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Re:Girl flooded with beauty ads on Instagram on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:41AM (#20224317)
In other news: Water is still wet

> "There are lots of things you think about with your kids on social media, but advertising isn't really one of them," said Ms Winter

Under which moon did this lady live for the last decade? Instagram is probably the single piece of technology I would wish away the instant I got a magic wand.

Re:Unity Editor for Linux on Friday May 31, 2019 @11:34AM (#20061831)
Lack of website design skills is sadly a chronic illness of the FOSS community.

Mint is super solid though and probably the most approachable beginner distro in 2019. Comes with an easy installer, a choice of desktop environments that are all pretty nice out of the box and familiar and the fact it's based on Ubuntu/Debian makes looking up any problems or looking to customize it a breeze.

If you are looking for a Distro that works out of the box, Mint is pretty good.

Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? on Monday May 07, 2018 @11:23AM (#17013405)
This only holds true for publications with a very specific audience though and even then, it's not going to be optimal.

Of course if you have a purely tech oriented blog, or even better, one focused on a specific technology, then surely you can get decent results by partnering with one specific advertiser specific to that niche, but as soon as your audience gets more diverse, like the audience of your average run of the mill newspaper would be, you will be loosing out on a ton of ad revenue if you don't try to target your ads.

So while this is a cute idea, I doubt it is practical for any publication of noteworthy size.

Re:Browser Extensions Standard on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @07:00AM (#14899414)
Cute idea, but I will eat a broom before this actually becomes reality.