Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd like to see ideas like this make a comeback, hopefully with some modifications this time around to protect our privacy and resist corporate exploitation.

We used to use del.icio.us and other variants to do exactly this before browsers had profiles. Back then, its primary draw was that you could take your bookmarks with you anywhere to any machine (this being before that function was baked into browsers and before web browsers could be carried in your pocket). The secondary effect was that you'd share and tag those websites with your own categories/descriptors, thus crowdsourcing a new version of the old web's link directories using Web 2.0. You could browse through symantic tag clouds to discover new things. Del.icio.us was for websites, but people were tagging and logging all of their favorite stuff and sharing it online so that like minded strangers could filled the gaps in their cultural awareness. We tagged our books with librarything. We tagged recipes with recipe thing. Audioscrobbler (later known as last.fm) logged our music listening to automate the tagging, not by direct symantic tagging, but by relational/temporal coincidence. If other people that listened to a lot of the stuff you listened to and they also listened to some other stuff you didn't, those became recommendations for you. That kind of relational algorithm would survive the slow death of Web2.0 to become the backbone of recommendation services like Spotify and probably even TikTok.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's not. I asked their mother. But asked isn't even really the right word. I discussed proposing to their child with them first out of empathy, courtesy, respect, just plain demonstrating the ability to have real life adult conversations. I think using the idiom of "Asking for permission" really has some pedants in this thread in a twist.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

Her response: "That's not even a question."

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

2 demons for under a penny is quite a deal.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a lot to unpack there bud. You don't sound okay. None of that was in the comic, you brought all that baggage.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

What are you talking about? The pink one has a line of scary warning symbols including a skull and crossbones just under the word humectant.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That Wikipedia article is surprisingly silent on Norris' support of Trump.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

I'm gonna guess that it's durian ice cream.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

That's basically what these do. What's the difficulty?

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