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Re: There's an app for that

Postby Bert » Thu Jun 30, 2016 10:10 pm

TraffickCam is an app for Android and iOS that lets you help police stop sex traffickers. Whenever you are staying at a hotel, you open the app and enter your hotel name and room number, then take a couple pictures of your room. These photos are entered into a database that law enforcement will use to compare with photos posted by traffickers advertising their "merchandise". Hotel furniture is custom built, so spotting an identical chair or desk can narrow down where a picture was taken to a specific chain and region. If you could share this app with people you know to help expand the database, that would be cool.
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Re: There's an app for that

Postby NathanLoiselle » Fri Jul 01, 2016 2:17 am

Is your penis two sizes too large?
No, really. Is your penis two sizes too large?
Well, guess what!
There's an app for that.
Just go to your friendly Android or iOS store and download Tinder.
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Re: There's an app for that

Postby satan_n_stuff » Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:41 pm

cmsellers wrote:
reallifegirl wrote:Also, a similar app exists by the same people to help you find a nearby bar, appropriately called Where the Fuck Should I Go to Drink?.

So "Where the Fuck Should I Go to Fuck?" was a bit on the nose for them?

There are already apps for finding people to fuck.
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Re: There's an app for that

Postby cmsellers » Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:54 pm

satan_n_stuff wrote:
cmsellers wrote:So "Where the Fuck Should I Go to Fuck?" was a bit on the nose for them?

There are already apps for finding people to fuck.

Right. People, not places.
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Re: There's an app for that

Postby Malfeasinator » Sat Jul 02, 2016 2:20 am

NathanLoiselle wrote:Is your penis two sizes too large?
No, really. Is your penis two sizes too large?
Well, guess what!
There's an app for that.
Just go to your friendly Android or iOS store and download Tinder.


http://www.theonion.com/article/ugly-man-with-huge-penis-unsure-how-to-get-the-wor-3222
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Re: There's an app for that

Postby cmsellers » Thu Jan 16, 2020 7:38 pm

I block scripts on news websites, and that has the effect of disabling 95%+ of newspaper paywalls. The big exceptions are Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, and my strategy also means that I often can't see images and definitely can't read interactive articles; WaPo in particular is fond of those.

Well, about a month ago, I needed to access the full text of three Wall Street Journal articles, and it had to be those exact articles. (Why is not important.) The first thing I found was a Chrome addon which entered a deal with WSJ to give its users infinitely-renewable free monthly passes, but that no longer works.

Then I discovered a Firefox addon called "Bypass Paywalls." Mozilla, unfortunately, has banned it from the store (they actually banned it back in 2008) but the devs have kept it up-to-date and you can install it from GitHub, which I did.

I can confirm that it works with WSJ. I can also confirm that it works with WaPo to bypass paywalls, however in enabling scripts to view interactive articles, I also enable their adblocker blocker. But if you're not using an adblocker or script blocker, it might work for you on WaPo too.
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Re: There's an app for that

Postby NathanLoiselle » Thu Jan 16, 2020 10:05 pm

You were practicing being a mad scientist. Weren't you Sellars? Admit it. That's why you needed those three specific articles.
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Re: There's an app for that

Postby cmsellers » Thu Jan 16, 2020 10:22 pm

NathanLoiselle wrote:You were practicing being a mad scientist. Weren't you Sellars? Admit it. That's why you needed those three specific articles.

In a manner of speaking... I plead the Fifth.
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Re: There's an app for that

Postby cmsellers » Sun Mar 29, 2020 3:50 pm

I find it really annoying how watermarked stock images dominate Google Image results for some searches, and are ubiquitous in all of them. I also have a personal objection to Google indexing stock photos, given that A. many of the smaller stock image companies are basically copyright trolls (they don't so much make money from licensing their images as by suing people for violating their licenses), and B. Getty images sued Google for caching its images and forced Google to stop providing a link to images. Google was how they got most of their users at that point, but they still forced Google and all its users to provide them revenue on their terms.

After the Getty thing, I determined that neither Google nor Bing has any option to filter out stock photos. Helpful people all over the internet will note that you can filter images by license, and I generally already do that if I'm going to reuse and/or modify an image (I will use images I don't have the license for if I can't find a free one, but never, ever from stock image sites), but if I just want to see what something looks like, I'd still prefer not to look at watermarked stock photos.

Well, after another fun round of "can I find an image of this without a watermark?" I decided to see if there's any image search engine that will let you exclude stock photos. I can't find any—there's a lot of people out there who share my hatred of stock photos, though with a variety of reasons, but evidently not enough for any search company to cater to us—but I did discover that there's an addon for Chrome and Firefox which filters stock images out of Google Image searches. I don't know how, but hallelujah it appears to work!
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Re: There's an app for that

Postby NathanLoiselle » Sun Mar 29, 2020 6:04 pm

Boy Sellars. You seem to get annoyed alot.
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