A non-Fediverse person wouldn’t know Mastodon, would they?
Usually I say it’s like a thousand different tiny Reddits that all subscribe to each other. No central owner, no central operator. If any one of them gets unruly, the others can just shun them.
THEN I sometimes say “do you remember Mastodon?” And half the time they are like “oh yeah! That Twitter alternative!” And I say yes like that but for Reddit.
A billboard costs money. A cafe also has your brand name on it but can be operated at a profit.
I don’t know what this is really all about but I’m just thinking through possibilities. It could definitely just be a stupid marketing fad. The number of eyeballs a cafe will get in a metropolis like Seoul is tremendous. If they had a cafe in every town across bumfuk suburbia that would be another story.
I mean LOL maybe???
It seems like there are probably ways they could do that without calling so much attention to themselves.
Like a LAN party just a lil bigger.
His crime goes unpunished a lot, unfortunately, at all levels of society. But this is just absurd. He doesn’t get to call himself the Duke of Derpingshire anymore. Oh no! And the fact that they let him continue to be a prince because “what can we do he’s a prince” 🤷 ! How about cast him out, disembowel him in the town square, hang his remains in a gibbet from the battlements. Like the kings of old!
There is also such a thing as trying too hard. I once saw a guy show up in a blue button shirt with white collar and tie, to apply for a cook job. He got the job, and was good. But that outfit was a fucking costume and all it communicated was “I am into putting on a false front.”
I think they mean in the context of getting a job. At least that’s what most of the reactions seem to assume. The post really doesn’t have enough detail.
Not every lady wants big. An insecure guy would hear this question one way, like “do you have a small dick or what?” But it could also mean “are you going to hurt me because you’re too big?”
All of that assumes she has some interest in you. If it’s just a random person asking another random person then “that’s none of your damn business” would apply.
Everyone here’s saying “one way to find out WINK WINK” but that assumes she’s someone you want to have sex with. In my life the only women I’ve met who were this crass and forward were also beasts I wanted nothing to do with.
I’ve never had any complaints either. But I have heard some micropenis sob stories and some baby-arm horror stories. Everyone here seems to take the question as “you’re not small are you?” it might also be “you’re not packing a cervix-busting pain stick are you?”
While I find it completely inappropriate to ask a guy “so do you have a micropenis or a baby arm?” I can also understand how unsatisfying it would be to fall for someone and THEN find out that your sex life was going to be nothing but pain, or just nothing period.
Different women have different tolerances. A micropenis is probably best for some ladies. Others need the bush monster. So sometimes the question has more to do with them than anything else.
I think you make a wise point for most people. I’ll bet it’s a pretty cool community, though. You can maybe avoid the worst things about tech through smart moderation but you can’t step back in time to the pre-smartphone era that way. If crowds of young people are rediscovering drugs, card games, and sitting around fucking each other I’d call that good news for the world.
I hear this argument a lot and I’m not disagreeing per se. But we should be clear. It can be dangerous for 1 out of 10 cars to be driving 55 instead of 75. But it would be safer by far if all 10 cars drove 55.
Dude can we get so much as a copyright violation from Warner Bros on this shit?
If people liked what they saw, this steals thunder from the actual release. All it will do it set expectations higher, and some people will inevitably say “a leak showed the game was working 8 months ago - why is it taking so long to release?”
If people don’t like what they see it is an unfair judgment of the work and that’s disheartening
These people live under confidentiality agreements and don’t tell their friends or sometime even family anything about their work. Seeing some jackass leak everything invalidates all that effort and sacrifice. I would not be surprised if the company cracks down on everybody, making their lives even harder, because they don’t know where the leak came from therefore everyone is suspect
Actually yeah it just clicked for me what “TDS” is. I guess I didn’t have to go further than this very comment. Trump Derangement Syndrome is more than a mild caricature - it’s a codified partisan dismissal of all Trump criticism. Anyone who uses the term unironically is a Trumper.
I withdraw my objection.
That person is complaining about political axe-grinding seeping into every corner of every community. Yes they used a mild caricature of anti-Trumpism but this isn’t what I’d call a “rightist.” Although I am on the left, politically, I frequently argue with people here who are even further to the left. I don’t think chanting about seizing the means of production is… productive, and I say so. This probably makes me a “rightist account” in some people’s eyes. I’m also a bootlicker because I don’t advocate for lining up all CEOs in front of a firing squad.
Dude take a break from the Marxist revolution to recognize there is more than one dynamic in the world.
I wish I could say Trump but the man evidently has an unlimited lifetime pass to fuck around without finding out.
How old is this article? Is it a reprint from years ago? Because he talks about suddenly pivoting his data by “conversion rate” and having an AHA moment about how we measure success.
Except… conversion rate is a bone-standard, absolutely ubiquitous way to measure traffic quality in ecommerce. No one places ads without knowing how many of them lead to conversions. Defining your conversion event is often part of setting up an ad in the first place.
He then goes on to describe his hand-rolled script that analyses mouse movements to differentiate humans from bots.
Except… that’s exactly what the “I am human” checkbox from CloudFlare and Google have been doing for years.
CloudFlare have said that about 30% of Internet traffic is bots. This is well known. It could easily be 70% for some sites.
I would say that there’s nothing to see here, but it’s probably a little worse than that: just adding some really shaky analysis and anecdotal data to an already widely-covered topic. Are we actually going to trust an internet marketer’s hand-rolled mouse movements analysis over CloudFlare?
I’m not.
So true. My dog has his own couch.