The war on friction
source: https://www.therebooting.com/the-war-on-friction/
The tech giants believe they should control the interface. Controlling the interface used to mean controlling the distribution. The zero-click vision that’s increasingly taking hold will mean publishers and their webpages are regarded as friction standing in the way of people getting what they want immediately, without wading through full-screen interstitial ads, endless pop-ups and autoplay video. That’s going to be a compelling proposition. It will also conveniently accrue all power to the interface and relegate publishers to content vendors.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •The problem as I see it is that serious journalism is hard work - especially investigative one - which has to be financed.
I observed many podcasts in the beginning which started excited thinking we could take the media into our hands,
but they all folded after 2 years, because it doesn't pay the bills. So only mainstream podcasts (and a handful of lucky ones) survived.
In the web nobody wants to pay and hardly anyone donates (also due to the ridiculous banking fees on micropayments).
Hece I propose an complimentary currency without any transfer fees and a universal basic income to support lesser lucrative maginalized activities to enable everyone to do what they want fulfills them.
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in reply to anonymiss • • •Friction is not nearly as big a problem as the website obesity crisis.
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https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
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Perhaps even worse is the huge amount of processor bandwidth some sites use. I have had sites crash my whole GUI session. I just know if I complained to the site's designers they would say something like "Get a newer computer."
The Website Obesity Crisis
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in reply to anonymiss • • •New phonograph records are still released, and cassette tapes are still manufactured and used. Paper books are extremely popular. Old and new can and will coexist.
I wonder if I'll live to see the day when all over-the-air broadcasting becomes digital and pirate radio enters a new golden age with listeners using old analog radios and even crystal sets to listen. Subversion is hard to prevent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_sets
I remember winding an inductor with a toilet paper tube as its core.
BTW, you can listen to FM as well as AM. Just tune a little above or below the frequency. The sound quality is not very good. It sounds the way audio sounded in Apple II games like Castle Wolfenstein.
... Show more...New phonograph records are still released, and cassette tapes are still manufactured and used. Paper books are extremely popular. Old and new can and will coexist.
I wonder if I'll live to see the day when all over-the-air broadcasting becomes digital and pirate radio enters a new golden age with listeners using old analog radios and even crystal sets to listen. Subversion is hard to prevent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_sets
I remember winding an inductor with a toilet paper tube as its core.
BTW, you can listen to FM as well as AM. Just tune a little above or below the frequency. The sound quality is not very good. It sounds the way audio sounded in Apple II games like Castle Wolfenstein.
I'm surprised we don't see pirate television here in the USA. All you need is a VCR that can output over analog channel 3 or 4, an antenna amplifier (commonly used with indoor antennas), an indoor antenna (to use as the broadcast antenna), and analog TV receivers to watch with. I used to broadcast from one room of our house to the others. The neighbors could have watched too.
simple radio receiver circuit used mostly for AM reception
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