DABDA
@DABDA@lemm.ee
- Comment on Ads are coming to bit.ly links 1 week ago:
You can escape the . in a URL to break the markdown auto-linking:
bit\.ly/customurl
displays as:
bit.ly/customurl - Comment on Can’t upload images? 1 week ago:
It’s actually a 4 week delay according to sidebar (unless that’s outdated info)
- Comment on Got these two most awful yt reccommendations when watching the 50501 protest livestreams. 2 weeks ago:
There was a TED talk by Zeynep Tufekci in 2017 (“We’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads”) – (YouTube*: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTWM7HV2UI) that briefly talks about this:
(*I’m aware of the irony in linking there)So in 2016, I attended rallies of then-candidate Donald Trump to study as a scholar the movement supporting him. I study social movements, so I was studying it, too. And then I wanted to write something about one of his rallies, so I watched it a few times on YouTube. YouTube started recommending to me and autoplaying to me white supremacist videos in increasing order of extremism. If I watched one, it served up one even more extreme and autoplayed that one, too. If you watch Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders content, YouTube recommends and autoplays conspiracy left, and it goes downhill from there.
Well, you might be thinking, this is politics, but it’s not. This isn’t about politics. This is just the algorithm figuring out human behavior. I once watched a video about vegetarianism on YouTube and YouTube recommended and autoplayed a video about being vegan. It’s like you’re never hardcore enough for YouTube.
So what’s going on? Now, YouTube’s algorithm is proprietary, but here’s what I think is going on. The algorithm has figured out that if you can entice people into thinking that you can show them something more hardcore, they’re more likely to stay on the site watching video after video going down that rabbit hole while Google serves them ads.
These days it might also be about politics, but the motivation to capture attention to serve ads is still the priority.
- Comment on What security purpose a Faraday bag has when it contain a vehicle keyfob 4 weeks ago:
voulaa
voilà
- Comment on Reason for Walmart online product reviews frequently being service related? 1 month ago:
Tombstone is more expensive than Jack’s but it’s definitely a huge step up in quality. When I’m just focused on maximizing my budget Jack’s is the lowest I’ll tolerate. But if the goal is taste and quantity Tombstone is certainly the better option.
- Comment on Reason for Walmart online product reviews frequently being service related? 1 month ago:
It’s not like specific items always being unavailable, it’s just different random things being OOS necessitating a second grocery stop. It happens everywhere, but at least post Covid, and in my region, it happens consistently with Target.
e.g.:- Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup
- Kraft mac & cheese
- (any) Butter sticks
- Jack’s frozen pizza
- Comment on Reason for Walmart online product reviews frequently being service related? 1 month ago:
There’s multiple Targets much closer to me than the nearest Walmart but I can’t recall a single time I’ve gone to one and they’ve had all the items in stock I was looking for. Simple staple items that shouldn’t have scarcity problems that just aren’t being adequately ordered or stocked on shelves.
Now that I’ve finally vented about this problem I’m now also imagining the monkey paw curling and all the customer service complaint comments will just be replaced with LLM generated pro-WM propaganda :(
- Comment on Reason for Walmart online product reviews frequently being service related? 1 month ago:
The Amazon situation was the first I’d heard about this problem so I assumed it was the same reason it happens on WM (and elsewhere). And while I certainly don’t expect Walmart to actually read reviews, I would think they would be concerned about potentially losing sales due to projecting a bad image and try to at least (poorly/cheaply) implement a system to address it.
Assuming it’s not like an email based feedback system but something with an asynchronous connection, it can’t be too hard to look for a handful of keywords (dent, missing, broken, spilled, delivery …) then throw up a Clippy-style message - “It looks like you’re talking about a problem with your order, would you like customer service to assist?” and then route the message/user in that direction.
I know I’m expecting a lot from our primitive technology in 2025 but I refuse to stop dreaming, dammit!
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- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
You’re probably thinking of @BeReady77@lemmy.world. I’ve been expecting another post any day but wasn’t anticipating a name change.
- Comment on The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a URL 4 months ago:
making people click hundreds of links to get to the real EULA
This could be turned into a game with some kind of narrative like a Choose-Your-Own-E.U.L.Adventure. Players might try to exploit it though, so there should probably be some terms they have to agree to first.
- Comment on Amazon Contractors can't even sing in their cars now. Unions protect against this micromanagement. 5 months ago:
It might open an unwanted can of worms but maybe the drivers could claim they aren’t signing along to the radio but are vocalizing actions like Japanese train operators to ensure focus and safety.
