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- Comment on How come some Corporation or some Business don't sponsor a protest? Like McDonald's sponsoring that No Kings protest. Or a hotel giving free room and board to protestors and so on? 4 days ago:
Just like Michael Jordan said: “Republicans buy sneakers, too.”
- Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself? 1 week ago:
Buzzfeed News used to be high quality journalism, funded by ad driven low quality Buzzfeed content. I am not sure if it was financially sustainable since they had to do layoffs, but I think partially that could be because Buzzfeed’s audience moved to Instagram and TikTok and stopped interacting with “Which Game of Thrones character are you?” quizzes.
- Comment on Will I get notifications if lemmy users comment on my post? 2 weeks ago:
And notifications if you @ mention them in a child comment, like this: @tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 2 weeks ago:
What’s that?
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 2 weeks ago:
According to the modlog they were banned already for “DM Spam”
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 2 weeks ago:
And Coca-Cola Zero Sugar is no joke. Zero Sugar in every can. Share a Coke with a friend today
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 2 weeks ago:
I got the same thing, but assumed it was because I made a comment yesterday about the brand in mention, and this is someone’s idea of an April Fools joke?
- Comment on "Moebius strip" 3 weeks ago:
Double the twists, half the surface area
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 3 weeks ago:
IMO, Lina Khan was maybe the best appointment of the Biden presidency and as FTC chair, pushed hard for consumers, even for unlikely winnable battles. Unfortunately the click-to-cancel ^[apnews.com/…/ftc-click-to-cancel-30db2be07fdcb8ae…] rule was struck down by the Court of Appeals, but I think if she were still in that position she’d fight the ruling. You’re right that the legislature needs to do their job and formally outlaw these practices, rather than having this be brought up by the FTC and struck down on a procedural matter.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 3 weeks ago:
What info are y’all giving away when signing up for a gym membership where it could even go to collections? Is this for an annual contract? If you’re not on a contract and rack up unpaid months, it seems unlikely to me. Especially for a physical business where a late payment of $20 would deny you entry until you pay. I guess states with poor consumer protection laws this can happen if you sign up for a year or more and don’t pay I guess?
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 3 weeks ago:
Sorry to say but you got scammed. They could have tried to take you to small claims court, but the burden is on them not you. The credit card company sided with you, if they have a problem, then can take it up with Visa or whoever, not you.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 3 weeks ago:
Why would you take a credit hit. It seems like once a year, something random comes up in a credit card statement, and requires a dispute. Those aren’t sent to credit agencies AFAIK, although i’ve never been ruled against any, so I’m not 100% about this.
- Comment on Air Canada Express flight AC8646 CRJ-900 at LaGuardia crash footage 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that sucks. This was the best audio i could find of ATC (sorry for IG link) and seems like they immediately realized the fuck up, but the truck kept going.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 4 weeks ago:
FWIW, Brave still supports manifest v2 and the full version of uBlock Origin. Chrome has uBO Lite since they only have manifest v3 now. Firefox and LibreWolf don’t have to deal with this, and still support the real uBlock Origin. I’m not sure what exactly Brave “shield” is doing, but I think if you use EFF’s privacy badger on Firefox and block third party cookies, you are getting the same thing.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 4 weeks ago:
ok
- Comment on I'm sorry it has to be like this 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language? 5 weeks ago:
Assuming the Grandpa watches Fox News / OAN / Newsmax, they’ve sold him the lie that immigrants are taking their jobs and going to ruin the middle class, meanwhile it’s they who are having the middle class vote against their interests, gutting healthcare, breaking up families, dissuading workers to unionize, etc. Basically this politically cartoon:
- Comment on 1 month ago:
So like Pokemon Animal Crossing?
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 1 month ago:
He’s one of the Wilson brothers, the most famous of which was in Cast Away
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 1 month ago:
My assumption is the bias is unintentional, at least partially, and just the priorities of recommendations is weighed heavily to encourage engagement above all else, and stoking fear and anger drives engagement. Also the distribution of content could be a factor. On the right, it seems like everyone is trying to get in on the grift of advertising elk meat or trump coin to exploit their viewers, meanwhile high quality journalism and news is under funded. For every Climate Town or A More Perfect Union, there’s tens or hundreds of right wing fearmongering videos.
