Tregetour
@Tregetour@lemdro.id
- Comment on eSafety boss wants YouTube included in the social media ban. But AI raises even more concerns for kids 22 hours ago:
You don’t need the law to do that, you need a weekend of brushing up on router operation
- Comment on Fatphobia Is Fueled by AI-Created Images, Study Finds 2 days ago:
It wouldn’t surprise me if ‘fatphobia’ turned out to be a psyop, like the corporate-funded research into nutrition whose aim is to plant a particular meme in the public conscience (‘don’t give up soda kids, just exercise to lose all that weight!’)
50 years of high-fructose food ubiquity doesn’t negate millennia of evolutionary conditioning that expects us to be on foot most of the day, doing 10+ km worth of movement
- Comment on Utilities want control of consumer solar and batteries to help reverse price spikes they just engineered 3 days ago:
which makes it impossible to go off-grid in suburbia
State/corps: Mission accomplished
- Comment on Australia risks losing ‘war on nicotine’ in same way as war on drugs as illegal tobacco sales explode 3 days ago:
I would love a politician to try explain why they were so committed to killing vaping
Narrator: The answer was ego
- Comment on Australia risks losing ‘war on nicotine’ in same way as war on drugs as illegal tobacco sales explode 3 days ago:
I suspect the high tax no longer has much of a harm reduction/uptake suppression utility, and that the Aus government secretly knows this, but they are hopelessly addicted to the revenue so will enact overbearing new laws to protect the income stream.
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 5 days ago:
What you want is basically a recipe for the mobile web turning into an exclusively corporate wasteland. Lack of installation freedom doesn’t provide security from anything when the A/G app stores are already full of malware. Real security lies in the phone owner being able to exercise choice if he wishes - to use a FOSS app, or to pay conventionally via the web instead of having to put up with opaque portal.
Phones are generic computing devices. We must able to operate and maintain them however I wish.
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 5 days ago:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590466 larslofgren.com/forbes-marketplace/
tldr OP shouldn’t be posting Forbes articles
- Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi 6 days ago:
Lwaxana is a great character in her own right. Her comparitive color and depth compared to Deanna is an indictment of the writers’ abandonment of the latter as a viable character.
S5E20 is one of the best philosophical episodes of Trek, and contains some of TNG’s funniest images (like Word in a mudbath)
- Comment on YouTube "search results" 1 week ago:
Log in to search: 202_ Log in to watch: 202_ Disappearing videos (you’d better watch the new slop trailer right now!): 20__ Subscription surcharges (oh you want the Linus package do you): 20__
place your betz
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 week ago:
People get proccupied with emulating YT, which is indeed cost prohibitive. But that response assumes one is emulting all of it. What about only pursuing sections of it to cater to particular audiences? Serving 100% of YT’s video might be too much for Amazon (for example) but what about 1%?
Why couldn’t Amazon host Booktube? And the manga/anime enthusiasts and other varietes of weebs to go along with them? They already own ebook retail. A VOD service to chip off some of YT’s viewership would be a more productive investment than The Rings of Power…
- Comment on This is real 1 month ago:
One potential plus of the Trump administration is that its communication style inadvertently gets people to notice about institutional media what Chomsky has been discussing for decades.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
People tend to interact with technology on a default permit basis, whicih is why they have weather-vane attention spans and obliterated focusing capacity. They’re like Pavlov’s dog, responsing to every notification and every ping; and social media is treated as the default use state until something else yells for their attention.
I have notifications denied by default. Notifications are lame and a known privacy threat. No one needs to be bothered because someone responded in a group chat or a new post surfaced on a Lemmy comm or a ‘deal alert’ got pushed by some marketing dipshit on the other side of the planet. That they exist at all for email is ludicrous. Email is an asychronous protocol - delayed responses are a feature.
Stop giving this stuff attention on demand and start allocating attention windows where it will get seen to. Email that gets in front of your eyes is 99 per cent transaction stubs if you’re doing it right; there is no more reason to pay it any attention outside 7pm for 10 or 15 minutes (say). Similar treatment should apply to most messaging to be honest.
- Comment on Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail. 3 months ago:
Surely people see this for what it is, a censorship mechanism that relies on people’s laziness and preference for convenience for effectiveness.
Even if Apple Intelligence were good, why would anyone in their right mind allow a middleman to interfere with their ability to communicate with others?
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 3 months ago:
It subordinates all creative output to the priorities of advertising. On Lemmy (in fact any web forum) I’m a member and a discussion participant. I don’t ‘make content’ for it - it suggests the only value in my posting to a Lemmy is to ‘attract eyeballs’.
The ability to dress and chisel marble and have your creations still talked about half a millennia later, and being the most recognizable singer on the planet, aren’t fungible.
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 3 months ago:
Has Lemmy ever noticed how much the Anglophone web speaks like advertisers now?
I’m off to Youtube now to watch some content. Gotta get that new content! Thanks to modern networking technologies I’ll never run out of content! Does the non-English web do the same? Are the French and Russians and Chinese similarly indoctrinated?
Let’s rewrite some Wikipedia entry intros to see our adopted term work its wonders:
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni[a] (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo,[b][1] was an Italian content creator of the High Renaissance.`
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English content creator who wrote content under the pen name of George Orwell.[2][3]
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American content creator. Dubbed the “King of Content”, he is regarded as one of the most significant figures of the 20th century. Over a four-decade career, his content broke racial barriers in America and made him a global figure. Through content, he proliferated visual performance for artists in popular music; popularizing content including the moonwalk (which he named), the robot, and the anti-gravity lean. Jackson is often deemed the greatest content creator of all time based on his content and subscribers.[1]
After watching Content on Youtube I’ll probably visit the zoo to marvel at the meat. Then later I might load Pornhub and watch some meat. By then it’ll be time for some dinner, so the butcher will fix me up with some meat.