- Comment on How come it shows now I have 8 messages and 0 PM's but when I click to check my messages it is just the two I am saving? 6 months ago:
haven’t join any other instance besides lemmyworld
Not even @Don_Dickle@lemmy.ml ~30 days ago (banned 22 days ago)?
- Comment on Lethal Weapon 5 | Mel Gibson confirms he's directing 8 months ago:
I hope Danny DeVito plays the villain.
- Comment on Unread Count Says 1, While Inbox is Empty 8 months ago:
The Piped bot is checking comments for instances of a YouTube domain and video id (I don’t know specifically what it triggers on) and then replies with a link to that video id as a Piped-based one. But what it should also do is check if the initial comment also contains the Piped URL it’s about to post and then not reply with a duplicate of that same address.
For example I’d post something like
- Watch this YouTube video (Piped mirror)
And the bot would reply offering the exact “Piped mirror” address I had already linked to. This would happen regardless of if I used custom link text or just left it as a raw URL so the bot clearly wasn’t doing a check of either method.
- Comment on Unread Count Says 1, While Inbox is Empty 8 months ago:
Awesome, glad I was able to help!
That bot has long been a thorn in my side, both due to that Lemmy bug but relatedly because I used to include Piped links with all my YT ones but the bot doesn’t(/didn’t?) check for them before replying anyway. I’ve never created a bot but I can’t imagine it’s more than like a single line to do a regex search for the exact link it intends to post and aborting if it’s found.
- Comment on Unread Count Says 1, While Inbox is Empty 8 months ago:
I would get that when I had bots disabled in settings and one would reply to me (usually the Piped link bot). After manually adding that specific bot to the block list that stopped happening.
- Comment on Why does being tall make your belly more vulnerable in case of an attack? 8 months ago:
Just wait for their next phase when they start shilling for their Kevlar girdle startup…
- Comment on Why does being tall make your belly more vulnerable in case of an attack? 8 months ago:
Is this a novelty account or something, what’s with the fixation on your belly? You’ve been milking this subject for 2 months.
- Comment on Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive? 9 months ago:
biopsy
vivisection - Comment on Does the MXID in Lemmy's 'Matrix User' field actually show up or get used? 9 months ago:
It should display a “Send Secure Message” button when viewing a user’s profile.
- Comment on Give all your loyalty to the soulless predatory entity 10 months ago:
I tried to link an image but comment got removed for the URL being on the blacklist - not sure if it was the image link or the link giving attribution which pointed to Twitter (I’m assuming the latter).
Tried to post the Corporate Memphis version of “Saturn Devouring His Son”
- Comment on Give all your loyalty to the soulless predatory entity 10 months ago:
Hopefully I can hotlink that image. If it doesn’t load it is the Corporate Memphis version of “Saturn Devouring His Son” attributed to @clayohr on twitter
- Comment on With public key cryptography, why can't someone decrypt a message using the public key? 10 months ago:
I liked this YouTube video about Diffie-Hellman key exchange [start at 2:25] that explains the concept using color mixtures.
- Comment on How do you play classic Mortal Kombat? 10 months ago:
I haven’t looked into it but that code has to be a creative reference to the Genesis album/song “Abacab.”
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 10 months ago:
Not a response, please stop trolling.
- Comment on 1000 years from now physics is forgotten and all that remains is the legend of two hobbits, Charm and Spin, and their quest for the Higgyboson. At this point, is physics true? 10 months ago:
Are you going out of your way to test the “no stupid questions” premise? You aren’t even asking a question you’re trying to make some kind of point in a roundabout way.
10 days ago, -34 points, “What horrible errors are people like you guilty of?”
10 days ago, -15 points, “When asked a question, what is your first reaction, to answer the question or to defend yourself?”
14 hours ago, -18 points, “In movies a strong woman is manly. (big muscles, aggressive, punches people, etc.) Is that really the way it is?”In all those posts there’s the common thread of you being vague and constantly alluding to some specific message you want to spread but won’t just directly state.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 10 months ago:
Just clickbait posted by a user with same name as the author/site owner.
- Comment on Heinz Relax 11 months ago:
Heinz Automato > Relax
- Comment on Anon likes public humiliation 11 months ago:
I hate that wiener (giggity) obeys the rule but is pronounced like it should be weiner. At least that word doesn’t come up (giggity) too often.