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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it?

  OK, what would they say if they weren’t planning on it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe there was some special or package deal, but no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Since Twitter is currently really really toxic, dangerous, and run by a maniac; and Bluesky currently is not (it’s actually been amazingly non-toxic)…I strongly disagree.

  Even shittier anaology, but it’s more like moving from a house that has an active gas leak to a house that has gas pipes in the house. Has potential for leaks, but there aren’t any. And it currently has working gas leak detectors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix 2.0 Is Here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t a finite range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t…?

  Why not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A shitload of people, like as many as 10!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My parents never did any extravagant trips like to Disney world or Sea world. Knowing what I know now I'm kinda grateful for that.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My parents never did any extravagant trips like to Disney world or Sea world. Knowing what I know now I'm kinda grateful for that.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying IS. I’m saying Should. Most people SHOYLD be part of the middle class and able to do these regularly.

  Extravagant would be like renting a private beach or ballroom or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My parents never did any extravagant trips like to Disney world or Sea world. Knowing what I know now I'm kinda grateful for that.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Extravagant?

  This should be considered absolutely middle-of-the-road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be really, really surprised if a bunch don’t bother doing anything. Maybe most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just noticed he also mentioned sponsored ads in Amazon results and etc, which are definitely worse.

  I’ve cut down buying from them quite a bit, but when using the Amazon app, or web without adblock, the sponsored results have made the shopping experience SIGNIFICANTLY worse in the last 6 months.

  It used to be that you’d see one here and there, but the volume of sponsored results has gotten ridiculous, and the quality is awful. Half of the sponsored results I see - at best - are very specifically not what I searched for. Sometimes not even close.

  It’s one of several reasons I hardly buy from them anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of all the ads being pushed on us, this type seems like the least egregious to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That didn’t last very long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hwfwm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Use rats as wig

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They already laid off a bunch.

  I guess not enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla grants Ente $100k⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Any guesses why that is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla grants Ente $100k⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be really nice if I could have it sync to both. I’d like to sync it locally and have all the features available, but for convenience I would also like the option of a secure, reputable cloud service that costs a reasonable fee.

  They seem good. However, using the app seems to be either/or (local or their service)

  They’re also twice the price of Google, which is a bit tough to swallow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, like, “there’s the bottom 10% of a traffic light in this one. Do I click that box? Ia that supposed to count?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone knows they are called flippy flops. Gosh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 12 million!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew I shouldn’t have used the word “never”, although I was thinking that only “deleted” accounts would drop thw total count. That’s also a good point.

  But it still seems unlikely that there will be a LOT or cases where the total number drops by a proportionately large number, unless something really bad happens (or there’s some big initiative at some point to remove inactive or not accounts)

  The more important stat - the one that people would be much more likely to be talking about seeing a “decline” in, in cases like this - is “active” users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 12 million!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that total users, or active users?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The mod who bypass' the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Where?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One day for the Olympics would be a pretty mad rush at the moment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see what the difference would be in 10 years.

  I don’t think 90% of people, especially “young people” would avoid doing this already. It’s already a major awareness/compliance issue, and not at all a “no shit sherlock” moment.

  But what did you have in mind that will be different in 10 years? Paricularly for young people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Man you are trying way too hard to be outraged about something that doesn’t exist here.

  This isn’t data that Google, etc claimed. The srudy is attempting to represent what they believe the financial coat to train these models would have been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But this isn’t accounting, this is just the way the study calculated stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume they’ve come up with some generic cost if someone was training each model using cloud compute.