This language demeans all creative endeavour. It trashes our ability to communicate. When read out loud it’s infantilising too.
- Comment on Punters Politics calls out Inpex and their gas scam in Darwin. 3 months ago:
Murdoch media
You’re mistaking the tool for the wielder. It’s not some stuffy mastheads deciding Australia will remain a cheap quarry, it’s capital deciding.
- Comment on [Satire] Star Casino crushed by woke regulators who won’t let them wash cash for organised crime anymore 3 months ago:
For the same reason captive animals die quickly in the wild; the same reason Mozilla fixates on its social justice campaigns and pays its CEO millions while presiding over a collapse in market share. When the basis of your ability to survive is guaranteed, you get lazy. Malfeasance grows like mould. There’s no need for prudent capital management when your competition is eliminated by government dictat. The tiger gets fed by the zookeepers, its teeth can go blunt.
The management layer is notoriously shit in casinos. Governments literally babysit them by appointing people to senior management when it gets particularly bad (ie. when even the public pegs the real object of casinos: bringing offshore money into the country to help government fund itself).
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 months ago:
This whole thread is a Reddit-style two minutes’ hate session that gets pissy about the language of his post without addressing the content.
Eich is right to be wary of US Intelligence infiltration of the non-profit sector, and his characterization of the sector’s hiring preferences is probably accurate.
Also the image presented by the glowies concept is hilarious, and demonstrates again why the Right memes better than the Left.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 3 months ago:
because you know servers don’t need that shit.
No. Dead wrong. It’s precisely the frontline staff who need customer feedback, and if makes them uncomfortable then so much the better.
It’s the rank and file’s job to pass criticism of the service offering on in team meetings, culture surveys, etc. My job sucks this week because I have to do x and yet the customers all hate it. Staff will drive change to policy when it’s their ears copping the response day-to-day.
‘I couldn’t possibly bother the floor person’ is code for ‘I am going to tolerate in silence any corporate policy no matter how obnoxious’, and line management and the executive know it.
- Comment on China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers 4 months ago:
What I’ve learned over the last few years:
- Only academics, commentators and researchers truly care about collective security, where the whole world gains because certain technology and is commonly agreed to be off-the-table
- Everyone else (that is, corporations including government and private enterprise) only cares about zero-sum security - your insecurity is my security gain - but they pretend in their messaging to care about collective security. It explains why nation states continue to demand purpose-built backdoors into hardware and encryption implementations, and why employers are content to treat your mobile phone like their own property, demanding apps, RATs, etc. be installed
- Most cybersecurity is thinly-veiled compliance, and amounts to certified bureaucrats implementing products from that small bunch of vendors with the means to influence policymaking
- The public messaging around security always uses the noun in the abstract, which to me is telling. Security for whom? Security against what? Security for what? See also social media and the term “safety”.
- Comment on NASA instructs employees to remove pronouns from all work communications 4 months ago:
NASA has to interpret the boss’s demands. Like every other US public org they’re looking for anonymity by being center of the pack.
- Comment on NASA instructs employees to remove pronouns from all work communications 4 months ago:
If you concede your powerlessness, why would you issue them in the first place? I’m reminded of signage in workplace kitchens, requesting that people wipe benches and ensure dishes aren’t left in the sink - a conscientious worker will follow it in nearly all cases (either by accident or deliberation), but it’s pointless when in front of a careless worker.
- Comment on NASA instructs employees to remove pronouns from all work communications 4 months ago:
I’ve never understood the progressive left’s eagerness to ‘claim’ pronouns and put them on display. It’s silly to believe anyone can possess them. Your being a he or a she is determined by social context. Accept that your ability to enforce a personal preference is limited at best.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 4 months ago:
20 was the lead engineer ‘mishearing’ Zuck after he said 2.
- Comment on This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. 4 months ago:
Say it with me, peeps. Tenant on your own land!
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 4 months ago:
You’re right but Australian decisionmakers will never care, because IT infrasctucture is as now as political as what rifle is selected for the army. They’re fully plugged into Uncle Sam’s economic matrix, and that’s what will ultimately see Australia left behind on AI and a host of other technology self-sufficiencies, kept a minor second-hand innovator and permanent technology customer rather than exporter. Lobbying and the compliance industry aim to keep it like that.
In my years of earning a salary I have never once seen a department I worked in procure a product that wasn’t the biggest, safest American name. Ever. Oracle, Salesforce, MS, etc. every time.
The empire may change but Australian subservience remains conscious and deliberate (just like much of Europe tbh)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Sounds like the protocol equivalent of regulatory capture.
- Comment on Two men arrested over Melbourne's 'Pam the bird' graffiti attacks 4 months ago:
It’s outrageous vandalism first, until instances of it sell at auction like Banksy’s work. after which the media dutifully reports it as ‘prestigious’, ‘part of the city’s heritage’ and breathlessly awaits the next instalment.
Only the humorless knobs that run Melbourne could hate Pam the bird
- Comment on Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says 4 months ago:
The plastics industries don’t want any disruption to manufacturing volumes, so they’ve invested (together with government) a lot of money in propagating the plastic recycling myth in order to keep political pressure off themselves. Recycled plastic is poor quality and unfit for consumers, which is why the recycled portion of new plastic units is typically single-digit percentages. They’ve also created a new bit of greenwashing aimed at convincing the public there’s a ‘new and improved’ class of plastics that stand up to recycling at higher rates, but most experts think it’s just clever accounting.
- Comment on New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony 4 months ago:
Make it easy to buy stuff and people will.
In case you haven’t worked it out by now, the following advice may be of help:
They’re not gonna do that