I’m a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.

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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • And holy shit does their algorithm latch onto any minor interest in their content.

    Accidentally tapped on a floor tiling video the other day, three days of tiling and handyman videos jammed into my feed and me pressing the “not interested” button on every single one.

    Facebook, I am there for the rare post from my 150 or so friends and family. That’s it. Nothing else.

    The reason we don’t use it anymore is because actual posts from real humans we know are buried under a torrent of shit. Sometimes their posts take days to surface leading to all sorts of chain-mail posts on how to “get your feed back”. None of which work because the whole business model is about jamming sponsored shit down your throat.



  • Starlink sats have enough transmit power and receive gain to use normal cellular frequencies with a normal antenna on the phone side.

    You might think it’s a long way to space, but a few hundred kilometres of direct line of sight to your cellphone antenna isn’t that much more to overcome compared to say, 25 km to a cell tower on the ground.

    The biggest hurdle was getting a few thousand satellites into orbit so that coverage and availability is there.









  • , couldn’t the brokers just filter the period when i started clickning everything?

    They don’t care about the quality of an individual profile, it’s the quality of the aggregate data that’s important to them. If anything, your profile might be identified as an outlier compared to the average and simply discarded. They’re not going to look any further than that and try and “rescue” your data, they’ve got a million other profiles to sell to advertisers.