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Traffic / Re: Google Says AI Generated Content Is Against Guidelines
« on: April 13, 2022, 08:37:45 AM »
I'm pretty sure there's a previous statement from Mueller where he says it's okay as long as an editor checks it for accuracy and grammar, that kind of thing.

What I would like to see about this statement is if represents a change from his previous outlook on the matter or if it's just a narrowly focused statement wrt to unedited AI content.

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Traffic / Re: Mobile Will Account for a Third of All US Media Time
« on: April 13, 2022, 08:33:32 AM »
Quote from: ergophobe on April 12, 2022, 03:00:47 AM
That whole article and they never define what they mean by media.

That media is so sloppy.
 :P

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Water Cooler / Re: US: Colleges see staggering drop in enrollment
« on: June 29, 2021, 07:07:45 AM »
As a parent of a teenager I can say with a certain degree of confidence that young people want to be and are planning on being at a college campus this fall and next fall. The five colleges in my area are opening this fall and the employees are returning to a mix of work at home and on-site.

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Water Cooler / Re: Hotel CEO: Big Tips Could Ease Labor Shortage, Asks Guests to Opt in
« on: June 29, 2021, 07:04:38 AM »
That is disgusting.

CEOs etc. are doing whatever they can to hold on to obscene earning levels and keeping workers from earning a fair wage. Certain people advocate for taking America back to the way it used to be and while there were many things we should never return to, one thing we should is a fair living wage where a person could purchase a home and a car and live a comfortable life.

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Water Cooler / Re: I was down in logging country today.
« on: June 29, 2021, 06:59:13 AM »
The supply has cut the wholesale cost by 50% although still higher than normal prices. Read that the lower prices won't be reflected at retail until the fall as the stores need to clear the expensive product they already purchased.

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Economics & Investing / Re: Pipeline Investigation Upends Idea That Bitcoin Is Untraceable
« on: June 15, 2021, 03:46:41 AM »
Maybe had something to do with that Anom privacy phone that was backdoored?

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Water Cooler / Re: I'm pretty tired of hearing about
« on: December 31, 2020, 10:16:00 AM »
User Intent because it's going to be a big deal in 2021... As if it hasn't been a big deal for years now...

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Traffic / Re: FCC announces “biggest and boldest step yet” to expand rural broadband
« on: October 31, 2020, 07:33:01 AM »
This part:
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"Due to provisions against “overbuilding,” providers that would offer a competing service are ineligible for subsidies, leaving those rural communities, who are supposedly covered, in the dark."

Was written as if this part wasn't a part of the article:

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"Rural electric co-operatives, small wireless providers, and satellite companies like SpaceX are also expected to participate."

Small towns like the one I live in have been doing for themselves. We have fiberoptic internet.


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Web Development / Re: Fast Wordpress theme
« on: July 14, 2020, 08:25:35 AM »
Miniva is cool. I like that it's fontless in that it uses system fonts. I'm going to be converting more sites to fontless, one less thing to download.

Did you see the Web.dev one-line layouts?
I wrote about it here
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/1-line-layouts/373949/

There are no media queries. These are bare bones layouts. They still need to be converted to a WordPress template.

The official webpage is  here:

Web
https://1linelayouts.glitch.me

Video Walkthrough
https://youtu.be/qm0IfG1GyZU

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Web Development / Re: Fast Wordpress theme
« on: July 02, 2020, 01:08:06 PM »
Oxygen builder doesn't validate but it only triggers a very low amount of errors for both HTML and CSS.

Not bad!

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Water Cooler / Re: Online platforms and digital advertising market study
« on: July 02, 2020, 11:48:06 AM »
>>>>> order Google to open up its click and query data to rival search engines

What happens when you get a bunch of out of touch politicians who know nothing about the Internet writing the laws.

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Traffic / Re: Trump seeking limit liability protections for social media platforms
« on: June 10, 2020, 07:06:04 AM »
This is about more than Twitter.

This is about more than being "fair" to different viewpoints.

This is about the immunity from lawsuits for EVERY blog, forum, and news site that publishes user generated content.

Yes, there are doubts if the FCC can change the immunity. But I think it's important to understand that this has the potential to affect a great many sites and that this isn't just about Twitter. It's way, way bigger than that.

I wrote an article about it because the mainstream media is mistakenly framing this as about Twitter, which it is not.

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/executive-order-weaken-cda-230/370809/

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Water Cooler / Re: CBS Caught faking COVID19 patients for news footage.
« on: May 12, 2020, 05:25:57 AM »
That did not happen the way you are representing it GM66.

What happened is that an employee at the clinic decided on their own to pad it. The news reporters had nothing to do with it.

The point about Project Veritas being a disinformation group is entirely relevant to this discussion. Anything produced by Project Veritas must be interrogated and not accepted blindly because they have a long history of distorting facts to fit their political narrative.


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Monetization / Re: Amazon to affiliates: we don't need you anymore
« on: April 15, 2020, 07:51:17 PM »
This only affects Covid-19 related shopping categories. It's not an across the board cut in affiliate rates.

The motivation is it makes little financial sense to pay for traffic that is already hitting Amazon at unprecedented levels. They're said to be hiring 100,000 warehouse workers to meet these insane levels of demand.

Of course, from our point of view it would have fostered good will to share the bounty and let everyone's boat rise. The move is definitely creating negative feelings toward Amazon.

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Monetization / Re: Amazon to affiliates: we don't need you anymore
« on: April 15, 2020, 12:51:20 AM »
Those are shocking changes!


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