficiency, the right system underpins every facet of university life. In an era where knowledge is power and speed is essential, no university can afford to fall behind. A comprehensive, forward-thinking library solution ensures that institutions remain competitive, relevant, and truly committed to academic excellence.
I love Charger8232's idea of a Privacy Flag. However, I don't love the design they proposed. In their post, I explain my disagreements.
As a form of vexillographical discussion, I would like to propose another design as the flag under which we anonymously toil in secret (I wish).
First off, nods to Charger8232's design - 1400x900 dimensions, and use of EU's Dark Power Blue (#003399) color. Love it.
Where we differ:
Designs
A shield, representing how we must actively guard our privacy. A lock, obviously, to show we want security with our privacy, and a dove showing that we just want to be left the F alone and peacefully not be subject to a mass surveillance state. We're not trying to be sketchy or do illegal stuff, we just want to be peacefully left the F alone.
Colors
Again, same use of Dark Power Blue, representing freedom and a nod to the GDPR. White representing peace. Black representing how I don't want people to see me. Color of field: Redacted.
Extras
Stripes to make it a bit more visually interesting. A lack of EXIF and meta data as the subtle fait accompli.
The color scheme is similar to that of Estonia. While Estonia is a leader in the EU's digital governance space, this is unintentional. As much as I liked Espresso Macchiato in EuroVision this year, there's no direct nod to Estonia.
I didn't want to just say "uh, I don't like it" and complain without doing something. So here you go.
It has always bothered me that privacy has no unified symbol. Every community has their own take on how privacy should be visualized. I want to unify the privacy community across the internet. It is my belief that, with a universal symbol for privacy, we will grow stronger. We will have a symbol to represent us. We will have a flag to fly.
Icon
The icon is a clipart created by librarian Gordon Dylan Johnson which can be found here. The size of the icon is large enough to still fit if the flag is cropped to a square/circular aspect ratio.
Dimensions
The size of the flag is 140 by 90 centimeters. These dimensions are chosen because of the dimensions of a Tor Browser window (1400x900 pixels).
Use this flag for group chats, communities, profiles, stickers, patches, articles, wallpapers, real flags, anything you want to! Spread it around so it becomes a global icon for privacy. Even put it on the Wikipedia page for privacy if you can!
Hey, I saw your comment in the other thread. Thank you for your engagement, this really shows that people care about their digital presence. However, in my opinion, your proposal is more related to data security than data privacy. I see how the two are interlinked but I really like the symbol of active resistance, symbolized by the hand, towards the big surveillance apparatus, depicted by the eye for a flag that represents privacy.
From a practical perspective, the other flag is also a bit simpler, if we replace the high-res hand with a simpler vector drawing.
I do like this version better than the other one with the detailed hand. That being said, to your point about data security, it's more so that we're sort of splitting a finite set of motifs. Even the icon for this community is a shield and an eye. The eye being the threat, not the community represented by the flag, IMO means minimizing the eye, though I can see how you would feel the "stop" hand in the eye does the same thing. I just don't agree with that.
Also, just me personally, the all-blue just seems boring to me. This blue is slightly bluer, so it doesn't give me the BSOD vibe at least, but this just seem closer to a logo for a data removal subscription service than a flag. Not that mine isn't exactly far from that either, but still.
The simpler hand design in this one is definitely better. I did have one thought that I wanted to pose, however. Would the fingers being together instead of apart make much of a difference? I can almost see this design being symbolic of a 'high five' instead of a 'halt!'
I agree. It was just addressing this one feedback, which pointed out the mismatch between the detailed style of the hand and the vector style of the eye. Besides that maybe we should completely overthink the choice of symbols and focus on something positive like other commenters have already mentioned.
So far I like this version the best. However, someone put up the human rights logo and I think it would do quite well here, since it’s a dove (as requested), but also looks a bit like a hand. Another request was the color black. Maybe make the pupil black? Pretty sure that covers the commitee’s requests.
Okay well as a random dumbass, I would see the logo with and eye and a and and my smooth brain instantly gets it..the bird logo, with out a text description...I got nothing
I'd like to commend your attempt here, and not sound discouraging or anything like that. Personally though, I like the other design a little bit better. Like another commenter suggested, this design seems to evoke security more than privacy. The shield and lock seem to be pretty commonly associated with those other meanings already. The dove being inside the lock definitely seems to overcomplicate things a bit too.
That being said, I do think your coloration and black undertones look better though and overall there's a bit more visual interest.
I appreciate it, and I threw this together in about 10 minutes, so it's just a spitball idea. Rather than seeming purely disparaging to the other person and their design by saying I don't like it and not offering anything else constructive.
Is this because you like the color or you think using an EU color is appropriate here? Cause if its the latter, EU is a privacy nightmare so hard disagree.
While that is true, EU is leading the world in some privacy invasions. Be it age verification or various initiatives to try and break E2EE. Those kind of efforts do not yet exist at even countries we would all agree are oppressive.
It was because that was mentioned by the original post as why they picked all blue. Which was largely about the GDPR specifically. So I went for it on that one item.
I personally associate freedom with white because its like a piece of unpainted paper. I associate peace with green because it is the color of plants which symbolizes nature.
If I understand security, it is a contrast to the active defence in that it is passive defence. If so, you could possibly play around with how these symbolically relate to each other. For deem looking at them as a two sided unity.
The Gaza Freedom flotilla coalition is sailing its next ship to break the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza.
The Handala departed for Gaza on Sunday from the Italian port of Gallipoli after stops in Augusta and Siracusa in Sicily. The journey to Gaza may take around 7 days.
Twenty-one persons from 10 countries are onboard the Handala, including seven U.S. citizens, representing the hundreds of millions of Americans who are strongly opposed to the U.S. complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
The following nationalities are represented on the Handala: U.S. 7, France 4, Australia 2, Italy 2, Spain 2, Norway 1, Morocco 1, Tunisia 1, U.K. 1; Israel -2 U.S. citizens have dual citizenship with Israel.
Twenty-one persons from 10 countries are onboard the Handala, including Americans strongly opposed to the U.S. complicity in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
The Israel foreign ministry will spend $86,000 to finance a tour of Israel for 16 Americans to get them to use their vast online influence to craft more positive images of a nation openly engaged in genocide.
The effort is being made as Israel reacts to a significant turn in public opinion against it, especially by Western youth. Tel Aviv realizes its usual methods of propaganda — and apparently its own inhouse troll army — are no longer working as they once did.
It is paying an organization called Israel365 to organize the first American tour because it is in a “unique position to convey a pro-Israel stance that aligns entirely with the MAGA and America First agenda.”
Israel365’s website says the group “stands unapologetically for the Jewish people’s God-given right to the entire Land of Israel,” calls the two-state solution a “delusion,” and says it’s defending “Western civilization against threats from both Progressive Left extremism and global jihad.”
The Israeli government is paying to have 16 MAGA social media influencers with millions of followers brought to Israel to learn how to stop American youth from turning against it over Gaza, writes Joe Lauria.
TOKYO, July 21 (Reuters) - The fringe far-right Sanseito party emerged as one of the biggest winners in Japan's upper house election on Sunday, gaining support with warnings of a "silent invasion" of immigrants, and pledges for tax cuts and welfare spending.
Birthed on YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic spreading conspiracy theories about vaccinations and a cabal of global elites, the party broke into mainstream politics with its "Japanese First" campaign.
The party won 14 seats adding to the single lawmaker it secured in the 248-seat chamber three years ago. It has only three seats in the more powerful lower house.
"The phrase Japanese First was meant to express rebuilding Japanese people's livelihoods by resisting globalism. I am not saying that we should completely ban foreigners or that every foreigner should get out of Japan," Sohei Kamiya, the party's 47-year-old leader, said in an interview with local broadcaster Nippon Television after the election.
Obviously I don't agree with any far right party but I can at least why a "Japan First" party would be popular, they've been in a pretty crazy decline since the 90s. And especially with the rice shortages, I can see why the average citizen would feel abandoned by their government
Western countries fixed their working age shortages by importing immigrants. Japan's population is rapidly aging and there's nobody to replace the workers. By going full DINK-mode Japan has no real option left besides tonnes of immigration to keep their economy afloat.
genuine question: why would you say we are xenophobic? im a hāfu trans girl myself and have never experienced xenophobia in Japan, so im curious (no offense or bait intended)
From what I remember from college, Japan's ultranationalism in the 30s and 40s never really went away. I went to verify that and found a wiki page
And then anecdotally: my friend taught in Japan for 5 years and I experienced a bit of it myself. I also have a (white) friend who has lived there for 15+ years and has had plenty of unfriendly interactions - especially when he's with his Japanese wife or son.
I don't think it's unsafe to be a foreigner in Japan but I think it's fair to say Japan is more on the xenophobic side
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Russia launched a wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine in an overnight attack on Monday, killing at least one person in Kyiv and hitting a metro station where hundreds of people were sheltering.
There were fires across the capital and at least six people were wounded. Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said rescuers and medics were working on sites in four districts.
Smoke engulfed Lukianivska metro station, in an area that Moscow has repeatedly targeted. The Kremlin has dramatically stepped up its aerial bombardment of Ukrainian towns and cities in recent months, with Kyiv frequently bombed.
Video shows people standing on an underground platform filled with swirling dust. One woman can be heard sobbing.
Max, a 32-year-old resident, told the Guardian: “My friend ran to the underground. He called me during the night and said he heard the strike. Part of the building and even the roof tumbled down the escalator. There was smoke billowing on the platform.