- Comment on Is it possible to pay someone to create an excel sheet for me? 1 month ago:
If I were to use an LLM, it would not be to actually upload the PDF and generate the excel document, you’re guaranteed to have made up data if you ask it to do this. What I would do is ask an LLM to write a python script which uses OCR or some other programmatic way to extract the data from the PDF and put it into a CSV to be imported by Excel.
If the PDF has some sort of data aggregation, like a column for a sum of the data in a row, then do not include that in the CSV output, and have excel do the calculation based on the data the script imported. Then you just have to manually check that the values of that column match the PDF to know if there is any wrong data. Obviously if multiple fields are adjusted by bad OCR but negate each other, the sum column would look accurate while the bad data persists, so some more spot checking or additional aggregation would be needed to ensure confidence with the numbers.
- Comment on Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs? 1 month ago:
Yes, unless you’re in the UK. Before Advanced data protection was available, Apple was still advertising iMessage as E2EE
- Comment on Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs? 2 months ago:
Probably yes. General rule of thumb is if you don’t control the keys, it doesn’t matter if it’s E2EE, your communications could be intercepted. Famously iMessage is E2EE but your keys are uploaded to iCloud under standard data protection. They say “Your iCloud data is encrypted, the encryption keys are secured in Apple data centers so we can help you with data recovery, and only certain data is end-to-end encrypted.” ^[support.apple.com/en-us/102651]. The encryption key is included in iCloud backups which is provided to law enforcement with a subpoena. ^[appleinsider.com/…/what-apple-surrenders-to-law-e…]
Even if a service claims it is E2EE, it’s still important to understand where that those encryption keys are stored, how they’re managed, and if security researchers have raised concerns about the E2EE claim.
- Comment on Families in New York City demonstrated against a proposal to allow cars in a local park. A politician showed up in a car to mock them 2 months ago:
This is the Edge of Forrest Park, it’s a park twice the size of Central Park. This road cuts through the path for kids to get to the field from the playground
- Comment on Why is no news channel reporting on the school shooting in Canada? 2 months ago:
Any school shooting is tragic, but incessant back to back coverage outside of the immediate affected area is not very helpful to anyone, and has been shown ^[journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjo…] to cause copy cats ^[www.nytimes.com/…/school-threats-closings.html]. The impact to the community shouldn’t be glossed over, but especially for this particular incident, there seems to be a lot of focus on the identity of the shooter (and why it has been a topic of discussion), and that’s what especially results in copy cats. If the goal is to minimize mass shootings, not sensationalizing them is the key.
- Comment on Families in New York City demonstrated against a proposal to allow cars in a local park. A politician showed up in a car to mock them 2 months ago:
If you take a look at the map, Freedom Drive is not even that useful. At best it is a minor shortcut if you’re coming from Myrtle Ave and need to go south, but don’t want to take Woodhaven Blvd. i guess?
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 2 months ago:
Sounds like a great way to get fired from a job. Mirror as much as you can from him while he still has it up, but also probably limit it so that the bandwidth doesn’t raise any alarms.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 2 months ago:
With P2P file sharing, your client is sharing the files with random people on the internet and you’re identified by your IP address (or a VPN IP address / seedbox IP address / etc). MPAA hires companies to check for popular content and log the IP address, time, and content shared, and then sends that to the ISP. The risk and issue is sharing content with anyone randomly, since that is how your ISP is informed of the activity.
With media servers, unless you’re somehow sharing publicly, it’s safe to assume your members aren’t going to report you to your ISP. I guess in theory the ISP could see high upload bandwidth and investigate, but more likely than not, if there are limits, automated systems will just throttle the bandwidth, and no deep packet inspection or other forensics is performed.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 2 months ago:
Good on you, but I would never pirate Ready Player One, let alone pay $0.50 for it.
