Meron35
@Meron35@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 4 days ago:
Immich users flag Google sites as dangerous
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 4 days ago:
Yes. Social media addiction is comparable to those of illicit drugs, both in terms of actual symptoms, as well how alter dopamine networks in the brain.
This is just a recent review article that focuses on teens, but similar results hold more broadly as well if you search.
Social Media Algorithms and Teen Addiction: Neurophysiological Impact and Ethical Considerations - PMC - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11804976/
- Comment on Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false 1 week ago:
As uncomfortable as it may be, research suggests adopting an empathetic, non judgemental, but firm attitude, without any expectation to actually change their mind.
This is an attitude broadly similar to that of a professional providing advice (e.g. accountants or lawyers).
How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works - www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01771-z
Unpaywall:
How to speak to a vaccine sceptic: research reveals what works - archive.is/1gn2g
- Comment on Japanese Government Calls on Sora 2 Maker OpenAI to Refrain From Copyright Infringement, Says Characters From Manga and Anime Are 'Irreplaceable Treasures' That Japan Boasts to the World 1 week ago:
I fear that this does not cleanly apply to Japan because of their somewhat uniquely active doujinshi (fan work) culture. To give an idea of how big a deal doujinshi are, the largest western convention San Diego Comic Con only draws around 130,000 attendants. The largest Doujinshi convention Comiket drew 750,000 attendants before COVID. These works are explicitly distributed and redistributed for commercial profit (though admittedly usually not at any profitable scale).
Japan copyright law has explicit exceptions for doujinshi, having recognised the immense value to the industry. So many successful artists started by creating and selling doujinshi, which are usually explicitly derivative works of IP.
Doujinshi - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doujinshi
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 1 week ago:
Thee following are more little/no dialogue for the purposes of Immersion, rather than subtitled
Tunica is an unapologetically difficult isometric action/puzzle game
Animal Well is a metroidvania with little/no dialogue
Other similar games are Fez, Hyper Light Drifter
- Comment on Recommendations for Note taking app with simple needs 4 weeks ago:
Not sure of your specific needs, but I feel that self hosting (i.e. setting up a proper server) is unnecessary. Just pick a local first program and use it with syncthing.
The usual trio (which may be overkill) are Obsidian (admittedly not open source), Trillium, and logseq.
- Comment on European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominance 4 weeks ago:
The existing Euro does not have a proper system for day to day transactions. Transfers are currently handled by SEPA, which are only suitable for things like bills. This means that a lot of people especially in less developed EU nations end up using an international bank card, i.e. MasterCard/Visa for day to day transactions.
Details are somewhat vague, but the ECB’s website seems to have many good assurances. This even includes strong privacy features, such as offline capabilities and cash-like privacy.
FAQs on a digital euro - www.ecb.europa.eu/…/ecb.faq_digital_euro.en.html#…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Not to defend the stupidity that does exist on Tiktok, but reputable sources often post their news and extra content on Tiktok, and Tiktok often the only way to access it. “Proper news” in the form of articles tends to be more jargony and needs to confirm to a professional tone. Not to mention, they simply take more time to produce.
Examples of extra content include fact checks, debunking right wing conspiracy theories, longer versions of interviews that didn’t make the final cut, or simple clarifications in the form of Q and As.
E.g. see the Tiktok accounts for the BBC, The Guardian, the Financial Times, etc
- Comment on Cable management is an art form 4 weeks ago:
He was probably just caught up in the satanic panic against Pokémon in the 90s.
The situation was so serious that the Vatican had to “bless” the Pokémon 2000 movie in an attempt to tell evangelicals to chill.
Pokémon movie earns Papal blessing - nypost.com/2000/…/pokemon-earns-papal-blessing/
- Comment on Together: Australian film altered in China to make gay couple straight 4 weeks ago:
It’s just the typical toxic and illogical mix of homophobia, morality, and politics.
Ironically, same sex couples may actually be the key to alleviating the fertility crisis. Out and proud same sex couples tend to be of higher socioeconomic status, resolving the main barrier to having children. Yet, Draconian laws prevent them from accessing adoption or surrogacy services.
Also, China is absolutely cracking down on porn more broadly as well by shutting down websites, and jailing people, as part of its stance against “obscene materials.”
China’s latest crackdown on porn has little to do with porn - qz.com/…/china-latest-crackdown-on-porn-has-littl…
- Comment on Australia’s under 16s social media ban could extend to Reddit, Twitch, Kick, Roblox, Steam, GitHub, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Discord and even dating apps 4 weeks ago:
You joke but pedophiles use Pinterest to stalk and coerce young girls.
Investigation: How Pinterest drives men to little girls’ images - nbcnews.com/…/pinterest-algorithm-young-girls-vid…
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 4 weeks ago:
r/nolawns
c/nolawns
- Comment on Kinky 5 weeks ago:
Sauce?
- Comment on Artificial Intelligence Spots Hidden Signs of Depression in Students’ Facial Expressions 5 weeks ago:
As suspected, this paper is based upon Paul Ekman’s Facial Action Coding System, better known as micro-expressions.
This controversial literature borderlines on pseudo-science, with Ekman’s work having significant conflicts of interest in the form of undisclosed funding from US defence, police, and border control, who wanted Ekman to create systems that can detect lies based on supposed micro expressions. Subsequent independent meta analyses have found that micro expressions cannot be consistently read, even by Ekman’s own researchers.
Unfortunately, despite this, world governments have poured millions of dollars into private contractors to develop AI systems based on this flawed research for border control.
