The OFFICIAL programming thread
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Hog So is my web project done yet cheap third world labor?
I negotiated with a guy briefly last year who kind of implied that because I was living where I do, I should charge third world rates. I told him that wasn’t going to fly. Dude would have charged me out at 3 times that rate and put the difference in his pocket.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Hog So is my web project done yet cheap third world labor?
I negotiated with a guy briefly last year who kind of implied that because I was living where I do, I should charge third world rates. I told him that wasn’t going to fly. Dude would have charged me out at 3 times that rate and put the difference in his pocket.
Damn that was my plan too. That actually happens here too quite a bit with Indians looking to get a green card. They work for other Indians in contract service companies and apparently there needs to be some chain of service companies involved to get around some immigration requirements. I can’t remember the details but one Indian consultant was telling me about it. Anyway the workers get paid shit and charge at slightly below market rates and pocket the difference and the workers put up with it to get their papers.
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Interesting. So if the EU doesn’t want us to have dossiers on all the commies over there, wonder if that will lead to split markets for platforms or whether the platforms will just locate and wall off their data transfers in the EU? The latter seems more likely but further regulation could impact their business model such that it’s not worth serving the EU?
Facebook data transfers declared illegal
Meta ordered to shut down US data transfers for Facebook and fined €1.2 billion for GDPR violations. The decision impacts European data transfer cases and might lead to a Facebook blackout in Europe.
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the much dreaded Facebook blackout
Seriously?
Maybe it’s just my friends but Facebook seems dead these days.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
the much dreaded Facebook blackout
Seriously?
Maybe it’s just my friends but Facebook seems dead these days.
Same, though some are still posting. Fortunately I don’t have much politics or “look how wonderful my life is” people on my feed. But I don’t really look at it as much anymore, especially since 90% of the posts are that recommended shit to try to get me engaged. I am less engaged because of that shit because I can’t find the posts from my friends that I want to see.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
the much dreaded Facebook blackout
Seriously?
Maybe it’s just my friends but Facebook seems dead these days.
It is. I think the only thing it’s used for is interest groups and marketplace
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
But I don’t really look at it as much anymore, especially since 90% of the posts are that recommended shit to try to get me engaged. I am less engaged because of that shit because I can’t find the posts from my friends that I want to see.
So much this. It used to be worth wading through the relatives who post a dozen times a day to find the post by someone I hadn’t heard from in a long while. Now it’s just as likely the algorithm has decided to never show me that post no matter how many of their unrequested videos and memes I have to scroll through.
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@Hog and what’s worse is they are ruining this place too when all the unrequested memes get moved here by Tazz and Jam!
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@Gators1 the world is a meme
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@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 the world is a meme
At least pick the good memes.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
@Gators1 the world is a meme
At least pick the good memes.
Like this?
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Ate up with it
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At your obsession, yes
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Not showing for me. Saved by Imgur!!!
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I use messenger a lot still because I prefer to write to my friends using a keyboard instead of texting them, but I rarely post on FB nowadays.
Recently the federal govt passed a law forcing the big tech companies like Meta and Google to negotiate advertising revenue sharing deals with traditional media. They, Meta at least, retaliated by removing all canadians news media from their content (I think you can still find some by looking for specific pages but it won’t show in your feed).
Fuck Meta and facebook.
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I use messenger a lot still because I prefer to write to my friends using a keyboard instead of texting them, but I rarely post on FB nowadays.
Recently the federal govt passed a law forcing the big tech companies like Meta and Google to negotiate advertising revenue sharing deals with traditional media. They, Meta at least, retaliated by removing all canadians news media from their content (I think you can still find some by looking for specific pages but it won’t show in your feed).
Fuck Meta and facebook.
Was going to say that traditional media should benefit from FB driving traffic to their sites where their advertising is. But like you all, I guess a lot of people don’t read past the headline before posting a reply so I guess that doesn’t work. Honestly I am getting annoyed by the amount of advertising on sites. Seems like half the sites I go to you have some shit ad after every two paragraphs that you have to scroll past. And I just click off the ones that are like top 10 something and each one is a different page.
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Most platforms have stagnating user numbers and ads have dropping ctr. So in order to not decline they need to increase the number of ads. A lot of stuff that you used to have was paid by the vision of future profits. Now the future profits look bleak across the board.
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@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:
I use messenger a lot still because I prefer to write to my friends using a keyboard instead of texting them, but I rarely post on FB nowadays.
Recently the federal govt passed a law forcing the big tech companies like Meta and Google to negotiate advertising revenue sharing deals with traditional media. They, Meta at least, retaliated by removing all canadians news media from their content (I think you can still find some by looking for specific pages but it won’t show in your feed).
Fuck Meta and facebook.
I use whatsapp and signal mobile apps only when I’m AFK. Otherwise, I prefer using a keyboard on my comp to write messages, even SMSs.
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I despise messenger. I can’t opt out of being open to receiving messages, sometimes calls, from 500 people I don’t really know and definitely don’t want to talk to. My wife uses it though to call me and share stuff she likes which is the only reason it’s on my phone.
