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Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” (www.theverge.com)
Reddit’s signed AI licensing deals with Google and OpenAI.
Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account
I've been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently I've given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. It's unreal how strict the requirements are now....
PSA: Twitch Shadowbans Users on VPN + Linux
If you notice your chat messages show up in the chat feed but don't appear on the streamers in-screen chat, you have been shadowbanned....
Anyone adding "poison pills" to their images and text to thwart AI tracking?
Is it fairly easy? Seems useful for a public site like Lemmy and the fediverse...
"Amazon and Walmart are excessively watching their warehouse workers. So much so that they’ve entered a dystopic era of extreme surveillance" (www.instagram.com)
DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers (www.wired.com)
Curious about everyone's thoughts on this....
'Pay or Okay' explained: Why more and more websites make you pay for your privacy - noyb (noyb.eu)
Biden and Trump are the same (lemmygrad.ml)
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4214378...
Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected | Aalto University (www.aalto.fi)
New study shows that the default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off
You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Both President Biden and the White House have enabled the Fediverse integration on Threads.
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" (wedistribute.org)
Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
Real-world CO2 emissions of cars are 20% higher than indicated. For plug-in hybrids they are 250% higher. (climate.ec.europa.eu)
EDIT clarifications:...
After appeal to Musk, X suspends accounts that outed neo-Nazi cartoonist (arstechnica.com)
Researchers, journalists are blocked from sharing the alleged identity of Stonetoss.
Lemmy.ml is supposedly blocked in China (emacs.ch)
Funny if true.
Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...