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>Your experience is important to us. For optimal functionality on Pennlive.com, please disable your ad blocker before continuing.

hmm, but my experience is better when it’s enabled.


I usually enable reader view when I see these popups, which usually works to get around them (including in this case).


I'm assuming you're using ublock-origin, if so, ensure you have these filters enabled:

  EasyList
  EasyList – Cookie Notices
  EasyPrivacy
  Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list 
  uBlock filters – Ads
  uBlock filters – Privacy
  uBlock filters – Unbreak


The ads on this site are horrendous. At one point I had a video ad pop up that I could not close and I had to refresh the page.


what ads? I don't see a single ad there. Are you using chrome by any chance? Cause I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and had no problem browsing the site without seeing a single ad.


Why is this comment downvoted? I also saw no ads, using Firefox Mobile with uBlock Origin and NextDNS.


There is something strange about asking "what ads" and then saying you are using ublock origin. Thats your answer to "what ads" right there...

I don't run ublock origin on my work computer (which maybe I should) which is where I viewed this article.


Just the same as all the recommendations. I think you mean pixels you've sold to the highest bidders.

Recommendations and perks are some of the most misused words in the 21st century.



> disable your ad blocker before continuing

I read it as: disable JavaScript before continuing.


uBO is blocking all the ads without such a message for me


As long as it is not via subscriptions…


Everyone goes to subscriptions, because trying to get new customers every month at a rate that pays everyone's salaries, at a typical engineering level, plus everyone else on the company, and office rental, doesn't scale, specially in developer tools where many prefer to suffer with lesser tooling than paying.


Subscriptions are only okay for me if it's done like Jetbrains does it, where you can keep the old versions permanently. Partly because it implies what has to be true for monthly payments to make sense: that the software keeps getting better and keeps getting support for various tech advances that happen and tools and databases. If I'm paying monthly for something that doesn't cost them anything then that feels illogical on my side. This should become a thing with online services too, at least let me keep some kind of upgraded version of your service after I stop paying. Something please, anything to make me feel less like a chump for having paid and then ending up with nothing in the end.


>Likely not serious

What do you base that on? I think that would be an excellent idea.


Because you have a not insignificant amount of actors putting AI systems into production. There's a wider picture/downstream effects that no sane (public) company is going to want to take on and potentially be responsible for. ;P


I would consider western and non western equally bad.


It’s not like any of the choices are great. Or even mediocre.


I had a look one time, there are tons of alternatives (in all countries) They all have youtube channels and facebook pages.

Beyond the top of the list they have so few viewers, subscribers, likes and followers that it doesn't account for direct family. It means not even journalists bother to watch a video or read a post let alone read the election program. Usually there is a single news article about a person without much if any coverage of the program.

People love to pretend their circular argument is not a fallacy.

Plenty of people would bother to look at other candidates if they got a lot more attention and a lot more votes. Someone will have to start voting for them before that will happen.

This someone is you.

If you refuse to vote for a candidate that has no chance to win they wont have a chance next time. One extra voice or vote is actually a big deal for them.

The search engines are full of articles about "most significant candidates"

If you look at this list here,

https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_registered_2024_presidential...

You cant say "It’s not like any of the choices are great."

Correct would be to say: No one in the whole world has any idea what the other choices are.

In the US there is a special kind of war to even get on the ballot.

https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_registered_2024_presidential...

You can help gather signatures, promote write in candidates.

I just imagined all those countless election programs should be loaded into some LLM, make it question the humans and point them to the text that fits them best.

edit:

Ill do one from the top of the list:

Aaron Avouris Libertarian Party

this him?

https://www.facebook.com/aaronavouris

278 friends

https://www.youtube.com/user/aaronavouris

2 subscribers?

https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P00015297/

lol?

edit2:

Because I cant help myself:

vote Afroman

https://www.afromanforpresident.com


Clickbait

> Now, researchers have found out how to design a robot that could jump over 120 metres in the air

Emphasis on „could“. And you’ll be disappointed if are hoping for a video that shows off this feat.


> And you’ll be disappointed if are hoping for a video that shows off this feat.

I can confirm, my google page didn’t show any video of the robot other than the slomo clip from the launch (also present in the submission).

Then there is the claim of 200m jump on the moon. I can understand the lack of video here.


We’re not far off the previous Revolution mentioned in the book.


Do you mean the Wii?


Yes, of course I meant the Wii, sorry about the mix up. Too late to edit now.


I dislike the browser idea but I’ll take it over any subscription based app.


These studies are funded by the companies anyway. Can’t ever trust them.


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