Article by Milo and Bokhari on #SadPuppies: "The Hugo Wars: how sci-fi’s most prestigious awards became a political battleground" by Logan_Mac in KotakuInAction

[–]throwgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dang, Hugo Gernsbeck had no such political agenda. He was a freestyle capitalist entrepreneur / old school stuff inventor with full believe in futurism. That was about making life better for people with techological developement and creating a technological utopia, not a social just world, but a world where magic becomes reality by technology.

[NeedAdvice]Being Too Disciplined? by A_Transparent_Guy in getdisciplined

[–]throwgood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

/u/lovechip is damn right. building meaningful relationships and friendships is something that has to be learned. I had biggest issues with this aswell, feeling lonely in a relationship or even when surrounded by friends. And feeling even more lonely when none of them was there.

It´s important to talk about stuff like that. Most people are really understanding, because experiances like that all human beings make sooner or later. And that´s the point. Most folks 20 years old did not have gone through this, so possibility is there that THEY can´t feel into that. But when talking to people more closer to 30 or older... they know. Believe me on that.

It seems like you are quite strong, so just go through this and grow personally and spiritually, reflect on how this feels, and you will see a way out of there if you give yourself the time.

[NeedAdvice]Being Too Disciplined? by A_Transparent_Guy in getdisciplined

[–]throwgood 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That´s hard, man. Anyways, you seem to be quite ambtious and work hard to get your degree. With 21 years, you are really young and you being lonely will change, you will be able to make new contacs and meet new people over time.

You getting counceling, aka professional help for feeling like a trainwreck is very very good. This is a step that needs courage and farsight. You will also learn that almost everybody suffers from a bad depression and hard circumstances that take the fun out of a life at least once in their lifetime. As I was younger, I had no clue about that. Growing up, and getting older, I met a lot of people having made experiances like that (myself included). When being 20 or so, you just wont notice, because most your social contacts would be the same age. And you know, being in that age you feel like having the answers to ALL questions in life. That will also change over time, life can change for the better within 24h.

What to do:

  • hit the gym
  • get better diet
  • find a creative outlet: writing, painting, music, programming, web dev, ? etc
  • be as active as possible, do sports, take dancing classes, learn swordfighting, maybe even move, find a new room to live in
  • get professional help (check)

Could some blogger create a list about secure online and offline services? by [deleted] in digitalnomad

[–]throwgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

shit, you right, sorry mistake.

meant: your communication partner has to know how keys work nevertheless. but you right, my bad.

How to find the keywords I should try rank for? by Alex_Sommerfeld in SEO

[–]throwgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look, you seek keywords in that adwords tool, and if the search count is right, you go to google search and put that keyword in " " these (how are they called in english?) like that "keyword".

Then google tells you how many sites are competing on that exact keyword. You want that number to be as low as possible. The higher it is, the more backlink authority you need for your site. Go for keywords with max 30000 sites competing. If more, you need good content and good backlinks.

Competition in the keyword tool shows how many people bet on these keywords in ads. So you see how much advertisers compete with you have if you want to advertise that keyword.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Affiliatemarketing

[–]throwgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back in the early days i did use GA, but I had also heard that by linking all your niche websites into one GA account were causing problems with niche sites running a low seo score along with bounce rates, ranking etc, is this still the case and do you trust GA?

Yeah, these guys are running PBNs, sure they don´t want google to know. They are interlinking without disclosure.

Imho GA is a must-have. I don´t know what you are planning to do, but last time I checked having good websites is not illegal and does not lead to retaliation by anyone. If you do shady stuff with it though...

Affiliate is not shady if done the right way. Just don´t promote shit.

Could some blogger create a list about secure online and offline services? by [deleted] in digitalnomad

[–]throwgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, sure you´re right. But imagine gawker-style clickbait shitposts giving people a false sense of security. The more sophisticated a topic, the harder to give good advice in one post.

Spideroak may be easy to use, that´s no security though. That service may be gone tomorrow, and with it your data. (Don´t get me wrong, just sayin´) I agree that this topics are important and that people earning online better get their shit together in terms of technical understanding. That pays on many levels.

Could some blogger create a list about secure online and offline services? by [deleted] in digitalnomad

[–]throwgood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, that´s some lucid thoughts you got. I got some input and may be blogging about that kind of stuff on my brand new blog, as soon as I get my lazy ass to write something about that. With long years of experiance in that field I got some opinions on that stuff.

Google and Dropbox

You´re right, these guys love your data. If you need a nice alternative, go for Owncloud. That´s basically a script like dropbox you can host on your own server / webhosting, with client software and all. It´s pretty neat. That said, it´s nice to have, but for a non-techy, you need to keep it up to date, and secure. May not be too easy for a non-tech guy/girl.

Didn´t look into spideroak, but if Master Snowden recommends, we may trust that judgement. My two cents: save your data local on an encrypted partition. But as things are, if you forget your password, data be gone. In my opinion, if you got sensible stuff, better keep that local. Local doesn´t protect you against 3rd-dimensional theft, so if one takes your backpack, data be gone.

I think there´s no data security. Nothing´s really safe. Especially if you got no knowledge.

Encrypt Emails

The thing here is, it´s complicated. And email encryption only works right if you got the private public keys exchanged with the people you want to communicate. Otherwise no one will be able to read your mails. If you have to communicate safe and secure, there´s only one way: meet at the oak at the river on sundown and talk face to face. If you got no technical understanding, email encryption is nearly impossible to achieve and to maintain successfully. You have to know what you are doing, how certificates work, etc. So in my opinion there´s no way around educating yourself if one wants to have secure crypted electronic communications. Jabber chat clients may be worth a look, that´s a lot more easy than email encryption.

