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I think there are much better social media platforms for sharing clips. From what I've seen, most of Twitter is people angrily typing opinions at each other, so your target demographic may not be there. The UI is designed for text rather than video, and responses/reactions don't integrate nicely with videos.

Sharing game clips on video-oriented social media makes a tonne sense, however.

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It will vary by actor. For example, the US military doesn't like Strava because of its social running feature.

You need to think of the threat model for different actors and groups. There's a lot of talk now about menstrual tracking for women in the US. Most of it won't be obvious.

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The data has costs associated with it: they'll want to back it up, they need to migrate it when they change formats, they need to maintain the hardware it resides on.

And, as the article mentions, there are liabilities around law enforcement requests, costs due to data breaches, and regulatory requirements.

Three months is plenty for them to target ads.

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I guess they're discovering that your grocery store trip on Feb 17, 2017 does not help them target ads.

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That was an interesting read. Thanks for linking to it.

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That's pretty interesting. It looks like they define inaccessible links as urls that get a 404 or the server doesn't resolve.

I wonder if there are any real implications of this. We seem to know it and work around it in some cases, e.g. StackOverflow saying answers need to contain quotes from pages they reference.

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needing a login that would require an email address is sketchy as hell on the surface, and there's no explanation given.

The link to the explanation is right beside the text saying you need an account.

https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-address/

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from the other side

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Don't

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yes

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That's like 1670 kilometres per hour at the equator.

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First Red! Now the fish!?

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https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/a0ecb4cb-1419-4d4d-8e3d-0104a0b08387.jpeg

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sadly, doge is bad at math

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I highly recommend leaving them alone during mating season.

My idea for Vdl, Assembly of Vidya: A common runtime VM for vidya, supporting a postfix stack language ---- basically, PostScript for vidya of 'Vidya Description Language', an standardized one!

I began programming when I was 16 and like most people my age (31) it was with some gaming-related DSL. Personally for me it was GML. I made a tetris game which my younger brother played to death but ever since the closest interest I have to vidya is Ncurses and X11. Which makes me think, why is there not such standard for...

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I'm really distracted by your use of the word "pedophile":

PostScript is the predecessor of pedophile language, like cat a PDF file

And

Pedophile and PS are 'page description languages'.

Did you mean "Portable Document Format" when you said "pedophile"? Or is there a typesetting language out there with a really unfortunate name?

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I don't think software releases tell the story. From a non-mod perspective, Lemmy is an okay Reddit replacement.

But, recently, there seem to be fewer non-bot posts. The communities I follow have a handful of active users. It feels like it's stagnant at best.

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From a comment on the original: https://fogofworld.app/

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She transcended Typescript and went to AssemblyScript. She finished the type management on her own, but she can't escape her own flesh.

If she has offspring, they'll be pure WASM.

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SHUT IT DOWN! SHUT IT DOWN!

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What's the itty bitty warhead on your tinsy winsy missile, Mr. Rabbit?

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things want to mimic the X interface and that promotes more following of individuals and whatever they post about rather than ideas. I do much better over here because you follow a general topic and the posts are about that thing or related things

That's a really insightful comment. I bounce off Twitter/Mastodon, but really enjoy the Reddit/Lemmy interface. The focus on topics rather than people is probably why.

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I'm too lazy to read this, but the title fits my preconceptions. 👍

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Low effort but honest Lemmy users unite!

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Why, I couldn't even get into the article before it faded into a paywall.

I get people want to be paid but splashing cash on every page is not the internet as I knew it.

Speaking solely about news, the Internet as you knew it was unsustainable. For the first decade or so of online news, the ad-supported newspaper publishing business subsidized free online news, because they couldn't figure out payment.

Then Google and the other ad-tech companies took the advertising dollars, and the old publishing companies took on debt to try and switch to ad-supported online publications. And failed miserably.

Then the old publishing started running out of money, and slowly switched to online first.

The remaining published are a shadow of themselves, drowning in debt, and low readership.

There are alternative models that sort of work, maybe, but they haven't gone mainstream. They're held back by the belief that content should be free.

If platforms like flattr had taken off then the conversation would probably be different.

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Stuff like the Fairphone Buds seems like a good alternative.

Like other commenters here, I got something like three years out of my AirPods until they wouldn't hold a charge.

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I found one of mine developed a crackle after a year. It would eventually go away if I put it in the case and took it out a few times which seemed kind of silly.

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c/ncd is over there 👉

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I was expecting something more risque

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🤫

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And it's definitely "multi"

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(⌐■_■)

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I'm not into home automation, but if I was, I'd much prefer a locally running solution that didn't involve tech giants. I hope this works out.

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I'm glad the sword is looking out for her.

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using a VPN ultimately consists in trusting the company providing the VPN service that it won't be fucking around with your privacy. Considering that all your traffic goes through it, that's a lot of trust to place in one company.

Is that any different than the trust we place in our ISPs?

I agree with you. I fully expect my ISP/VPN provider to sell my traffic data, but I don't see the value in paying a VPN do to it.

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can someone make it stop

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An alternate title could be:

LLM companies should pay creators for training data

It sounds like they need tonnes of data to train the models, so that would have a significant effect on the business model.

(There's also the question of the quality of the data)

Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)

A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....

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Presumably it would evaluate claims in the text without the user having to do the search. Sounds cool to me.

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that's a lot of rats

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this won't end well for the penguin nation

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maybe wind was blowing other way

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I love the idea of paying for a high quality service that I use, but Kagi was significantly worse than Google. I searched for local businesses, programming questions, and general knowledge stuff.

I'll try it again in a year or two and see if it works for me.

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This time! This time it's really happening!

(maybe)

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Your phone is being tracked by cell towers. It doesn't matter what features you disable for yourself, as long as your phone is connected to the cell network, it is a corpo tracking device.

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don't risk it

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Thank you for explaining that. I've got a lot to think about now.

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Yeah. I've avoided that shit since it leaked out. And here I am behind the curve.

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