lemmyvore

If you think Meta will allow the Threads algorithm to show anything from the fediverse you are unbelievably naive. And that’s if content from the fediverse even makes a blip on a platform with 100x the size.

Meta doesn’t federate with the goal of giving Threads users an out. They federate because it’s the most efficient way to scrape fediverse instances and build profiles on fediverse users.

Meta has reached saturation with their existing services so they are now branching into any possible extra source of data they can. They’ll take anything, from fediverse federation to Whatsapp emails. All your data is welcome to them.

So you would be ok with your livingroom being watched 24/7 by unknown people?

How is the room relevant here? Is it not a grave invasion of privacy regardless in which room of the house it was? What even is your point, that if the camera had been in the living room instead… then what?

Meanwhile, two comments down: “why do people have cameras in their bedroom?”

Sony still puts them in all their phones.

Dark reader was already available before this.

Wish you could do it in Firefox Focus.

This approach sounds more like selective breeding to me.

If you do this with cats and select in each generation until you obtain a particularly fluffy cat, the cat doesn’t get the credit. Nobody says “wow, how smart are cats for achieving this”, they praise the breeder instead.

Which is as it should. The people who seed and select these algorithms and can recognize a breakthrough deserves the credit not the churning machine that goes through millions of permutations blindly.

My point wasn’t specifically about Whatsapp, it’s that you have to use what the others around you use.

If you mean Tor the network no, it just hides your IP. If you mean Tor the browser yes, it has all kinds of privacy features.

In theory it would be trivial to open up the big networks, if they were each willing to expose a public, open API. The APIs don’t even have to be interoperable directly, they could let the client apps deal with that. It could be rolled out super fast if they wanted to – couple of months.

But of course none of them actually wants this, so I expect they will fight it tooth and nail, while not appearing to do so. Meaning they’ll drag this out for as long as possible while blaming each other. I expect RCS will be a perfect red herring for this, because of its complexity and the ability to blame interop issues on each other.

On each page load, Reddit pings home with some of your browser stats, including your user agent. You can’t block it (easily) because it randomly uses real API endpoints for the ping, for example it will ping to /api/comment which is used to post comments so if you block that you can’t post…

What I’m getting at is, they must be collecting that data for something, and doing it this way is obviously an attempt to fingerprint.

Oh and if you’re using multiple accounts in the same browser without containers/incognito/profiles then they know about it, they keep data on the browser about all of them and send it to the server so it can correlate them.

But Android phones still have multicolor notification led. In fact it blows my mind that iPhones don’t, I wouldn’t even consider a phone without it anymore.

Because Whatsapp users are just as big “twats” as you call it. Try functioning without Whatsapp in Europe, you can’t, and no amount of excuses will get you out of it.

Any messaging network starts acting like peer pressure once enough people around you are using it

I mean, they’re still not wrong. Same thing happened with Reddit, curbing my use of it made me think twice about what I was really using it for and it turns out it wasn’t that much that was really necessary. It made me reach a better more healthy balance of how I use these sites (Lemmy too).

I don’t think they have any qualms about shutting down YouTube but I think they’re afraid of the backlash. It’s such a unique treasure trove of cultural significance that is not out of the question for the US government to step in and tell them to put at least some of it in the Library of Congress or to work with other organizations to preserve it. And they’d rather let it run than be bothered.

I’ve heard a theory that says that Google isn’t interested in any of their products for the product’s sake. They’re all data-gathering experiments. Once they’re done mining that particular kind of data they shutter the project. If they ever need to revisit that category later, they make another similar product.

It would certainly explain why they shut down certain projects in the face of commercial success, or why they keep revisiting the messenger app over and over in different ways.

It would also explain their inept attempts at monetizing YouTube. Keeping an experiment alive past it’s expiration date is unfamiliar to them so they have no idea what to do with it.

You get warranty for parts too. Unless you meant warranty as a substitute for building know-how.

I think we should be fair and give credit where it’s due, that advice may have been going around but more likely in reverse form – “if a PSU is very light something’s wrong”. Any gamer with half a brain has long since learned to buy PSU’s based on reviews coming from reputable testing labs. There have been such labs available for a long time now, jonnyguru.com (Jean-Claude Gerow) started doing detailed PSU analysis around 2006 I believe.

Yeah the average person wouldn’t know what TPM was if they found one in their coffee. If Microsoft says they need a newer PC to run Windows that’s all she wrote. But most of the time they never even think about it, they just pay the Windows tax for whatever version when they buy their next laptop.

All the trouble I never had was with ATI/AMD cards, never with Nvidia.

And they’ll never open source their drivers because they don’t give a shit about half a percent of market share. The only reason they even bother maintaining a free Linux driver is because we provide free testing, which they can use for their professional cards where the big money is.

But I never understood people’s obsession with Nvidia bring open source, it’s not like it’s the only proprietary Linux driver, or the only one with incompatible license etc.