This looks great, thanks. But I think gists are better for unimportant stuff - for this I think it deserves its own repo.
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I wish all my news was presented like this.
So, I think comments like yours are the ones undermining those good initiatives, which have a hard time being heard in a sea of scams.
But then I saw that users can get it free by posting "about screenpipe 10 times on social media".
If you want ads, pay for proper ads! Don’t pay people to turn user content into sneaky ads.
I understand why people hate regular ads, but IMO affiliate promotion (when done without disclosure) and stuff like what you are doing is much worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fairtrade_Certif...
As with any such program, if it is implementing effectively then some companies will chafe at the requirements and try to develop their own fair trade program more to their liking.
But they too fall victim to the need to exaggerate every story to get better headlines.
In this case, they came up with ridiculously stringent standards allowing them to suggest danger where there isn't.
On the other hand, it is good that the outliers get scolded and hopefully they improve their processes as a result.
Clearly there was no pressure to use the Google product so they used a wide diversity of devices and services, and I saw this as a healthy thing.
It is usually whatever company isn't friendly enough to the current government.
In Canada, it is any company that dares to compete with the telecom companies.
Companies that don’t take security seriously and lose peoples data should be punished accordingly.
Companies that sell customers data should be identified.
But if we treat them all the same, then we let the bad companies off the hook, and punish the responsible companies unfairly.
The real problem is oligopoly, not fascism or anything like that.
The government puts most of its effort into protecting friendly companies and industries from competition and even funneling taxpayer money to them.
In the case of Bell & Rogers this is billions of $ a year.
Given the competitive pressures I was expecting a much bigger price drop than that.
For non-multimodal uses, I don't think their API is at all competitive any more.
If you were watching a movie on Prime and Amazon inserted an ad before the movie that would be annoying but normal.
But what if your TV manufacturer injected an ad over the movie?
That would not be the moral equivalent of the first example, and if you just blamed Amazon then all the TV manufacturers would jump on the bandwagon.
You can hate Google nagging you all you want, but they are doing it on their own properties. There is a cost/benefit calculation for them.
But if you inject ads into someone else's space and no one seems to care (or just blames Google) then the cost/benefit calculation changes completely and this could get quite ugly.
So, I would be happy to run it every night (excepting July & August), but the BOINC Manager just didn't seem to work for me: created an account but then the account was not recognized.