chromodynamic

@chromodynamic@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since anyone can create their own subreddit and become a mod there, does this mean that anyone can look at these profiles?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Website is Served from Nine Neovim Buffers on My Old ThinkPad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But why do people want their text editors to do completely unrelated tasks? Genuine question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should large Fediverse instances and Bluesky encourage, not require, users to opt-in to bridges that connect to Bluesky and other non-fedi social web platforms?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If a Fedi or BSky instance wants to support connecting to the other side, they should implement both protocols. Bridges are just a duct-tape solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw an interesting video suggesting that the real motivation is to give megacorps like Google a new business acting as "banks" for identity, i.e. the Internet would get so inconvenient that people would just save their identity with Google (or Meta, etc) and then use them to log in to other websites.

  I probably explained it badly, but the video I saw is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAd-OOrdyMw

  People in the comments pointed out that those companies would also have the ability to delete or suspend your identity verification if you did something they didn't like (or refused to do something they wanted). Reminds me of the SIN from Shadowrun .

• What do we call anti-Big-Tech Tech collectively?
  Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨9⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to message them about it, now is the time most likely to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I've often felt that the web should work more like Git, so you can keep the content locally and just pull updates when you need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can view and post in channels on other instances from your home instance without switching. For example, I'm commenting from piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) - Jono Alderson⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Client-side scripting is a hack. HTML didn't have all the tags people wanted or needed, so instead of carefully updating it to include new features, they demanded that browsers just execute arbitrary code on the user's computer, and with that comes security vulnerabilities, excessive bandwidth use and a barrier-to-entry that makes it difficult to develop new browsers, giving one company a near-monopoly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite the opposite in fact. Microtransactions offer the promise of fun, but never deliver, because in order to incentivise users to purchase them, the player must feel like the game is 90% of the way to being fun and that tiny additional purchase will get it there.

  It's like the cartoon image of the donkey rider holding a carrot on the end of a rod. The donkey keeps moving to try to get the carrot, but never quite reaches it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides the trackers and malware, ads can be categorised as a flaw in technology. A kind of software parasite that uses a computer's resources without providing any additional functionality to the user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some good points I hadn't considered!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Got me thinking about how YouTubers get money. According to a quick web search, YT pays $0.01 to $0.03 per view. So if you release 10 videos a month, you made $0.10 per viewer. But Patreon memberships are typically around $5.00 a month, equivalent to $0.50 per view in the same scenario. Of course Patreon will take a cut, but it is still a lot more money.

  So, if a lot of your viewers think your channel is good enough to donate to, ad money basically becomes an afterthought. In this case, the only advantage of YT over PT is discovery, i.e. the number of viewers likely to find your videos in the first place (but there's also more competition on YT, so...)