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atrielienz

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  • "AI" gets an innocent man arrested; even after validating his Real ID card, cop discounts possibility of facial recognition false positive: "their software is pretty cool" and "our hands are tied"

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  • They didn't pass a law. The president signed an EO which only applies to the people who work for him.

    "Executive orders are simply signed by the president, primarily to direct the officials in the executive branch, but they do not have the same force of law."

  • Would this be possible with the fediverse?

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  • You are assuming that A. Google isn't scraping data for their own AI, B. that these companies will create their own instances (which opens them up to a certain amount of liability and requires them to retain moderation/admin and maintenance staff (which costs money)). C. That the enshittification of corporate owned versions of Lemmy and the fediverse won't push people to Lemmy sooner or later.

    A fourth assumption you made is that the Threads federation push was made in order to do anything other than create hype around a feature that might draw people away from places like the fediverse. I kind of assumed (maybe I'm wrong) that they were offering it as a way to have all the benefits of federation - namely the assumption of FOSS adjacent services, but with all the "benefits" of corporate social media.

    The truth is that it's likely that Meta absolutely has had a detrimental effect on the fediverse because it has things that pull users away from the fediverse. Instagram has content. For days. And because the fediverse is small (shrinking as you say), and because it doesn't have an algorithm that pushes certain content to certain users, Meta and the other services that have analogs in the fediverse continue to be popular.

    A lot of this is because the fediverse still hasn't figured out a way to be profitable to content creators and we no longer live in the early 2000's of YouTube etc where content creation for free was popular.

    I'd argue that a lot of the appeal of the fediverse is organic conversation and communication. The popularity of that as a whole is declining because of algorithms that tickle just the right feel good chemicals in our brains.

    As for your comment about these corps investing in the fediverse? The only reason for them to do that is if they can make money off it. The major money making scheme the internet is relying on is ad service. So there's a catch 22 here. I would rather donate money to fedi services than have the fediverse infested with ads.

  • Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned

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  • It is possible to be right for wrong reasons. Nothing prevents a general ban on gambling ads from moving forward since underage users might still see them.

    I can agree with what you're saying but also say that this is more a case of the road to hell being paved with good intentions.

    They wanted to offload their responsibility as parents for enforcing parental controls for their children onto the internet at large, which puts the identities and PII of adults at risk in a way that is increasingly more dangerous. It also directly contributed to the erosion of our privacy.

    They also claim to be a grass roots movement and wouldn't claim to be affiliated with a corporation (especially not one involved in gambling). That is an important distinction and they should have their feet put to the fire for it because either they knew and didn't care, or they didn't know and were manipulated.

  • Would this be possible with the fediverse?

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  • I don't want that. Part of the fediverse's appeal for me is that people aren't constant trying to sell me things on it.

    While I can understand certain communities having "suggest a (game, service, product), for the most part I really don't want to basically invite corps to think this is free real estate. And that's exactly what I think this would do.

    It's seems like it would invite corps to basically astroturf Lemmy and the fediverse the way they're doing with bot armies over on reddit.

  • Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned

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  • I'm shocked. Well not that shocked.

    It's always a good idea to follow the money. A few random bandwagon jumpers screaming about saving the children provided a front for a gambling company. Should we be asking them questions about their involvement in said company? I think we should.

  • "AI" gets an innocent man arrested; even after validating his Real ID card, cop discounts possibility of facial recognition false positive: "their software is pretty cool" and "our hands are tied"

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  • Yeah. No worries.

  • "AI" gets an innocent man arrested; even after validating his Real ID card, cop discounts possibility of facial recognition false positive: "their software is pretty cool" and "our hands are tied"

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  • Yes. But "our hands our tied" makes no sense. The cops hands were not tied.

  • "AI" gets an innocent man arrested; even after validating his Real ID card, cop discounts possibility of facial recognition false positive: "their software is pretty cool" and "our hands are tied"

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  • Our hands are tied.

  • Stuck

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  • As the owner of a Shiba, I'm gonna say that the dog is not as stuck as it may at first appear.

  • I just found out that Claude Pro can't be trusted to do anything related to songwriting. Just look at the screenshot.

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  • No. I think you misunderstood what the point of my comment was. In one breath you told someone they don't know things and I directly quoted that comment.

    Now you're backtracking and saying of course you know these things about yourself. You do not get to have it both ways. Either humans know things and can make actionable decisions and perform actual work based on the things they know and the context they are working in, or they don't and this is a simulation where Gen AI LLM'S do the same things humans do.

    So which is it?

  • I just found out that Claude Pro can't be trusted to do anything related to songwriting. Just look at the screenshot.

