stellargmite

@stellargmite@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks both. I’ve seen enough. Beyond problematic on substicks part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mind providing a bit more context to this so I can look it up ? I’ll boycott substick if need be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If we have to pay for access to something we then don’t own, we may as well do it as a collective. So public libraries. Librarians in my country and city are excellent curators and, information and topics on display are more interesting and less insulting than what a pyramid scheme’s algorithm thinks I should ‘buy’ next. They’re often topical, relevant to our local community and timely. Libraries and librarians have a vested interested in books being good for us, and the service being useful to individuals and community, which goes beyond physical books also as you say. Amazon is in a race to the bottom with total disdain and disregard for readers, authors and probably even the sellers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Non American , and non brit here. Why is this waste of energy so interested in the UK and Europe now ? I know there will be plenty of cynical takes which I will probably endorse however I’m interested in what his actual motivation might be. Does he just want parties in power in the given country that he has influence over for the sake of legislative advantage for his businesses? Or is it trollconomics for sake of driving signups to his failing social network I forget the name of?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky hits 20 million users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats a job for ‘journalists’ these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky hits 20 million users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too. Tried twitter way back in the early days of it. Never found it useful. Others did though obviously, which I don’t understand, but they did. What I find interesting is the seeming need to replace it with something similar. Why? Is it like gradually kicking an addiction by switching to something slightly less bad, but not going full cold turkey?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats a good point as far as your visual identity being exposed to other fb users. However, with where facial recognition is at now, they’re sure to be able to match that and your identity on their business side with your (IRL) friends location data, cross site tracking and other data to effectively have a db of images of ‘you’. Whether or not they have a business use for it is another matter but not a stretch to see it as a part of the data harvesting and broking landscape, though I’m not sure of the value of images of you to them : perhaps demographic data for adsales. All speculation on my part, and I’m not sure where this would sit with regulation in various places. Just interesting to think about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have other ways. Cross site tracking etc. People without accounts on the platform itself still have profiles on the business side, which is a decent chunk of how they’re making money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Barbara Streisand