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  1. Comment on EU backs away from chat control in ~society

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    How is anyone coming to this conclusion?

    How is anyone coming to this conclusion?

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Strange YouTube watch-tracking behavior in ~tech

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    Watch history has been working pretty poorly since hovering over a YouTube thumbnail, or simply having it on screen (on mobile) starts playing the video. My best guess is that that's what you're...

    Watch history has been working pretty poorly since hovering over a YouTube thumbnail, or simply having it on screen (on mobile) starts playing the video. My best guess is that that's what you're seeing.

    It also counts and keeps track of history if you click through the preview.

    12 votes

  3. Comment on How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers in ~science

  4. Comment on The death of punctuation in ~humanities.languages

  5. Comment on The spy who came in from the WiFi: Beware of radio network surveillance! in ~comp

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    I suppose one could perhaps send false BFI, or be "noisy" to perhaps make it harder to identify. Though if you're the only one yelling, it's not exactly hard to discern who's yelling. From their...

    I suppose one could perhaps send false BFI, or be "noisy" to perhaps make it harder to identify.

    Though if you're the only one yelling, it's not exactly hard to discern who's yelling.

    From their paper:

    since BFI identification capabilities were still unknown,
    we also purposely collected the dataset under controlled condi-
    tions, for instance regarding the clothing of individuals. As these
    restrictions were meant to ensure that the gait of subjects could
    be recorded by preventing clothing from obstructing it, we may
    be overestimating the identification potential of BFI.

    Perhaps wearing long leather jackets like in the Matrix is good enough :^)

    9 votes

  6. Comment on Valve announces new hardware: Steam Frame, Steam Controller, and Steam Machine in ~games

  7. Comment on Posts vs. comments. Where do you fall and why? in ~tech

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    Care to provide an example of this happening? I don't think this is very common, at least not in my experience.

    I'd say that on Tildes as on other platforms, you see a lot more posts responding to a topic than you see comments on existing posts.

    Care to provide an example of this happening? I don't think this is very common, at least not in my experience.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on An AI-generated country song is topping a Billboard chart, and that should infuriate us all in ~music

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    Because it's ragebait for engagement.

    What’s even more infuriating, though, is that Billboard is legitimizing this AI slop by including it on their charts.

    Because it's ragebait for engagement.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Tilderinos in ~talk

  10. Comment on Donald Trump says nuclear weapons testing to resume in US after more than thirty years in ~society

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    This achieves absolutely nothing but letting adversaries catch up technologically.

    This achieves absolutely nothing but letting adversaries catch up technologically.

    5 votes

  11. Comment on Removing obfuscation in Minecraft Java Edition in ~games

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    I thought licensing issues meant even if they released mappings, they couldn't really do much with them?

    I thought licensing issues meant even if they released mappings, they couldn't really do much with them?

    1 vote

  12. Comment on What the hell are we doing with hierarchical tags? in ~tildes

  13. Comment on US President Donald Trump and EU impose new sanctions on Russia: ‘Now is the time to stop the killing’ in ~society

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    What a way to open that statement

    I just felt it was time.

    What a way to open that statement

    14 votes

  14. Comment on A new eye implant proves remarkably effective in restoring sight for people with age-related macular degeneration in ~health

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    I am really curious what it looks like, if that's even describable.

    Muqit stressed that patients had to undergo training and intensive rehabilitation of their eye in order to realise the benefits of the technology.

    I am really curious what it looks like, if that's even describable.

    4 votes

  15. Comment on What's your video game comfort food? in ~games

  16. Comment on Doomsday scoreboard in ~humanities.history

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    They should let me put long term bets on these predictions with crypto.

    They should let me put long term bets on these predictions with crypto.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Venezuela shuts its embassy in Oslo, days after opposition leader María Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in ~society

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    Did anyone demand such a response then? I feel like it would've been better for them to just ignore it altogether.

    Did anyone demand such a response then?

    I feel like it would've been better for them to just ignore it altogether.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Do other people who grew up with an anonymous internet feel a bit hopeless at the moment? in ~society

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    I've come to realize people want to be taken care of, rather than be their own person. So I've stopped putting energy into convincing them otherwise.

    I've come to realize people want to be taken care of, rather than be their own person. So I've stopped putting energy into convincing them otherwise.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Can you really be addicted to food? Researchers are uncovering similarities to drug addiction in some eating patterns. in ~food

  20. Comment on Donald Trump says Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to US-sponsored Gaza peace proposal in ~society