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I've always wanted a way to communicate with businesses that matter to me.
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Aug 25, 2016 16:14
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well of course you do, we ALL do, but how? HOW?!? 
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Aug 25, 2016 16:24
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I started using telegram recently. Any of you know of any good reason not to use it?
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Aug 25, 2016 16:48
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[insert terrible joke about morse code and/or wiring]
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Aug 25, 2016 16:49
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Arsenic Lupin posted:WhatsApp prepares for monetization.  , loving Facebook finally realizing that they literally bought a platform that they already had. I'd say this changes something but I realise that the only other client I use is facebook messenger.
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Aug 25, 2016 16:54
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cowofwar posted:Time to sell everything and invest in block chains, it's the future! How it will be employed is not clear but future! I'm going to repeat myself about the CEO of some Xprize affiliate or something coming to a school admin meeting and waxing poetic about the block chain and how secure it was and how it would change global finance forever. Two days later that big BlockChain heist happened where an estimated $70 million US Real Dollars were taken from people's Internet Fake Bitwallets. He also said don't teach your kids to code, coding will be done by AI in THE FUTURE. Also Ray Kurtzweil totally isn't a weirdo goober and the singularity WILL happen and allow him to be just like that robot guy from the new Doom. All in All, it must be nice to live in Super Rich White Guy Bubble but I wouldn't want to huff my farts like that to live the TechLyfe. FilthyImp fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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Aug 25, 2016 17:06
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I mean, here's how advertising would work, in my ideal world, because apps are free but cost money to make and run: let me select companies (maybe via facebook's "like this page") and only those companies can message me So like, I will let Fantasy Flight Games and Blizzard send me messages, because I would like to know about their new stuff that I might want and not know it's out yet But if loving Uber and Sony want to spam me with their bullshit, a pox on their houses And I'm sure Uber doesn't want to waste their money advertising to me, a person who will never use their product. And FFG would deffo. *want* to advertise to me so, win/win
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Aug 25, 2016 17:39
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Dr. Angela Ziegler posted:I mean, here's how advertising would work, in my ideal world, because apps are free but cost money to make and run: Well, Blizzard probably also doesn't want to waste money advertising to you, a person who will buy their game anyway. Or at least they wouldn't want to waste enough money that make that viable as a platform's only monetization strategy.
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Aug 25, 2016 17:47
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Baby Babbeh posted:Well, Blizzard probably also doesn't want to waste money advertising to you, a person who will buy their game anyway. Or at least they wouldn't want to waste enough money that make that viable as a platform's only monetization strategy. They don't need to try to hype up people who agree to see their messages, but a monthly-ish reminder of what's coming up to keep it in people's brains so they remember to buy it on release would probably make a decent return on investment.
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Aug 25, 2016 17:53
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That and advertisements for microtransactions.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:09
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Keeshhound posted:They don't need to try to hype up people who agree to see their messages, but a monthly-ish reminder of what's coming up to keep it in people's brains so they remember to buy it on release would probably make a decent return on investment. You mean like a newsletter? Hmm, if only there was a way to send such a thing to someone for free, perhaps through a kind of electronic version of the mail...
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Aug 25, 2016 18:18
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Baby Babbeh posted:You mean like a newsletter? Hmm, if only there was a way to send such a thing to someone for free, perhaps through a kind of electronic version of the mail... The volume of email killed email. Ain't nobody read that anymore.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:24
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Baby Babbeh posted:You mean like a newsletter? Hmm, if only there was a way to send such a thing to someone for free, perhaps through a kind of electronic version of the mail... Is that not literally what this is anyway? It's a "service" that lets businesses more easily contact people who use Facebook or whatsapp. Did you think they were going to do that any way except electronically?
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Aug 25, 2016 18:26
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a foolish pianist posted:The volume of email killed email. Ain't nobody read that anymore. Bill Gates was probably right when he suggested that there should be a small charge for email. The volume of email is just overwhelming. Between work and personal accounts I probably get 500-1000 a day. Not including another couple of thousand from automated systems.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:40
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withak posted:I've always wanted a way to communicate with businesses that matter to me. i just love engaging with brands
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Aug 25, 2016 19:00
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This is the most wonderful thing. Elon Musk has been playing the long game with Amber Heardquote:“If there is a party or event with Amber, I’d be interested in meeting her just out of curiosity...Allegedly, she is a fan of George Orwell and Ayn Rand … most unusual.”
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Aug 25, 2016 19:05
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namaste faggots posted:I started using telegram recently. Any of you know of any good reason not to use it? Is that (secretly) ran by vkontakte? Their graphics are remarkably similar....
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Aug 25, 2016 19:13
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The VK guy started it, it's a new thing.
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Aug 25, 2016 19:19
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namaste faggots posted:I started using telegram recently. Any of you know of any good reason not to use it? In my experience the hardest part is getting people to adopt it. "Whatsapp is encrypted, so why should I use that? "
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Aug 25, 2016 19:21
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Xae posted:Bill Gates was probably right when he suggested that there should be a small charge for email. Yeah the spamming wouldn't stop. Companies would start sending you info about subsidiaries or stuff you don't care about or letting their buddies spam you too. Only a matter of time before a company with a ton of subscribers charges to tack extra unrelated bullshit on. Look what happened to Facebook pages and games. Apparently you can sell popular pages to people who will then vomit clickbait garbage nonstop. The Internet is killing the internet. For every cool idea there are a thousand ideas to ruin it.
