This is what I do, except the dynamic DNS service is just a script on my server that updates Cloudflare DNS with my current external IP. In practice my address is almost static, I've never seen it change except when my router is reset/reconfigured.
Maybe because while ad tech these days is no less shady than crypto mining, the concept of ads is something people understand. Most people don't really understand crypto so it gets lumped in with "hackers" and "viruses".
Alternatively, for those who do understand ad tech and crypto, crypto mining still subjectively feels (to me at least) more like you're being stolen from than ads. Same with Anubis, wasting power on PoW "feels" more acceptable to me than mining crypto. One of those quirks of the human psyche I guess.
Running proof of work on user machines without their consent is theft of their computing and energy resources. Any site doing so for any purpose whatsoever is serving malware and should be treated as such.
Advertising is theft of attention which is extremely limited in supply. I'd even say it's mind rape. They forcibly insert their brands and trademarks into our minds without our consent. They deliberately ignore and circumvent any and all attempts to resist. It's all "justified" though, business interests excuse everything.
> Advertising is theft of attention which is extremely limited in supply. I'd even say it's mind rape. They forcibly insert their brands and trademarks into our minds without our consent. They deliberately ignore and circumvent any and all attempts to resist.
(1): Attention from any given person is fundamentally limited. Said attention has an inherent value.
(2): Running *any* website costs money, doubly so for video playback. This is not even mentioning the moderation & copyright mechanisms that a video sharing platform like YouTube has to have in order to keep copyright lawsuits away from YouTube itself.
(3): Products do not spawn in with their presence known to the general population. For the product to be successful, people have to know it exists in the first place.
Advertising is the consequence of wanting attention to be drawn to (3), and willing to pay for said attention on a given platform (1). (2)'s costs, alongside any payouts to videographers that garner attention to their videos, can be paid for with the money in (1), by placing ads around/before the video itself.
You're allowed to not have advertising shown to you, but in exchange, the money to pay for (2) & the people who made the video have to come from somewhere.
Yes, and it belongs to us. It's not theirs to sell to the highest bidder.
> Running any website costs money, doubly so for video playback.
> Products do not spawn in with their presence known to the general population.
Not our problem. Business needs do not excuse it. Let all those so called innovators find a way to make it without an attention economy. Let them go bankrupt if they can't.
> Yes, and it belongs to us. It's not theirs to sell to the highest bidder.
Your attention belongs to you, until you give it to someone else.
The videographer has the right to sell sponsorships on their videos in exchange the attention they've attracted. It is also their right to do so.
> Not our problem. Business needs do not excuse it. Let all those so called innovators find a way to make it without an attention economy. Let them go bankrupt if they can't.
Your logic has already been tried: It's called Netflix. And it was overtaken by YouTube.
YouTube has been the wellspring for indie videographers because they have a platform that could (a) handle the video hosting for them for free, where (b) they could post their experiments on without an upfront cost & where an audience can be found because the platform's free.
Your idea seeks upfront payment, which increases the risk cost dramatically from 0 to a fixed value. One-shot experiments with 0 funds are killed under your scheme.
To seek their bankruptcy is nothing short of a fetishistic desire for your ideals to trample on others your your own gloating. Go back to the DVD era.
> The videographer has the right to sell sponsorships on their videos in exchange the attention they've attracted.
As is my right to use uBlock Origin and Sponsor Block to automatically block and skip every single one of those segments. Won't be long until we have AI powered ad blocking that can edit ads out of video streams in real time.
We decide what we pay attention to. Making videos is not a license to dupe us into viewing advertising noise. Baiting us with some interesting topic only to switch to commercial nonsense is just rude, and that's the most charitable interpretation I can offer.
> YouTube has been the wellspring for indie videographers
Because of ads and surveillance capitalism. Those are the root causes of everything that is wrong with the web today. Blocking those will reduce their returns on investment, thereby fixing the web.
> One-shot experiments with 0 funds are killed under your scheme.
Nah. Only the money motivated people will leave. People have been creating things just for the joy of it since the dawn of humanity. Those humans with intrinsic motivation are the ones I really care about. Not these insipid profit driven "content creators".
Agreed. I get asked to repair electronics for people quite often and I charge drastically differently for labor depending on whether I will enjoy the job or not.
> Sometimes I play a game while driving, seeing how long I can go without seeing a sign or warning. If you had to hold your breath between each one you'd be in no danger; you could drive hours with no risk of passing out.
