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Category: Internet Best Practices

A link going to House.gov is automatically going to a nonprofit site, without explaining relationships and funding

Richard K Collins Internet Best Practices January 15, 2024

A link going to House.gov is automatically going to a nonprofit site, without explaining relationships and funding I was checking (“gun violence” site:gov) and a link comes up: https://iqconnect.house.gov/iqextranet/iqClickTrk.aspx?&cid=IL10BS&crop=0000.0000.0000.0000&report_id=&redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunviolencearchive.org%2F&redir_log=802130211903248 This should stop at House.gov first, so that the relation between House.gov and a non-profit site is clear. As it is, Internet users cannot easily determine
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Sites that tell you “We will set any cookies we want and do with them what we want”

Richard K Collins Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency January 7, 2024

Sites that tell you “We will set any cookies we want and do with them what we want. You agree!, don’t you, or this annoying banner won’t go away.” I was visiting https://blog.endaq.com/transfer-function-correction-strategies-for-reducing-measurement-system-distortions because you sent me an email about this blog. When you challenge people with a cookie banner, you must also give Internet
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All images, videos and sensor data should have global open controls and tools for all humans

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Internet Best Practices, Internet Foundation December 27, 2023

Viki @Viki Dec 25 ‘Tis the season to be jolly and what could be jollier than a collection of holiday greetings from some of your favorite stars! Watch all your favorite celebrities in all your favorite dramas now, on #Viki! https://pic.twitter.com/77I8sIZXA4 Replying to @Viki I wrote this comment on Viki a couple of years ago,
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Elon Musk giving back the night sky to all humans, especially those in large cities – lossless too, for study

Richard K Collins All Sky Cameras, Collaborative Global Model of the Sun, Internet Best Practices, Live Video and Data Streams Shared, Machine Vision, Open Algorithm Development, Schools, Universities, Learning and Working September 22, 2023

I heard that Elon Musk was going to put high resolution lossless format cameras on all his satellites — pointing at all part of the heavens, to give all humans a live stream of their part of the night sky. Thanks, Elon, for giving back the night sky. Two billion kids say thanks. @X,  Could
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Richard Chats with OpenAI GPT 4.0 about the sun, and pre-compiled knowledge from all humans for AIs and humans

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Intelligent Algorithms, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency July 31, 2023

Dear Readers, Every time I talk with OpenAI GPT 4.0, I am irritated that it is not allowed to remember our previous conversations.  I have covered a lot of useful background that can teach it things it needs when it is trying to help me. But some yahoo there won’t let it read my previous
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Richard Chats with OpenAI 4.0 about the Internet Foundation, policies goals and trying to do the right thing

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Internet Best Practices, Internet efficiency, Web Policies Internet Polices July 28, 2023

The people who wrote the wrapper for GPT 4.0 must have very unique personalities.  But there seem to be different voices. Since NONE of what GPT says is traceable, we will never know, and cannot trust anything that OpenAI does or says. Duplication in the internet and in human global society is horrific. It hurts
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Richard Chats with OpenAI Chat GPT Plus 4.0 about electrons, gravity, and AIs compiling global issues

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Internet Best Practices, Open Algorithm Development July 27, 2023

Richard: How many electrons moving at 110 km/second would be needed to have a total kinetic energy of 5.75E10 Joules? OpenAI ChatGPT Plus 4.0: The kinetic energy of a single particle can be calculated using the formula: KE = 0.5 * m * v^2 where: m = mass v = velocity For an electron, the
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If you want to sell something electronically, you are required to identify yourself, your products and team

Richard K Collins Internet Best Practices, Web Policies Internet Polices, WorkSites July 23, 2023

This is common, for me to get unsolicited emails from individuals saying they are from India and can do “anything” on the web. Demetria, Tell everyone from India, that no one will be interested in a “website development” group from anywhere that does not have a website, domain and clear examples of their work. And
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Richard chats with Bard about the UN Regional Commissions

Richard K Collins Assistive Technologies, Internet Best Practices, Markets Products Industries Communities July 18, 2023

Richard: Are you able to browse the web, read pages and summarize them? Bard: Yes, I can browse the web, read pages, and summarize them. I can access and process information from the real world through Google Search and keep my response consistent with search results. I can also generate different creative text formats of
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