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Does Google owe us money?

duendeintemporal — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:24:47 +0000

I'm going to reuse part of a comment I made in relation to a post by a fellow Dev community which alluded to Google's algorithm and how it somewhat arbitrarily decides whether or not a site is relevant to be placed among the search results or is even considered span. It seems to me that it is something more serious than just the impact it may cause to small businesses or personal sites, it is rather about the imposition of a market model on a rather complex habitat such as the web, with the background of knowledge as another market product and "information" subject to a guideline that supports the proposed model and clouds any alternative that arises in the process. The comment goes as follows:

“It's interesting, because I've been wanting to publish a post that narrates something similar for a while. I don't know what´s the case is in other latitudes, but at least here in Venezuela Google has long since ceased to be a reliable source of information. I remember at one time it gave a fairly high number of relevant results to any search, and now it is limited to trying to sell you some portable memory, some new technology or whatever comes to mind, but the truth is that already in the first 10 results comes a load of advertising and normally after one 15 sometimes much less stop being relevant results

It is worrying, because one can feel an interest of the giant in hiding valuable information and thus making knowledge just another market product. Another worrying thing is that in any "smart" telephone comes by default a Google application that not only spies on you, but also if you take on the task of deleting it. You find that one is almost impossible and two your phone just doesn't work properly when you disable it

I think we already have enough borders to manufacture more virtually, it seems to me that we are in time to join forces as thinking beings, to avoid not only a communicational wall, but the privatization of knowledge. Knowledge is universal, transmitting it and acquiring it is the way we have to emancipate ourselves and evolve as thinking beings. I think Google should Indemnification the general population for the way it makes use of advertising and information, skewing much of reality.

Many are unaware that a selfish can mean sending metadata hidden in the file.jpg with your location. It may seem like a trivial or unimportant fact, but when there is a whole marketing network determined to capture you for some of their brand new needs of the day to acquire. And the need for a market and a system of governments call it the Deep State or whatever you want, to maintain world control and a population focused on survival or make money to survive.

It can be a risk to life, be an environmental activist or be in search of social vindications and have an application that sends your location every so often, seconds? It is an interesting topic, because in the same way that Google hides small sites that have no relation to its commercial interests, in some way it contributes to what is consumed by the majority of the masses, which often does not go beyond sex, football, politics and religion... by unknowing other windows that could broaden their perspective and provide new nuances.

I think they owe more respect to us, and some money too…”

Now more calmly and trying to expand the information on some points. One can feel like the character played by Will Smith in Public Enemy.

One of the points that I hinted at in the commentary, but that I did not give myself the task of developing, is the informative bias and the simultaneous manufacture of passing tendencies (which is not something new), but the seriousness of the situation is that at this moment we can say that we are communicated in real time or rather partially communicated (it is worth paraphrasing the author of the book "The Visual Treat" when he talks about monopoly Web Portals, Holdings, Media, Hardware Factories and Patents, etc... and how "they control what is seen and what is not seen") and it is quite relevant to say it, because this is a community of developers very involved in the way the web is built, and even more so how interpersonal relationships converge that are increasingly subject to technology and a virtual environment.

It is important to note that even in this century and for the present day, not everyone has a computer or an internet connection or even regular access to it. Although practically anyone has a smartphone, many limit its use to a chat application or social network and are oblivious to the endless alternatives that arise at the level of applications in various areas, and how to use these as tools to develop and advance in some area.

I think that part of the problem that also affects us as developers, is that in the race to survive and go hand in hand with the reigning technologies, we are overlooking the social commitment and the dimensions that the current society in which we live is taking, which is not limited to a web environment or a circle of acquaintances. Where large transnationals, giants such as Google or passing governments, manage obscene amounts of capital and many people are forced to survive on less than $5 a week.

If we observe that it is precisely this information bias that keeps most of the mass in the dark and also undoubtedly forges future obstacles, such as many black boxes that hide the real functioning of the processes and a population enslaved to a given pattern... We find ourselves in the need to put a stop to these small power groups and initiate joint legal processes that force these transnationals and technological giants to compensate the general population of the planet, not just a small group.

Well, since there is a technology that can centralize a given context and validate a broad consensus of the population to support a legal basis, I think it is time to think together as developers how to respond to historical social problems and not limit ourselves to deploy and app. I insist Google owes us money. And knowledge must be free, freedom is about knowledge.

Does Google owe us money?

duendeintemporal — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:24:47 +0000

I think they owe more respect to us, and some money too…”

Now more calmly and trying to expand the information on some points. One can feel like the character played by Will Smith in Public Enemy.

Material UI, etc.../How much needed are bookstores like UI Material, etc...

duendeintemporal — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:58:28 +0000

Post bilingue/Post bilingual

Bueno en realidad es una pregunta que pienso muchos pueden estarse haciendo y creo algunos de ustedes tendrán una respuesta certera a la misma.

Well, it's actually a question that I think many may be asking and I think some of you will have an accurate answer to it.

Se trata de lo siguiente: Con la aparición de muchas librerías como Material UI o mui se da el caso de que se convierte en un habito viral usar ReacForm o cualquier otra librería para realizar hasta el más mínimo componente..

It is about the following: With the appearance of many libraries such as Material UI or mui it is the case that it becomes a viral habit to use ReacForm or any other library to make even the smallest component.

Aunque no puedo decir que tengo una gran experiencia en el tema es mi impresión que se abusa del uso de estas librerías y que en muchos casos no lo amerita. Por otra parte también tengo la impresión de que obrar de este modo al igual que otras tantas herramientas que "facilitan" el trabajo, también se presta para empobrecer la capacidad analítica de los desarrolladores, así como la comprensión de muchos procesos y la desvinculación con los lenguajes matrices que hacen posibles estas librerías.

