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Clbull

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  • Gab tried to pull the same thing with their Dissenter plugin. It was such a bad idea that Mozilla and Google banded together to remove the extensions from their stores for ToS violations.

    Now imagine what a nightmare it would be to moderate the ability to comment on anything online with actual standards and decency.

  • The 2024 Reddit mod experience

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  • Actually, the screenshots of the ban messages were found via a Google image search and are not me.

    But yeah, Reddit has a problem with rude power mods swinging their banhammer. It's been documented for years.

  • Andrew Tate ‘raped and strangled us’ - women tell BBC

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  • Anybody who legitimately gets giddy-as-fuck over the thought of a Muslim woman being stoned to death for adultery should not be trusted with dating advice. Yet somehow this asshole has a social media following of millions, has indoctornated a lot of young people into misogynistic views (I know secondary school teachers who have seen pupils gobble up lots of Andrew Tate content), has eluded bans from mainstream social media (his shit is still all over YouTube), and still has a following despite facing rape and human trafficking charges and being on EUROPOL's wanted list.

    Isn't this at all concerning, and a big sign that society is failing men?

  • Andrew Tate ‘raped and strangled us’ - women tell BBC

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  • He looks like the Stonks meme guy. No seriously...

  • In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention

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  • Facebook listening in on your microphone is one of those things that I actually believe to be true. Ever had conversations with people to then realize that you're being served targeted ads based on these conversations? Seems very coincidental.

  • Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all

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  • Off is the direction in which I would like Microsoft to fuck if they think I'm gonna have a deep learning AI spy on my computer activity.

    This just makes me want to switch to Linux.

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  • Honda 100%. Even if Elon Musk wasn't a colossal douche, I wouldn't want to drive a truck that looks like it was ripped verbatim from a SNES game.

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    America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting

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  • I'm autistic and I've never heard the term 'aneurotypical' before...

  • Trump supporters really rallying behind a felon and racist

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  • Maybe he was wearing it ironically to shame Republicans, and not because he personally wants to taste Trump's shoe leather.

    Ahhh who am I kidding? He sounds like a bootlicker to me.

  • Former Aurora cop charged with raping daughter remains free as mom is sent to jail

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  • If you asked me fifteen years ago if I wanted to live in the United States, I would have jumped on the first ship to Staten Island in a heartbeat.

    Nowadays I don't even want to visit the country, and unjust bullshit like this is a big reason why. Y'all have a serious problem with allowing your police forces to do whatever the hell they want and argue "qualified immunity" for things that would land you significant prison time in another developed country.

    I really question why there's still a lifelong waiting list to apply for a visa to work in the US, when the state of the country is actually quite bleak...

  • AI Rule

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  • On the plus side, the sheer power consumption of using an LLM to dish out targeted advertisements will be prohibitively expensive. Any agency stupid enough to do this with current technology is gonna go bust.

    As for hosting the LLM locally on the viewer's machine... Remember the furore of shady companies burying crypto miners into their software? This is going to be even more wasteful of system resources and is going to result in such a sluggish user experience that the industry will go bankrupt.

  • Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days.

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  • Genuine question, is Bluesky worth using in its current state? Can it hold a candle to pre-Musk Twitter?

    I'm asking because I feel incredibly burned by the barebones state of Threads and I don't really want to commit to another platform that doesn't have its shit together. Threads still doesn't have trending topics and functional hashtags over a year into its launch, and this is is shit that Mastodon had for years, despite Meta expecting to piggyback off of the ActivityPub protocol and be welcomed into the Fediverse with open arms.

  • Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October

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  • So imagine you're on PornHub and then out of nowhere, Clippy shows up and says "hmmm looks like you need some help pleasuring yourself", then starts flicking through similar nude pictures and videos to what you've been looking at before. The idle animation of the AI assistant even changes to Clippy morphing into the shape of a penis and shagging a rolled up piece of lined paper is if it were a fleshlight. You can't tell if Microsoft are mocking you for being a coomer, nor can you tell whether to find Clippy's sexual deviancy funny or creepy.

    Somehow that hypothetical dystopia of Clippy watching you masturbate is only slightly worse than what Microsoft plan to do with Recall. If the mere thought of a machine learning AI taking screenshots of your desktop every few seconds and learning from your computer usage habits isn't absolutely fucking terrifying... Then imagine that these are likely being uploaded to a server for the perusal of advertisers, intelligence agencies and any hackers skilled enough to break into Microsoft's servers.

    Even if it was stored locally, all it takes is one dodgy web link for you to inadvertently send all your Recall data to a hacker and have it ransomed.

  • How would you react if Reddit joined the fediverse?

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  • Everyone would likely defederate from them, much in the same way that you all rushed to close the shutters upon Threads.

    I also don't ever see this happening, unless Spez fucks up with Reddit so badly that it sparks a mass user exodus, much in the same way that Digg v4 sank any hopes of Kevin Rose remaining a successful tech entrepreneur.

  • Flohmarkt is a Fediverse Marketplace

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  • I don't think the "decentralize and federate everything" strategy is a good idea when it comes to online marketplaces.

    We've seen how quickly bad actors can wreak havoc on the Fediverse like that one time when Lemmy Shitpost was closed for weeks due to people creating new instances of their own and spamming the community with CSAM. Imagine how much you open the community up to scams or criminal activity when money gets involved.

  • Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

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  • "Games work on Linux now so you can switch over"

    Gaming was at one point a serious hurdle. Back in 2007 when I was forced to switch from Windows XP to Ubuntu due to a former friend's IT fuck-up, the only Windows game I could legitimately get running was World of Warcraft, and even then the installation process was arduous.

    Valve deserves much of the credit for getting Linux into the state where it can play a vast majority of Windows games with comparable or even better performance.

    The true hurdle now is with anticheat.

  • Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

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  • I have friends who work in IT and would probably slam their head against the wall if they had to deal with Control Panel being removed.

    Are Microsoft deliberately trying to make the fabled Year of the Linux Desktop finally become a reality? Because I feel like we're two or three more dumbfuck business moves away from this...

  • Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11

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  • I think it says a lot more about how much recent versions of Windows have bogged down the whole gaming experience.

    Microsoft seems to have forgotten that people want an operating system that works, not something bloated with bullshit like telemetry, advertisements, tracking cookies and artificial intelligence. The only reason they even have a market lead in the desktop space is due to marketing and monopolistic practices.

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