Posts by da@mastodon.technology
(DIR) Post #2152509 by da@mastodon.technology
2018-12-21T04:03:22Z
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@maryjane @sir reCAPTCHA has a 99,3 % marketshare. There really isn’t any good alternatives available with comparable accessibility and detection ratio. I really wish there were a ton of real alternatives, however.
(DIR) Post #2152684 by da@mastodon.technology
2018-12-21T04:10:12Z
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@sir I tried using Coinhive’s click-to-cryptomine-for-30-seconds for a few days but their domain is blocked by some DNS providers and ad blockers (all hail the EasyList maintainers: the ultimate gatekeepers of the web) so that made it problematic.https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/coinhive-captchaTested other proof-to-work like CAPTCHA system but all I’ve found have had miserable browser compatibility and have failed to detect mobile device limitation and adjust expected work-amount accordingly.
(DIR) Post #2154084 by da@mastodon.technology
2018-12-21T04:56:58Z
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@maryjane @sir I didn’t say reCAPTCHA is good; just that it has a complete market dominance while also solving a real problem people have in a market with virtually no competitors. Same situation with AdSense, and that is more problematic seeing how Google uses the platform to push Chrome and other Google products at prices no competitor to those other products can compete with.
(DIR) Post #2154194 by da@mastodon.technology
2018-12-21T05:02:04Z
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@sir @maryjane maybe those people like food more than you do.
(DIR) Post #2154355 by da@mastodon.technology
2018-12-21T05:09:13Z
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@sir @maryjane AdSense can be configured to not record data or serve personalized ads. It’s even the default setting in the EEA these days and can be configured that way for everyone else too. So exchanging less than 40 kB per pageload of the user’s bandwidth for food seems like a fair trade to me.
(DIR) Post #2154430 by da@mastodon.technology
2018-12-21T05:15:23Z
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@sir who hurt you?
(DIR) Post #9jIWC1ZlI6qPR6wRCy by da@mastodon.technology
2019-05-29T07:44:35Z
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Shouldn't everyone have learned the lesson that you don't use geographically tied top-level domains by now? Wasn't Britain's wos with .eu warning enough for everyone?https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/27/io_domains_uk_un/
(DIR) Post #9nApxt5NotftKKUYcq by da@mastodon.technology
2019-09-20T19:47:05Z
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@manton At least Cloudflare's Matthew Prince kind-of-agrees that their huge marketshare is a problem.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/technology/8chan-cloudflare-el-paso.htmlMullenweg doesn't seem to recognize the problem at all.
(DIR) Post #9nApxtzkRKlG98rZTs by da@mastodon.technology
2019-09-20T19:52:46Z
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@jlelse @manton No single organization — including Google, WordPress, AWS, or anyone else — should have 30% marketshare for the phrase "the open web" to retain any meaning.
(DIR) Post #9nApxueryReeCg6PZo by da@mastodon.technology
2019-09-21T01:02:22Z
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@jlelse @manton We both rent .blog domains, owned and operated by Automattic subsidiary Knock Knock Whois There. It gets harder and harder to avoid giving them your money even when you try to avoid using their products and services. They've all gotten too engrained into too many aspects of the web. #break'em'up
(DIR) Post #9nBGOVfxZ0JFLgxIQ4 by da@mastodon.technology
2019-09-22T12:30:29Z
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@kev @jlelse @manton Google owns .google, .app, .dev, among others. Amazon, incredibly, owns .amazon and Microsoft has .office. Check out the full list.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains
(DIR) Post #9sFzly6mIHAG2Vo8Nk by da@mastodon.technology
2020-02-21T00:49:32Z
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@markosaric A VPN only changes who gets the data. Legislation is the answer to privacy vows like this. Or Tor.
(DIR) Post #9sGcZckrkvYEYBfB4q by da@mastodon.technology
2020-02-21T15:42:36Z
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Privacy isn’t a technological issue. It’s a cultural one. More technology wouldn’t save you from today’s privacy dystopia. Consumers don’t even understand the issues. As a privacy-advocate, you should push for privacy-legislation to force the industry to change rather than promoting technological “solutions” like VPNs, content-blockers, etc.
(DIR) Post #9sIm80dwjXnyO8ojr6 by da@mastodon.technology
2020-02-22T16:50:01Z
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@mister_monster “We’ll put you in jail if you don’t stop this anti-social behaviour.” That’s normally how it’s supposed to work.
(DIR) Post #9u9b6nZVIBPiUkSCXI by da@mastodon.technology
2020-04-18T00:36:56Z
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@farhan LAN should work. The game servers are long gone.
(DIR) Post #9x4GRyoi9hNro1AuK8 by da@mastodon.technology
2020-07-14T02:32:05Z
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Comparing file sizes of lossless WebP vs FLIF vs PNG. #WebPerfhttps://www.ctrl.blog/entry/webp-flif-comparison.html#src=mastodon
(DIR) Post #9zDK70dy4NbnZa4xEm by da@mastodon.technology
2020-08-30T21:13:28Z
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@jeremiahlee They can only give you the same email addresses you've given them. GDPR, you know. You don't have the right to get information out of the system that you didn't provide them in the first place.
(DIR) Post #A0wnl9eOBGpwt4SEPw by da@mastodon.technology
2020-11-07T07:12:57Z
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@JackMeinoff @legoktm Use it as a regular desktop computer? It probably consumes less power than your current PC, so you can lower your environmental impact. Or maybe use it with a wireless keyboard as a home theater PC? You can set it up as a Syncthing-thing? It won’t do much good for Folding@home, but you can contribute to things like being a DHT node for various P2P networks. Plugin in a USB drive and use it as a backup server? You could be looking at your new gateway router+VPN too. #possibilities
(DIR) Post #A3LahSkspZIOSv9c2a by da@mastodon.technology
2021-01-18T01:10:46Z
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@x Hi. The CC license link at the bottom of your blog links to the wrong page. It seems like it might have been the victim of a multilingual spellchecker.
(DIR) Post #ADvD63lnzvJB15kA3U by da@mastodon.technology
2021-11-30T06:04:41Z
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Addressing and domains are the biggest obstacles to a more decentralized web. Neither IPv6 addresses nor cryptographic hashes (the current primary address alternatives) are memorable. Both require a ten minute character by character reading over the phone. Other alternatives?