PeriodicallyPedantic
@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 9 hours ago:
Maybe I already piss so loud I don’t need it 😏
- Comment on Everyone look! I got a picture of the Rosetta Stone 19 hours ago:
I don’t get it
And isn’t the Rosetta stone meant to have a bunch of writing on it?
Somehow this makes me want to carve a QR code into a stone.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 19 hours ago:
Who tf is choosing anything but pink?!?
- Comment on I'm just a 20 year old guy, AMA 21 hours ago:
Lucky
- Comment on I'm just a 20 year old guy, AMA 21 hours ago:
I mean you already know the A/S
- Comment on I'm just a 20 year old guy, AMA 21 hours ago:
What’s it like to have functioning knees (I forget)
- Comment on New social experiment 21 hours ago:
Nakedgirls-momdontlook
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 21 hours ago:
Lucy does keep saying that she is always listening rather ominously
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 1 day ago:
I doubt it.
The kind of data used for “wrapped” type summaries are usually the kind of data that users want to be tracked because it powers features they want.
Like Spotify wrapped is based of Spotify play history, and being able to see your recently played songs is a feature people want.
Duolingo wrapped is based on lesson progress, and it has to track your progress else it doesn’t know what lesson you’re doing.
idk what other apps do this, it’s pretty rare for me, but afaict it’s all just normal stuff.
Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of privacy problems that apps try to fuck with, but I don’t think that yearly wrapped is likely to be one of them.
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 1 day ago:
They need that assigned to specific use accounts so that people can look at their play history. A thing that people often want to do with their music players.
- Comment on Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue there somewhere like data retention. 1 day ago:
But “wrapped” type things aren’t using button press telemetry. They’re using data that the user wants access to anyways, like their Spotify play history, or Duolingo lesson progress.
It doesn’t even make sense to anonymize that data because people want to see their play history, not what was popular last week.
- Comment on SAD 2 days ago:
Tired: one day you’ll have sex for the last time
Wired: One day your balls won’t ache because you saw a pretty girl, felt extremely horny, and couldn’t find an opportunity to wack off.
Retired: one day some old lady will be giving you sloppy in your wheelchair and you’ll blow a load of dust into her mouth
- Comment on SAD 2 days ago:
Bold of you to assume that day hasn’t already passed
- Comment on Happy New Year! Thought I'd share my new year's resolution to the people here 2 days ago:
I’m personally running 5120 x 1440
- Comment on Ever since I've started running like a penguin with it's butt on fire I've saved so many precious calories 2 days ago:
I’m almost certain this is bullshit, given the proportion of mass moved as a byproduct rather then for the purposes of locomotion
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 3 days ago:
Gps without having to buy an expensive in-car GPS unit.
Gps that automatically updates maps.
GPS that updates routes based on traffic\Route planning including public transit
Especially when you’re not sure what your departure time will be
That accounts for temporary route changes
That automatically updates permanent route changes - Comment on How to convince my uni / dept. to switch to Mastodon? 1 month ago:
I think a lot of people here aren’t looking at this in the right way:
They don’t have to accept accounts for student or let students interact. This can be an alternative system for disseminating announcements with optional mechanisms for feedback. All they need to do is federate and then any of their students subscribe.
I’ve been wishing that my my governments (at all levels) would do this so I can get notified of things like changes to bus schedules or closures of highways and shit.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 1 month ago:
Elitist neckbeards like you are why Mastodon and Lemmy are still boring
- Comment on Tiny pp 1 month ago:
As someone with a loud car, I can confirm
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 2 months ago:
You’ll be lucky to get a couple up votes.
It’s like streaming with no viewers, only the activity you’ve doing isn’t something fun you’d be doing anyways, eg gaming
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 2 months ago:
How about no, that sounds super depressing
Why would I do that? That doesn’t get anyone what they want
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 2 months ago:
I like it, but that’s not the model Lemmy was built around.
It’d be neat if, instead of posting to a community you posted to your instance and tagged your post with a topic, and then instances could contain topic aggregators with moderators that moderated their local view of the topic.
But even that comes with challenges around protection at-risk people like kids, where nobody is fully able to control the discourse around them.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 2 months ago:
Exactly
Someone has already created my niche community, and there are 2 people in it, and it hasn’t grown since I joined, and that makes the conversations in it boring af
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 months ago:
There are lots of reasons to want alternatives to social media mega-corps, and the people with those reasons have varied likes and hobbies.
Even amongst the people who care about privacy, decentralization, etc, people still have varied interests. All you have to do is look at the popularity of Tiktok content about privacy, security, programming, etc.Dude is a basement dweller, and just assumed that was the norm for everyone who shared an interest with him.
I have my own thoughts about hurdles that loops will face, but “fediverse is for snobs” isn’t it.
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 months ago:
Where?
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 months ago:
Lamest flex in history
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 months ago:
Because the constraints make it interesting
I want the length limits. - Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 months ago:
What an absolute neckbeard take
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 months ago:
I’m interested, and I hope it’s successful.
I’m not sure how they’re going to attract creators, when Tiktok already has the same features, has a larger audience, and pays… But I hope they can because I’d love to dump Tiktok for something open source.
I wonder how their FYP will work, because honestly that’s a huge part of what makes Tiktok good.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 2 months ago:
Incoming James While John