Meron35
@Meron35@lemmy.world
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 2 days ago:
If your online content is audio or video then you can replace the default subtitle track with nonsense. This is because AI scrapers generally only check the default subtitle track to understand audio or video.
The process would be more difficult with text or image content, but you can still apply the same principles.
Poisonining AI with “.ass” subtitles:
- Comment on Is This Social Media? 4 days ago:
I don’t think the any interaction definition is too broad at all. Primitive forms of social media such as mailing lists and forum threads form are very similar in functionality to simply following hashtags, or I guess whatever the algorithms suggest.
The distinction using account based versus conversation/thread based is not too helpful, because the majority of users of modern social media don’t really use it to follow accounts, with the majority of their time is spent doomscrolling generic hashtags or algorithm recommendations.
The similarities are easier to see if you think of how people actually used these technologies in their daily lives. Pre Facebook, people would log in and refresh their Usenet, emails, and forums threads to keep in touch with friends and interests. Post Facebook, people would log in and refresh Facebook/Insta instead.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
Trixie Mattel and Kim Chi
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 weeks ago:
1 centimeter per second
- Comment on Anon is dehydrated 3 weeks ago:
It should be the opposite. Saliva enzymes, stomach acid, and bile takes care of most pathogens, whereas anal lining is basically a direct route to your bloodstream.
This is why anal is considered the riskiest option for sex or drugs.
- Comment on Kill Them With Fire 3 weeks ago:
I don’t, because sadly it’s the only thing that works with the right, and really people in general.
They don’t care about actually well researched policies or political content - these get labelled as the “liberal wall of text.”
We need more of these sorts of jokes for engagement. See for example Megan Coyne’s tweets when she ran Biden’s official Whitehouse account.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 3 weeks ago:
Single payer healthcare systems get all the political attention, but we really need a single payer judicial system. Basically public defenders but properly funded and for prosecution as well.
The US judicial system is also particularly bad because each party is responsible for their own legal fees. Most of the world has the loser pay the winner’s fees.
American rule (attorney’s fees) - Wikipedia - …wikipedia.org/…/American_rule_(attorney's_fees)
- Comment on You deserve better, honey bun. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 5 weeks ago:
The WiFi tracking tech is not too new, but re-identification of subjects is. That is, instead of the shopping centre having to build up their own database to profile you, they can just match your unique biomarker to a external data broker’s database, supposedly.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 5 weeks ago:
Luckin Coffee, the extremely successful Chinese competitor to Starbucks exclusively operates via their app. Sadly, users prefer it because of all the discounts and coupons it offers. So really, just surveillance capitalism as usual.
- Comment on (Laser) Printer go brrrr 5 weeks ago:
People love laser printers (and rightfully so compared to inkjets), but ink tanks fix most of the issues with inkjets.
Ink tanks are refilled with generic ink, as opposed to proprietary cartridges. They thus have vastly cheaper running costs, even more so than lasers, which still needs replacements for their drum units every few years.
Also, laser toner is literally fine microplastic powder, and printing works by depositing and “baking” this powder onto paper. Laser printers result in terrible indoor air quality without adequate ventilation.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 1 month ago:
Nia Nubia
- Comment on It's still captivating 1 month ago:
Ali Spagnola topped this by making a giant balancing bird
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 1 month ago:
If white people can’t handle heat then explain this spicy polish pastry
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 1 month ago:
Zohran can destroy me anytime
- Comment on Please remember to spread the word about this :( 2 months ago:
Pure oxygen is actually toxic for humans, leading to hyperoxia. People who breath pure oxygen such as scuba divers need specific training.
Oxygen toxicity - Wikipedia - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
- Comment on no way right 2 months ago:
The CIA produced many briefs for Bush warning about Bin Laden in 2001 before the actual attacks. Bush did not take any of these seriously, as summarised by one of his now infamous response “All right. You’ve covered your ass.”
Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US - Wikipedia - …wikipedia.org/…/Bin_Ladin_Determined_To_Strike_i…
- Comment on Make dinosaurs weirder 2 months ago:
This was already done in “All Todays,” which features depictions of modern animals as distant-future paleontologists might reconstruct them, given just skeletal remains.