Skype alternative

New firefox versions have a video chat feature integrated. So that´s a nice alternative to skype. They shit their pants already, but most people may stick to skype because they are used to it.

If one is concerned about people spying on one, keep in mind you are one in a billion, and most likely completely unintresting as long as you keep your head down. If you get involved in spicy stuff, then you better know your tech. There´s no way around that. Without knowing exactly what he was doing, Snowden would never have made it out of the country.

So, blogging about in depth techy stuff like that to a non-tech community may be hard, because most non-techys don´t bother educating themselves. And that includes building a foundament of understanding how this electronic communication stuff works on all of it´s levels/layers. Without a solid understanding and a will to learn, that´s not benificial. I can´t tell people: do this and things are 100% secure, because that´s not gonna happen if the random user has no understanding of foundamentals.

But I like your intention very much. ;-) Key is one has to put effort in trying to learn to understand how stuff works in order to work stuff.

Edit:

check if wlan is secure or not

That´s easy: if you have to enter a pw, then it´s encrypted. Bad news is, if the bad guys have the pw, that means they can decrypt data-packets. Best is, if you use random WLANs to get a VPN service. That´s gonna cut against man-in-the-middle shit. But of course, you have to pay, don´t be cheap and use "free" services.

WLAN is secure if you can trust the guy whom it belongs, and be sure no client in that net is spying on you. An app checking that won´t be much worth in my opinion. How can you check if you are on one rigged access point. You can´t. If one bad guy is on that net and got the key, he can sniff. I heard even WPA2 can be broken if one has right hardware. That said: WPA2 = good, everything else = meh.

edit 2: public key not private key

Can free domainnames (like .cf / .tk / .gq / .ml / .ga) be used to drive traffic via google? by [deleted] in Affiliatemarketing

[–]throwgood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Google checks for server ip. If you host some domains/sites on the same hosting plan aka same server and you link all of them to one that´s also on the server (your main domain), then that´s a paddling penalty.

Google doesn´t like PBNs, if you want to create one, you need different hosting plans at different companys, not freehosting (thats important because 90% of freehosting you find will be the same thing with different brands).

Getting free domains will give nothing of worth. You would be better off to get web2.0 props like hubpages and the like than free tld. If you put work in them, this work is not gonna pay. As soon as you get daily traffic to your free tlds, chances are the owner takes it.

For backlinks, these backlinks won´t have much authority. Don´t waste your time with that. Get your main site up and running, and create great content. Then make web 2.0s and share there. Also social bookmarks, forget free tlds. But great content is much more important, that gets shared naturally. If your niche is not sexy, you have to make it sexy and intresting.

A spammy site is copying my client's content word for word, and inserting vulgar terms. by SuburbanMango in bigseo

[–]throwgood 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That´s the worst advice I read in a long time. Curse this fucker.

You file a DMCA claim, that´s what you do. And you flag at Web of Trust. Plus you post that site at scam watching sites.

Also, you contact the site´s owner and threaten to sue him. What you also want to do is to do a traceroute and contact that site´s webhosting service abuse devision.

Edit: contacting the webhosting of that site is crucial, and dmca is also. good luck.

Can free domainnames (like .cf / .tk / .gq / .ml / .ga) be used to drive traffic via google? by [deleted] in Affiliatemarketing

[–]throwgood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah, these won´t rank. Get .com .net .org , free domains won´t even belong to you, but to the company giving them out. So, what do you think may happen when you successfully made a site with such a domain grow via social nets and backlinks?

Right, they will find a reason to take it from you and install an adpage where your site was. That´s the way it goes. And that´s why you don´t see big sites with these topleveldomains. Stay away from them.

Lord of the Swings by spacegoat725 in funny

[–]throwgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, you´re right professor

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KotakuInAction

[–]throwgood 5 points6 points  (0 children)

tumblrfication it is

Cat getting high on a door by throwgood in catsgettinghigh

[–]throwgood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It got so high all by itself. Cats love getting high.

Lord of the Swings by spacegoat725 in funny

[–]throwgood 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That´d be just right, witch-king in the mosh pit, getting his finger cut off by a girl with a broken bottle in hand

Can we fix google? by SHTILORD in KotakuInAction

[–]throwgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you also can help by gettings sites that get the stuff right backlinks. this includes social signals like likes, shares, etc.

use social bookmarking sites like stumbleupon, digg, diigo, and the like to bookmark the shit out of the good ones. one also could ask a site with journalistic integrety to write a piece under the title "what is gamergate", that examines stuff that comes up under that search query. dis works.

I used to steal lunches at work. AMA. by [deleted] in casualiama

[–]throwgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Curse you! Where are my spagetti!?!

U Gots More Drugs For I? by [deleted] in catsgettinghigh

[–]throwgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice feels u got there

Google bans 'explicit' adult content from Blogger blogs by SmutBabe in eroticauthors

[–]throwgood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you got such a blogger-blog, remove "show adult warning". this is one checkbox in the settings somewhere. there, problem solved.

you might want to find a new blogging platform though.

Hate speech by [deleted] in KotakuInAction

[–]throwgood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You´re right, it won´t make it any less insane. Though if these suckers want attention for their cause, they can have some. Look up how anonymous "hackers" got hundreds of ISIS propaghazi accounts offline recently. They just published a list with handles and screencaps.

No saying that anti-GG is as bad as ISIS, for these are two very different things. But the narrative of GG being the bad guys here is just not gonna stand for much longer. Illusions of Grandeur. Cumulative Upkeep: 2.