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TheRtRevKaiser

@ TheRtRevKaiser @beehaw.org

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  • Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts

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  • Please have the common sense not to call for violence on a public forum, especially one run by other people. I get where you're coming from, but it's doing anyone any good.

  • Yahoo is selling TechCrunch

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  • This kind of behavior is antithetical to Beehaw's ethos. It's fine to be dismissive of systems, but ever user here is a person who should be treated with kindness and respect. Please do better in the future.

  • Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica

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  • or not enough of a gamer

    Yeah, Discord's easy/free voice chat was the reason it got so popular. It was so much easier to use than any of the alternatives, and in-game VC was a mixture of piss-poor quality and full of toxic 14 year olds.

  • AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality

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  • The audience for an author’s gripping life story in every goddamn recipe was never humans, either. That was just for Google’s algorithm. I know this sentiment gets repeated a lot, but I'm not sure it's universally true. I know back in 2012/2012 my wife was very invested in a bunch of bloggers along the lines of Pioneer Woman. A lot of the posts on those blogs were a mixture of personal anecdotes and recipes and I know my wife was there for both. It's frustrating when you're ready to cook and just want the recipe, but that's not the only (or maybe even the primary) way that a lot of these cooking/homemaking blogs were made to be consumed, I don't think.

  • Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in

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  • Hey @anachronist@midwest.social, I realize you're not trying to be hurtful to anyone in this comment (except maybe Musk, but honestly fuck that guy) but including a common condition that many folks live with in a list of things that make Musk a bad manager likely is hurtful to those people, even if that's not your intention. If Elon does have ADHD, that's clearly not the problem since I suspect we all know tons of people with ADHD who are a) great at their jobs and b) not trying to dismantle the United States. In the future, please try to "Be(e) Nice".

  • Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website

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  • Please don't post full article text in post bodies or comments. If you want to help people read a paywalled article, feel free to post an archive link.

  • Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months

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  • I hope I'm not jinxing myself, but I don't ever mess with my Ublock Origin settings and I've never once had it break or gotten the threatening messages about adblockers on YT. I'm not sure why, but I'm not going to change anything while I've got a good thing going.

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    RedNote Influencers backtrack after pro-China campaign backfires: social media stars face digital dilemma over past Taiwan content

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  • @thelucky8@beehaw.org, when you're posting obvious satire as genuine news, you might need to take a step back and do some self evaluation. You've been posting a lot of articles with a pretty clear point of view, and if you're not concerned about veracity or quality then you might want to slow down and think a bit more, no?

  • TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban

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  • No big deal, you're good.

  • China may have stopped Putin from using nuclear weapons, Blinken says

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  • So I'm not an expert in nuclear weaponry. However, more modern warheads don't somehow magically vaporize everything within a certain radius and then not cause effects outside that radius - that's not how things work. They may have a larger fireball, which is the area within which things (and people) are going to be vaporized, but they still have very large areas where people will receive burns decreasing in severity depending on distance, and (if the warhead is detonated at ground level) radiation doses that will kill within 5 days to 1 month. Check out Nukemap to see those areas in different scenarios. Here's one that I did for a ground burst of a 800 kt Topol warhead. You can see that the areas for radiation are larger than the fireball itself, and the areas for 2nd and 3rd degree burns are quite large. Setting one of these off anywhere populated would cause an immense amount of human suffering even if the folks in the ~220m fireball never saw it coming.

  • China may have stopped Putin from using nuclear weapons, Blinken says

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  • I dunno, I've read some downright horrific accounts from Hiroshima/Nagasaki. Sure, if you're right at the hypocenter you're immediately dead, but lots of folks didn't die right away, but were horribly burned or got lethal doses of radiation and died slowly and horribly.

  • are you spiritual? religious? tell me about your practice :3

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  • Thanks for the thought - we did a little of this over the last few years but it wasn't working for us. One of the more important parts of religious practice for both of us is the communal aspect, and as we live in a mid-size city in the Southern U.S. there aren't very many opportunities outside of a church setting for strong, long-term community building. Not saying there aren't any, but it's difficult to build a strong network when third places have essentially disappeared. The Episcopal Church is working for us, at least right now, as a place to build those networks and practice our faith without having to compromise on moral stances that are critical to us.

  • are you spiritual? religious? tell me about your practice :3

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  • I'm always a little reluctant to post about religious topics on Beehaw because there's a pretty strong anti-christian sentiment on Lemmy in general which is, to be fair, entirely understandable.

    I grew up in the "Church of Christ" and my wife and I stayed part of our CoC congregation for a long time mostly because of the support network and personal connections we had built up there, even though we had a lot of problems with evangelical theology and the increasing conservatism. A few years ago we wound up in the crosshairs of a group of deeply unpleasant people because of some comments we made in support of LGBTQ folks, and ended up spiritually homeless for a while. We eventually ended up at a local Episcopal church and while it's been a big adjustment for us in some ways - we definitely weren't used to high church liturgy - we've really come to love it there. It's not without problems, but we feel like we're able to wrestle with our beliefs and still have the support of the community, and we've made some close connections there as well.

    Theologically I'm all over the place, so don't ask me for a firm stance on anything - I'm just making this shit up as I go 😅

  • Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars

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  • I've wondered before if my perception of headlights being so much brighter was them really getting brighter, cars getting taller, my eyes getting older, or a combination of all those (and other) factors. It seems like there might be a few things going on, but it does definitely look like lights are getting a lot brighter, and I'm obviously not the only one to be frustrated by it...

  • Why did Beehaw defederate from Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works for poor moderation and not lemm.ee and discuss.online?

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  • If I recall correctly, the main reason we defederated from those instances at the time was the sheer volume of spam we were getting from users of those instances. While we do sometimes have a need to moderate users from larger instances like Lemm.ee, it's not currently at a volume that we can't handle, from what I've seen.

    As always, as a moderator of several Beehaw communities, I would encourage you to report any comment or post you see that isn't up to the standards of Beehaw.org. Don't assume someone else is going to do it, and don't assume that moderators are always watching every interactions closely - we're all doing this in our free time and have other responsibilities. We may not take action on every report - sometimes things are borderline or the community has already pushed back and we feel like things are in hand - but I guarantee someone is looking at and considering every one.

  • Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

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  • Yeah Firefox on Android is extremely so for me at times. I've never noticed it specifically being on the first page load after a while, but I haven't been paying that much attention. I use firefox on mobile so that I can install ublock, because when I've tried to use a DNS-based solution in the pass I ran into all kinds of issues with battery drain, but the experience does leave a little to be desired at times.

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    AIPAC Planned to Spend $100M on Elections This Year. It Already Surpassed That.

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  • This post isn't really on-topic for c/technology. Please post it in c/Politics instead.

  • Amazon Sells Fake, Dead Toshiba Hard Drives as New: Detailed Inspection & Proof of Their Scam

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  • I suspect their argument would be that they are more like a flea market. If you buy something fake or faulty at a flea market then the flea market probably isn't liable, the seller is. Now, I don't think this argument holds water, especially in light of Amazon's practice of combining all of the stock of a single product into one place, regardless of who the seller is, so that there's no way to know if you'll actually get product from that seller.

  • I Gazed Lovingly Into Strangers’ Eyes on ‘Eyechat’

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  • I don't think you're trying to be xenophobic with this joke, but I feel like you should know that it's probably not landing the way you want it to...