The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said Sweida had been experiencing “a cautious calm since the early hours of Sunday morning”, but warned of “the deterioration of the humanitarian situation” including a severe shortage of basic medical supplies.
The SOHR reported on Sunday that more than 1,000 people had been killed in armed clashes, bombardment, extrajudicial executions and Israeli airstrikes since the violence in Sweida province began a week ago. The United Nations migration agency said the number of people displaced by the violence had risen to more than 128,000.
One local resident, dentist Kenan Azzam, told Reuters on Sunday morning the situation was one of “a tense calm” but people were still struggling with a lack of water and electricity. “The hospitals are a disaster and out of service, and there are still so many dead and wounded,” he said.
Jihadist Alkaida government thugs come, do massacres, withdraw. Rinse and repeat. In west they call those in-between-massacres “tense calm” bcs we spend billions to get this thugs into power in the first place.
Buongiorno cari lettori! Oggi voglio parlavi di questa nuova collaborazione con Aboca editore. Mi sono avvicinata ai libri di Aboca da qualche anno e ora ho avuto il piacere di approfondire i loro testi grazie a questo libro che mi hanno gentilmente mandato dopo il salone del libro. Prima di tutto ringrazio la casa editrice e la responsabile ufficio stampa Elisa per la fiducia che hanno avuto nei miei confronti e in secondo luogo il blog che mi ha permesso di raggiungere notevoli risultati ed avere l’accredito. Iniziamo però questo racconto attraverso il libro Medichesse e di che cos’è per l’autrice e per me il dono della cura!
Titolo: Medichesse: la vocazione femminile alla cura
OGNI ERBA DOTATA DI SPECIALI POTERI, QUALUNQUE RADICE UTILE A GUARIRE NASCA IN TUTTO IL MONDO, È MIA.
Erika Maderna: scopriamo l’autrice!
Erika Maderna, laureata in Etruscologia e Archeologia Italica presso l’Università degli Studi di Pavia, si è stabilita anni fa nella Maremma toscana, spinta dal richiamo della terra degli Etruschi. Vive a Grosseto, dove insegna, scrive articoli, traduzioni e saggi di cultura e archeologia classica. Per Aboca Edizioni ha scritto: Aromi sacri, fragranze profane. Simboli, mitologie e passioni profumatorie nel mondo antico (2009), Le mani degli dèi. Mitologie e simboli delle piante officinali nel mito greco (2016), Con grazia di tocco e di parola. La medicina delle sante (2019), Medichesse. La vocazione femminile alla cura (2021), Per virtù d’erbe e d’incanti. La medicina delle streghe (2023) e La memoria nelle mani. Storie, tradizioni e rituali delle levatrici (2024).
Donne per le donne: quando la cura diventa dono
Donne, questo il grande tema del libro! Attraverso le pagine del saggio riusciamo ad accogliere ed apprezzare ruoli particolari del mondo femminile. L’autrice ripercorre il mondo della medicina e della cura come dono negli anni della storia dell’esistenza umana partendo dall’antichità fino al XVII secolo.
Un elemento che mi ha colpita particolarmente è la prefazione della Dottoressa Rita Pagiotti docente di botanica della prestigiosa Università di Perugia. Ho trovato interessante l’apertura mentale della dottoressa che anzichè additare come “pazze” queste donne le ammirava. Non è facile trovare qualcuno che possa avere questa opinione dal mondo accademico e ne sono rimasta piacevolmente stupita!
Altro aspetto molto interessante, dal mio punto di vista, è la bibliografia particolareggiata e che permette al lettore di approfondire ogni aspetto del libro tramite altri saggi altrettanto accattivanti. E’ visibile fin dalle prime pagine la profonda ricerca della Dottoressa Maderna e della sua passione per questi temi.
L’impalcatura e l’estetica del libro
Dal punto di vista della struttura del libro, troviamo sicuramente un font e interlinea agevole che permette al lettore di immergersi senza difficoltà nel testo.
Il libro è arricchito da elementi estetici come foto e tavole di botanica che rendono il testo ancora più interessante da osservare. Un elemento che apprezzo molto è quando il libro diventa oggetto estetico e in questo caso la casa editrice è riuscita a farlo nel modo migliore. Tra queste foto troviamo anche ricette antiche di Metrodora e Trotula, due delle più importanti medichesse di qiesto saggio.
La copertina è notevolmente curata, di buona fattura e che vale tutti i soldi del testo.
Il dono della cura: dentro e fuori!
Affrontare questo libro è sicuramente un momento di cura, di accettazione e di riflessione. Già dalle mie parole iniziali avrete capito che in generale ho amato questo testo ma approfondiamo meglio il perchè.
La lettura è molto rapida ad avvincente nonostante si tratti di un saggio e a prima vista possa risultare “pesante” o un ostacolo per chi non è avvezzo a questo mondo.
Ad esempio nel primo capitolo si narra di come le dee guaritrici e taumaturghe sono state declassate a maghe, streghe e fattucchiere e nel migliore dei casi diventate erboriste. Viene raccontato di come la loro conoscenza antica sia stata portata avanti dalle donne per via oracolare e nascosta, tramandata di madre in figlia e di come la medicina degli uomini sia sempre stata vista come “migliore” a discapito di quella delle donne che erano relegate a professioni come ostetriche o cosmetologhe. Nello stesso capitolo vengono citate a esempio Igiea e Panacea, figlie di Esculapio, che curavano e guarivano.
Riassumendo, ed andando alle conclusioni, ritengo che sia un testo che tutti gli appassionati delle erbe e della storia della medicina femminile e alternativa debbano leggerlo. La scrittrice permette di rendere di facile lettura argomenti storici, magari anche ostici, ed innamorarsi di ogni singolo personaggio citato.
Non vedo l’ora di leggere altro di questa autrice, il mio voto complessivo del libro non può che essere di 5 stelle su 5!
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Scegliere gli infissi giusti a Monza è essenziale per migliorare il comfort abitativo e l’efficienza energetica, considerando il clima subcontinentale e l’umidità elevata. Infissi moderni con vetrocamera o triplo vetro garantiscono isolamento termico e acustico, riducendo costi e rumori esterni. La scelta va fatta in base al contesto abitativo, alla sicurezza, all’estetica e agli incentivi fiscali disponibili. Tra le opzioni: infissi a battente, scorrevoli o vasistas, in materiali come PVC, legno, alluminio o compositi. Rivolgersi a esperti del settore assicura qualità, durata e un investimento sicuro.
La Rocca Maggiore di Assisi torna a ospitare il Riverock Festival, giunto alla 14ª edizione, dal 23 al 27 luglio. Cinque giorni di musica, cultura e incontri con artisti di rilievo: Fabri Fibra, Venerus, La Niña, Ginevra, Luzai, Joan Thiele, Dardust, Emma Nolde e Rip.
Novità 2025 è "Sotto palco", podcast dal vivo in collaborazione con Radio Glox: tre incontri nel Giardino degli Incanti (ore 19, ingresso libero) con showcase finali. Il 23 si parla di accessibilità nella musica live, con Tara. Il 24 si riflette sull’indipendenza artistica, ospite Lodo Guenzi (che si esibirà anche live). Il 25 si affronta il tema della sostenibilità del mestiere dell’artista, con Maurizio Carucci (showcase incluso).
Ogni sera spazio ai concerti: il 23 luglio torna Fabri Fibra con il nuovo album “Mentre Los Angeles brucia”; il 24 live Venerus, La Niña, Luzai e Ginevra; il 25 Joan Thiele, Dardust, Emma Nolde e Rip.
Il festival si chiude il 26 e 27 luglio con la seconda edizione di “Evanland – il festival internazionale del mondo interiore”: talk, workshop, letture e concerti. In scena Gio Evan con ospiti, Giulia Mei, Daddy G (Massive Attack), Quantic (dj set) e Roberto Cacciapaglia in concerto all’alba. Tra gli ospiti anche Vito Mancuso ed Erri De Luca.
Riverock Festival è organizzato dall’associazione omonima con il Comune di Assisi, il sostegno di Fondazione Perugia e i fondi PR-FESR 2021-2027 (Bando Spettacolo dal vivo – Anno 2024, Sviluppumbria).
Rocca Maggiore pronta ad aprirsi alla 14esima edizione del Riverock Festival. Ad Assisi arrivano Fabri Fibra, La Niña, Venerus, Ginevra, Luzai, Joan Thiele, Dardust, Emma Nolde e Rip Il cartellone anche il nuovo format “Sotto palco”, podcast dal viv…
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Cosa significa davvero quando un brand di moda usa e getta ottiene un sigillo di sostenibilità?
Il paradosso
Che relazione c’è tra B Corp e ultra-fast fashion? Cosa succede quando la certificazione etica incontra un modello di business basato sull'iperconsumo?
Quando BusinessWire annuncia "Princess Polly diventa una Certified B Corporation™" e BOF la definisce "la concorrente USA-australiana di Shein con un bollino di responsabilità sociale", viene da chiedersi: è progresso o greenwashing ben confezionato?
Spoiler: la domanda è retorica.
Cos’è una B Corp?
«La certificazione B Corp valuta standard di responsabilità sociale e ambientale, ma non copre tutte le operazioni aziendali.» — This is Greenwashing
La co-CEO di Princess Polly, Eirin Bryett, presenta il certificato come prova del loro "impegno per pratiche guidate da uno scopo". Ma un brand costruito su sovrapproduzione e tendenze usa-e-getta può davvero essere "sostenibile in ogni aspetto"?
