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- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 20 hours ago:
This sure riled people up.
- Comment on Is Reddit in/directly attacking lemmy instances with controversial AI posts to overpower mods and reduce user experience? 1 day ago:
People really have become a bit paranoid about bots. It’s sad what AI has done to assumptions.
I’m not sure how to articulate it, really.
- Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption 1 day ago:
I’m hopeful too. We need things like this to start moving in the opposite direction.
The internet and surveillance capitalism have allowed for hyper optimized psychological manipulation. It’s long past time for regulations to catch up.
- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic, alleging its bots accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since last July 1 day ago:
I dunno, it the it just reads like a reddit comment to me. 🤣
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 2 days ago:
This interview with Palmer Luckey about the news is wild to listen to, if that’s your thing.
- Comment on Twitch is getting vertical livestreams 5 days ago:
We were warned, but allowed it to become endemic.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 5 days ago:
I bet Zuck is regretting not going forward with their crypto scheme
- Comment on OpenAI sees human interaction as a competitor to ChatGPT's super assistant ambitions 5 days ago:
Oh, I didn’t realize I was advocating for SocialVR to an antisocialite. Forgive me.
Anyway, this is why headsets need to get much much better. So more people own headsets.
- Comment on OpenAI sees human interaction as a competitor to ChatGPT's super assistant ambitions 5 days ago:
It will be, but not necessarily under his control. And it’s going to organically grow over the long haul.
- Comment on Community Notes vanishes from X feeds, raising 'serious questions' amid ongoing EU probe 1 week ago:
Wow, not too long after Facebook adopted the same tactic. They chose to drop their previous processes in favor of having their users take care of it.
- Comment on T-Mobile secretly records iPhone screens and claims it's being helpful. 1 week ago:
I suspect these recording tools cause perf issues on low end hardware.
- Comment on Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue 1 week ago:
Looks like brittle bottle of the barrel plastic to me.
- Comment on Apple’s Smart Glasses Expected to Hit the Market by Late Next Year! 1 week ago:
The downvotes around here are insufferable.
- Comment on Musk and Zuck ‘Use Our Love for Each Other to Hold Us Hostage’ 1 week ago:
Network Effects.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
I work in higher education making online courses. It’s really stressing everyone out.
- Comment on Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers 2 weeks ago:
They took on a very strict ruleset to avoid clutter and chaos.
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 2 weeks ago:
Oof, I’d go shop vac there. You’re just spreading it around, no?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You can find it in the User Tags section in the prefs. If you don’t see it, your voyager might be really out of date.
You have a [+3] for me!
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 2 weeks ago:
Hoot hoot, hike!
- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy is full of a bunch of older neckbeards, based on my observations.
This is just one narrow view on things, tho.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Voyager enhances his effect by counting your votes on individuals. You start seeing people with big numbers on some people.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 2 weeks ago:
What’s an example of an alternative with a really great recommendation algorithm?
Things like recommendation algorithms are difficult for small companies/individuals to provide. Lets alone the library of music.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 2 weeks ago:
lame. The web versions suck.
- Comment on Apple blocks Fortnite's return to iPhone in US 2 weeks ago:
Do you think a court could force Apple to allow any and all software in the App Store? In other words, it’s not Apple’s decision who they do business with?
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 2 weeks ago:
Hey, did you hear veritasum made a video?
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 3 weeks ago:
Bungie had similar problems with Destiny 2, if I remember correctly.
- Comment on TikTok charged with breaching EU online content rules 3 weeks ago:
I wish we had these rules in the US.
Targeted advertising can be insidious, and it’s difficult to uncover some of the worst stuff because it’s not really broadcasted widely.
- Comment on Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression rates 3 weeks ago:
I wonder what the practical reasons for starting with h.264 are.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 3 weeks ago:
People really abuse that new and very useful word. It diminishes the usefulness of it.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 3 weeks ago:
They also shouldn’t report on the horse race. They should report on issues.
Reporting on elections is always disappointing.
