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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

The #Biden Administration is circumventing the free press, using paid #TikTok influencers to amplify Biden's agenda, all while working to ban the clock app.

The DNC and Biden-affiliated PACs set aside millions, hoping to gain access to the largest TikTok influencers in the country.

The only problem, which doesn't seem to be a problem at all, is that TikTok doesn't allow paid political ads on its platform.

This is the biggest story in #tech that no one is talking about. So let's talk about it.

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zleap@qoto.org ("Paul Sutton") wrote:

@fromjason

These platforms are not very good at enforcing their own terms and conditions, but the regulator should be doing their job too.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Hey babes. It's been a while. I've been over on the clock app, making vids and feeling out the vibe now that the clock app's days are numbered.

I have stories. I have tea. I have... heartburn and a growing dopamine addiction.

Once I edit down my ramblings, I'll post to my blog. In the meantime, I'll do a few threads here?

Good to be home.

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

There appears to be a lot of paid political ads on #TikTok which is weird because such content is against the app's terms of service.

I think this is the biggest story no ones talking about, so I gathered up all the relevant reporting on the topic and published to my wiki.

https://wiki.fromjason.xyz/Collections/Biden's+New+Media

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Having made the mistake of trying to see what people are saying in regards to the Chrome/Hangouts extension kerfuffle, I regret to inform you that HN is still online.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

"This is a song about how much I fucking hate advertisments! I fucking hate the way they look at me! I hate how they surround me! I hate that I've become one myself!"

https://rentstrike.bandcamp.com/track/oh-ads-2

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Update.

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Going live at 8pm Central time.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/07/10/godless-conversation-tonight/

https://www.youtube.com/live/7lVz3-e1HrY

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polotek@social.polotek.net ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

In many ways, the most "boring" technology is the one your team already knows well. Always bet on existing experience and expertise before asking your team to learn something new.

However, I think it's a huge problem that we currently live in a world where there is no equivalent to "boring technology" for frontend. As an industry, we've lost the collective knowledge of what the boring alternative looks like.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Today in "this should have been a website using Web Bluetooth, but couldn't be because Apple":

https://futurism.com/the-byte/nike-killing-app-self-lacing-sneakers

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sangster@macaw.social ("Ben") wrote:

@lewis @slightlyoff see, my first instinct is “we can fix that”, but you’re right. The architecture that got you to that place is the problem, not whatever happened using that architecture.

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sangster@macaw.social ("Ben") wrote:

@slightlyoff for what it’s worth: Etsy’s buyer side is a MPA and our seller side is a SPA for similar reasons.

Our SPA was fine-ish for a long time, but scaling a single JS bundle for hundreds of engineers with high quality code splitting took me a huge amount of complex architecture and if I was building it all from scratch now (instead of inheriting an already struggling product when I joined) it would have been a MPA all the way.

The benefits of the SPA just aren’t there.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The corollary is that you should not let SPA tech (client-side JS frameworks) *anywhere near* your stack until this analysis comes up green. And you should treat with intense suspicion anybody who bandies about phrases like "app-like" but is unfamiliar with how to write a Service Worker script from scratch.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

He's traveling safe.

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@drvolts By way of contrast, this represents *real* purchasing of carbon removal as offset:

https://www.ft.com/content/9e19353c-22ec-4790-b7b7-b5121c5a6258

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Counterintuitively, walking away from cheap offset purchases is good policy:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-08/google-is-no-longer-claiming-to-be-carbon-neutral

For background, see the @drvolts interview with Joe Romm:

https://www.volts.wtf/p/voluntary-carbon-offsets-are-headed

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Folks, your [ microsite | blog | "AI experience" | e-commerce site | public service ] SHOULD NOT BE AN SPA *until and unless* you can prove that users have *very* deep sessions on average (think 50+ interactions with *the same* dataset). And even when you can, it's still a metrics-based question as to whether or not it makes sense. Mostly, it doesn't. So start here:

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/using-progressive-enhancement

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jsrailton ("John Scott-Railton ☕") wrote:

5/. Ultimately, antivirus products have privacy and security downsides that are obscured by effective marketing, name recognition & user miseducation.

The problem is that regular users are often badly decoupled from quality evidence-backed security advice.

Sadly, Big VPN is now copying the antivirus marketing strategy.

Allow me to suggest some usable, personalized and evidence-backed advice for how to stay safe online, I strongly recommend Security Planner

https://securityplanner.consumerreports.org/

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cliffle@hachyderm.io wrote:

Unexpectedly nice use case for the Roost laptop stand: elevating my computer off the bench so I can see it over the patient.

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spiegelmama@infosec.exchange wrote:

My little goblin. #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfInfoSec #Nibbler #clingasaur #SideQuest #ZoomIn

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Now at the "submitting PRs to an OSS library to patch an issue with a tool that I'm looking to use to build a web component to embed in this post" part of yak sha...er...blogging.

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Anti-tourist protests involving squirt guns in Barcelona. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/08/travel/barcelona-tourism-protests-scli-intl/index.html #tourism #barcelona

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

some of the catnip has begun flowering

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paninid@mastodon.world ("Sampath Pāṇini ®") wrote:

“I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a #Democrat.”

- Will Rogers
https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/112758767844197203

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eamon@social.coop ("Eamon") wrote:

I'm working my way through Ed Mastery, one of the stretch goal rewards I got for backing @mwl's Run Your Own Mail Server. I realize that the book is kind of a joke, but it's also kind of awesome. I look forward to learning how to run a mail server from this guy.

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freakonometrics ("Arthur Charpentier ⏚") wrote:

I have to try that one 🤔

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robin ("Robin Berjon") wrote:

Information wants to be free
from corporate capture.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Sham Harga had run a successful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.”

- T Pratchett

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

wish i was still blogging

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handmade_ghost@sunny.garden ("handmade ghost") wrote:

The baby bald eagle I've been watching has finally fledged! Here's a close crop of em gazing over the world from atop an old snag on the mountain.

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• Closely cropped photo (taken from far off with a long "superzoom") of a recently fledged/juvenile bald eagle shown in left-facing profile against a cloudless, blue, early morning sky. The eagle is entirely dark brown, though eir face, turned to look back in three-quarters profile over eir left shoulder, looks fuzzy and black due to a broad stripe of shadow that falls across eir cheek and throat from the branch (above em and off camera) of the tall snag on which e sits. (remote)