**Il punto cieco della B Corp: la sovrapproduzione ** Nel libro This is Greenwashing evidenziamo:
"La certificazione non affronta esplicitamente la sovrapproduzione, concentrandosi invece su materiali 'sostenibili' o compensazioni di CO₂."
L'ultra-fast fashion sfrutta l'obsolescenza programmata – eppure, alcuni brand ottengono il bollino B Corp grazie a iniziative marginali (packaging riciclato, donazioni), ignorando il cuore del problema: produrre meno.
Conclusioni
Non dubitiamo delle intenzioni di Princess Polly, ma i modelli di business parlano chiaro:
• Se il profitto deriva dalla sovrapproduzione, non è sostenibilità.
• Se incoraggi a comprare di più con un "bollino verde", è PR, non progresso.
B Corp + ultra-fast fashion = greenwashing in versione 'purpose-washed'.
❓Voi credete sia possibile un’ultra-fast fashion sostenibile?
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Tired of the Linux/Docker “monoculture” for WordPress? This article guides you step-by-step through the secure installation of WordPress on FreeBSD using BastilleBSD. Discover how jail separation, performance, and the versatility of ZFS offer a more robus
Many people host WordPress on Linux, often using Docker. While this is a valid approach, there are excellent alternatives – sometimes even better ones – for getting your WordPress site online in a secure, reliable, and updatable manner. The goal is to make the web a safer place and avoid the computing monoculture that increasingly pushes toward uniformity of solutions and setups – an attitude that I believe is harmful even when the solutions are open source.
For this type of setup, therefore, I’ll describe how to accomplish everything using FreeBSD. The jail separation, performance, and ZFS versatility – all reasons that support this choice. This guide will serve as a foundation – everything will work at the end, but it won’t cover all possible combinations or configurations.
We’ll be using BastilleBSD, which supports both ZFS and UFS. While FreeBSD’s base system has everything needed to create and run jails, BastilleBSD is incredibly useful for managing them. Since it’s written in shell script and has no database dependencies, management and backups are straightforward. Furthermore, moving jails becomes extremely simple – either by using the bastille command directly or by copying the files (or datasets, if you’re using ZFS).
BastilleBSD also supports templates, but for this tutorial, we’ll perform the operations manually to understand each step.
First, install Bastille: pkg install bastille Next, run the setup process: bastille setup Now, bootstrap the desired FreeBSD release: bastille bootstrap 14.3-RELEASE update With that, BastilleBSD is ready to go.
Creating the Jails
Now, let’s create the jail that will contain Apache, PHP, and WordPress: bastille create apache 14.3-RELEASE 10.0.0.254 bastille0 Note: This command will only create and assign an IPv4 loopback address. For IPv6, the simplest solution is to assign an address for the jail directly to the host’s interface. To do this, note an available IPv6 address and assign it to the jail. For example, if the host’s network interface is vtnet0: bastille edit apache Add the following lines to the configuration file: ip6 = new;ip6.addr = "vtnet0|2001:0DB8:1::443/64"; Restart the jail: bastille restart apache Next, let’s ensure that connections to the host’s ports 80 and 443 are redirected to the apache jail: bastille rdr apache tcp 80 80bastille rdr apache tcp 443 443 Now, if using ZFS, let’s create a dedicated dataset for WordPress and mount it in the jail. The reason is simple: decoupling the Apache jail from the WordPress directory will allow for updates, rollbacks, etc. of the Apache jail without touching the WordPress files. I assure you that, in the long run, this approach will save many headaches. zfs create zroot/wordpressbastille mount apache /zroot/wordpress/ /usr/local/www/wordpress nullfs rw 0 0 Now, let’s create the jail that will contain MariaDB: bastille create mariadb 14.3-RELEASE 10.0.0.253 bastille0
Configuring the MariaDB Jail
Access the MariaDB jail’s console: bastille console mariadb Once inside, install the MariaDB server: pkg install mariadb118-server Enable and start the mysql-server service: service mysql-server enableservice mysql-server start Now, access the MySQL command line to set up the WordPress database: mysql Execute the following SQL commands (you should use more secure user, password, etc.): CREATE USER wp@10.0.0.254 IDENTIFIED BY 'password';CREATE DATABASE wordpress;GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO wp@10.0.0.254;FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Exit the MariaDB jail console to return to the host.
Configuring the Apache & PHP Jail
Now, let’s configure the apache jail. First, access its console: bastille console apache Inside the jail, install PHP and all the necessary extensions. We won’t install WordPress from the FreeBSD package – while it’s updated and maintained, I prefer to manage dependencies manually. It will be easier to manage updates in the long term, such as changing PHP versions, etc. At the time of writing this article, for example, the WordPress package depends on PHP 8.3 while I prefer to use 8.4. pkg install php84 php84-bcmath php84-bz2 php84-calendar php84-ctype php84-curl php84-dom php84-exif php84-fileinfo php84-filter php84-ftp php84-gd php84-gettext php84-iconv php84-intl php84-mbstring php84-mysqli php84-opcache php84-pcntl php84-pdo php84-pdo_mysql php84-pecl-imagick php84-phar php84-posix php84-readline php84-session php84-shmop php84-simplexml php84-soap php84-sockets php84-sodium php84-tokenizer php84-xml php84-xmlreader php84-xmlwriter php84-xsl php84-zip php84-zlib Next, install Apache: pkg install apache24 Modify /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf to enable the required modules. Uncomment or add the following lines: LoadModule mpm_event_module libexec/apache24/mod_mpm_event.so#LoadModule mpm_prefork_module libexec/apache24/mod_mpm_prefork.so#LoadModule mpm_worker_module libexec/apache24/mod_mpm_worker.so...LoadModule proxy_module libexec/apache24/mod_proxy.so...LoadModule proxy_fcgi_module libexec/apache24/mod_proxy_fcgi.so...LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache24/mod_ssl.so...LoadModule rewrite_module libexec/apache24/mod_rewrite.so Enable and start the Apache service: service apache24 enableservice apache24 start To optimize performance, enable PHP-FPM to listen on a socket. Modify the /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/www.conf file.
Comment out this line: ;listen = 127.0.0.1:9000 And add these lines: listen = /tmp/php-fpm.socklisten.owner = wwwlisten.group = www Now, we need to configure Apache to use PHP-FPM correctly. Create the file /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/php-fpm.conf and add the following: <FilesMatch \.php$> SetHandler proxy:unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock</FilesMatch> Restart Apache for the changes to take effect: service apache24 graceful It’s good practice to copy the production PHP template to the final, modifiable php.ini file, which can be customized with the required options and limits: cp /usr/local/etc/php.ini-production /usr/local/etc/php.ini Make any desired changes now (or later), then enable and start PHP-FPM: service php_fpm enableservice php_fpm start
Installing WordPress
Navigate to the web server’s root directory: cd /usr/local/www Download and extract the latest version of WordPress: fetch wordpress.org/latest.zipunzip latest.zip Set the correct permissions: chown -R www:www wordpress/ Now, create an Apache virtual host configuration file at /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes/wordpress.conf – be sure to modify the “example.com” with your own real domain name: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com ServerName example.com ServerAlias www.example.com DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/wordpress <Directory /usr/local/www/wordpress> DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride All Require all granted </Directory> ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd-example.com-error.log" CustomLog "/var/log/httpd-example.com-access.log" combined</VirtualHost> Finally, restart Apache one more time: service apache24 graceful The server will now respond on port 80 with the specified hostname, but this is absolutely not optimal or recommended. It’s therefore appropriate to generate a certificate to enable HTTPS.
For a simple solution, I recommend installing certbot with the Apache plugin to manage everything through Apache: pkg install py311-certbot py311-certbot-apache In order to automatically renew the certificates, add this line to /etc/periodic.conf: weekly_certbot_enable="YES" And, once installed, generate the certificate: certbot --apache -d example.com -d www.example.com You can now proceed to connect to the specified URL and begin with the WordPress guided installation, remembering the authentication and database details (the host, in this example, is 10.0.0.253 – not localhost, since we installed it in a dedicated jail).
Congratulations, your site is installed and operational. Ready to receive content for publishing. It’s exposed on IPv4 and IPv6, with HTTPS (and automatic certificate renewal, managed directly by FreeBSD) and separated from the database.
Generally, I prefer to add an additional jail with a reverse proxy. This way it will be possible to install different software in different jails, ensuring that the reverse proxy “routes” requests correctly. I’ll explain this procedure in a future article.
While this is my inaugural FreeBSD post for the BSD Cafe Journal, I’ve actually written extensively on the topic for my own blog, it-notes.dragas.net
One of the reasons I’m always so happy to attend conferences and technical events (the real ones – not the flashy, sponsor-driven ones designed just to sell products or services) is because I get to meet amazing people and always come away having learned something new.
I’ve been using WordPress since 2006 and have been managing hundreds of installations from a sysadmin perspective. Over time, I’ve noticed a clear pattern: most hacks and compromises happen through plugins or outdated installations. And often, these installations (and plugins) become outdated because they’ve been patched together so messily that updating them becomes nearly impossible – especially when the PHP version changes.
To mark the launch of the BSD Cafe Journal, I’d like to share the link to a particularly interesting talk by Maciek Palmowski: “How we closed almost 1k plugins in a month — the biggest WordPress bug bounty hunt.”
What struck me right away was how much his analysis of WordPress security aligned with what I’ve seen over the years: WordPress, out of the box, is reasonably secure. It’s the plugins – often old, unmaintained, or poorly written – that make it vulnerable.
I highly recommend watching his talk. It’s definitely worth your time.
certainly this would be massive improvement for many people, if they were open to any change at all. the docker installs are most ridiculous, and it's bad opsec to have millions of carbon copies of the same game.
