Scary_le_Poo
@Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org
- Comment on Request for aftershave recommendations 3 weeks ago:
Supply.co had been fucking amazing. My GF got me it for Christmas last year and I just ran out of the shave balm. It’s so great!
For something more store bought, bevel shave gel and bevel aftershave lotion balm from target is also excellent.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 4 weeks ago:
GIGO.
- Comment on OpenAI Is A Bad Business 4 weeks ago:
Garbage in garbage out. You give a shit prompt, you generally get a shit answer.
- Comment on Steam will let you sue Valve now 5 weeks ago:
People like you are why the rest of us can’t have nice things.
- Comment on TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled 2 months ago:
Come on dude, you know exactly what he meant. Social media is a broad category, but when someone mentions it in this context, it’s very clear what they mean.
- Comment on Valve bans keyboard automation in Counter-Strike 2 update 2 months ago:
“oh, geez, that’s terrible.”
- Comment on The spies in your home: How WiFi companies monitor your private life 2 months ago:
The modemrouter has a bridge mode.
If the absolute worst happens, you can always Just double nat. Annoying but it’s fine.
- Comment on Fallout TV Show ... not vibing with eps 1,2 ... what am I missing? 2 months ago:
You should watch till like the 4th episode I’d say. There is a lot happening that doesn’t have context until a bit later one. It’s an excellent story, but it is a slow burn.
I’ve never played any of the games
- Comment on [Discussion] What did you think of Matrix 4? 2 months ago:
I enjoyed it
- Comment on What a week 2 months ago:
It is not targeted advertising. There is an entire writeup about it that you haven’t read (obviously). You clearly have no idea how it works.
Advertising tracking, but less creepy
First, we need to go over Firefox’s Privacy-Preserving Attribution, or PPA for short. Marketing attribution is the process for tracking how many sales, conversions, or other goals originate from a given advertising campaign. For example, when Nike releases a new pair of shoes, it creates multiple ad campaigns to market those shoes on TV, Instagram, and so on. Attribution is how Nike tracks how many shoes were purchased from a given advertisement.
The most popular way to track attribution right now is with individual tracking. For example, you might click on a web ad for the Nike shoes, and a cookie is stored in your web browser. If you buy the shoes, Nike’s store might check that cookie, so it knows which ad was responsible for convincing you to buy shoes. There are many other ways for attribution to work, but most of them use individual tracking like cookies, which allows other information to be collected with the marketing data. For example, Nike’s marketing people might want to know which ad you clicked on and your estimated age, so they know which demographics are buying the most shoes.
Mozilla’s PPA aims to build an attribution system without the creepy individual tracking. Sites can ask Firefox to monitor attribution for advertisements, and then later ask for a report, which is only provided in an anonymized collection “combined with many similar reports by the aggregation service.” For example, instead of Nike getting something like, “Billy Bob, aged 29, was one of 728 people in June who completed a purchase from the Instagram ad,” Nike would get something more like, "47% of the people who clicked the Instagram ad in June completed a purchase."
There are other privacy and security measures in Privacy-Preserving Attribution, and Mozilla’s support page and Andrew Moore’s blog post explain it in more detail. PPA seems like a decent idea to track the effectiveness of ads without compromising user privacy in any meaningful way. spacebar.news/mozilla-firefox-privacy-preserving-…
Now that you know better, please stop spreading bullshit.
- Comment on What a week 2 months ago:
Stop spreading fucking lies.
- Comment on What a week 2 months ago:
It isn’t tracking, ffs. It is anti tracking if anything, designed to help advertisers get what they want without getting ahold of any of your data.
Stop spreading bullshit!
- Comment on Wednesday, my dudes. 2 months ago:
Mister Rod!
- Comment on a very emphatic answer 5 months ago:
It really is.
Just because it can be written The original way doesn’t mean it should be. It’s like developers that use obscure or single letter variables instead of descriptive variables. Sure, you can write variables in and obtuse manner, but it’s better for everyone if you write them in a descriptive manner.
- Comment on a very emphatic answer 5 months ago:
Intentionally writing equations wrong is a special type of brain rot.
40 - (32 / 2) = ?
Ftfy.
- Comment on An Interview With Jack Dorsey 5 months ago:
No free speech is not a right. Freedom of speech without prosecution from the government is a right.
No one is required to platform your stupid fucking viewpoint.
The 1st amendment ONLY allows you to say what you like and not have the government prosecute you for it. However, there are still limits to speech that cannot be prosecuted.
For example, you can’t yell fire in a crowded theater. You can’t cause a mass panic that results in injuries or death.
A private company has exactly zero obligation to platform your idiotic ramblings.
- Comment on An Interview With Jack Dorsey 5 months ago:
Yes, he is. People like this are divorced from reality.
He’s a billionaire or whatever. The speech doesn’t effect him in any way. He still has more resources than he could hope to burn through in multiple lifetimes. Speech literally cannot harm him.
He doesn’t understand that to all the doors, some speech can and does hurt us.
- Comment on An Interview With Jack Dorsey 5 months ago:
Well, literal Nazis would be a good start.
- Comment on APNIC: Big Tech’s use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation 6 months ago:
There is a reason for this. While ipv6 has essentially unlimited addresses, it is a pain in the fucking ass to deal with and in many ways causes more problems than it solves.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
“sending aide to Ukraine, though that is getting iffy”
This tells me everything I need to know. That you would even say something like this means you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Additionally, you realize that those are all separate bills, right?
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
Lol nice bad faith argument. Fucking Lemmy sockpuppets.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
I suggest you read the bill. It isn’t a tik tok ban. It’s actually quite a good piece of legislation.
- Comment on land shrimp 6 months ago:
Skwimps is bugs
- Comment on 5+ man group games 9 months ago:
Pummel party is so much fun and if you go in the workshop there are tons of minigames and maps
- Comment on 10 Movies That Are Surprisingly Hard to Find (So Keep Your Discs) 10 months ago:
I have a copy of Showtime on my Plex. Fantastic movie, it’s really funny.
- Comment on Striking WGA Union’s Spending Spree Revealed, Including 25K On Sushi 1 year ago:
Nypost is a propaganda rag.
- Comment on SNW Musical Episode: Klingons’ Boy Band Number Was Almost an Opera 1 year ago:
I made a mistake, TMDB not IMDb. TMDB is what is linked up with Plex servers (mine anyway) and I assume jellyfin servers as well.
For anyone wondering, here is a full synopsis (honestly you didn’t miss anything particularly important): startrek.com/…/recap-209-subspace-rhapsody-strang…
- Comment on SNW Musical Episode: Klingons’ Boy Band Number Was Almost an Opera 1 year ago:
Iade it 15 minutes. Fucking waste of time. Also, there is a reason that it’s score is in the 40% range where every single other episode is in the 80% range.
I didn’t sign up to watch Star Trek: the shitty ass musical.
- Comment on SNW Musical Episode: Klingons’ Boy Band Number Was Almost an Opera 1 year ago:
God I fucking hate musical throwaway episodes