Why did the journalist search out the real name which is clearly difficult and then not talk to his interviewee about his name being released; because he knew it was immoral.
It's actually not. People in general like "good stories" and will read and share them more. Adding "credibility" will drive the perception as a "good" story and therefore to some degree clicks as well.
That's a good discussion, but improving the model and sustaining the institution are orthogonal.
I do agree though that a lot of the problems are structural and systemic - that also does not negate the public's negative outlook towards journalism, or the sense of entitlement (read the comments here).
I do agree though that not enough tech people who can afford to don't pay for their news. Why? IDK. How to make them? Well maybe this post will persuade a few to do that.
sorry but typically in the past older generations have been optimistic about the future and younger generations have been pessimistic. That is a a common phenomenon observed by social scientists which is that people in their twenties are a lot more pessimistic than people in their 40s and 50s.
Let's be clear:
globally the world is much better off than it has ever been and therefore the optimists were correct. Even in the US I remember how in the early '90s the Gen xers were always complaining about how the future was going to be f*. They were wrong too.
based on historical trends you are most likely wrong as well.
I mean listen to yourself. you are talking about generations of false optimism and yet the world and even this country has a much higher standard of living than it has ever had.
If the world is better overall it's due to technological advancement, not due to governance. Our current president is Trump, an idiot who completely mismanaged the coronavirus pandemic, lied about how well he was handling it, refuses to be televised wearing a mask while mask-shaming others, and spends his time peddling conspiracy theories on Twitter, and now threatening to shut down the platform for fact-checking his blatant disinformation. We have probably the worst president to ever disgrace the office next to Andrew Jackson, so yea people are pessimistic.
Also this is the first time in our history that the youth are expected to make less than their parents. The older generation stripped away pension plans, affordable university, affordable healthcare, job stability - basically everything that was working well, and sold their kids off into student loan debt.
I agree that Trump sucks. Rhetorically, worst president. But as policies and outcomes go, there have been worse. Hoover? How about the fact that we banned alcohol for over a decade? Bush started a ruinous war on false pretenses. FDR incarcerated Japanese Americans in internment camps. LBJ and Vietnam. What about the chain of corporate owned presidents that allowed, and encouraged, outsourcing of manufacturing? That certainly hurt coronavirus response. SK and China were able to make their own PPE. US factories have dwindled over decades. Trump didn't create that mess. Clinton and Newt Gingrich did in a bipartisan sell out of the working class.
Read a history book and gain some perspective. You lack it.
By the way, you left out affordable housing. That is a huge generational theft, and is the worst in areas like California, where baby boomers used zoning laws to prevent an adequate supply of new housing from being built.
The different is that in the 90s, there was no clear evidence for pessimism about the future. The same is not true now.
Standard of living for most Americans is actually bad right now - trillions of student loan, no prospect of home ownership, no jobs, extreme income interest, weak authoritian governments,and let me know even start of climate change.
But hey, we have a new iPhone so I guess it's all fine.
That's awesome and I've tried nextdns and loved it. But - and this is just me - I just don't trust anyone to delete my logs or not log in the first place.
That's why I'll probably not move off of my pihole
They can associate the DNS calls with any VPN, too, can't they? If you use one of the 'big' commercial VPNs, I'd seriously doubt any of them are not logging at this point. They'd have already been warned due to 10's of thousands copyright violations originating from their networks, not to mention a lot of not-so-technical users, believing that they're actually anonymous, doing criminal things without realizing that the VPN logs it all.
Running your own Wireguard or OpenVPN on a cloud VPS is no solution, either. It's guaranteed that Amazon, Azure, etc. keep logs of all traffic, and will turn over the associated account without hesitation.
Is anyone aware of a VPN out there that supports PiHole-like list filtering, so you could get the best of both worlds?
Right now it feels like I have to choose:
- Use my PiHole to block all sorts of content on filtering lists that are useful in cases like blocking unwanted tracking in mobile apps, but my ISP knows everything I access
- Use a VPN, where my ISP doesn't know what I'm doing, but every web service I use can use whatever tracking it wants (except where uBlock is used and such, but you don't get that luxury with, say, Samsung Smart TVs which are notorious for phoning home)
My home network is running a VPN I can access from my phone & computers while away. The home network includes a PiHole that is running DNSCrypt (DNS over HTTPS) with Cloudflare's DNS service.
Edit: so ultimately, you'd be trusting whoever's on DNSCrypt's resolvers list. Better than trusting Comcast, in my situation.
You can do this by picking a VPN provider that supports WireGuard. In WireGuard config file, you can change the dns address to pihole. I did this so that I can use VPN + nextdns together in iOS because I can't change DNS in iOS.
The ISPs are going to log everything for sure. However I’d probably trust their incapability of putting data into <s>good/evil</s> use, comparing to professionals like google.
Despite the "selling your data" memes, Google/Facebook don't do that. They treat your data as a proprietary asset and sell services based on captive use of it. Companies like Comcast recognize their shortcomings and actually will just sell it.
I'm in the same boat with a pihole as my primary blocker, but I use NextDNS as an upstream resolver since they, of all the options, seem most likely to not log (presuming I configure it apprpriately)
Yes, because I'm sure you're the exact same person you were in high school / college, and that everything you did 15 years ago will be held as an unwavering standard of who you are as a person.
/sarcasm
(Nevertheless you might be in hs / college now...but hopefully you understand the point I'm making.)
For that reason, I mostly get books from not the most legal sources, and then buy a copy from a local bookstore. I either donate that book to a library or give it to a friend as a gift.
I get what I want while supporting a local bookstore and the author.