I think most WP users could and should use flatpress instead. I don't think my instances yet display how effective flatpress can be, but for simpler sites flatpress does the job.
that @stefano is very persuasive! He'll have you running a BSD before you know it. Obviously I'm immune to such subliminal marketing messages and peer pressure.
Unrelated: my current reading material is The FreeBSD Handbook 😂
in that case you should definitely not, under any circumstances, go to docs.freebsd.org/en/books/hand… where it is available as HTML, as well as a downloadable PDF version. 😉
In 2002, I asked my parents to buy a laser printer so I could "print academic material" - but really, I wanted to print the FreeBSD handbook. And it was incredibly helpful.
Ai Sigur Rós, band islandese formatasi nel 1994, va riconosciuto il merito di aver creato un "marchio" sonoro unico e inconfondibile. A quindici anni da Von, il loro album d'esordio, i Sigur Rós hanno mantenuto pressoché unico il modo di fare musica: timbro, lingua inventata e lunghi brani... Leggi e ascolta...
Ai Sigur Rós, band islandese formatasi nel 1994, va riconosciuto il merito di aver creato un “marchio” sonoro unico e inconfondibile. A quindici anni da Von, il loro album d'esordio, i Sigur Rós hanno mantenuto pressoché unico il modo di fare musica: timbro, lingua inventata e lunghi brani. Lentezza è il loro “mood” come anche la loro progressione artistica. Se questa costanza è sicuramente esempio di coerenza artistica può allo stesso tempo risultare abbastanza monotona. Da fan fin dai tempi di Agaetis Byrjun posso tranquillamente esprimerlo... artesuono.blogspot.com/2014/10…
I tempi di rifornimento di idrogeno e carburante, più rapidi in confronto alla ricarica delle batterie, non includono mai tutto il tempo necessario per portare idrogeno e carburante alle colonnine.
Stellantis ha annunciato lo stop allo sviluppo dei veicoli a idrogeno, ritenuti non sostenibili nel medio termine per costi elevati e scarse infrastrutture. L'azienda ha interrotto la produzione della gamma Pro One, ma senza impatti occupazionali
Trump on Sunday pushed the Washington Commanders NFL team to return to its previous name, which was scrapped five years ago because it included a word that many view as a slur against Native Americans.
The president also threatened to block a complicated deal for the Commanders to return to a stadium in Washington, D.C., unless they return to the name "Washington Redskins."
"The Washington "Whatever's" should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this," Mr. Trump wrote.
"OWNERS, GET IT DONE!!!" wrote President Trump, in calling on the Washington Commanders to revert to the name Redskins, which many view as a slur against Native Americans.
Corning, the US-based manufacturer of Gorilla Glass, has successfully avoided potential European Union antitrust fines of up to $1.25 billion by agreeing to a set of legally binding commitments that address concerns over its exclusive supply agreements for specialty glass used in smartphones and other handheld devices.
On Wednesday, the European Union opened an investigation of U.S. manufacturer Corning over possible anti-competitive practices. Corning may not be a name
I explicitly told it eleven times in ALL CAPS not to do this. I am a little worried about safety now.
Well then, that settles it, this should never have happened.
I don’t think putting complex technical info in front of non technical people like this is a good idea. When it comes to LLMs, they cannot do any work that you yourself do not understand.
That goes for math, coding, health advice, etc.
If you don’t understand then you don’t know what they’re doing wrong. They’re helpful tools but only in this context.
Vibe coding you do end up spending a lot of time waiting for prompts, so I get the results of that study.
I fall pretty deep in the power user category for LLMs, so I don’t really feel that the study applies well to me, but also I acknowledge I can be biased there.
I have custom proprietary MCPs for semantic search over my code bases that lets AI do repeated graph searches on my code (imagine combining language server, ctags, networkx, and grep+fuzzy search). That is way faster than iteratively grepping and code scanning manually with a low chance of LLM errors. By the time I open GitHub code search or run ripgrep Claude has used already prioritized and listed my modules to investigate.
That tool alone with an LLM can save me half a day of research and debugging on complex tickets, which pays for an AI subscription alone. I have other internal tools to accelerate work too.
I use it to organize my JIRA tickets and plan my daily goals. I actually get Claude to do a lot of triage for me before I even start a task, which cuts the investigation phase to a few minutes on small tasks.
I use it to review all my PRs before I ask a human to look, it catches a lot of small things and can correct them, then the PR avoids the bike shedding nitpicks some reviewers love. Claude can do this, Copilot will only ever point out nitpicks, so the model makes a huge difference here. But regardless, 1 fewer review request cycle helps keep things moving.
It’s a huge boon to debugging — much faster than searching errors manually. Especially helpful on the types of errors you have to rabbit hole GitHub issue content chains to solve.
It’s very fast to get projects to MVP while following common structure/idioms, and can help write unit tests quickly for me. After the MVP stage it sucks and I go back to manually coding.
I use it to generate code snippets where documentation sucks. If you look at the ibis library in Python for example the docs are Byzantine and poorly organized. LLMs are better at finding the relevant docs than I am there. I mostly use LLM search instead of manual for doc search now.
I have a lot of custom scripts and calculators and apps that I made with it which keep me more focused on my actual work and accelerate things.
I regularly have the LLM help me write bash or python or jq scripts when I need to audit codebases for large refactors. That’s low maintenance one off work that can be easily verified but complex to write. I never remember the syntax for bash and jq even after using them for years.
I guess the short version is I tend to build tools for the AI, then let the LLM use those tools to improve and accelerate my workflows. That returns a lot of time back to me.
I do try vibe coding but end up in the same time sink traps as the study found. If the LLM is ever wrong, you save time forking the chat than trying to realign it, but it’s still likely to be slower. Repeat chats result in the same pitfalls for complex issues and bugs, so you have to abandon that state quickly.
Vibe coding small revisions can still be a bit faster and it’s great at helping me with documentation.
Don't you have any security concerns with sending all your code and JIRA tickets to some companies servers? My boss wouldn't be pleased if I send anything that's deemed a company secret over unencrypted channels.
The tool isn’t returning all code, but it is sending code.
I had discussions with my CTO and security team before integrating Claude code.
I have to use Gemini in one specific workflow and Gemini had a lot of landlines for how they use your data. Anthropic was easier to understand.
Anthropic also has some guidance for running Claude Code in a container with firewall and your specified dev tools, it works but that’s not my area of expertise.
The container doesn’t solve all the issues like using remote servers, but it does let you restrict what files and network requests Claude can access (so e.g. Claude can’t read your env vars or ssh key files).
I do try local LLMs but they’re not there yet on my machine for most use cases. Gemma 3n is decent if you need small model performance and tool calls, phi4 works but isn’t thinking (the thinking variants are awful), and I’m exploring dream coder and diffusion models. R1 is still one of the best local models but frequently overthinks, even the new release. Context window is the largest limiting factor I find locally.
Batch process turning unstructured free form text data into structured outputs.
As a crappy example imagine if you wanted to download metadata about your albums but they’re all labelled “Various Artists”. You can use an LLM call to read the album description and fix the track artists for the tracks, now you can properly organize your collection.
I’m using the same idea, different domain and a complex set of inputs.
It can be much more cost effective than manually spending days tagging data and writing custom importers.
You can definitely go lighter than LLMs. You can use gensim to do category matching, you can use sentence transformers and nearest neighbours (this is basically what Semantle does), but LLM performed the best on more complex document input.
“Vibe coding makes software creation accessible to everyone, entirely through natural language,” Replit explains, and on social media promotes its tools as doing things like enabling an operations manager “with 0 coding skills” who used the service to create software that saved his company $145,000
Yeah if you believe that you're part of the problem.
I'm prepared to accept that Vibe coding might work in certain circumstances but I'm not prepared to accept that someone with zero code experience can make use of it. Claude is pretty good for coding but even it makes fairly dumb mistakes, if you point them out it fixes them but you have to be a competent enough programmer to recognise them otherwise it's just going to go full steam ahead.
Vibe coding is like self-driving cars, it works up to a point, but eventually it's going to do something stupid and drive to a tree unless you take hold of the wheel and steer it back onto the road. But these vibe codeing idiots are like Tesla owners who decide that they can go to sleep with self-driving on.
And you are talking about obvious bugs. It likely will make erroneous judgements (because somewhere in its training data someone coded it that way) which will down the line lead to subtle problems that will wreck your system and cost you much more. Sure humans can also make the same mistakes but in the current state of affairs, an experienced software engineer/programmer has a much higher chance of catching such an error. With LLMs it is more hit and miss especially if it is a more niche topic.
Currently, it is an assistant tool (sometimes quite helpful, sometimes frustrating at best) not an autonomous coder. Any company that claims so is either a crook or also does not know much about coding.
The [AI] safety stuff is more visceral to me after a weekend of vibe hacking,” Lemkin said. I explicitly told it eleven times in ALL CAPS not to do this. I am a little worried about safety now.
This sounds like something straight out of The Onion.
It's because these people don't have a clue how AI actually works. They think it's like a human intelligence and that writing something in all caps is in some way going to give it more emphasis. They're trying to reason with something that has zero self-awareness.
Donald Trump put up a video of President Barack Obama being arrested by the FBI in the Oval Office as you can see in the screen grab. Trump is exceedingly happy about it, of course.
The video starts with Obama and a number of Democrats all saying "No One Is Above The Law," then a clown picture, and then the video of the FBI grabbing Obama. Then, Obama is in prison orange jumpsuit in a prison hallway, and then finally in a jail cell.
