It was so embarrassing watching the dinosaurs running the US government interview Zuck over privacy when they had no idea how Facebook as a business worked. We really need a tech task force that consists of people who are computer-literate.
Whenever I get a new computer I install these right away.
Used everyday:
Alfred: customizable productivity tool. It's a launcher, file searcher, web searcher, clipboard manager, snippet manager, script runner, etc with a robust community making scripts.
Textpander: a text replacer I've been using before Apple's and Alfred's solutions.
Bettertouchtool: customize keyboard and trackpad shortcuts
Notational Velocity/nVALT + Obsidian: note taking synced across my devices. NValt for quick notes while Obsidian is for long form and personal knowledge management. Just plain text files in a communal vault somewhere.
Dropbox: mainly used to sync settings for apps and notes across devices.
1Password: password generation and management for me and my girlfriend. A little pricey, but I love it. been researching alternatives.
Also handy:
Better Rename 9: rename files. Replace characters or strings, add in number sequencing, convert casing, etc. I have a lot of photos and work with a lot of images so this comes in handy
Copyqueue: file copy. Enables a queue for file copy.
Hidden Bar: menu bar management
For my watch:
App in the Air: is a nice airport companion that visually shows the airplane phases (boarding, flight duration) with accompanying info (like gates and delays)
Google and Facebook were both built on ad-based internet. So...until privacy is respected, cookies go away, and more importantly, people did not buy things based on ads, yeah ad-based internet stands a chance. I did a quick search on how big the digital advertising market is and there are various numbers being reported m. I'll give you the lowest one—$~200 billion
We’re still negative cash flow, due to ~50% drop in advertising revenue plus heavy debt load. Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else.
And now Elon gets to play the same game that every other social network plays. Will be interesting to see how he reacts.
Probably lack of marketing. It just is what it is. If you want to see what the latest #dance is or #icebucketchallenge, that's probably on TikTok, Instagram, or Twitter...it's easier for influencers to monetize their content.
I would donate money to a video game museum that housed a copy of every single game and console in existence.
The games and consoles are for looking at while there are playing stations with emulators to sample the games. The game art alone would make it worth it.
I always wanted to see a visual timeline of all game consoles lined up in a row to see evolution of design over the years. From disks to carts to cds.
On-screen kissing doesn't bother me, just don't like the ones that seemed forced or are cheesy.
Racked my mind for good examples, and came up with Tobey Spider-Man kissing Mary Jane upside down in the rain and Jack and Rose's first kiss on the deck of the Titanic.
I don't understand the timing on this message and what they hope to accomplish by saying this.
I can understand the idea of a more Right-leaning network to counter CNN but Fox News ain't it. Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity have been involved since the beginning. Don't know when, but at some point it just became straight up lies and they themselves have admitted as much in court. In court defending Tucker Carlson show "We are entertainment, and not news therefore you can't blame us for misinformation."
The subreddit I visit the most is r/nba. With it being the off-season, it's really easy for me to use Reddit less and less every day. Those twats left a bad taste in my mouth anyways. They all protested the mods after not participating in the blackout survey and then proceeded to call the mods names for 2 days and then business back to normal.
Having nowhere to discuss the league championships during the blackout, they started their own sub r/nbatalk. A handful will never go back, but we will see how long that lasts. The majority of r/nba are shitposters anyways.
I've always wondered how Mozilla / Firefox makes money? I see that its a non-profit. Looks like sponsored links and content on their new tab?