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I doubt anyone cares, but Frédéric Motte is the original Moby (electronic music composer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Motte

Richard Melville Hall, the DJ mentioned in the article, hijacked Frédéric's name and reputation.

Maybe it was a win-win for both of them?

"We want to see HTTPS become the default."

Sounds fine for shopping, online banking, user authorizations. But for every website? If I'm a blogger/publisher or have a brochure type of website, I don't see point of the extra overhead.

Update: Thanks to those who answered my question. You pointed out some things I hadn't considered. Blocking the injection of invisible trackers and javascripts and ads, if that's what this is about for websites without user logins, then it would help to explicitly spell that out in marketing communications to promote adoption of this technology. The free speech angle argument is not as compelling to me though, but that's just my opinion.

"So" is quicker than "Therefore" or "In conclusion" or "Because of that" and so on. In conversation, people want you to get to the point quickly. One syllable "so" gets the job done. Yes, it's overused. Grammatically, there's nothing wrong with it.

I'll keep i3wm in mind, the screenshots look similar to what I'm using now, pytyle2.

I really did consider that. If this was StackExchange, I would have been more specific, but I didn't want to rule out a great tangent conversation about Linux servers.

That's funny about the screensaver. I had the same problem. My solution was to reinstall XScreenSaver and set the timeout to a long period of time. Of course, there's various energy-saving apps that might dim the screen and there's various places where things autostart from a reboot.

Everything is too big. Must zoom out. I bought this big screen to see more stuff, not because I'm blind. Also the animation should be optional--sluggish and annoying. It feels slow, like too much Javascript, bad coding. The "collections" looks like a copy of Pinterest. People tab is not working at all for me--it's just broken.

Yes, as far as numbers go, there's not much ambiguity, unless it's ambiguous math on purpose, like a postulate. Which reminds me, years ago I read an entire book about zero and the evolution of numbers. I think it was http://www.amazon.com/The-Nothig-that-Is-Natural/dp/01951423... the part about clay tablets made an impression. If we had eight fingers, would we do octal calculations? Hehe. Anyway, thanks for the reply. For the record, I wasn't meaning to imply science is super ambiguous.

I haven't checked in a while, but sometimes a free service like Sendgrid can help. Send 12,000 emails per month free and the stats are pretty cool. PS: I have no affiliation with them :-) I just looked and they have source code posted on the homepage, "You can send email over SMTP or HTTP..."

We're taught to think we understand. But do we? Language offers a black-and-white feeling we're clearly understanding something perfectly. That's an illusion, reinforced by years of approval at school. Language, which science depends on, is a visual art--symbols on paper. As with any visual art, the structured symbols together really convey very little, even if we agree it means something important. Pages, books, libraries, institutions, frames around frames around frames of ambiguity, approximation and interpretation.

I assume this means we'll see more beautiful automobiles in a few years.

That's what wood glue is for, it's strong as wood if your joint is tight. Personally, I love the look of box joints. Buy a chisel and try one, it's mesmerizing.

My Facebook friends probably won't get it. But maybe you will?

In real life I'm not a drone evangelist/advocate. But the whole idea of registering a potentially autonomous robot that could look like a bird or insect--that opens the door to some interesting questions.

Are we only concerned about collisions? Will we need specialized drones that exist to find rogue drones?

I'm oldschool, thinking Fidonet + bbPress = huge message network. Each node would need a list of usernames to prevent overlap.

I see your point. Above the fold I get two banner ads and a pile of poop in Opera.

Men are easier to sketch because shadows, sharp angles and the "irregularities" of your pencil line tend to look masculine. For example, shadows tend to look like facial hair. The slightest flaw on a woman's face is generally more dramatic and unflattering--you want a thinner, softer, smoother line without shadows. Sketches by definition are quick and dirty--which doesn't work out as well for people with delicate features.

Try Opera with user agent desktop?

Along the lines of what I was thinking, a new class. I wonder about Google shrinking too. It has been suggested that autocomplete was a way for Google to hide that the number of searches was flat (not growing) and they changed the definition of a unique search with autocomplete. Of course, people are doing voice searches and YouTube searches now. The game changed.

In general, if publishers are automatically sharing to Facebook without some kind of delay, people will just stay on Facebook. Also consider the private groups on Facebook, they could be sharing paid subscriptions and who would know?

The idea isn't just about Facebook, but publishing anything to get more subscribers. If your posts are time-sensitive and people can get your info through social media (without delay) then you're probably losing traffic, because people are busy, lazy, whatever--they're often already on Facebook and need a reason to go somewhere else.

Paid subscriptions aren't as common, and I almost deleted that part of my comment, but people do pay for time-sensitive info. As far as the "paid tier" I was thinking out loud, in terms of building a general purpose SAS app for publishers. I haven't nailed down exactly how it would work, to delay posts to social media. Obviously it would need compelling case studies where people increased traffic and subscribers, and revenue. I can think of a couple of markets to start with, but not getting more specific than that.

