Those are probably at the top of my website annoyances list. "Want to get more like this in your inbox?" -- I don't even know what "this" is, you barely let me read the first paragraph before asking!
I'm sure the conversion rate of those things is being tracked, but somehow I can't believe that would even lead to a single newsletter signup. Who on Earth feels like they're not receiving enough e-mails and subscribe to the first mass mailing that asks? Maybe some people whose browsers auto-fill their e-mail address and they click the wrong button to close the pop-over?
The no-autoplay feature in Firefox has been very reliable in my experience. Unfortunately, it has a few issues of its own (play/pause status on YouTube getting out of sync, or not being able to use wildcards in the whitelist so you have to unblock every artist or label on Bandcamp separately).
A permanent, non-negligible chance of becoming a collateral victim in an extrajudicial drone killing doesn't sound like order to me.
TFA mentions residents are very scared. They live in a war zone.
Edit: I get the argument that it was a war zone anyway and people are also afraid of the gangs. But that comes from the fallacy of seeing the drone strikes as the only option. There are better ways to create order than creating even more chaos and hope it hits the right people sometimes.
Haiti has been a shit show for like 200 years now. You don’t think they’ve tried every method they can think of to deal with the criminals? What are the better methods to deal with chaos that they have been ignoring?
Even back then we were looking for alternative mouse drivers with lower memory footprints, though =D some wouldn't load high (or not work im games when they were). Conventional memory was such a precious resource in DOS. With a bad mouse driver, you might've had to choose between having sound or mouse control in your game.
For emulated systems, I mostly use CuteMouse now, which occupies less than 4 kB. It sure would've been nice to have had that back in the day.
Nobody makes thumb trackballs as good as Logitech, or at least not anymore. And I have no complaints about the quality. I have three MX Ergos, replacing my previous Logitech trackballs that all lasted well over 10 years of daily use (the left click switches started getting iffy, but that's probably fixable, so I kept them).
I barely ever hear someone complain about the hardware quality of Logitech mice and keyboards, even before considering how much of them there are compared to Keychrons, Duckys, or all the gamer brands.
The MX Ergo form factor is the best, by the way. Few people go back to pushy-pully mice after they got a taste of how fast and precise they can be with a thumb trackball. I always find it interesting where I see them on TV or YouTube: medical laboratories, architectural offices, movie studios... and Louis Rossmann's desk. I've been using them since the 90s and they probably were an unfair advantage in FPS LAN parties =D
The scale is not the same. Low-tech tools require more human input, more pre-filtering of suspects. They can't just default to starting with "everybody" and match against millions at the push of a button.
The problem is in how these tools are sold to them. Not everybody can be an expert in every topic. Like in every other application area, these AI systems are promoted as being able to do about a thousand times more, and a million times more reliably, than they actually are. Of course the departments can be expected to do some due diligence and instruct their officers, but the lies by AI system suppliers is where a large part of the blame belongs. Manufacturers of cameras or CCTV systems never told the police department that the system would do their job for them.
That just reminded me of Chat Roulette for some reason. It seems that one is still around, as well. I'd guess not many bots on there, either (though potentially plenty of other unpleasant things).
I, for one, miss the promise of the old Internet, that you could connect with people from all around the world. I always saw it as an exciting extension to real-world interactions, not a replacement. And I love the fact that over the past 30 years, I was able to make friends (or pen pals, if you will) in the US, Canada, Mexico, Bolivia, Japan, Indonesia, Russia, New Zealand... the concept of finding people sharing your niche interests, wherever they were on the globe, even as you were stuck on your cozy suburb, was amazing to me, and I'm sad that we all but lost that.
I'm sure the conversion rate of those things is being tracked, but somehow I can't believe that would even lead to a single newsletter signup. Who on Earth feels like they're not receiving enough e-mails and subscribe to the first mass mailing that asks? Maybe some people whose browsers auto-fill their e-mail address and they click the wrong button to close the pop-over?
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