ThirdNerd

@ThirdNerd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actor Stephen Fry says his voice was stolen from the Harry Potter audiobooks and replicated by AI—and warns this is just the beginning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Theft of others’ creative works (and to an actor their voice is part of their creative work) has been going on via Big Tech for decades now. My first view of it was years ago when Google started stealing books it hadn’t purchased and wasn’t licensed and adding them to public spaces on the internet. I remember the big publishing houses and a lot of authors up in arms, but obviously they weren’t able to truly reverse any of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the best way to discover RSS feeds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are looking for a way to find RSS/Atom feeds on sites you are interested in, but don’t list an RSS/Atom feed:

  Here is a Textise version and the original version of a Zapier article talking about how to get an RSS feed manually from (many) sites that don’t list one.

  I do this just because I like to and it takes but a few seconds to put through my QuiteRSS (GUI) or NewsReader (terminal based) feed reader apps.

  Here’s the basics from the article (the article itself lists more and more in depth).

  A shocking number of websites are built using WordPress—over 40% of destinations on the web. This means there’s a good chance that any website you visit is a WordPress site, and all of those sites offer RSS feeds that are easy to find.

  To find a WordPress RSS feed, simply add /feed to the end of the URL; e.g., justinpot.com/feed. I do this any time I visit a website that I’d like an RSS feed for—it almost always works.

  If it doesn’t work, here are a few tricks for finding RSS feeds on other sites.

  If a site is hosted on Tumblr, add /rss to the end of the URL. Like this: example.tumblr.com/rss

  If a site is hosted on Blogger, add feeds/posts/default to the end of the URL. Like this: example.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

  If a publication is hosted on Medium, add /feed/ before the publication’s name. So medium.com/example-site becomes medium.com/feed/example-site

  YouTube channel pages double as RSS feeds. Simply copy and paste the URL for the channel into your RSS reader. You can also find an OPML file for all of your subscriptions here.

  Find an RSS feed for any site by checking the source code…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the legal system so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The legal system is expensive for the same reason the medical system is expensive:

  • When you need to be in it, you need to be in it (e.g., you can’t just walk away from possible jail time or having a steering wheel embedded in your body).

  • Even if it’s for things you are choosing willingly, both systems have over time set themselves up as the only possible options - either by making it a crime to take care of your issue outside their system, or by making you believe that only going their route is the safe / effective / trustworthy way.

  • Both are incredibly, unapologetically, corrupt to their core, with no one really accountable for anything beyond a few “examples” made here and there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Searching for topic information back in the 1990s could be frustrating because you couldn’t find the sites until you found the one that had that links page that would lead you to a number of others about that topic. Searching today through the modern “search engines” means getting the same regurgitated, irrelevant and/or common sense non-answers from all the “top” sites. I don’t bother looking that way anymore because sites like SearXNG, Mojeek, even sometimes Brave Browser can often do better. It’s like we circled around to the same problem, but this time knee-deep in garbage, too.