aleppe7766
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3 years ago
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on: Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
It works with any device you can install it on but not for example on cheap tv sticks, smart devices and other IoT stuff which still may be infested with adware phoning home every second. I’ve been using pi-hole at home and NextDNS/VPN outside as they’re more complementary than overlapping.
aleppe7766
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4 years ago
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on: How Facebook is trying to recover the money it lost during the outage
This is too stupid to be true. For a 6-hour outage to significantly increase the ad frequency (and lower the conversion rate) you should pressure the system to recover the outage in a day or two; do they really need it? We're not even at the end of the month...
aleppe7766
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4 years ago
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on: The ownership and future of Mullvad VPN
A striking difference from the former intelligence official led competitor.
aleppe7766
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4 years ago
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on: why you visit Hacker News
Only the most relevant topics from the big tech news fanfare percolate inside HN; all the rest brings to the light a part of the tech web which would otherwise remain mostly unknown to me. HN us a community-driven curation process and it works because the community is great.
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Futurism Transformed the Art World by Worshipping Technology (2014)
As much as Futurists did want to shape reality rather than describe it, their best contribution was the description of such troubled yet somehow exciting times. The manifesto is from 1909, fascism yet to come. The tension in the form and language reflects the subterranean conflicts of the time. WW1 was around the corner. Even though many futurists were absorbed by fascism (not foreseeing how far the violent charlatans that ran it, were from their ideal), their art still is valuable as a testimony, a narration. For this it has a beauty of its own: it carries intact, a powerful message from a time long gone.
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Futurism Transformed the Art World by Worshipping Technology (2014)
It's easy to discard the futurist movement on the basis of its relationship with fascism. Here in Italy it happens all the time. When such skewed filter is removed, futurism appears as the embodiment of a troubled and exciting phase, one of those moments in history in which huge changes were in the making and tradition was a burden to leave behind. One could also imagine Marinetti's disappointment about yesterday's heroic future turning into today's dull present, in which technology often works against humanity rather than empowering it. His faith in the technological future clashes badly with today's permanent fear and the consequent recrudescence of religion and stale tradition.
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Nvidia reportedly to acquire ARM Holdings from SoftBank for $40B
Wonder what Apple’s reaction will be. Their relationship with Nvidia has been bumpy to say the least. Any ARM licensee now has a competitor as a supplier. The smaller ones will have to swallow but the larger licensees? Do they have options on the table - other than trying to throw a wrench into nvidia’s presumed acquisition plans?
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Is There a Google-Free Future for Firefox?
Totally agree, in theory. In practice US regulators are too short sighted, incompetent and possibly corrupt (in that they benefit from the status quo, and are heavily lobbied) to deal with the situation; also, if Firefox dies, it’s another thick nail in the web’s coffin.
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Is There a Google-Free Future for Firefox?
Even non users should donate to Firefox: the presence of a independent browser in a market dominated by browsers following the agenda of this le that huge tech company benefits the whole market. Of course using it (or any other independent browser, but only FF has a chance to stay in the double digits) and contributing to its market share would be even more beneficial. Apple’s Safari will never effectively stop Facebook’s sneaky spyops as Facebook is a core partner for Apple’s richest platform. And Chrome, well...
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobile ad market
You’re right. Then is Apple going to use IDFA without asking while the others will have to ask?
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobile ad market
No need for pi-hole, there’s an app for that and does exactly the same job.
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobile ad market
Apple’s own ad service is long gone and won’t come back (if some sanity is still left in Apple’s board). They’re just playing nice with some core partners.
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap
They won’t buy companies that bring their margin down; automakers have been struggling on hair-thin margins for years.
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B
Doesn’t sound legit. ARM was purchased by SoftBank in 2016 for 32bn USD.and from then it might have grown more than 20% per year. Selling a growing company with bright perspectives today for the same price you purchased it 4 years ago makes no sense, even for a struggling Softbank.
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Report: ARM is for sale and Nvidia’s interested, Apple isn’t
A wide coalition must form: every single OEM acquiring ARM will reduce its value. BTW Apple won’t let Nvidia control a central part of its Long term hardware strategy.
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Oracle’s BlueKai tracks people across the web – that data spilled online
This is a small eco chamber after all. The billions willingly share all their “private” stuff on FB and Google, which are concentrating orders of magnitute more data than any legit or fraudulent data company on the planet, and putting them out of business in the process.
aleppe7766
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5 years ago
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on: Oracle’s BlueKai tracks people across the web – that data spilled online
TL:DR If you want to do any good to a newspaper, buy a subscription.
Advertising hasn’t been enough since the late 2000s. More monetization options arised and were rapidly adopted because news venues were hungry for them, when they figured that reservation (buying ads on a specific website with no control on delivery and performance) was declining. The creepiness of all this, and the sense of entitlement of a large part of the audience, fueled the rise of Adblock, which required even more creepiness and gave birth to the present cat&mouse game.
aleppe7766
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6 years ago
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on: We Wasted $50K on Google Ads So You Don't Have To (2019)
Agree with the first comment. Landing pages should be customized to the specific point in the customer journey. If you’re targeting a clueless user you should keep it simple and educate all the way to conversion.
aleppe7766
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6 years ago
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on: Firefox browser will block the IAB's DigiTrust universal ID
Sadly, it’s an industry that can’t regulate itself and has been overpromising to less and less gullible clients. Unfortunately advertising is still the main revenue source for publishers, good and bad. Google, Amazon and Facebook will find a way around any but the most extreme and impractical blocking, with logins and technology at a scale that isn’t remotely feasible for all the rest of the industry. So in a way this stance is only advancing their strength at the expense of that fainter and fainter competition that’s fed with the breadcrumbs falling from the tables of the big three. Not sure if in the end we’ll consider this battle as worth fighting as many of you presently think.
aleppe7766
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6 years ago
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on: Aviation safety: Transport comparisons
Yet the research is all about self driving cars.
