When you say hosting do you mean yourself or a company?

If a company, I do this with Dreamhost. Email hosting comes with web hosting. I might as well.

It’s been a while since I last looked but I haven’t read anything about whether they read my mail or not. They definitely could though.

Also their email spam filters are not very good.

This guy couldn’t even secure a car never mind an entire fucking country.

That’s the point though. Weaken the US. Privatize everything. Give our tax dollars to the billionaires.

Many Germans did not want to be reminded of individuals who did not measure up to their concept of a “master race” and were considered “unfit” or “handicapped.” People with physical and mental disabilities were viewed as “useless” to society, a threat to Aryan genetic purity, and, ultimately, “unworthy of life.” At the beginning of World War II, individuals with mental or physical disabilities were targeted for murder in what the Nazis called the “T-4,” or “euthanasia,” program.

Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Murder of People with Disabilities

Checkout the Megathread!

It brought me to https://sportshd.app/soccer which seems to work.

Can I take a a guess? If not, please ignore the next sentence.

Finance companies with a “database” is a gigantic flat file?

This is exactly right.

I was guilty of copy and pasting from Stack Exchange to meet deadlines.

The only thing I would add is complaining that colleges don’t really teach coding for the real world and all boot camps are a waste of time and money unless that’s the most effective way you can learn.

The Palma was one of my top choices but I was thinking it might be a little small for me. It is one of the better looking devices.

I didn’t even think getting a used Kindle. New Kindle prices seem a little high for getting a locked system, so a used one is probably the most cost effective method.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Oh… I didn’t know that. Thanks for letting me know.

Hi. Thank you for the info.

I am looking for a new e-reader. Is there any reason why I should buy a Kindle and jailbreak it rather than get a PineNote, SuperNote, Nook device, Boox device, or a Kobo Libra?

Or would you recommend something else?

It is. That’s actually really cool.

But if they do start including ads, why would advertisers use a less effective and accurate platform than Google Maps?

Either they change or their ad placements are cheaper.

If they aren’t maximizing profits then why put ads at all? It’s not like they are losing profits.

Looks like we are both skeptical about those technologies. “All you have to do is turn off locations… on a maps app… that’s privacy!”

Apple claimed Apple Maps was created because Apple wanted to protect its users from Google Maps’ data hoarding. We assume Apple is already hoarding data but now to be able to compete with other advertisement platforms Apple, would have to share that data with advertisers.

One step forward, two steps back.

Being exclusive works really well. Like getting VIP access makes people feel important.

It’s what made Facebook cool. When only selected schools were allowed to join, students, faculty, and staff felt important.

I know they needed to grow, but keeping it just for college students would’ve kept its cool factor for a lot longer.

Typography geek here.

If you enjoy watching about type in NYC, I recommend the documentary Helvetica (2007). Even though it has its biases (I mean which documentary doesn’t), I enjoyed it.

This is great! Thank you.

I tried searching for this but only found recent news. Anywhere I can read about this? Wikipedia, article, or book?

I love tech history.

Well in the Social Network movie and chapter 2 of the Accidental Billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg used wget in shell scripts to get copyrighted images for private servers.

Can we give punish him?

OP looks like a blogger on Substack.

I got this by going to his page.

Ethical Hacking Resources

Lunar New Year started on January 29.

So websites are all made with these frameworks for three reasons. The first one is, it’s suppose to save an server cost. If a server can send parts of code and data at a time, it should be faster. Unfortunately bad web architects do not benchmarks these things. More server calls means more headers for the same amount of data. Web developers, for several reasons sometimes out of their control, do not handle errors properly like in the Chinese e-commerce site you mentioned. So yes, you are correct, it does suck and some pages would be better off as a flat page.

The second reason is culture. AJAX first started in the 90s when users were still on 56k modems. We needed pages to load faster or else the user thought it was dead or just too annoying to stay. So this became the culture. We are no longer mimicking paper, we are creating web apps, or programs. This stays with the culture now. I’ve seen single page websites do it where I actually think it’s detrimental.

The third reason user experience. This is in two parts which can be consider the same. The first is it’s not a familiar site, users want the app experience on a website or else they leave. The second which is the nearly same is if the page does not refresh, you keep the attention of the user for a lot longer. It’s like reading a really good book but there are no page turns or chapters. In social media, this is support important. eCommerce, adding items without a refresh is really important or else they might change their mind.

As for profits for users of a website, the algorithm should be something like this:

if( profitsFromOldDevices > (developmentTime+resources) ) 
    startDevelopment();

Most of the time, this is false. Designers and developers and project managers take up a lot of money. People on really old devices are less likely to buy things. eCommerce sites know this, and advertisers know this.

When I say older devices, I meant over 2 decades old. The latest Firefox can still be installed in Android 5, which came out over a decade ago.

As for e-waste, I am not an expert on that but seeing how much electricity a Pentium 3 desktop can take, a $200 dollar smart phone can save the person money very quickly.

As for Apple, they are greenwashers but they probably have the best recycling program out of all the top hardware manufacturers. I’m sure companies like the Fairphone are leagues better though.

As for YouTube, I’m going to guess it’s going run decently if you have a fairly recent browser. If you have Javascript turned off, Google can’t get much info off the user. So this is their way of forcing updating.

You don’t need to apologize about ranting. Have you seen how long my post? This is your post. Do as you wish. Have fun.