It's really a small screen video, and the soundtrack sounds like something from the Village People.
This is also up on Trump's Truth Social.
Samantha Power was Obama's Ambassador to the United Nations. Under Joe Biden, she was the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Developmen. USAID.
I hate how capcut has gotten to. Ive tried davcihi resolve but i find it isint as easy as capcut. I want to try a open source video editor for my linux mint laptop that is really free and so easy even a child could learn it.
I recently tried KDENlive for the first time and had a ton of stability issues. Multiple segfaults, corrupted saves, etc. Is that par for the course of the tool? Seems like it might have core issues with the implementation if a brand new user can crash it.
Which version did you try? I used the 24.12.something version earlier this year for some rather complicated project and it was very stable.
I know they had stability issues before but not with that version. Disclaimer: I did not do video editing since, so I cannot say if the stability issues are back.
I have version 25.04.2, was just doing a simple edit trying to overlay annotations on a screen recording so nothing crazy effects-wise. Guess I should go read the patch notes.
They're not helpful. OP asked specifically for editors similar to CapCut that are "so easy even a child could learn it." None of those fit that usecase.
OpenShot is an award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Create videos with exciting video effects, titles, audio tracks, and animations.
There is nothing like CapCut for Linux. There's Resolve, LightWorks, Shotcut, Kdenlive and the less evolved, Openshot. That's it, all the other editors found online or suggested here are nowhere near completion. Also, none of them have the feel of Capcut with its AI and advanced automatic features. If you want to go open source, I'd suggest you learn to use kdenlive. It's good enough with manual workarounds, as long as you don't shoot in 10bit or in RAW or need complex color grading. If you really require automatic AI stuff like in Capcut, stay with Windows/Mac or a tablet. That's the reality.
I think good, truly easy video editors are a dying breed. I loved Windows Live Movie Maker - rest in peace.
These days, I think it’s worth it just to learn a video editor. A lot of the skills transfer; I haven’t used DaVinci before, but I’ve used other major proprietary professional video editors like Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro - the skills transfer. Just search how to do a thing you want to do a few times, and you’ll find it gets easier.
As others have said, I think KDEnlive is quite good; I haven’t had a huge amount of stability issues. From what I remember (granted, I may be out of date), OpenShot felt really jank in general; I used Shotcut for a while but had stability issues and UI annoyances. Comparatively, I enjoy KDEnlive.
I you want open-source then your best choice is either Shotcut or Kdenlive.
Shotcut is one of the simplest editor I've ever used...but only if you have simple edits to do, the more you wanna do something less simple the worst it gets.
Kdenlive on the other hand is fine to use in most use cases, but can be a bit tricky to understand at first.
So I always suggest Shotctut if you're sure you won't do crazy edits, Kdenlive otherwise, or to just use both if you are unsure.
Can we please just pay a cent or half a cent for each page we vist. Its like 50x what the website would get from our view with ads and its not much. I'm sure it would encourage others to start their own website as well if you could get $1 from 100 page views.
There are so many things like this news article where they want to charge me a few dollars. Bro I cant afford to pay $5 a month for every single platform that would close me 1000s.
Don't you already pay to use the Internet? Why does anybody have to make record profits every quarter, fuck all ads. The Internet was much better when corporations were not involved.
Idc about corporations but the internet costs and you cant get away from that. Servers and the infrastructure around them has to be paid for. And I'm happy to pay my share when I vist someones website. My issue is that my share is a few cents not a few dollars like a lot of these newpapers try and charge.
I wish I could take you back 10 years further. It's like a national forest that someone build a parking lot and strip mall over, and everyone cheers because they finally tore the mall down and put up a giant fence water park with cameras everywhere.
Yes things were different back then. It wasnt a national forest, it was forest in a world where no cities existed anywhere. Nothing had been built on the internet back then. You didnt have websites that served userbases in the 100s of millions. You didnt have to serve images, videos, live streams and other dynamic content. You didnt have the same security overhead now required. If the internet were only text chat over irc I wouldnt be sitting here worrying about internet funding.
I dont go to the cbd of my city and think "I wish they replaced this with a forest" because I know there are plenty of forests outside the city, and people choose to live in the city over the forest. Same for the internet and so we need to think about solving the problem instead of wishing to tear everything down.
You mean in the current state of human society we could never accomplish that. It's a nice dream that we could have a star trek future but I only see mad max as humanity's fate. Oh well thanks for all the fish.
I think websites should be paid for by the person or organization that owns them, personally. I don't want to be subsidizing businesses that I have no role in or control over, or paying for other people to engage in their hobbies.
Can you explain this "I don’t want to be subsidizing businesses that I have no role in or control over, or paying for other people to engage in their hobbies."
I dont get why you are against giving money to companies you dont control only on the web, you surely do it a ton in everyday life. In regards to the hobby, how do you know its their hobby and even if it was its not your place to decide if they should be paid for their time. If they're making something thats good enough for you to want to consume it then you should pay them for it.
First of all, prices already go up for things like netflix. This isnt aimed at subscription sites like netflix its more for pages where you browse for free at the cost of viewing ads like blogs, youtube, substack, lemmy etc. Yes prices would go up over time no doubt but the idea is that the users providing the money should lower the cost. 1000 humans visting your site should be willing to pay more than an advertiser is to show an ad to those 1000 people. Google generally pays around 5cents to 30cents for 1000 views. I dont know about you but I can split 30 cents between 1000 people, hell i'll even double it cause im generous. I think if 1000 people are viewing your website you should get paid for providing something interesting enough for 1000 people to enjoy. If everyone gave 1cent thats $100, if everyone paid double what the ad was they'd be paying $0.0003 each.
I dont want people who write a blog that is read by many people to need to subject their readers to ads all only to get a check from google saying heres a few cents bud. We can do better, and I dont think the answer is asking people to pay a $5 a month.
Just realized a whole generation of kids will have ai links to the web, so if they look for something theyll get the one sanitized link, think the whole skill of searching and sifting through links will be lost (it was thought in schools when I was a kid)
lol. You're not wrong that it'll be way easier to rely on AI to do the sorting for you, but you're implying Google didn't sanitize information and only give you results they approve of...
There's way more to the internet than you can find on search engines.
Yeah the search engines are filled with ways to access the dark web
google "dark web search engine" and google isnt hiding sht
Better off using tor? Reddits a bigger issue here they had heaps of guides and wikis related to it, they banned all that sht before lemmy became a thing`
And that was back when hosting, storage, and bandwidth were expensive. Those are basically free for text-based content now, and getting cheaper for audio and video. Nowadays, anything made by amateurs shouldn't really need a "business model" at all, and anything made by professionals could be damned cheap, if there were no middlemen taking the majority of the cut.
"AI is going to fix everything, so we need a new way to make money."
1) AI is nothing but a delusional and unwanted waste of energy. 3) The web doesn't need a business model, period. Money-grubbing billionaires are the only ones who need a business model.
Not op, but I pay for my own server, domain and IP (though it is not a static one). And I've donated to some of the fediverse platforms that I use, like lemmy.world. I'm not sure what you are trying to get at?
So what's your public facing site address and we'll see how we'll it can hold against the onslaught on the net. You gonna pay to host all the YouTube videos too. Do you host instances for thousands of others to mess with. What SaaS offerings does your site present. If you're not sure what my point is you're not informed enough to present a legitimate argument.
I'm a bit baffled by his hostile response. All I said is that I host and pay for my own server. Nowhere did I claim that I host YouTube videos on that server, or that it is open to the public. I host that server for personal use, and for me and a few friends of mine. At most there is going to be two people connecting to it at once.
I have looked into hosting a peertube instance, but I've not really gotten around to figuring out how to set that all up.
I did consider them. And they're false. It's a simple concept. Remove that which pays for everything and everything will go away. This isn't difficult.
We already pay for this through the time theft and involuntary brainwashing known as "ads". It's a very dumb and wasteful way to pay for a shitty product. But that's capitalism as usual.
What SaaS offerings does your site present.
lol. The internet doesn't run on marketing buzzwords. Grow up.
The premise of a web business model is that websites must make a profit - either directly or indirectly.
That's utter bullshit. Some of us are old enough to remember when the web (or for that matter, the pre-web internet) was there for sharing of information, social interaction, and community. Schools, the government, and nonprofits provided hosting for free.
Later on, ISPs started to add hosting as part of their internet service - along with usenet access and an email address. The cost to them was negligible, especially vs. the benefits of being able to say "switch to us and create your own website!"
Nowadays you can run a site from your home PC in a VM, punch a hole through your firewall, and pay a modicum for DDNS to a custom domain for under a hundred bucks a year. If you're a bigger site with more traffic, maybe you spin it up on AWS and pay ten or twenty bucks a month.
The very idea that "The Web" is a homogeneous, for-profit entity is a profound and fundamental mistake that is made by every money-obsessed organization around - not just the financial rags like Forbes and The Economist, but essentially corporations as well. Take a look at the support site for your favourite product and try to convince yourself that they didn't just put the minimum required effort in to send customers into the arms of their competitors.
I never heard of an ISP offering a free website to host, the free mail address I do remember sadly.
A lot of what is wrong with the web is the result of governments lacking the ability to stop companies from growing too much. It doesn't help either that the best country for startups is as corrupt as fuck and has been for decades, including from before the start of the internet.
We all should chose to use parts of the web we want to use, like Lemmy and actual non-profit organisations like Ecosia, Proton and what not.
