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19·26 days agoThis is a serious problem for the Internet. While there are sites like https://512kb.club/ (it features lightweight websites with content), but there’s not an easy way to learn about new or niche sites.
According to https://growthbadger.com/traffic-study/ from April 5, 2020 (yes, it’s 6 years old)
What 3.25 Billion Website Visits Tell Us About the Internet’s Top Traffic Sources
- Search is the single largest online traffic source, driving well over 50% of most industries’ web traffic.
- Google drives 8 times more traffic than all social media networks combined.
- The average top blog gets 66.47% of its traffic from search, of which 99.77% is organic and only 0.23% is paid.
- In almost every industry, Facebook still sends more traffic than all other social networks. The two exceptions are Design and Development (for which the top network is YouTube) and Crypto (for which it is Twitter).
- The niche that is most reliant on Google is Health and Medical, with 87.85% of its traffic coming from search.
- The niche that is least reliant on Google is Crypto, with 45.74% of its traffic coming from search.
- Facebook delivers 65.36% of all social media traffic: more visits per month than all other social networks combined.
- Instagram drives very little traffic: under 1% overall across all niches. Even fashion and beauty brands that were launched by Instagram influencers (e.g. Kylie Cosmetics) receive less than 5% of their monthly visits from Instagram — while search brings in about 10 times as many.
- The niche that is most reliant on Facebook is Business and Marketing, which gets 13.52% of its traffic from the network.
- Reddit drives over 3 times as much traffic to blogs as YouTube.
“Yeah, but it’s great for Limbo parties, once.”
It’s the assumption that what works for me will work for you. Situations change. Markets change. Skill relevancy changes (ask IT workers).
As for university in Romania, I can’t speak to that. What I can say about it in the US is:
“Go to college and get a good job.” sounds great until you go to an elite school for a Sociology degree. Oh, you’ve got a law degree? The firm expects you to work pro-bono to establish yourself. Work for little pay while establishing yourself while paying off student debt.
and not just students at elite schools.
https://fortune.com/2026/04/03/experience-creep-jobs-ai-entry-level/
Bottom line: have a couple of career paths/options.
1·2 months agoYou can be bored to death and amused to death, too.
I didn’t mean to imply that they had elderly parents, I just meant that is something to consider if they did.
If you’re young and your parents aren’t old, it’s doable.
It’s also doable when you have siblings to take care of older parents. I know you say “Most of our families will be gone in a few years.” But what if in less than that time they need care?
Relocating back to where your elderly parents are, especially if you’re older can be a hassle. For example, if you are 50 years old and your parents are 75 years old, and they need a caretaker, you would need to relocate, and get a new job later in life (often at a pay decrease).
Cliff Clavin approves.
5·2 months agoBook series? Try Michael Moorcock’s Elric series.
… Ah, here we go
Shake it, shake, shake it (uh, oh), shake it, shake, shake it
Shake it, shake, shake it, shake it, shake it (uh, oh)
Shake it like a Polaroid picture, (hey ya)…
Looking at the pros and the cons, it must be the opposite of CONstitution.
…I’ll see myself out.
Using a card catalog at the library to look up books.
Knee pillow. I’m a side sleeper and my hips began to hurt. It was about $10. It’s amazing to think how much a little knee separation can relieve your hips and lower back.
2·4 months agoSince you’re in the EU, I am unsure which are accessible to you. But I’ll start with the BBC and give you some options.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7ypw4rjrzo
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/fires-erupt-in-south-central-chile/
Analog clocks. Digital is so much easier.
Fillings and crowns. The dentist will regrow teeth.
Flashlights. You mean you carry a lighting device that does nothing else, when your phone can do that plus a million other things?
Keys. We’ll likely carry a fob for most things. They’ll be programmable to allow us to adapt to our locks, like a universal TV remote.
Fax machines in government. Someone in government will finally realize scan to email is so much cleaner.
I guess it depends how common your last name is where you live. If you’re a Smith/Johnson/Brown/Williams in the USA, those are pretty common. If you’ve got one of those names in China, maybe a name change is in order.
If your last name is Summerbell, that’s a bit rare, and maybe you need to distance yourself.
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You want to work remotely in tech. I would look at places such as https://www.indeed.com/q-Remote-Tech-jobs.html?vjk=7909b7463088bb3a
Look at which certs they want and how much experience they want. Look at the salary. Look at the quality of life (are you on call 24/7?).
You may find that remote cybersecurity jobs are not plentiful. I searched “cyber security entry level” and Remote and found 2. I removed remote and found 300+ jobs.
1 has flexible hours and wants (likely requires) experience in Version control as well as Sec+
The other is full time, and wants a valid SSCP certification*, a bachelor’s degree, and experience in operating systems.
The future is always changing what people do. In 1100 AD blacksmithing was a reliable career, and it remained that way into the 1800s. The 20th century kind of messed that career path down to a niche group. Blue collar work (be it construction, plumbing, etc.) so far has been pretty reliable.
Fixed it. Sorry.