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  • According to you you don't know you're autistic or schizoaffective. You don't know that you deal with constant illusions.

    Because people don't know things. Remember?

    i don't know anything either, and neither do you. your brain is just very good at convincing you that you "know" things. you're just following the instructions of your brain

  • In-N-Out Officially Removes Number '67' from Its Ordering System After Viral '6-7' Trend

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  • I have run into it once that I remember. There's the line with "17 38" in it from the Fetty Wop song "trap queen. A restaurant in a neighborhood I used to live in had a menu item that came out to $17.38 after tax. People would shout it back at the cashier. Mostly teens but grown adults too.

    I think eventually they added a few cents to the menu cost to make it go away.

  • My university is starting to get desperate.

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  • My sister just went back to school to get her engineering degree and they make them all sign up for a program called handshake? It tries pretty desperately to schill work from home jobs training AI. And they literally all read like scams.

  • PS5 is outselling Switch 2

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  • Yeah I saw. There were a lot of complaints from consumers about the features that existed in the 3DS/other DS's that didn't exist in the switch including this one. Pretty sure they started rethinking the idea that they were only marketing to kids after that. And even then I think those people have to be your actual friends on the switch 2 rather than just random people.

  • Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews

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  • I can definitely understand why not selling a game on the most popular marketplace would detrimentally affect a studios ability to make money.

    But a lot of the reason games aren't successful has as much to do with the quality of the game and the amount of money spent developing it as it does with marketing. And plenty of developers/small indie studios assume that they can ouvert over-stretch themselves monetarily and with other resources like time, and still come out on top because Indies are becoming more popular.

    But what it often comes down to is if what you're selling is worth it to the consumer and they know about it. On steam an indie game is just as likely to get caught up in the influx of games and lost in the noise as it is to get noticed.

  • Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews

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  • Absolutely true.

  • PS5 is outselling Switch 2

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  • I believe it was their attempt to protect children from unknown people online. I have the app and one of the features is that you can talk to people online in certain games (Animal Crossing, Splatoon, SSB's, Mario Kart, and I think Mario Party).

    Edit: I'd also like to point out that those accessory mics didn't work with first party games to my knowledge.

    There was some public outcry about it specifically from parents who had to download said app and let their kids use it for games. You could later use accessories that would add a mic but it was limited.

    https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Support/Troubleshooting/How-to-Use-Voice-Chat-Using-the-Nintendo-Switch-App-1442573.html?srsltid=AfmBOor7pvIPB7U5tAiGPZalHfrOmwWvHmZgM4CCYId0-773YzAv81Y0

    https://www.kentfaith.ca/blog/article_how-to-use-microphone-on-nintendo-switch_2740?srsltid=AfmBOopExBS39Dzz0C-Uuhv8x2QNd3yUnGlLgxaiV1WLLTkqEVeAdg5d

  • Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews

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  • Haven't you heard. Indie games have to launch on steam or they fail miserably.

    Seriously though. This is why I roll my eyes at people who claim steam makes it breaks these games. Humble bundle? Runs sales events where these games get showcased. Itch.io's whole schtick is selling indie games.

    It's nice that Valve gives studios a platform to help market their games and all that, and yes, by dint of being one of the largest gaming sale platforms out there launching on steam helps their chances. But most of them weren't ever gonna reach the success of AAA titles regardless and we pretend that that's Valve's fault for reasons I have never understood.

    It's the same problem with each of the online stores including the Nintendo E-Shop. Your game still has to be decent and be marketed to the people who want to play it.

    Additionally they have to have time to play it. Which means you're fighting every other game in the category in order to claim each players time.

    There's a whole lot to making and marketing a successful game at literally every level and not every studio can be a Team Cherry.

  • PS5 is outselling Switch 2

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  • Switch OG doesn't have a mic and that's the reason they included the phone app. There were a fair number of aftermarket accessories that had mics though but I can't say any of them were implemented to use first party games.

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    atrielienz @lemmy.world

    Windows Defender Anti-virus Bypassed Using Direct Syscalls & XOR Encryption

    cybersecuritynews.com /researchers-bypassed-windows-defender-antivirus-using-direct-syscalls/
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    atrielienz @lemmy.world

    Sweeping Cyber Security Order

    www.theregister.com /2025/01/17/biden_cybersecurity_eo/
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    atrielienz @lemmy.world

    UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer

    www.pcworld.com /article/2474353/popular-ad-blocker-removed-from-firefox-extension-store.html
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    atrielienz @lemmy.world

    A Novel Approach to Youtube Ads

    9to5google.com /2023/11/25/youtube-ads-speed-up-workaround/