Nobody ever offered free web hosting. They put ads on your shit or you paid for it. You became the product. You're talking about shit that very few these days even know how to do. And no those costs weren't negligible which is why geo cities and all those other "free" pages disappeared. Same with all the couple dozen different chat programs that sprung up. Free shit works partially at small scale but can't handle any kind of serious activity. People can barely navigate Salesforce there's no way they're setting up their own hooks or poking holes in their routers or setting up external dns.
Don't pull that age bullshit on me. Im nearly 50. I was there in the muds, in the bbs, on icq, watched Napster sutdown. Been configuring this shit since 3.1 and wordperfect in dos.
Kagi’s model is working well for them. A traditional search engine where AI results are limited and optional, and they actively try to filter away slop, images, clickbait, and other low quality results.
I’ve been paying for 3 months and I’ll never go back. I hope they increase their market share as others ratchet up their enshittification cranks.
I despise subscriptions a lot, I also believe that the use of a search engine shouldn't be something that is run for profit, see where it got us with Google? I also dislike Kagi (and other sites) who refuse to comply with the rules and regulations we have in Europe surrounding prices on sites. They are American iirc which doesn't help for that and that also means they barely have to make any financial figures public.
I prefer Ecosia (or Qwant), which are making their own search engine together and while they are still funded by ads, it wouldn't surprise me if in the future (if not already) they get money from the governments. I also prefer actual non-profits (not those American non-profit statuses that can be bough) compared to for profit businesses.
Amusingly enough, The Economist illustrates what I believe to be the new business model that's already waiting in the wings for the internet.
With admittedly no direct evidence to support it, my theory at the moment is that the "AI" players plan to consolidate and to continue to expand their reach and continue to gain users who rely on the "AI" for information rather than following links to the originals, then, once the "AI"s have killed enough clicks to collapse the ad model and drive the websites out of business (and give them the opportunity to buy up the remains of the businesses, and more importantly, their databases), they'll put all of the information of which they're now in sole possession behind paywalls.
Broadly, the goal is to apply the most lucrative if least popular business model to information ,- to monopolize ownership of it in order to sit back and collect money as rent-seeking parasites.
See, that's a reasonable take I agree with for the most part, but I think it'll play out a bit differently. Because these AIbro Technofascist dipshit Billionaires are so fucking stupid, instead of just pulling the plug on AI and sitting on the wealth of information like metaphorical dragons, they'll continue pumping billions into larger and more complex models to try and "automate everything", all the while fighting each other viciously, until they all run out of money when their AI-Powered techno-utopia where autonomous robots run everything never comes to pass.
Meanwhile, instead of paying for the information hoards of the TechnoFascist Elites, people will begin self-hosting again, like with the Fediverse, because it's just simply cheaper and more effective at letting people learn as groups and connect with each other.
Considering most of those technofascists are American's who cannot even have proper payment platforms and proper bank connections I doubt they will actually succeed.
If it is only just them doing this AI movement (spoiler they aren't), they would also stop at the US borders, because just like a huge part of the American businesses, they don't care about anybody else
For as long as I live, I will never forget that the whole world watched Israel starve 2 million innocent people in Gaza, killing children on a daily basis and did nothing to stop it, even worse, punished those trying to end it and helped, funded, protected and armed the genocidal regime of Netanyahu.
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For as long as I live, I will never forget that the whole world watched Israel starve 2 million innocent people in Gaza, killing children on a daily basis and did nothing to stop it, even worse, punished those trying to end it and helped, funded, protected and armed the genocidal regime of Netanyahu.
Dude, the person you're replying to has lost the fucking plot. What a baffling Lemmy history. It's like the linked shit take was grown in a lab to be optimally shit: any less and it's less shit, any more and it's less plausible someone believes this, making it less shit.
We have the Scofield Bible to blame. Remember that Christians did the whole Spanish Inquisition thing and Martin Luther called for the expulsion of Jews from Europe. If supporting Israel because Jews exist there was theologically consistent with Christianity then neither of those things would have happened. But the Scofield bible rewrote parts of the Bible to promote Christian Zionism and was popularized particularly in the United States. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofield…
Israeli spokesmen responsible for messaging the United States still quote it. Bibi says: "God will bless those who bless us [Zionist Israel]." In reality the Bible used the non-plural you referring to Abraham the individual person, who was alive 4000 years ago.
Meanwhile Jesus himself said to modern Israel's progenitors, who were also political zionists, "Say not that you are sons of Abraham, for if you were you would do the works of your father. But you do the works of your father, who is Satan."
Basically if you are a modern Christian who supports Israel you are a fucking retard who can't read. The clergy of older Christianity could read. That's why they didn't think their post-judiaism religion demanded they worship any Jews with the exception of Jesus.
All the English translations are wrong, because Greeks and Romans translated wrong, sometimes by honest mistake, often for political reasons, whether institutional or governmental, often both in tandem.
Well that's an extremely fair point to make. Point is the Bible was re-written again, (maybe you have a better idea of the total rewrite count), to spread Zionist propaganda and was propagated through the US in particular.
Fun fact. Even Isaac Newton was able to find ways in which the Bible was surreptitiously altered. So this is a bit of a problem in general. People have been altering the Bible to meet political ends for a while.
In the case of the bit we have Bibi quoting we have the Jewish version to reference and their own version uses a singular you, but Bibi found the Scofield version to be convenient. Crazy how this guy knows more about translation variance in Christian versions of the Old Testament better than most Christians do. It's almost like this guy made it his job to communicate to Christians and get them to support him.
Zionism didn't exist during Constantine's time. The father of Zionism, Herzl, was an antisemitic atheist. But Balfour signed the Agreement and Truman recognized Israel.
Yes to meet political ends. If there was one man who was literal Jesus, rather than legendary or an amalgamation of men, then he was crucified for being a threat to a rather comfortable occupation of Israel by the Romans, on trumped up religious charges. Same as chattel slaves and abolitionists. The modern global West is using both methods, Europe and the UK by criminalizing condemnation of illegal occupation and genocide, US with that coupled with discrimination against Christians. But only certain ones.
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote about it in The Scarlet Letter, and Young Goodman Brown. Not that his ideas were perfect, but were rather advanced for his time.
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Laser printers are the best. You sacrifice the quality of dense pictures, but gain incomparable speed and reliability. It's especially worth it if you print less often, because the ink dries up if you don't print every once in a while and you end up buying new ink even though the cartridge is full, but the toner just sits there indefinitely.
i started a (very niche) private messaging protocol & little CLI app demo. i’m no security expert, so any feedback or questions would be appreciated.
the gist is an ephemeral message exchange without identities. the goal is ultimate deniability.
the interesting (and weird) part is that messages are encrypted but not authenticated. this means an imposter could show up if they know the shared secret. otoh this means you can deny anything you say.
interesting point! i chose symmetric shared key because it means you can’t prove who sent what message.
the shared secret does add some authentication, which i think is necessary. the goal is it only creates enough to be practical (a random person can’t eavesdrop), but not enough to prove things. messages themselves still aren’t authenticated by any one person.
you’re not wrong, but that’s just the trade off that has to be made, i think. it’s the only way i can think to do it, at least. need -some- authentication for practical usability.
your gpg example removes the deniability since it proves who wrote the message.
Couldn't you use HMAC with shared secret key to authenticate messages while keeping plausible deniability? Since the key is only supposed to be known to the 2 parties, the recipient can deduce that a message was actually sent by the sender if he did not create it himself. I think that's what OTR was using.
ooh, i’ll have to think through it, but it sounds like that’d add message integrity without sacrificing deniability. also wouldn’t be much to add. appreciate the feedback!
during or after a conversation, anyone with the keys can create fake transcripts by creating messages with the same metadata, same nonce, different content.
because of this, no transcript can be proven to be the correct transcript. the trade-off is you don’t get forward secrecy on the per-message level, but you get it per-conversation.
another detail is that there is no identity, so all the above aside, there’s also no way to prove who sent which message.