Another aspect of this is the notifications. I think email notifications are good to start with because they show up on your phone, and if those notifications are customizable and targeted, that's convenient. But I think there's more you could do with notifications, so that people aren't annoyed that they have to go to your website to find the (timely) information they want. If you can do better notifications than social media (more specific, less annoying) then I think people will more likely go to your website vs. consume your content through social media which sends less-useful notifications.

What's your point? And I've been using the wink smiley for 30 years. You're the first to say something about it.

I could write several books on that subject (yawn) but my larger point is that this technology affects billions of people now. Maybe it wasn't obvious at the time, but Slashdot was a big deal and so is Hacker News. These people have a lot of influence. It's a small world, after all ;-)

I wouldn't assume 30+ folks don't care. We have been online since the 90s (at least) and we've seen some bad shit in our lifetime. An interesting survey would be: Are you "creeped out" by Facebook? Try that survey on Facebook (if it doesn't get blocked) and see how that goes ;-)

Another reason it failed, they used Ruby--which at the time was a pain in the ass to install. (Would not install on 99.9% of shared hosts and VPS was still a new thing.)

I've said it before, I'm pretty sure it would work if it was built on top of WordPress. I'm sure this idea is in the back of Matt Mullenweg's mind somewhere. Gravatar has profiles now, but where is that going...?

Well, I shouldn't say it failed. I don't know. A few years ago I was out somewhere, can't remember the conversation, but this guy was telling me the Diaspora community is still growing and people are actually using it.

I was saving up this idea, but here's how you could disrupt Facebook. This is already happening, but it could be automated.

In short, automatically DELAY posting to Facebook. Let everybody know at the bottom of all content: This was published first at example.com and released to social media (Facebook) after X hours.

Make Facebook look antiquated like a newspaper. Let everyone know, Facebook is the old news. If you want our latest news, you have to sign up for the email list--you must to go to example.com for the LATEST news.

One way I'm thinking this could work with a WordPress plugin, when the publisher schedules a post, the post would be "locked" from view with a countdown timer. "This content unlocks in 6 hours. To unlock this content now, and to get our content before everyone else, sign up for our email list."

Maybe for really time-sensitive info you could have three tiers. A paid tier (instant release) and a free tier (unlocked 1 hour later) and a social media tier (unlocked 6 hours later.)

Essentially, you're taking advantage of the value of time, automatically. For example, if shampoo is on sale and you're 1 hour late, maybe the shelf is cleared out.

But you don't necessarily need a paid tier, because the publisher is a) getting more traffic to example.com, pulling traffic off Facebook and b) getting more email subscribers.

Publishers do implement this on their own, but I think it would work well as a WordPress plugin or as some kind of paid service if it was slick enough.

"A popular subject for a tiny, passionate minority that has little relevance relative to the huge number of everyday users out there."

Linux did take over Windows. You realize Android is Linux, right? That's 80% of the mobile market right here https://twitter.com/BIIntelligence/status/605748823709859840... And now Microsoft is building Android apps. So that tiny, passionate minority was right ;-)

It seems the author has little appreciation for art. Fine. Either you appreciate art or you don't. Go to Walmart and get yourself a $5 Dali poster. Or just admire your blank walls and call it zen minimalism. Personally, I love non-objective abstraction and think it's undervalued due to lack of education. Today it's STEM, tomorrow it's STEAM.

I should be able to easily contact the web host and say, "Heads up, your server is doing some bad stuff." This works because hosts don't want to be in business with scum. They take care of it. Because it's the right thing to do, or because they would rather not be involved in a lawsuit, on the wrong side of a PR nightmare. Pretty basic, Internet 101. If I email abuse@cloudflare.com nobody gives a shit. It's irresponsible. A lawsuit should be a last resort.

I'm not advocating a more or less anonymous Internet by criticizing CloudFlare.

PS: I enjoyed your comment and upvoted it.

I read it as: Android is the world leader and free, whereas Windows & Apple are expensive, US-centric platforms.

I liked the CloudFlare concept (protecting good people) until I found it protects bad people as well: scammers, thieves, cybersquatters, phishing. CloudFlare makes it very difficult to contact the web host cloaked by CloudFlare.

CloudFlare is helping the scum of the Internet. They need to be held accountable for what they're serving, if they're not going to reveal who is hosting the site. If there's a way to find the originating IP of these scumbags, I would like to know. Obviously traceroute doesn't work because the IPs show up as CloudFlare.

The way I see it, CloudFlare should be required to publish who is hosting the websites they cloak. Otherwise you're encouraging a lawless Internet where anything goes without any consequences. I sincerely hope these larger companies address this problem.

I hope some journalists dig into this because I think there's a good story here. Maybe CloudFlare doesn't have the staff to review the activities of the sites they're protecting? That's a serious problem, in my opinion, because their cloaking technology is very effective.

I didn't realize there was a fight. As far as I remember, YouTube allows uploading any aspect ratio you can dream of and they automatically add the black bars for you. Maybe you're comparing to Vimeo? YouTube's video player is annoying, but I don't see them as biased against portrait videos.