Example of Elephant, Zebra, and Rhino: Image
‘All Todays’ Explained - obscuredinosaurfacts.com/blog/…/all-todays.html
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- Comment on Bruh, chill 2 months ago:
The laws are different for the US, where middle lane hogging is generally not illegal. However, all states stipulate that you must keep in the right lane unless overtaking, which is similar in spirit. Annoyingly, all but Florida then add an exception to this rule for highways with three lanes or more.
Middle lane hogging is mainly outlawed in the UK, who have correctly recognised it as being incredibly dangerous and a curse of congestion by preventing other people from overtaking.
Who, what, why: What’s wrong with middle-lane hogging? - BBC News - www.bbc.com/news/magazine-2278498
KEEP RIGHT TRAFFIC LAWS IN ALL 50 STATES CHART (00214405).DOC - SLOWER-TRAFFIC-KEEP-RIGHT.pdf - www.mwl-law.com/…/SLOWER-TRAFFIC-KEEP-RIGHT.pdf
- Comment on Tea ☕ is leaf juice. While, coffee ☕ is bean juice. 3 months ago:
A soy vanilla latte is a three bean soup
- Comment on Netflix’s ad tier is growing really fast — and that means more ads 3 months ago:
It’s cute that you think they’ll allow you to continue to ignore these ads
Sony already owns a patent for forcing people to say the advertisers’ slogans as of 2023, and Roku was already experimenting with forcibly displaying ads over anything else displayed as of 2024.
Does a Sony Patent Propose Viewers Skip Commercials by Yelling Brand Names at TV? | Snopes.com - www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/
Roku patent invents a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV - Ars Technica - arstechnica.com/…/hdmi-customized-ad-insertion-pa…
- Comment on Is it true that femboys are "fetishized" by right-wingers or something like that? Or is my friend(who told me this) tripping balls? 3 months ago:
Madison Cawthorn Says ‘Blackmail Won’t Win’ After Nude Thrusting Video Leaks | HuffPost Latest News - huffpost.com/…/madison-cawthorn-leaked-nude-video…
- Comment on How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends? 4 months ago:
Shoshana Zuboff really was ahead of its time. So many people who were privacy conscious and therefore thought they were clever by simply thinking that Google makes money by only selling your data completely missed the scale of manipulation and control big tech has (myself included).
Google/big tech doesn’t sell your data. Google/big tech sells advertisers predictions of your behaviour, a highly refined, processed version of your data. Advertisers cannot purchase your data, only “impressions” or “views.” In an extra sinister twist, Google/big tech then uses it’s resources to manipulate you in ways such that their predictions become true.
This is why their predictions are the best, because after making them, they have a financial incentive to manipulate them into being true. It is why we naturally see more and more polarization, because after Google has sold the prediction that you will engage is a specific type of content (e.g. right ring rabbit holes), it is financially incentivised to make that a reality, and therefore further push you in that direction, to make their prediction true.
How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification - ScienceDirect - www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0169207022001066
- Comment on Luxury bones? In *this* economy. 5 months ago:
Sike! Many developed nations such as Canada, Australia, the UK, Hong Kong, and Singapore all provide little to no support for dental. Although the UK does have dental ln the NHS, finding an NHS dentist is very difficult.
Many of the residents in these nations end up engaging in dental tourism to nations such as Poland and Thailand, where a dental travel package that includes round trip international air fare + 5 star hotel + dental work is still cheaper than getting dental work done in their home country.
- Comment on Before you act, is this right for the company? 5 months ago:
Ask not what your
countrycompany can do for you, but what you can do for yourcountrycompany /s - Comment on Please answer. 5 months ago:
Humans: 🤮 Human genitalia: 🍆💨👃🤤
- Comment on Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich? 6 months ago:
No, consumption taxes (such as VAT) are generally considered to be regressive, because the rich spend less on consumption relative to their income.
In almost all countries, the top income decile was estimated to have paid a share of their income that is only 60% of what the bottom half pays in consumption taxes.
The inequality impact of consumption taxes: An international comparison - ScienceDirect - www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0047272723000798
- Comment on Would you like to finance your hot chocolate with a loan set at 69% apr? 6 months ago:
It’s innovative because it applies evolutionary pressure by making sure that dumb people falling for such simple scams will be too poor to survive and reproduce /s
