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We’ll never know because I deleted them all.
We’ll never know because I deleted them all.
So I take it that you interpret “no stupid questions” to mean “don’t post stupid questions.” The way I interpret it is “there’s no such thing as a stupid question.”
The sidebar says “No such thing. Ask away!” So I think the idea is that people should feel free to ask any question assuming they really want an answer. However, joke or troll questions (and I don’t think this is either one), are allowed on Fridays.
No, no, no-no, no-no-no-no, no-no-no!
I’m going to need to see your passport to prove you’re not American. Otherwise fines may be assessed.
I can’t decide between Shoe Penis and Toilet Dad.
Yet another thing I remember from the 90s Internet was Church of the Subgenius. It was one of the first viral memes and when you read about it, you might just discover a thing or two about a thing or two.
Another thing I remember from the early 90s was internets with a little ‘i’. I could call a number with my modem and connect to a private system that wasn’t interconnected with the big Internet. These were typically bulletin board systems (BBS). An extension of the BBS concept was the online service, like CompuServe and AOL. Eventually these online services started functioning as internet gateways and that is when the real fun started. Prior to that the Internet was only available to government and academic users.
As a Windows user in the 90s, I remember downloading Slackware. It took a long time for me to understand what it was and how to install it. The idea of a different OS that I could install on my PC was bizarre and not at all intuitive at the time to a computer novice.
I remember the first time I connected to the Internet and browsed Usenet back in the early 90s. I’m a soccer fan and it amazed me that I could read about soccer match results and news and opinions from all around the world.
Back then it was pretty uncommon for people to be assholes to each other online. We were all just amazed at how much information we could share and consume.
It’s important to understand that prior to the Internet the only comparable experience that even came close was going to a library and browsing the magazine rack. And that was neither interactive, nor timely in the way we have grown to expect in the Internet age.
Yet that’s several times the rate in comparably sized areas in Europe.
I would be interested in learning what people find objectionable about my comments, if anyone would care to share.
Yes the developer sees it, and also the data brokers they sell all their user data to see it, aggregate it, and corollate it. Not to mention whatever Microsoft does with it.
Breaking News: Mexico unveils space laser technology
Holy shit. I had no idea it was that bad in Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and New Mexico.
My main point is that “observability” tools like Clarity are screen grabbing whole Web sessions and have been for some time.
This has already been happening on the Web for quite some time. For example Microsoft Clarity records everything you do on those dodgy Web sites you visit. And they assign a universal identifier to you that can be correlated with the IDs Google and your device have already created and broadcast to profile you.
And you think “oh but I use x, y, and z to prevent tracking”. Guess what: They make your browser do nonsense tasks in the background to benchmark your hardware and then assign a UUID to you based on that.
The only thing that can help this situation is privacy legislation with real teeth.
I don’t think not knowing what to do is the problem. It’s more that the people who control the budgets don’t think it’s a priority.