A quanto pare, il tizio del software pirata, Pirate Software, dopo la sua grande caduta dall’altare da cui predicava non è semplicemente finito sul colpo… bensì, la gente sta scavando. E oooh, se dalla terra stanno uscendo cose… e, in questo caso, incuriosiscono anche me, perché intrecciano due grandi mie passioni: il gaslighting, e lo […]
“I reviewed Pirate Software’s Code. Oh boy…” (Coding Jesus vs Pirate Software e la situazione si fa eterna)
A quanto pare, il tizio del software pirata, Pirate Software, dopo la sua grande caduta dall’altare da cui predicava non è semplicemente finito sul colpo… bensì, la gente sta scavando. E oooh, se dalla terra stanno uscendo cose… e, in questo caso, incuriosiscono anche me, perché intrecciano due grandi mie passioni: il gaslighting, e lo sviluppo software; nella prima il signorino ha evidentemente appena fallito, mentre sembra che direttamente non sia proprio del mestiere, riguardo la seconda, che nel suo caso è nel campo dei videogiochi… 😰
In particolare, il signore è entrato in questioni con un certo Gesù del Coding (e i nomi in questa storia stanno diventando così surreali che davvero inizio a pensare al fatto che, nonostante tutto, viviamo proprio nel migliore dei mondi possibili…), che ha osato fare code review del suo giochino RPG, Heartbound (nome, ancora, scelto veramente a cazzo, visto che sul momento ho pensato fosse il gioco di Nintendo dello stesso genere e probabilmente in parte d’ispirazione, Earthbound; e pronunciati a voce anziché scritti, ovviamente, la differenza non la noterebbe nemmeno chi a differenza mia ha un cervello funzionante)… e ne è uscito fuori veramente da piangere come mai prima d’ora. 😿
Sostanzialmente, questo RPG (che dicono essere estremamente mid dal punto di vista del gioco in sé, ma non avendo voglia nemmeno di provare la demo non mi esprimo su ciò) sarebbe in sviluppo da una roba come 7 anni, avendo ricevuto finora tipo 20mila dollari di raccolta fondi, e non va avanti. Questo, a detta sua, è perché sta avendo problemi con la scrittura… ma invece no: è perché il suo codice è uno spaghetto di livello extraterrestre, molto semplicemente. Ah, e anche perché, invece di lavorare per davvero allo sviluppo, è ogni giorno in live a yappare o a fare gaming…e la cosa mi ricorda stranamente un altro sviluppatore indie a suo tempo ancora più perculato, ma non voglio divagare già ora… ☠️
Tornando al punto: Coding Jesus, in un suo video, ha preso tutti i frame dove si vedeva codice del gioco nelle sue live (che, per essere nel corso di mesi e mesi, sono sorprendentemente pochi), e lo ha semplicemente distrutto. Questa non è una code review che si può spiegare in due parole… ma, in breve, Thor (si, anche lui stesso ha un nome assurdo, per chi non lo avesse ancora afferrato…) dimostra praticamente di non afferrare i principi base di programmazione; il codice è completamente inmantenibile, ma a livello praticamente da meme. 🤥
Il problema di tutta la storia, ovviamente, non è di per sé il fatto che questo qui sia un incapace patentato… ma che ha un ego smisurato, che ha praticamente mentito sulla sua intera carriera professionale (pur se non inventando cose di sana pianta, solo omettendo o manipolando alla grande i piccoli dettagli), che a riguardo di questo suo progetto racconta tutt’ora di continuo sempre e solo palle pur di non ammettere la tragica situazione reale che lo riguarda, e che in generale sembra essere ben più interessato a pavoneggiarsi che a fare quello che dice di voler fare! Oh, io sono la prima che dice che è assolutamente sacrosanto il diritto a creare anche la merda; fateli i giochi, assolutamente, pure se non sapete programmare… ma non fate la voce profonda per apparire più saggi di quello che siete davvero, vi prego! 😭
E boh, mi permetto persinouna riflessione spaventosamente reale qui, perché nessuno sembra averla fatta: è specialmente curioso che, quando escono queste controversie riguardo sviluppatori indie, sono sempre sviluppatori di videogiochi. Non che ne escano tantissime eh — e, infatti, l’unico pensiero parallelo a questa storia che gira nella mia mente riflettendoci è che questo Thor è letteralmente il nuovo YandereDev per quanto mi riguarda, e non riesco minimamente a confutare questa mia ipotesi stellare — però boh, in altri casi esce poco… Sarà forse che, negli altri casi, da un lato è puramente il codice a parlare, mentre dall’altro i polli che donano migliaia di soldi sulla pura fiducia non ci sono? 🥴
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The trade body called it “illegal circumvention technology”, said 12ft.io has been locked by its web host, and promised to take similar action against other paywall bypassing technologies.
Just because you send bits to my network does not oblige me to render them. That's like saying I broke the law back when I had cable and changed channels during ad breaks. Falls flat on its face.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills whenever I hear them say things like this! These things belong to me, I should be able to control them. My perception, my LITERAL GATEWAY FROM MY MIND TO REALITY is mine and I have a right to control what I see.
So this confirms that people have a negative reaction to ads, which every actual internet user knows in their bones already. This means they ALSO are not even doing their one job of persuading people to buy shit. Of course this won't lead to companies reducing investment for ad carrying or finding ways to make them more appealing, that costs money, instead they will use AI generators to produce WORSE ads and leverage their capital to have governments capitulate and force users to watch by banning blockers, probably VPNs too. Bill Hicks was the most correct about advertising, and remains undefeated.
gasp you mean to tell me you DON'T like 20 million videos playing over the top of the recipe that you're trying to read while trying not to burn dinner? unbelievable.
Looks like it hasn't been updated in a few years, but its open source so you could just fork the repo and add more. There are also quite a few forks already.
I tried to give my mom a pihole, she made me get rid of it because it broke the NY times and some rando mobile game she plays. Some people can't be helped.
Not even a linux guy, but I had a Pi from a decade ago that I never opened, decided to set it up and use it for something useful, friends suggested Pihole. pained myself for 2 days getting everything working (most of my trouble had to do with peripherals and IP addresses not the device itself) but after the grief, got it working and it was well worth it.
I even printed a sticker for it that said "where ads go to die"
I don't mind the old system of one or two ads on a page or a 10-second ad at the start of a YouTube video if they don't track their users. But these days it is growing out of proportions, we are almost at American television with the amount of ad breaks in a YouTube video, and it's absurd.
Before I used Firefox on Android, any search about a game I'm playing would result in a half page video ad in the top half of the screen, accompanied by the bottom half being a request to share your data with 1496 trusted data partners.
Now I use Firefox with add ons, and I get the results I requested. The modern web is basically unusable in it's raw form.
I am used to rejecting the cookies if they are not automatically blocked by Vivaldi or Firefox, but on my phone I use Safari, which still has a decent add blocker by default so most of the time it is just a cookie banner where I have to reject them. Or put the site in reader mode
There are also market effects on what type of content is produced / profitable to advertise on.
And mostly unknown psychological effects of advertising on the human mind. Maybe advertising has altered your mind so much that you "don't even mind" it any more. It is a brainwashing technique after all haha. Maybe all those youtube ads made about 5% of the people's brain soft enough to vote for MAGA. Maybe the effect of advertising is as bad as lead in gasoline.
You either have to directly pay for something or indirectly pay for it by selling your time or data.
Companies need to get their name out there and in the past you did that with a banner on your building, a space in the phone book and maybe your name on the side of the vans. Now we live in the digital world and we use digital advertisement. Heck a lot of companies sponsor certain event including charity events.
If we would totally remove advertisement, your local mom-and-pop shops will get more traffic, but in a lot of countries they would have basically a monopoly unless another competitor exists in the same region.
I don't really mind watching a bit of advertisement on something like a YouTube video or a banner ad on a site. Heck, buildings or vans with logos etc are fine as well in my opinion. My issue is more with the tracking and some forced advertisement (putting your logo on my clothing, vehicle etc).
Ok, it's obviously a complicated task, and banning advertising will make things more complex. But that is what progress often is.
But before the internet we used to even have TV shows reviewing things, under the mandate they don't get paid to do so. People do have an interest in learning about new cool things or improvements to old, and comparative reviews. There is no reason this wouldn't serve the legitimate need for information better. Now we have ratings and that could be improved as well, through better technology to gather independent reviews.
And yeah, there are not free lunches from corporations, but there are from people or from the government. We pay collectively for things and distribute them for free all the time. Public broadcasting could be extended to youtube or even news papers, to make them more independent from profit driven behavior or owners. You can't have democracy without free press, and currently we don't have that. We have corporate press and every single youtube channel has to serve corporate news. And as you point out, in capitalism there is no free lunch. But we can make it free so we can stop the insanity of neoliberal and fascist propaganda currently destroying our civilization globally.
Another thing I forgot to mention, advertising is the main vector to increase consumerism. Which is killing our planet.
Independent reviews are a good thing yes and they shouldn't be sponsored by a related company to keep their integrity, that doesn't mean they can't get paid from a different form of advertising. Heck you can even check on the integrity of professionals differently. In the accountancy, we are paid by the clients who we need to audit or need to advice etc. Using things like third party audits and a high accountability for professionals.
Ratings aren't that great especially on platforms like Amazon/AliExpress and other crap offering dropshipping platforms from corrupt countries.
Corporations generally don't do anything for free, but a lot of companies do, but that is generally to get their name out there or because the owner wants to decuct his private life from his company profit ... Even governments can't spend money or personal all they want, in the end it is money from the people. People here in NL are pissed that the government spend money on things like getting the NATO here for the last meeting or for the royal family. The public broadcasting is also something that is under heat and not just here.
In most countries you have some kind of government funded press heck I think most press aren't even corporations, but more companies except some of the larger once maybe.
Almost nobody is going to work for free for the majority of their life. It would be better if all of us did more work for society, but most people aren't in the position I am in that they just can take an extra week off to do that.
I agree consumerism is killing our planet, but there is a huge difference between the crap a companies like Google are doing and your local plummer who has advertisement on the local radio on their van and make a slightly SEO optimised website. Advertising is often the only way to get your company visable if you are competing with a well established company. Same reason as that there is nuance between companies and corporations.
Yes we need to promote repairing, reusing, recycling and the circular economy I agree, but somebody like iFixit wouldn't really thrive without their advertisement. We also need more financial transparency by the company we buy from and just skip on companies from China, the US and other obvious corrupt countries.
Yeah public broadcasting is under attack because of advertising. Advertising fuels private broadcasting and it's in their owner's interest to push anti public broadcasting propaganda.
Any system humans design to serve us as a society will over time become "min maxed" by people or institutions seeking to maximize their profit or gain more power or maintain power in the face of changes. Advertising is a primary vector how those with the most economic power can influence society without people even realizing it. And everything is political.
For example take the ratings and something like yellow pages and announcements for new businesses like a plumber - needing to invest additional capital in advertising has an effect too. It makes it so new businesses are more indentures, more like wage slavery, than if no advertising existed at all. Obviously no advertising at all would favor seniority. But we have advanced in technology since we designed our government systems - there should be an independent "forth estate" or fifth or something for economics and regulation. They could be independently voted on to the executive or legislative. And their job would be to deal with regulation in the public's interest, and sponsor things like an independent ratings portal that is moderated, and force shops like amazon to use the independent ratings for the products and the vendors. It will stay a struggle to stay ahead of people trying to abuse the system for gain, but right now we pretend the tools we have right now are somehow god given. We Europeans are far more conservative than we like to think.
