snooggums
@snooggums@midwest.social
- Comment on Google is facing another crucial court case in the US – and it could have major consequences for online advertising. 2 months ago:
That’s fine. I will either continue to use adblockers, pay, or stop using the internet outside of what is required to function in society. I already refuse to use anything that has decided to go ad supported without the ability to block ads and has a price I’m not willing to pay.
If small (or large) businesses require the mass collection of personal information by malicious advertisers to exist, then they don’t derserve to exist.
- Comment on Non-language-using animals must think humans are the worst songbirds ever. 2 months ago:
Sometimes they flap their wings!
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
No, no. The one with the wild and wacky activities!
- Comment on Minecraft creators are already trying to fix the Minecraft movie 2 months ago:
Sonic had some digital effects in the real world. This looks like they went all in on green screen digital effects. There is zero chance this one will change.
- Comment on Google is facing another crucial court case in the US – and it could have major consequences for online advertising. 2 months ago:
Yes, OP said all advertising. You mentioned the main problems with ditching all advertising. I added to the conversation with a poasible middle ground that addressed the worst parts.
- Comment on Google is facing another crucial court case in the US – and it could have major consequences for online advertising. 2 months ago:
Targeted advertising, which requires collecting personal information without people’s knowledge, is what makes online advertising the absolute worst kind of advertising. That could be addressed on a way that could allow other less malicious forms to exist.
- Comment on South Australia is proposing a law to ban kids under 14 from social media. How would it work? 2 months ago:
There’d have to be a way of checking people’s identity, and thus their age, whenever they create an account, and it would have to be legally mandated for any online sites where people can post user-generated content.
Older siblings, friends, and organized students would just create multiple accounts and hand them over to younger kids. Also, a lot of adults would just create accounts for their kids.
It would be a keep off the grass sign no matter who implements it.
- Comment on Minecraft creators are already trying to fix the Minecraft movie 2 months ago:
Did the same guy who wanted the ‘realistic Sonic’ look have input on this one as well?
- Comment on South Australia is proposing a law to ban kids under 14 from social media. How would it work? 2 months ago:
There’d have to be a way of checking people’s identity, and thus their age, whenever they create an account, and it would have to be legally mandated for any online sites where people can post user-generated content.
Older siblings, friends, and organized students would just create multiple accounts and hand them over to younger kids. Also, a lot of adults would just create accounts for their kids.
It would be a keep off the grass sign no matter who implements it.
- Comment on My Job Is to Train Tesla's Cars to Drive Themselves 2 months ago:
Any change just for the sake of change will be detrimental to the functionality. Constant change means there is never a point in time where the overall functionality can be reviewed for stability.
- Comment on Ask and ye shall receive. 2 months ago:
The Shitposting argument style is the disruption in online conversations, usually of significant issues of discourse such as political and social issues, by making proofless and inflammatory claims that derail the conversation. The arguments are just reasonable enough that they come across as genuine beliefs and move the conversation to an irrelevant discussion.
Shitposting is just the new name for trolling after trolling was changed to mean online bullying.
- Comment on How come drug dealers seem to have a messed up house or at least a messed up car with a bunch of trash in it? 2 months ago:
There are plenty of drug dealers who keep their house and car in conditions from spotless to 30 minutes from clean like everyone else. There are plenty of non-drug dealers who have trashed homes and vehicles too.
You only notice the ones that are making poor choices or have some mental health issues. Sometimes they also sell drugs.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
A swiping motion and muscle memory for tapping are two different things. It took a while to get fast with my thumbs even though I type fairly fast on a keyboard.
- Comment on I want an AI TV that blocks all forms of advertising. 2 months ago:
But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes’ uniforms.
So, the best part about this example is that it is well intended but would have so many side effects it would be hilarious to see someone try to make it work. My assumption is that you want it to just have regular uniform colors where the ads are now.
The first assumption is that the team logo and colors aren’t advertising. They are! Yeah, they make bank on tickets, but the real money is in merchandising. Merchandising only works because the people associate it with the team, so team uniforms at their core are ads. They weren’t as much in the past when the majority of income was from tickets and concessions, but they are now. An easier version of this example is auto racing, where the car colors and entire paint job is an advertisement with a bunch of smaller ads plastered all over. Would the AI need to recolor all the cars to avoid color based advertising like bright yellow and black for DeWalt?
