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  1. Comment on House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate in ~tech

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    I think it's fair to ban Chinese apps as long as China bans our apps. There is a political and economic reason why China bans American tech.

    I think it's fair to ban Chinese apps as long as China bans our apps. There is a political and economic reason why China bans American tech.

    7 votes

  2. Comment on No more freebies: Companies crack down on customer perks and rewards in ~finance

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    Inflation exists, so it isn't impossible for profits to grow forever. If your company isn't making record breaking profits every quarter, you would, in fact, be falling behind.

    Inflation exists, so it isn't impossible for profits to grow forever. If your company isn't making record breaking profits every quarter, you would, in fact, be falling behind.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    Also horrible SEO for the name, I have been searching for opinions on the matter on different websites (including twitter) and it's incredibly hard to find results on any search box.

    Also horrible SEO for the name, I have been searching for opinions on the matter on different websites (including twitter) and it's incredibly hard to find results on any search box.

    16 votes

  4. Comment on ChatGPT can be broken by entering these strange words, and nobody is sure why in ~tech

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    It's using tokens that are extremely out of distribution, sometimes untrained. It's like if someone discovered a way to look at a new color that has never been perceived and your brain wasn't...

    It's using tokens that are extremely out of distribution, sometimes untrained. It's like if someone discovered a way to look at a new color that has never been perceived and your brain wasn't wired to process it, thus the pathways would be essentially random and would cause a seizure.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon in ~tech

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    All the data is public, if any big tech company wants to mine fediverse data they can just create a fake server and just request it, on the other hand, the fediverse is getting all the data from...

    All the data is public, if any big tech company wants to mine fediverse data they can just create a fake server and just request it, on the other hand, the fediverse is getting all the data from threads for free, it's a clearly imbalanced trade. You'll be able to essentially browse through threads with your own client that doesn't track every click you make all aggregated through your instance. You get all the content and Facebook doesn't get your location data.

    32 votes

  6. Comment on Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon in ~tech

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    What's the point of federation if the biggest chunk of admins choose to recursively defederate with anything that threatens your status as the admins of the biggest instances? Surely this is seen...

    What's the point of federation if the biggest chunk of admins choose to recursively defederate with anything that threatens your status as the admins of the biggest instances? Surely this is seen as a cynical way to defend their status of being the biggest admins who can set the rules, as I don't believe that meta's moderation will be lacking

    25 votes

  7. Comment on r/Place on Reddit returns tomorrow in ~tech

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    Honestly since the second time they ran it multiple other websites have tried to make clones of it, i.e. specific twitch streamers. Honestly it's just cheap and boring, I don't know what changed...

    Honestly since the second time they ran it multiple other websites have tried to make clones of it, i.e. specific twitch streamers. Honestly it's just cheap and boring, I don't know what changed in the last 5 years or even the last year, but I don't want to spend my time making a collaborative art piece if they want to use it to advertise.

    I guess back when anyone could get the data and create things themselves the relationship felt like a community rather than unpaid labor?

    6 votes

  8. Comment on YouTube is testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking in ~tech

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    The whole idea that server A is supposed to be able to serve servers B, C, D, E and F's content is an idea born out of a world where storage and bandwidth are cheap and exponentially growing, one...

    The whole idea that server A is supposed to be able to serve servers B, C, D, E and F's content is an idea born out of a world where storage and bandwidth are cheap and exponentially growing, one that we unfortunately no longer a part of.

    I don't understand how engineers that saw how the Bitcoin Blockchain needs dedicated and purpose built servers to host and search it even if it's a database where 1mb gets appended every 10 minutes, and then decided to build YouTube in a way where data needs to be duplicated in a similar fashion.

    4 votes

  9. Comment on YouTube is testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking in ~tech

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    The reasons people aren't talking about it is that they won't scale because of the fediverseness of it and also the content on it is unhinged at the moment.

    The reasons people aren't talking about it is that they won't scale because of the fediverseness of it and also the content on it is unhinged at the moment.

    5 votes

  10. Comment on YouTube is testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking in ~tech

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    But there's no paid aspect to youtube though, in terms of a movie theater, it's like walking in 15 minutes late to skip all the previous or like muting your TV during advertisements.

    But there's no paid aspect to youtube though, in terms of a movie theater, it's like walking in 15 minutes late to skip all the previous or like muting your TV during advertisements.

    13 votes

  11. Comment on US Redditors to earn real money for gold, karma in ~tech

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    In hindsight now that I think about it my country's subreddit (in Latin America) got revived all of a sudden, it used to be a fairly progressive sub full of bilingual speakers and one day a couple...