This struck me the last time I traveled in the UK: they seem to have about 3-4 times as many road signs as the US, to the point where it almost becomes a dangerous distraction. On the other hand, they don’t have the omnipresent billboards and other public advertising that the US has.
As a UK resident this drives me mad. Signs like “Tractors Turning” [1]. Like I’m going to see the sign and not notice the f**king tractor? And also, there’s never a tractor there!
Another classic is “Road liable to flooding” [2]. Reeeeally? Ok, am I drowning? No. Phew… looks like it’s not flooding right now, I’ll make a mental note if I ever come this way again and it’s raining, or I’m struggling to breathe and I can’t work out why.
Signs for occasional happenings that anyone with eyes can see.
Then there’s the speed-camera signs, but no speed cameras.
Or, the classic “mobile speed camera” sign [3]. Fixed. In place. Forever.
Or, the “New Road Layout” sign [4], where the layout will never grow old!
Our street furniture has gone so extreme, there’s no way one could read all of it and concentrate properly on driving and the vast majority of it is utterly useless.
A favourite of mine is the London Underground having warnings about using the escalators, stating that last year there were 100 incidents from people not being sufficiently careful.
Given the number of people using the service, this is incredibly small and I hardly think a sign is going to help the few people at risk!
The thing that really peeves me about those signs is that pretty much all the accidents involve women with fashionably loose clothing. While I'm sure a few guys got scalped by their dreadlocks it's worth directing the warning at people most likely to need it and therefore most likely to benefit from it same as you would if it were screening for a particular disease.
Curious to hear your thoughts on the "Bridge Freezes Before Road Surface" signs.
To me, that seems like a sign where the "let nature sort it out" way of learning is too dangerous to just YOLO it sign-less (despite generally agreeing that we have too many warning signs).
;) I doubt it's a difference in chemistry or physics. Ambient temps play a large role, so the Gulf Stream's and elevation's influence does as well (dry adiabatic lapse rate is 5.5°F per 1000 ft or 9.8°C per km).
I can't say I ever otherwise felt like the British frequency of road signs was a risk in and of itself, but I suppose it's a matter of what you're used to.
That's funny, I had the exact same thought in the US - so many road signs, so much to read. It was quite overwhelming. I think it may come down to familiarity: as you get familiar with the signage of a particular country they blend into the background (and you, presumably, just take in what they're saying subconsciously). By the end of the US trip I was much less overwhelmed by the amount of text on and around the roads.
Sometimes the US can be similarly bad about oversignage. There's a street by me where there's a pedestrian crossing. There's a sign by it saying drivers should yield to it, then another sign ~100 feet back saying to watch for pedestrians, then another, and then a fourth sign, and I'm sure they're considering a fifth.
Fair enough. A favorite of mine is "sidewalk ends", which around where I live are so ridiculously over-the-top[0] I can only conclude someone sued once and now the state isn't taking any chances.
A few years ago I was helping run sound at a conference which involved recording and rebroadcasting multiple audio streams simultaneously. The provided equipment included a Linux computer running a real-time kernel and routing was handled by JACK.
It was a disaster. If the USB audio interface ever disconnected, JACK crashed and wiped my routing configuration. After the first day I ditched the Linux computer and ran the whole setup through my MBA, using Reaper for both recording and routing.
I don't know about other languages but Ruby is similar in that you can name a function with any string (though you might not be able to call it in the standard way) and the Rails default test framework takes advantage of that.
I used to never finish personal projects. Then I realized that the biggest thing preventing me from finishing them was (perversely) my sense of duty to get them finished. Once I decided that I was under no obligation to anyone to work on them, not even myself, I had no trouble finding the motivation to get them done. So now side projects are a strictly "just for fun" affair. I work on them when I feel like, no deadlines, and once they're "in production" I maintain them because I like tinkering.
The only problem with this approach is I've gone from hating the thought of programming after work to coming up with side projects at work.
I just finished a small personal project: a self-hosted web app which stores and indexes my archived emails. None of the existing options I tried were very good so I made my own. A simple Rails app that ingests .eml files and stores the text in postgres for full-text search.
I learned a lot about text encodings, multipart emails, inline attachments, postgres' tsvector/tsquery, etc. I'm particularly proud of how I was able to use `WITH RECURSIVE` to get an email's entire thread, which seems basic but the other archive apps I tried didn't have that feature.
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