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Aug 25, 2016 19:28
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nobody ever, except maybe some scrub tier advertising idiot posted:i just love engaging with brands
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Aug 25, 2016 19:44
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Non Serviam posted:In my experience the hardest part is getting people to adopt it. "Whatsapp is encrypted, so why should I use that? " Agreed. It just so happens I have a bunch of friends using it who hate WhatsApp.
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Aug 25, 2016 19:56
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Email is basically a thing I never check unless I need to reset a password on a website at this point.
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Aug 25, 2016 19:57
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lancemantis posted:Is that (secretly) ran by vkontakte? Their graphics are remarkably similar.... Well I guess if you care about security it's the difference between a company that'll hand over backdoor access to your messages to the SVR versus one that'll do the same but for the NSA.
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Aug 25, 2016 21:42
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i just love engaging with brands Dan Ryckert?
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Aug 25, 2016 21:44
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Trevor Hale posted:And people said Gawker provided no worth. Here is the best/worst thing that Caity Weaver ever wrote for Gawker, the story of one woman's descent into appetizer madness
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Aug 25, 2016 21:48
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Slanderer posted:Here is the best/worst thing that Caity Weaver ever wrote for Gawker, the story of one woman's descent into appetizer madness quote:In preparation for the depravity to come, I fast the night before, eating a only light meal of a bacon cheeseburger, four chicken McNuggets, and a small fries at midnight. 
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Aug 25, 2016 21:53
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Slanderer posted:Here is the best/worst thing that Caity Weaver ever wrote for Gawker, the story of one woman's descent into appetizer madness This was an amazing journey of a read.
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Aug 25, 2016 22:06
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Xae posted:Bill Gates was probably right when he suggested that there should be a small charge for email. I have no-poo poo 45+ GB of work email from just the last 18 months.
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Aug 26, 2016 01:05
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it's tongue-in-cheek
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Aug 26, 2016 01:18
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i just love engaging with brands Don't tell me you don't spend every night polishing your own personal brand.
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Aug 26, 2016 01:27
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Well I guess if you care about security it's the difference between a company that'll hand over backdoor access to your messages to the SVR versus one that'll do the same but for the NSA. WhatsApp is demonstrably end-to-end encrypted using a well known open source protocol making handing over messages impossible. This is not true of Telegraph where the messages are decryptable on the server. Metadata is still a concern with WhatsApp if you don't trust Facebook of course. Really the correct answer security wise for a mobile messenger is to use Signal: https://whispersystems.org/ Uses the same e2e encryption as WhatsApp (its the original source of the protocol), completely open source and unaffiliated with any business entity so you don't have to worry about whatever extra metadata collection is going on around it. Of course you'll have an even more difficult time talking someone into using it than WhatsApp or Telegram. pr0zac fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Aug 26, 2016 |
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Aug 26, 2016 01:35
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Don't tell me you don't spend every night polishing your own personal brand.
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Aug 26, 2016 01:40
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Don't tell me you don't spend every night polishing your own personal brand. my brand
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Aug 26, 2016 01:44
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:my brand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HBwQl9eggs
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Aug 26, 2016 04:18
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my brand Also, courtesy of Sundae in the TPS thread, meet Josephine, an excellent way to die from botulism poisoning.
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Aug 26, 2016 04:43
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Probably not botulism, unless they're canning. Botulism requires anaerobic conditions, such as you get when you put something in a sealed jar and don't adequately heat-treat it. Salmonella, listeria, and whatnot, you betcha. Plus possible liver failure if your nice sweet neighbor went mushroom-gathering in the hills. We had a set of deaths from that last year, when some Russian IIRC immigrants made mushroom soup for the private nursing home they ran. Apparently they don't have Amanita phalloides in Russia, so nobody needs to know the difference. But yeah. Food inspection is one of those pieces of governmental interference I do not wish to see disrupted.
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Aug 26, 2016 06:02
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Discendo Vox posted:Also, courtesy of Sundae in the TPS thread, meet Josephine, an excellent way to die from botulism poisoning. I actually got Josephine from this thread originally. 
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Aug 26, 2016 06:17
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Sundae posted:I actually got Josephine from this thread originally. Whoops! Arsenic Lupin posted:Probably not botulism, unless they're canning. Botulism requires anaerobic conditions, such as you get when you put something in a sealed jar and don't adequately heat-treat it. Salmonella, listeria, and whatnot, you betcha. Plus possible liver failure if your nice sweet neighbor went mushroom-gathering in the hills. We had a set of deaths from that last year, when some Russian IIRC immigrants made mushroom soup for the private nursing home they ran. Apparently they don't have Amanita phalloides in Russia, so nobody needs to know the difference. Without getting into the details, I think similar scenarios are exactly what will occur- people are acting as home-grown caterers, and the company partially exists to circumvent state regs on home canning/preserving businesses.
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Aug 26, 2016 06:46
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Yeah, and those regulations were very carefully written so you would find it much harder to kill somebody. Thing is, when I can, the most that's going to happen is that I'm going to take out my family, or maybe a church social. (I do not go to church socials.) When I start selling canned goods, I can kill a lot of people whom it's nearly impossible to notify. "Buy some chow-chow at the Palo Alto Farmer's Market on June 28th? We have bad news for you." I'll stick to killing my own family, thanks.
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