    In hindsight now that I think about it my country's subreddit (in Latin America) got revived all of a sudden, it used to be a fairly progressive sub full of bilingual speakers and one day a couple of years ago it started getting a bunch of traffic from more conservative people who don't speak English. I have also notice a rise in the amount of accounts that have posts in Spanish, in their country's subreddit, in random subreddits. Perhaps there was a push to promote reddit in Latin America too.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on US Redditors to earn real money for gold, karma in ~tech

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    If you have been on /r/cryptocurrency for any amount of time in the last couple of years you'll know how it will end. They added this crypto called moons, which is awarded when you get karma from...

    If you have been on /r/cryptocurrency for any amount of time in the last couple of years you'll know how it will end. They added this crypto called moons, which is awarded when you get karma from a post on the subreddit. The result is that it got botted to hell, it got to the point where people often complain when they see a post that got obviously botted to the top because it was just manicured to farm moons.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Elon Musk announces new daily Twitter limitations as thousands of users report problems accessing site in ~tech

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    It's hard for the fediverse to blow up right now, the current problem all these companies are having is keeping costs under how much they're earning, which is why they're tightening down to force...

    It's hard for the fediverse to blow up right now, the current problem all these companies are having is keeping costs under how much they're earning, which is why they're tightening down to force people to either pay a subscription or see a lot of ads. The fediverse's way of solving this is to be developed by unpaid hobbyists and ran by hobbyists on their own dime, which might be ok for a while but I really don't think it scales, especially in terms of the overhead in terms of both development time (devs go into fucking with the protocol stuff and trying to not have their network attacked) and extra bandwidth storage (because federation in the way that the fediverse does it is incredibly expensive).

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Elon Musk announces new daily Twitter limitations as thousands of users report problems accessing site in ~tech

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    Google also ends unlimited storage in their services in a week so it might all be tied up to that

    Google also ends unlimited storage in their services in a week so it might all be tied up to that

    5 votes

  15. Comment on US Navy 'knew about Titanic sub implosion days ago' in ~transport

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    Isn't there value in knowing how fast they can process all the signals from their system to isolate the event?

    Isn't there value in knowing how fast they can process all the signals from their system to isolate the event?

  16. Comment on Spotify’s podcast plan is going off the rails in ~tech

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    When Gimlet went to Spotify, the podcasts they forced to go Spotify only just disappeared from my headspace, it's not like I don't have enough podcasts to listen to (plus my commute had just...

    When Gimlet went to Spotify, the podcasts they forced to go Spotify only just disappeared from my headspace, it's not like I don't have enough podcasts to listen to (plus my commute had just disappeared due to covid, so that's less podcast time). Them losing all their famous personalities was just the last nail on the coffin.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on What's a simple, cheap way to run a database-backed website as a hobbyist? in ~comp

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    I used OCI for a minecraft server and it ran like a dream, much better than $20 servers I have paid for in the past, those ARM processors are so great

    I used OCI for a minecraft server and it ran like a dream, much better than $20 servers I have paid for in the past, those ARM processors are so great

  18. Comment on I gave Lemmy, Kbin, and Beehaw a chance. I think I'll be sticking with Tildes. in ~tech

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    That will do it for the most blatant ones, but most of them hide it by linking to a linktree or Instagram, and it's hard to automate checking those. Some of them are even sneakier where they get...

    That will do it for the most blatant ones, but most of them hide it by linking to a linktree or Instagram, and it's hard to automate checking those. Some of them are even sneakier where they get an unrelated "fan" recognize them and link to their socials directly. At this point I'm not sure if I'm paranoid and seeing things that aren't there, but I feel like everything on the internet these days is trying to astroturf you into spending money.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on I gave Lemmy, Kbin, and Beehaw a chance. I think I'll be sticking with Tildes. in ~tech

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    I think the monetization of amateur NSFW content has turned any sex-adjacent space on the internet into advertising spots for these sort of things. It might not sound that bad in the abstract but...

    I think the monetization of amateur NSFW content has turned any sex-adjacent space on the internet into advertising spots for these sort of things. It might not sound that bad in the abstract but some gaming subs have gotten really bad to the point where a significant portion of their posts were low effort cosplay of girls trying to get their name out there, and I don't know if I want to be advertised porn at all everywhere on the internet. It gets worse with advertising agencies where people actually sign contracts and then they spam sites like twitter and reddit, I don't know if I can see them as any different from just professional porn companies at this point.

    24 votes

  20. Comment on Observations on needed features and issues now that the site has gotten busier in ~tildes

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    I think it might be useful to be able to post a comment without bumping the thread, sort of like a sage in a chan, sometimes I want to contribute on a thread without forcing it to the top of...

    I think it might be useful to be able to post a comment without bumping the thread, sort of like a sage in a chan, sometimes I want to contribute on a thread without forcing it to the top of everyone's list.

    2 votes