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@tezoatlipoca@mas.to
2026-03-26 21:43:32

"An ad blocker is preventing this page from loading."
No, my #adblocker is preventing your #ADs from loading. The fact that the REST of your page refuses to load if the ads dont load, well that sounds like a YOU problem.

@sean@scoat.es
2026-02-22 18:55:00

Okay, I think this thing is ready-enough to tell people about it.
I made a #BBS to watch aircraft near #YUL (#Montreal airport), through my home #ADSB

The yulbbs about screen. It reads: YULBBS is powered by ADS-BBS (a pun on the ADS-B system that provides data) Both were created by Sean Coates: https://seancoates.com ssh (or telnet): yulbbs.via.sc It uses Swift, NIO, swift-nio-ssh, and dump1080 on the backend. The antenna is near CYUL, in Dorval, Quebec, a borough of Montreal. The whole thing runs on a Raspberry Pi 3 in my office networking closet. Aircraft data comes from the air, not from the net. Be nice. (Yes, I know that it's not a …
A screen shot of the “ANSI”/BBS style UI. The main “list” view of air traffic near YUL. It contains a list of featured aircraft, a chart of arrivals/departures, recent activity, and some stats.
The map view, which uses Unicode Braille characters. One plane is departing, another is arriving, and a third is not currently heuristically engaged with the airport but it’s nearby.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2026-03-14 14:56:55

This is a fantastic, factual, very technical, but readable and understandable breakdown of why and how every news website is bad UI design and decimates your device with tracking, negotiating, and modal pop up hell.
#web #ui #ux #ads #news #media

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2026-02-10 01:21:11

"Get your domain name before you lose it"
At *any* domain registrar for the TLD you want. 🤷‍♂️
#SuperBowlAds #ads #SuperBowl #truth

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2026-02-09 04:14:06

Anthropic Claude took out an ad to mock OpenAI ChatGPT for including, *checks the news again*, ads.
#irony #ads #advertisement #SuperBowl #technology #business #AI #LLM