That also means that other media that exists to prop up sales in other areas are also ads. A lot of cartoons like Transformers, GI Joe, and My Little Pony existed as advertisements for the toys. The best way this gets convoluted is that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) was originally a comic book, which someone thought would be a great starting point for selling toys and to sell the toys they made a cartoon. But then they stopped selling the toys for a while, so the cartoon reruns weren’t really ads at that point in time the same way they were originally. So does the TMNT cartoon always count as an ad because of the intent at the time it was created, or is it only an ad while the thing it is advertising is being sold?
Then you get into the fake ads in movies for things that don’t exist. Are they ads? What about media where a real world thing is part of the plot, like how the military being in a movie is likely to be intended as an ad for the military?
I’m sure the idea is that the AI would know what the user means by ads, but the viewer will always be surprised when things they don’t realize are ads get blocked and it would have to adapt to each individual viewer. Even more fun when multiple people try to watch something and they aren’t on the same page about ads that impact the ability to watch!
I still love the post, but thinking how it could play out even if it worked is kind of funny.
- Comment on Why does your nose only itch when both hands are full? 2 months ago:
It itches other times, but you are able to address it immediately and doesn’t seem like such a big deal.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Everyone does deserve to be treated with respect by default. Respect is earned, and is not the same thing.
Choosing to associate with certain groups is an action for which respect may be rescinded.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Hey Farva, what’s the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?
- Comment on What are they hiding? 2 months ago:
It is a calendar that shows the repeating cycle of the world’s destruction and rebirth each time the milk runs out.
- Comment on It's called a wedding ring, but surely it should be called a marriage ring 2 months ago:
Oh yeah, and pinkie rings!
At least onion rings are honest.
- Comment on It's called a wedding ring, but surely it should be called a marriage ring 2 months ago:
I dunno, doesn’t seem like toe rings and cock follow the same naming convention.
- Comment on YouTube to restrict teenagers’ exposure to videos about weight and fitness 2 months ago:
but then in the recommended section it does not show someone who actually knows shit about fitness and steroids etc how would they know.
It is kind of funny that you think the recommendations would be informative instead of some shill peddling the same “you can do it with 5000 calories and exercise” bullshit. A rabbit hole is going fuether down the same hole.
- Comment on YouTube to restrict teenagers’ exposure to videos about weight and fitness 2 months ago:
It isn’t about people better than you. It is about idealized and generally unrealistic body standards.
The new guidelines, now introduced in the UK and around the world, apply to content that: idealises some physical features over others, such as beauty routines to make your nose look slimmer; idealises fitness or body weights, such as exercise routines that encourage pursuing a certain look; or encourages social aggression, such as physical intimidation.
These are not videos about getting to a healthy weight and exercise routine. “Certain look” is a crappilly phrased way of saying unrealistic body standards, but that is what it means.
- Comment on YouTube to restrict teenagers’ exposure to videos about weight and fitness 2 months ago:
The headline does describe the article. The article has more detail about the motivations and nuance of why certain weight and fitness videos are being promoted less to children.
The platform will still allow 13- to 17-year-olds to view the videos, but its algorithms will not push young users down related content “rabbit holes” afterwards.
If they included rabbit hole in the title, it would still be necessary for a lot of people unaware of the term to read the article to find out what that phrase means.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece 2 months ago:
Mods are where asset reuse shines.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 2 months ago:
For better or worse, there’s not a lot of right wing stuff that makes it into the positive on votes.
That is for the better.
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 2 months ago:
But in practice small businesses often don’t have full time accountants keeping their records and some receipts are lost after the cost has been reported.
Not to mention large businesses can spend more money on lawyers that are able to drag out court cases through delay tactics and are far more likely to get the government to settle.
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 2 months ago:
This is a great explanation for why business deductions are stupid in the first place. Why does being profitable justify being even more profitable by paying fewer taxes?
- Comment on Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? 2 months ago:
Competitor’s bots.
- Comment on No dedicated community/magazine for Fediverse memes? 2 months ago:
Fediverse memes can be posted anywhere, including in existing memes communities. That’s where all the beans and jeans memes are.
- Comment on Toilet specific plungers get the job done faster and with way less effort and mess. 2 months ago:
I wash my hands afterwards.