Man ifttt is dangerous.
My blog now happily imports replies I make to comments at Tumblr.
… There’s no way this could go wrong. None.
Nearly 4pm, still in pyjamas.
We’re supposed to be going away on holidays tomorrow. There are like a million things I need to clean up and do before we go but goddamn I feel like trash.
Being sick sucks.
Link: Research - DISQUS.
Disqus does an infographic on pseudonymous comments.
I’ve seen this get attacked a fair bit around the tracks. The petty digs aside (it’s a huge JPG! /faints), it’s pretty telling that all the narky comments seem to come from people who:
- use their Really Real Names Online
- work in tech or related fields where having a Hip Internet Persona is a Career Plus
- are dudebro cis white men, and best of all
- have comments turned off on their blogs.
… Yuh-huh.
My S3 bill is 1c this month?
Because apparently Reduced Redundancy Storage costs more at low-capacities than “normal” storage. Go figure.
Y U SO EXPENSIVE, AWS?
Link: RAP NEWS 11: Australia Day (feat. Ken Oathcarn) - YouTube.
Aah, 26 January. The day white bogans all over Australia get smashed on jingoism, Indigenous Australians remind people they’re still pissed off, and left-wing Australians of all ethnicities get conflicted between the two (and have to un-friend a lot of people on Facebook).
I have to admit I did lol at the full “Australia Day – yeah c**t!!” (warning: says “cunt” a lot), but it’s worth pointing out it was linked to me by my conflicted husband who was linked to it by a bleached-in-the-wool racist who apparently missed the satire. Go figure.
Hey. At least we don’t have to go to work today.
Sketchbook!
Found objects.
Meanwhile, on the internet...
Link: In Jerusalem, women are voiceless at a decidedly womanly event - The Globe and Mail.
Let’s face it: The explicit exclusion of women from women’s health is probably the Patriarchy at its purest.
(Also: “Intimacy during rocket attacks”. I shouldn’t lol. I did anyway.) ∞
nounbeast replied to your post: nounbeast replied to your link: Nearly 4pm, still…
“Pajamas”. Blegh.
You could always start a One Woman Revolution to bring back the old spelling!
(Also: Testing crossposting of Tumblr replies. Hopefully this should go back to alis.me and then subsequently not back here again… But we’ll see how good I am at setting up ifttt rules.)
Link: Is Too Much Plus a Minus for Google? « StevenLevy.com.
I think it may have gotten eaten in the Great VPS Death of 2012, but this reminds me of the post I had queued up somewhere of a guy comparing two sets of Google search results on the same keyword (“egypt”) at the same time, but on different machines. They looked nothing alike.
If you don’t think that’s a problem, you haven’t been paying attention. ∞
Link: New domain address ... The snake oil that is domain registries' big fat new revenue stream | Crikey.
Is anyone else internet-old enough to remember when AOL “keywords” (or whatever they were called) used to appear alongside traditional URLs in marketing promos? Did anyone else notice Google seem to’ve managed to create an organic version of this with its search engine and browser integration (remember the phat ca$h it pays Mozilla to be included in Firefox).
Everything old and all that… ∞
In the entire discussion [around SOPA], I’ve seen no discussion of credible evidence of this economic harm. There’s no question in my mind that piracy exists, that people around the world are enjoying creative content without paying for it, and even that some criminals are profiting by redistributing it. But is there actual economic harm?
Tim O’Reilly – Google+ – Before Solving a Problem, Make Sure You’ve Got the Right….
O’Reilly goes on to talk about the economic impact on his own company due to the piracy of his own books; essentially, he doesn’t think it’s a big deal. (Also note the little dig at “patent trolls” at the end there.) ∞