Vlyn
@Vlyn@lemmy.world
- Comment on YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer 1 year ago:
You do realize the average person watches YouTube on their TV or their phone, with ads? You are not the target audience for Google.
So I fully expect YouTube to kill adblocking at some point and they might lose what? 10% of users? Of which 5% either come back to watch ads or pay the subscription because all the content is on there?
I’m 100% pro adblocker, the internet is a mess without, but it’s stupid to think YouTube wouldn’t cut you off the moment you don’t provide any benefit to their service (For example despite adblocking you might give Superchat money to streamers, or join Streamer memberships).
- Comment on The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movement Set Us Free? 1 year ago:
But the NAS is in your house… which basically means if it gets flooded/burns down all your data is gone too.
I already have my data on my PC, a second backup inside the same house isn’t worth that much. But instead of relying on a cloud service I just rent a virtual server (for various things) and use Seafile to keep my data in sync.
PC breaks? House burns down? My data is on my own server in a datacenter. My server gets cancelled? My data is on my PCs.
So even with your NAS you are 100% reliant on a cloud backup still, so why did you get the NAS when you already have a copy of your data on your devices?
- Comment on What happens to my account is the instance I'm using so happens to shut down? Do I lose the account or is there a way to "transfer" it to a different instance. 1 year ago:
Without knowing the actual implementation:
I’d wager comments are preserved and don’t get cleaned up over time. Because if content gets deleted the instance has to federate the deletion to other instances to clean everything up (like an event system). If the instance just vanishes there would be no deletion request happening.
If deletion was automatic when an instance goes down we’d have already lost thousands of comments due to the outages lately :)
- Comment on What happens to my account is the instance I'm using so happens to shut down? Do I lose the account or is there a way to "transfer" it to a different instance. 1 year ago:
That’s the case when an instance just straight up shuts down, right?
But if a user deletes their comment this also gets propagated to other instances. Do instance admins have a nuke button to initiate a delete for all content?
- Comment on Why must it be this way? (but also I'd like shark please) 1 year ago:
That’s an interesting thought!
Like Asian earwax is super dry and flaky, while European earwax looks like yellow green toxic goop.
So you have different genes and on top of that different diets (I had Indian neighbors once, you could smell the curry in the entire hallway of the building 24/7. But they obviously use a ton of spices when cooking).
As a central European Caucasian guy I personally start to smell really bad without deodorant just after a day or so. No matter how often I shower or what I eat. I also tried to switch to deodorant without aluminum and that didn’t work out at all :-/
- Comment on Why must it be this way? (but also I'd like shark please) 1 year ago:
Ever left the house? You’ll change your opinion right quick when you’re behind a random guy in the grocery store and you get a strong whiff of sour milk that has been out in the sun for a week.
Thank god for deodorant (and regular showers).
- Comment on How much did photography "stole" painter jobs ? 1 year ago:
If you have a basic understanding how AI works then this argument doesn’t hold much water.
Let’s take the human approach: I’m going to look at all the works of popular painters to learn their styles. Then I grab my painting tools and create similar works.
No credit there, I still used all those other works as input and created by own based on them.
With AI it’s the same, just in a much bigger capacity. If you ask AI to redraw the Mona Lisa you won’t get a 1:1 copy out, because the original doesn’t exist in the trained model, it’s just statistics.
Same as if you tell a human to recreate the painting, no matter how good they are, they’ll never be able to perfectly reproduce the original work.
- Comment on Request: Invisibility of my content is okay, but removing it is not okay. 1 year ago:
Your post is lacking details: Where did you post your review? What community?
The only ones able to remove your post are the instance admins (pick an instance you trust) and the community mods (pick a community where you agree with their rules).
If you got your content removed here then it was either wildly inappropriate or you broke community rules.
- Comment on Can a reply to an ongoing email conversation land in spam? 1 year ago:
Absolutely NEVER mark anything from an online email provider you want to keep as spam. They use shared systems, it’s not just spam for you, but potentially for everyone on that email provider. That’s one way to protect people from receiving spam, 100 users marked that same newsletter email as spam? Alright, the newsletter will go to the spam folder for the next 20k users.
If you mark legitimate emails as spam for fun you’re fucking up the system (and give the sender a massive headache if suddenly every @gmail.com receiver puts their emails into the spam folder).
- Comment on Mmusks new ideas 1 year ago:
The way Musk is leading Twitter he’s either a moron or trying to destroy the entire service.
Maybe someone called him a slur in a tweet and now he wants to remove the entire platform? Who knows. Though we was mostly the guy calling others pedos…
- Comment on FTC withdraws its in-house challenge to Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal 1 year ago:
Knowing the companies involved this is a positive change.
Activision Blizzard is a toxic dump. My hope is Microsoft throws out Activision management and cleans things up.
It literally can’t get worse than it is right now.