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I’m not online often. Media that repost old news do good work anew. Apparently there was a protest against Reddit over its API. Now it’s a public company.
Reddit’s probably knows more about its users than the users know about themselves. A shrewd company (with good marketing) is an elegant government.
It’s amazing, the last time I lurked Reddit was for neophyte notes on Guix. Since then I’ve went back to long form blogging/note-taking offline.
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Someone pointed out an unusual thing the other day. A partly foreign/government owned utility company here had Barbados’ Independence Flag as The Bahamas’ innocently circulating online. My disambiguation antics are 20/20?
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I was poking around tech news today. I didn’t know that the train on comments. That’s funny because brevity optimizes for snide remarks. Speaking of snide, Robert Frost has a rather gentle and tactful kind — it’s absolutely genius.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
Why do they make good neighbors?
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Someone said a while back that the design here was cookie cutter. That means I’ve stuck the landing, beautifully. Web design ended 24 years ago and that can’t be right but it’s in fact true. Exploratory design style sheets are kept to one’s self.
People dislike non-conventional interfaces or “wheel reinventing”, as the story goes. Of course, nobody knows precisely what they actually want, but markets lie not (unless manipulated). Data says; there’s preference for the familiar, the standard, and more of the same.
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Teaching how
to write a link in Markdown
is hard. It’s one example of the subtle horrors of horizontal complexity. Horror
as in, the number of questions asked from intuition. Is it []() or ()[]?
One question becomes two, with four answers, or more. Eventually ()[] = []()
= ()() = [][]. But, is it [example.com][example] or
[example][example.com]?
The number of possibly erroneous actions among correct ones is a useful metric for automating (graphical) interfaces.
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Hmm, maybe I’m a bit of a simpleton. The other day, while researching Facebook’s/Meta’s open graph protocol and metadata, I had a rare bout of curiosity and clicked on the discussion section.
Is the public group page just full of bots advertising to each other? Interesting.
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That book is quite hilarious. The ambiguity is sneaky too. Why the 17th century? Popular scams approximate type 7 and 2. ‘Enticement to gambling’ and ‘dropping the bag’ are just short of a legalized bank robbery.
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Falling for enough cons is the mark of a casual connoisseur in books of confidence. One of my favorites is The Book of Swindles by Zhang Yingyu. How could one not read a book that inspires such a beautifully scandalous contra introduction?
This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder…
The first lesson against swindles is ‘obtaining passage through the state of Yu to attack the state of Guo’, which in faraway modern times translates to keeping the tin foil hats demarcated at a safe arm’s length of distance.
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Magic is indeed real but strangely selective? FTX’s conclusion is fascinatingly scary! That was a joke for a friend, but it actually happened!
We definitely live in a scam world? The realization then (after much reading) was that coin ecosystems operate exactly like current financial systems but with extreme incomprehensibility.
I’m months behind my feeds, but the feast on FTX’s carcass drives it home! The magic number is 1/3! Coins are very shady!
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Discussing strategies for detecting AI agents and crawlers has its apocalyptic comedy. How many humans are bots, and bots humans? If captchas are unsolvable and work unprovable, then you are a bot. But guess what? I’m not smart enough to play captcha!
So I’m a bot (that’s a joke) and technology works in unwitting ways. The web wants smart humanoids not dumb humans — it’s robots.txt not humans.txt, silly.
Related; a developer creates an friend. You are impressed and buy the thousand dollar one time licence. Your developer friend chats with you from the comfort of a phone with automated assistance. I can’t believe it’s not AI?