Although I can not say that I have a great experience in the subject is my impression that the use of these libraries is abused and that in many cases it does not merit it. On the other hand, I also have the impression that acting in this way, like so many other tools that "facilitate" the work, also lends itself to impoverishing the analytical capacity of developers, as well as the understanding of many processes and the disconnection with the matrix languages that make these libraries possible.

Si bien pueden ahorrar mucho tiempo en ocasiones y ayudar con el factor responsive, también generan un tipo de modorra mental, incluso ensucian el código con muchos tacks adicionales que podrían muy bien caber en solo una etiqueta con el nombre del componente, sin contar el proceso de cargar la librería con su coste adicional...

While they can save a lot of time sometimes and help with the responsive factor, they also generate a kind of mental drowsiness, even dirtying the code with many additional tacks that could very well fit into just a label with the name of the component, not counting the process of loading the library with its additional cost...

Sumado a que implica en muchos casos entender como hacer uso de la misma o problemas de incompatibilidad... como me ha pasado con mui al intentar integrar typescript u otras librerías que hacen uso de typos a un proyecto ya avanzado... Me gustaría conocer la opinión de la comunidad al respecto y buscar en esos comentarios luces al tema.

In addition to the fact that it implies in many cases understanding how to make use of it or incompatibility problems... As has happened to me with MUI when trying to integrate Typescript or other libraries that make use of typos to an already advanced project... I would like to know the opinion of the community about it and look in those comments light to the subject.

Para cerrar me gustaría dejar una reflexión. Es común en el día a día o en nuestra historia de vida, toparnos con situaciones que si bien nos parece que implican más un despropósito que un propósito en su razón de ser o no necesariamente se justifican, suelen formar parte de la practica común por un tema de costumbre o porque son una especie de caos normalizado...

To close I would like to leave a reflection. It is common in the day to day or in our life history, to run into situations that although it seems to us that they imply more a nonsense than a purpose in their reason for being or are not necessarily justified, they are usually part of the common practice for a matter of habit or because they are a kind of normalized chaos...

Quizás este ultimo párrafo se presta para pensar que es un ataque directo al uso de estas librerías mas no es el caso, pretende al menos ir un poco más allá.. he podido ser testigo de muchos compañeros de algún curso de la universidad que no solo hacían uso del copy paste de una manera bastante desapasionada(por ponerle un termino), pues a veces no tenía sentido ni siquiera la suma de textos que copiaban, sino que esto se prestaba a que su aprendizaje fuera tan virtual como los datos que guarda la ram cuando hay un corto de luz o se cuelga el equipo...

Perhaps this last paragraph lends itself to thinking that it is a direct attack on the use of these libraries but it is not the case, it intends to at least go a little further. I have been able to witness many classmates of some course of the university who not only made use of copy paste in a rather dispassionate way (to put a term), because sometimes it did not make sense even the sum of texts they copied, but this lent itself to their learning being as virtual as the data stored by RAM when there is a short light or the equipment hangs...

Entonces pienso tenemos cierta responsabilidad al normalizar o no el uso de ciertas herramientas, en evaluar las ventajas y desventajas de las mismas y en velar en cierta forma por generaciones más tempranas para las cuales tecnologías como GPT o librerías y aplicaciones que crean componentes con un click... no pierdan el contacto y el conocimiento de muchos procesos que cada vez más se van encapsulando en pro y aras de un gran mercado de consumo y una obsolecencia programada implicita que obliga a deshacerse de cosas aún utiles o cosas diseñadas para no ser utiles y ser desechadas en un lapso de vida muy breve... con lo que pueda implicar esto al ecosistema, la humanidad, otras especies y nuestra propia calidad de vida y la de nuestros hijos, sobrinos, amiguitos de venir...

So I think we have a certain responsibility to standardize or not the use of certain tools, to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of them and to ensure in a certain way for earlier generations for which technologies such as GPT or libraries and applications that create components with a click... Do not lose touch and knowledge of many processes that are increasingly encapsulated for the sake of a large consumer market and an implicit planned obsolescence that forces you to get rid of things still useful or things designed to be not useful and to be discarded in a very short span of life... with what this may imply to the ecosystem, humanity, other species and our own quality of life and that of our children, nephews, friends to come...

Muchas gracias.

Thanks a lot.

A Way To Improve Your Layout Building Process using CSS

duendeintemporal — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 09:34:50 +0000

Well, Hi.

I don´t have too much time coding, but I find some things that I think improve my daily work, so I want to share it.

One of these things is the fact that you can make, for example: is create two css class say bg_test and bg_test_in that holds different background: properties colors of the background of the hole page and assign it to each container and it's children:

For example make the structure: container or wrapper and it's inside boxes. So the big containers will have de bg_test class(f. e. header, section, a div component container, etc..) and the children of these containers the bg_test_in(f. e. h1, span, p, a inside div, etc...) class. And then you just have to give a width and height property to each element to see how is fixing your layout adjust it to your needs.

Another thing could be, make an estimate of which is the equivalent in pixels of 1 view port width and height(say 13,64px/7,4px per 1vw/1vh) and then convert your units to vw or vh to make it more responsive... In these matter I find that some times is better work only with vw cause is some one resizes the screen only in the horizontal line it will make distortion in your pattern. It's my appreciation at least.

It's pretty simple, but it make my life simple... So I hope it's help you.