Based on this interaction alone and his dad deciding the price for him, I’m going to make the wildly assumptious assumption this is a 20s/30s(/40s?) unemploymed guy living at his dad’s house rent free.
If my assumptions are incorrect, sorry mate, you did not win the dad lottery.
If you do end up hacking on it, and can remember to come back and say so, please let me know the name of the sub. Or if you make one now I’ll subscribe and hope to see it show up at some point.
Unfortunately it’s election season in the US, so any sources of conversation will be overtaken by bad actors. That means any politics subs, news subs, and especially US Politics subs. A whitelist could work but it would take a lot of work and make a lot of users mad, they tried on Reddit for a few subs and the list of allowed sites was huge. Then you also have people asking, can Fox News be blacklisted? And if it’s not, the propagandists will shift their strategy from fake websites to websites with low integrity like Fox and make the article fit their ‘opinion’… It’s a neverending cat and mouse game where the only strategy that works is well-trained moderators, and only if the bots (read: bot farms, humans) aren’t vying for a mod position as soon as it opens, which they will be.
Looking further into the website, especially the category descriptions, it’s largely AI written and looks like a propaganda website like masses created and spread during the last 2 American election seasons.
That’s true. I’d only use a VPN service that’s been audited (either by a security company or, preferably, law enforcement) not to keep logs. There are only a small handful of those however. It really all depends on your needs. There are far more VPN services that do log and sell the data, and/or turn your host device into a proxy for other users/services.
Is that better or worse than giving advertisers the data point that you’re high-tech knowledgable and browse personal accounts from a server in a datacenter?
This only works if you don’t want the privacy enhancing aspect of advertisers not tying your activity to an IP address.
Beyond more safely using open Wi-Fi or bypassing a censoring ISP, there isn’t much reason there.
My main takeaway from this article is that is that the British equivalent for energy is how many kettles you can boil. American football fields are jealous and feeling quite flat.
Nope, that’s about standard or even better than most, unless you’re doing it full-time.
Unless you’re making more than $16 each month (most are not making anywhere close to that) from Medium then you’re just choosing another company to profit off of you. It’s also more work and takes a lot (arguably, depending on your technical comfort level) more time because again… most people have nothing of much value to say. If you’re an expert on your field or a great marketer, sure maybe you can make that $16 back and then some. Most can not. You’ll know if you can, and you can look at your medium analytics and judge that and then do the Wix thing because…
Do you own the content that you publish on Medium?
Yes. Everything you publish on Medium, that is rightfully yours, belongs to you and you can republish, delete or choose to convert it into other forms without worrying about anything because Medium gives you the ownership. They have clearly explained this in the Medium terms of service.
Medium (company) might use your content to redistribute, translate or modify, and they need your permission for this. They need licensing for this because of the Medium rule; “You own your content”
Medium is like an ocean in part because it’s so easy and free. There are some really spectacular fish and animals and rare finds and even shipwrecks full of gold and treasure. There is also a metric shit-ton of mediocrity.
A comparison could be made to YouTube or tiktok. Sure, you can make videos and upload them to your website and then share them. But there is immense value in the existing community in algorithm.
The thing about medium is that it’s a trusted domain + mailing list + blog + search engine in one. All you have to do is sign up and start writing, for free.
Sure you can have your own domain, and spin up a cheap VPS which has WordPress or other blogging software, customize and setup the share buttons and theme and other plugins, pay MailChimp or another trusted relay to actually inbox your emails, use Google Analytics or some open source complex privacy-focused analytics, and then set up your advertisements or some scheme to contact you for article product placement if you actually want to make money from it. If you’re really good and knowledgeable in your field. That’s a lot of time invested and very expensive relatively (compared to free).
I think a lot of people just want to share their knowledge, getting paid pennies for page views comes second to that.
Dude, if you’re struggling that much, I’ll pay for a few months for you so you can try it out. $15 for 3 months, or do you have to pay yearly? I have no experience with medium but I get a ton of good info from medium articles and it’s a great resource.
Damn, that is heavy and it really doesn’t seem like there’s any way for an eventual good peaceful outcome without a lot of bloodshed leading up to it.
Thank you for taking the time to educate me on the subject instead of getting into a keyboard war. You wear the halo this evening.
Are you trying to guess what my reply would be? If not, you seriously need to look in the mirror bud.
Hamas is a terrorist organization. They are horrific and should all be taken care of… take that how you will. Palestinians and Israel is should be able to live in peace. This much is self evident and shouldn’t be up for debate like you’re trying to do.
But Israel lobbing back over bombs and killing innocent civilians is the Spider-Man pointing at himself meme.
I think it’s quite obvious they were using the royal ‘you’, as in America (almost every American assumes everyone else is also American in the internet unless otherwise stated).
And they’re right, American soldiers did unspeakable things in Afghanistan and Iraq, but that doesn’t mean all Americans are responsible for the decisions those soldiers made.
Ah, I’m “lawyering around about historical shit” (historical being within a lifetime) but I’m the one with a cold dead soul because hundreds of “the good people” who stole the land died, and you’re the one with a heart of gold who thinks it’s lol-worthy and likes to make jokes when tens of thousands of “the bad people” die fighting for their stolen land.
Let me know when you want to attempt to argue in good faith, because as I said from the beginning I’m not well educated on the subject, and your tactics are failing.
Urim has been Israeli since the country came into existence.
There’s so much propaganda from both sides that I don’t know what to believe about who, but Israel has only been a country since 1948 - that’s after the invention of the Jeep, microwave ovens, Frisbees, jet aircraft, etc.
I’m not aware of the agreement made with Palestine for the land, but I’ve seen enough videos of Israelis near the border, both citizens and uniformed men, throwing Palestinians out of their houses so Israelis could live there. Not to mention the violent acts.
The “to” field is showing whatever his name is on Facebook, I believe it’s done by formatting as “Name To Send To”
Edit: can lemmy not show email addresses, or just anything between greater than/less than tags?
Edit edit: no symbols for us… That’s… interesting design. I guess nobody can use html tags if nobody can put anything between greater than and less than symbols.
Only because it’s paradigm shifting and worldview shattering.
“Only baby teeth grow back, and if you lose your adult teeth you’re fucked, enjoy your dentures.”
Don’t worry though, you probably have a few decades to realign your worldview. 9/10 of clinical trials fail.
Chances are this is a kid or NEET and all his friend wants is a super simple website with basic info for his local business. Dad is either doing him a favor, or giving him some pocket change so he’ll stop bothering him for money for a month. This is what happens when you don’t teach your children to be adults, and give them everything instead. Seen it too many times.