Munecat’s video essay on debunking body language experts goes into much greater detail:
- Comment on arriving 5 weeks ago:
❌ hot girl summer
✅ cold bitch winter
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 1 month ago:
I think this is being overly judgemental. He originally created his reputation by going to war against Pantone, a company which holds a near monopoly on colours. At first it was patches to get Adobe to use colours it locked users out of, which he then expanded into Freetone, a colour palette that is free for anyone except Adobe.
Looking at his other behaviour (such as legally changing his name to Amish Kapoor to piss off Anish Kapoor who sued him for colour infringement) suggests that he’s messy, rather than a grifter.
Pinkest Pink | FREETONE | LIBERATING COLOURS SINCE 2016 | CultureHustle - culturehustle.com/products/freetone
- Comment on Clock logic 1 month ago:
You mean like metric time?
- Comment on I wish there was a system to verify that a webpage was written by an actual human before showing me it 1 month ago:
No need for any new extensions. Just add a new uBlock filter for AI slop.
- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 1 month ago:
“Chill, it’s just a
jokeragebait ad campaign, bro” - Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
Even browsing existing small to medium sized sites has become such a chore, with all these verifications and rate limiters as part of the anti AI scraper effort.
So many cloudflare verification checkboxes. So many Google sign ins. So many cross site cookies and tracking for even basic functionality.
Care about privacy and restrict browsing data even a little? Captcha hell.
- Comment on ISO 26300 1 month ago:
Tbh it’s probably less of an Adobe problem and more due to the absolute mess that is PDF annotations.
Despite being a defined open standard, most free PDF viewers either don’t support them (zathura etc), or fuck them up (GNOME evince). Even some of the viewers that do support them like Okular need extra configuration.
Unironically Firefox as a PDF viewer actually has the best support for PDF annotations.
The state of PDF Readers on Linux - Discussion - It’s FOSS Community - itsfoss.community/t/…/12798
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 1 month ago:
If your online content is audio or video then you can replace the default subtitle track with nonsense. This is because AI scrapers generally only check the default subtitle track to understand audio or video.
The process would be more difficult with text or image content, but you can still apply the same principles.
Poisonining AI with “.ass” subtitles:
- Comment on Is This Social Media? 2 months ago:
I don’t think the any interaction definition is too broad at all. Primitive forms of social media such as mailing lists and forum threads form are very similar in functionality to simply following hashtags, or I guess whatever the algorithms suggest.
The distinction using account based versus conversation/thread based is not too helpful, because the majority of users of modern social media don’t really use it to follow accounts, with the majority of their time is spent doomscrolling generic hashtags or algorithm recommendations.
The similarities are easier to see if you think of how people actually used these technologies in their daily lives. Pre Facebook, people would log in and refresh their Usenet, emails, and forums threads to keep in touch with friends and interests. Post Facebook, people would log in and refresh Facebook/Insta instead.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 2 months ago:
I owned a Remarkable and returned it because it is so frustrating.
Remarkable runs a scuffed version of Linux, which requires developers to release a separate version of whatever app they have. Although the selection is growing, it is paltry compared to offerings from a typical Android or iOS device.
Below is a list of so called “best” apps. No syncthing, no Obsidian, no Saber, etc. Multiple scuffed versions of Zotero that can’t do annotations.
github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
Even for the few custom apps available, these are all uninstalled and reset with every OS update.
remarkable.guide/faqs.html#what-happens-to-third-…
If you don’t want to use the few third party cloud sync options, then Remarkable charges money for cloud sync.
remarkable.com/shop/connect/pricing
Remarkable’s notes are also stored in a proprietary format that cannot be read by other applications. Attempts to reverse engineer it are jank af.
It it works for you, great 👍. But I cannot whole heartedly recommend it. Even if you love eInk, just grab an Android based one like Boox.
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 2 months ago:
Thumbs down for Remarkable. Dumb vendor lock-in with subscription fees and inability to easily transfer notes, no external app support, yet still retails close to iPad prices.
At that point, deploying locked down iPads is easier, cheaper, and offers more flexibility. Which is exactly what a lot of schools and universities already do.
- Comment on Wealth inequality seems like the only outcome in a system where capital gains are taxed less than labor 2 months ago:
This is basically the central thesis of world famous economist Thomas Piketty.
Inequality inevitably worsens if the rate on capital exceeds the rate on labour. That is, when society rewards simply owning capital and wealth more than working.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 2 months ago:
Africa tech is just Chinese tech so they’re already cooked.
Australia basically banned encryption long ago and in doing killed off their tech industry.
We need a New Zealand tech revolution, which is where all the Australian IT firms relocated to following the encryption ban.
Encryption laws are hurting Australia’s tech sector, Atlassian says | Australian security and counter-terrorism | The Guardian - theguardian.com/…/encryption-laws-are-hurting-aus…
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
Trixie Mattel and Kim Chi
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 months ago:
As much I despise Spotify, I’m trying out Qobuz and it’s just not really it.
No folder organisation for playlists or albums.
No Linux application.
No lyrics.
No support for smart speakers.
No information linking to artist tours and merch.
Generally lacking when it comes to non western artists.
Prides itself on providing high quality music, yet still only has lower quality masters for some artists compared to Apple Music, Tidal, and even Spotify.
I want to love it, like the way it loves and respects the music industry, with it’s special magazine etc, but it’s just not it.
- Comment on One Angry Man 2 months ago:
1 centimeter per second