If we want to have any resiliency against what is coming (because we destroyed our planet and let wealth inequality spiral and social media is nearly completely controlled by plutocrats) we need to push for better tools to govern democratically. And advertising is a major obstacle because it allows unmitigated influence of those who own the world.
TLDR: We don't *have to * screw over new plumbers, but we should do it if we had to because stopping the brainwashing is more important.
Well I agree we need a better structure to keep people in check I agree with that. Things like social media and a companies like RTL having a massive stake in private television will help to destroy the planet and keep the difference between the lower class, the middle class and the rich.
But I disagree that we should just get rid of all advertisement completely. Again there is nothing wrong with banner ads, websites, vans with logo's and other low stakes form of advertisement.
If governments would start to pay YouTubers instead of YouTubers earning money from adverts and sponsors it would not only allow the government to control the narrative, but people will still abuse the system. Same way as that social security or subsidies are abused currently.
Consdering I work in an accounting firm I do see the amount of cost some companies have with advertisment, but most of them with a lot of costs do it to get more customers. Some of them need to do it to keep their profit rising or the same.
There is an issue with misleading adverts including misleading prices (excluding tax), there is an issue with hidden ads (like logo's). But personally I think social media (including Lemmy) is just the bane of our existence. Yes a lot of that is funded by adverts, but also by selling your data and the like. Personally I believe that they are brainwashing people more with that, than with a lot of the advertisement. Ow and the people who keep on defending companies like they are their family are also a big part, people saying they are going to get Domino's instead of pizza f.e.
The web has almost always been unusable without an adblocker. Ads today are less malicious, but more insidious. Clicking the wrong ad in 2003 would brick your computer. Clicking the wrong ad today means you'll have to cancel a credit card after your personal data is compiled and sold on the black market.
Nothing new. Ads don't fuel a free internet. They fuel a business model. The free internet is fueled by the time and donations of kind, dedicated people.
I disagree, ads today are way more malicious than they used to be, ads are the biggest vector for malware today, they are used to stalk users to an insane level and most ads are porn, gambling, drugs or fascist propaganda.
At least back in the day you would only get sketchy ads on sketchy websites.
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I use a degoogled CalyxOS phone so all those apps that load ads via Google services don't even work, or they work and the ads don't load haha. One caveat is that I can't use paid apps either though, I'm not against those.
But yeah system wide blocking is definitely the most thorough method!
Maybe if they didn’t use very intrusive ads people would not install ad-blockers so much
Many websites put a video playing in later in top of the text, with another layer of ads and tiny space to read… the website would be unreadable without ad-blocks
Tangentially related but britta filters actually suck as far as I know; they're like the worst water filter for removing materials. Did a test myself with a fresh filter - 105 ppm tap to around 72 ppm vs 0 ppm for zero water pitchers and around 30ish for epic, it's been a bit so the numbers are rough for the britta and epic but I test my tap and ZW pitcher routinely.
Almost 70. Spent way too many years watching cable shit tv. I hate ads. I fucking hate ads with a nuclear passion. I have ad blockers, pirated shit and some services that do not show ads so far. If there are ads I find an alternative or read a book. Our teen son screams ad every time he sees one that sneaks through ad just to get me going.
i know this may go against the general attitude here but i gotta say this does make me a little sad when i think about it. and i use adblockers as well, but i never knew what the numbers were. when it's put into context like this it's hard not to be discouraged by the fact that this is still probably a minority of users. i mean what the hell, how are people still using the internet with ads turned on.
I'm starting to notice that a lot of people don't even notice what are ads or not. When i installed pihole and enabled it for all devices at home. My gf was complaining why suddenly a loy of pages wouldn't work anymore. Yeah, so she always clicked the ad/sponsored link everywhere and didn't have the slightest clue. And let's not start about social media and how basically 75% of it is (hidden) ads.
Personally I'm of the mentality if some company force feeds me their ads while i was not actively searching out their product type, I'll think 3 times before ever considering their products. Thankfully, i see basically no ads (online) anymore these days.
i guess it's true that technology has been getting too easy to use. the barrier to entry being too low means people aren't really ready to use them safely.
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.
depending on your household's browsing habits, it can be downright insane how much traffic goes through ones network (and the web at large), that is just nothing but dog shit.
I monitored my pihole at my place and my own traffic is usually no more than 15% garbage with about 750,000 domains blocked, but the second grandma or grandpa starts doomscrolling boomer things on their phones and ipads. I saw the network traffic at 60% blocked one time and I had to confront them and flatly ask them "what the fuck are you doing on your phone?"
also set up a Region exemption or whatever, blocking russian, chinese, and a whole bunch of other untrustworthy TLDs and im literally showing my grandmother the repeated attempts to communicate with something in fucking China in real time whilst she's playing some solitare game she downloaded.
both of them shield, coddle, and enable a 53 year old man who is an overt Nazi and purge/mass death obsessed eugenicist freak, (my uncle), a lot more needs to be said to them honestly.
Well, "dark traffic" sounds SCARY. You wouldn't want to do anything scary, would you? Like, use the computer you paid for to control the content you want to see? /s
Advertisers do not have the right to demand my attention, or to brainwash me. I have every right to deny them and decide what to allow inside my head. This is war.
"We paid for the right to show you this!"
You paid for the opportunity not the right, but you didn't pay me, motherfucker -- and my price is everything you have or fuck off and die.
Edit: You know what? This is how I really feel about ads.
This is a consent issue, and I will not allow advertisers inside me. They hire psychologists in order to exploit humans' most vulnerable mental blind spots. They don't just brainwash us. They mindfuck the entire human species, and they do not recognize consent. We need to treat advertising as the collective mindr*pe that it is, otherwise they will never stop exploiting us, and we will never be able to build a bright future for humanity and this world. They are manipulating the trajectory of an entire species with zero regard to any future well-being. The butterfly effects are inconceivable. Our minds are sacred. The advertising industry is committing a crime against humanity that we have failed to recognize as such, because money is all that matters today. They must be stopped before Big Tech perfects brain-computer interfaces.
“The growth of dark traffic undermines the ability of publishers to fund the production of quality content, or even operate as a business. We must recognise users are not the main driver causing this.”
And Scott Messer, founder of publishing adtech consultancy Messer Media, added: “Dark traffic is unlike anything we have seen before. It’s demonetising publisher content at scale without user consent.
Are they trying to present it as if poor innocent users need to be protected from the vile ad blockers?
What's frustrating to me is the idea that law makers and advertisers believe I don't have a right to alter data that comes onto things I own. And nobody chime in with the brain dead "☝️🤓 actually you don't own it." Because even if you wanna waste time with that stupid distraction, I own my computer. I built it from parts.
Controlling my perception is my right. If I wanna use things that block ads that's my right. PERIOD. I NEED TO BLOCK ADS BECAUSE OF MY DISABILITY.
You have that right at least in Europe. The nuance is that website provinding content can choose to not serve it to you. Or something like that but maybe more complexe.
They got it the wrong way around. Visitors who use adblock are not "dark traffic", the bullshit scripts and tracking they use are dark. The adblock users are actually the only clean traffic. The adblockers aren't "brutal", the people without blockers are being brutalized.
"dark" as in "not visible". Adblock users can't be tracked (or at least not as easily), hence they are not visible to the ad companies. "Dark", in this instance, is not a derogatory term.
"Brutal" is, though. So I totally agree with you there. Ads are the brutal thing nowadays.
I used the internet for a long time before ad blockers even existed. Everybody simply ignored ads, instead. But that wasn't good enough for the advertisers. They weren't happy unless we were forced to look at the ads. Extraordinarily obtrusive ads. Popup ads. Popunder ads. That's when people started blocking ads. When you realized that your browser always ended up with 20 extra advertising windows.
Nobody really cared about blocking ads until advertisers forced us to. They made the internet annoying to use, and sometimes impossible to use.
Advertisers couldn't just be happy with people ignoring their ads, so they forced our hands and fucked themselves in the process. Now, we block them by default. I don't even know any websites that have unobtrusive ads because I never see their ads in the first place.
Now, they want to go back to the time when we would see their ads but ignore them. Fuck off. We know we can't even give them that much. If you give them an inch, they'll take a mile.
The main clencher that got me running a blocker were the few sites whose payload was 90% ad related and as long as the page was open it kept feeding me more ads until a gigabyte of RAM and 5% of my CPU were dedicated to something I wasn't even looking at.
I know surgeons who can’t start a zoom call. Being uneducated in a particular area is not stupidity. If you avoid dating someone over their lack of adtech knowledge, I would assume they are the one that dodged a bullet.
adtech is nothing new or exotic. We have been dealing with this shit for years. if they still do not have a very basic knowledge of it by now, that's not a great sign.
Unix and lawnmowers are nothing new or exotic either. I’m not stupid for not knowing how to repair a lawnmower, and I wouldn’t presume you’re stupid just because I can run circles around you at the command line.
I would, however, question your intelligence if you lack the ability to perceive the reasons behind different people knowing different things. It’s not that complicated.
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Oh I’m fully aware people can specialize their intelligence, focusing so much on some areas they neglect others and fall behind. However, that’s also a choice they made. That unbalanced tech tree was their own doing.
Okay I checked out Gemini. I love the vibes, but the amount of dead links just in the quick start guide makes it hard for me to even try to get into it
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