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brucethemoose

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  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • I think they’re talking about Steam key resellers, which I wasn’t referencing. That’s a whole other thing (and can indeed be priced lower than the main storefront, with some complications IIRC).

  • Incel propaganda in my music app

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  • It's not an accident.

    It's probably not a conspiracy.

    If seeing that so much as pauses your scrolling, the algo counts that as "engagement," and that gets modeled into your profile for all of time. That's all it cares about, not incel stuff specifically... though rage bait happens to work very well, which is how these jerks make a living.

    You might fix it with a new account from a different IP.

  • White House circulating blatantly illegal draft emergency order to take control of elections

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  • It really is anticlimactic.

    We get an honest to god pedo cabal, and a federal powergrab, and the response from factions who dedicated entire lives to warning, as loud as they can shout, about these two exact things is...

    "Meh?"

    Meanwhile, it seems the world is chanting for the Clintons to burn at the stake; the opposite of what they expected?

    I would be so confused if I was QAnon.

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • Way too many DVDs are interlaced/telecined though.

    Or worse, some hellish combination of both, because the producers edited different sources together. It makes scaled footage, panning, and some motion look really awful or jittery once you notice it.

    Blu rays don't necessarily escape this either, as they butcher the conversion to 24p and then you can't even fix it.

    For all their problems, streaming giants usual do this better. Amazon (and probably Netflix) had employees hanging out in the doom9 A/V forums long ago.

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • Dark scenes on a poor quality TV can look awful.

    But many times they're encoded dreadfully anyway, and DVDs tend to be better in this respect.

    Interlacing is awful though.

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • Yeah…

    That’s how Amazon worked. At first.

    Back then, online shopping kind of sucked, and this little book store company made its so streamlined I got invested.

  • Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products, making Amazon richer

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  • I’ve pointed out Valve doing basically the same thing; games can’t be priced lower than Steam on competing game storefronts (not Steam key resellers), or Valve will threaten to delist your game. Which would be essentially kill it. And they obviously do this to protect their chunky store fee.

    But personal loyalty goes a long way.

    I’m trying to reframe the perspective here, not drag into an argument about Valve. A whole lot of people feel good about finding “deals” on Amazon, about Amazon services that have helped them, and especially about the value and convenience the whole platform provides. It’s easy for Lemmy to hate on Amazon, but for the average person, I think this is a harder sell than most of us realize. They’ll dismiss it as the “market working” or California sensationalism or, more likely, just filter it out as noise in their feed, just like most PC gamers would when they read something bad about Valve.

  • At least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their content

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  • Yep.

    TBH I think it’s kind of silly for the Fediverse to try and block scraping, as long as that scraping isn’t effectively a DDoS. It’s public.

  • At least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their content

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  • The users are still the users though, not the product like Reddit.

  • At least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their content

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  • Why does this work? Is it a deliberate bypass on the NYT's part?

  • How to get into linux and stay with linux?

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  • Oh wow. That’s some weird shit piefed does.

  • Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt

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  • The “entire internet” is not even that big these days. The Internet Archive, for instance, is on the order of 100s of petabytes. 10K (or at least less than 100K) spinning disks is almost trivial for Azure, who has many millions deployed.

    And the actual training runs for text models are in the trillions of tokens; again, chump change data wise.

    On the other hand, they’d lose a ton of ephemeral data scraping for training runs every time instead of just saving the good stuff. I suppose it’s possible they mass rescrape and filter the content redundantly, but… that seems like a colossal waste?

    Hmm, could be what they do, I guess.

  • Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt

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  • That's so bizzare to me.

    Why does OpenAI need to crawl your site more than once? Unless its fetching search results for some question, can't they just copy it into their training archive, and be done?

    Based on tiny bits of insider nuggets and some outside views, I'm increasingly convinced that these huge AI houses are efficiency shitshows. They do not care about internal overutilization, they don't optimize or check for rogue bots and bugs. They literally run busywork to keep the appearance of busy GPUs. And it's going to catch up to them when the Chinese models have the same capabilities, and run on peanuts.

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • Yeah, it is great advice. But I'm under no illusion that's happening anytime soon, not for most people.

    The context matters. And in this instance “stop using social media” feels more like blaming the abused teenager while the rest of the world carries on, like its totally dismissive of what she's saying.

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • No, but it’s still a more isolated environment. There aren’t bunch of ads or grifters or whatever on campus because it at least tries to insulate kids from the outside world profiting off them, and to curate what they experience.

    That’s what they need on their phones, too. Lord of the Flies is better than Big Brother.

    I guess the difficult part would be to blunt the outside from flooding in, like kids mass reposting Andrew Tate. But at least there would be some control/fairness with exposure, instead of an engagement algorithm ruling their feed.

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • Oh, I 100% agree. I test installed the app, and it seems to be some of both (behavior tracking with a Safari extension, and store sponsorship).

    That being said, I hate store monocultures even more, like how Amazon/Walmart can bully their suppliers through sheer critical mass and shoppers don’t even look anywhere else. That’s economic inefficiency. Price aggregators are a good thing.

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • Gestures at Lemmy comments in this post. See what I mean?

  • I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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  • should be looked at to be regulated the same way gambling and addictive drugs are.

    Yet here we are, still in the War on Drugs. Betting apps are exploding in popularity and being straight up paraded by politicians and business leaders.

    I agree with the sentiment, but I don’t think the engagement feedback issue will be addressed directly. It’s too profitable. We’re cooked, for a while. So maybe we should reach for every half measure with a chance of passing, like restricting kids?

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    Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business

    investors.micron.com /news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business
  • News @lemmy.world
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    "Mockery of science": Energy Department climate report riddled with errors

    www.axios.com /2025/09/02/doe-climate-energy-environment-climate-science
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Embattled MAGA rallies behind Trump after leak of alleged Epstein letter

    www.axios.com /2025/07/18/trump-epstein-letter-maga-documents
  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Trump to supply missiles to Ukraine, gives Russia 50-day ultimatum

    www.axios.com /2025/07/14/trump-missiles-ukraine-weapons-attack-russia
  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world
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    MTG accuses Trump of "bait and switch" over Iran strikes

    www.axios.com /2025/06/23/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-iran-criticism
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump floats regime change in Iran

    www.axios.com /2025/06/22/trump-iran-regime-change
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast

    www.axios.com /2025/06/16/iran-state-tv-bombed-israel-strike
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Scoop: Four reasons Musk attacked Trump's "big beautiful bill"

    www.axios.com /2025/06/03/elon-musk-trump-white-house-relationship
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip

    www.axios.com /2025/05/05/israel-gaza-destroy-trump-deal
  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Trump threatens Putin with new sanctions after meeting with Zelensky

    www.axios.com /2025/04/26/trump-zelensky-pope-funeral-meeting
  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Trump's "final offer" for peace requires Ukraine to accept Russian occupation

    www.axios.com /2025/04/22/trump-russia-ukraine-peace-plan-crimea-donbas
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump 2.0 initial approval ratings higher than in first term

    www.axios.com /2025/02/09/trump-approval-ratings-poll
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    Behind the Curtain: Meta's make-up-with-MAGA map

    www.axios.com /2025/01/11/meta-maga-zuckerberg-trump-rogan
  • Enough Musk Spam @lemmy.world
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    Elon Musk's headline dominance squeezes other CEOs

    www.axios.com /2024/12/31/elon-musk-headlines-bezos-zuckerberg
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Trump sides with Musk in H-1B fight

    www.axios.com /2024/12/28/musk-war-h1b-racists-maga-doge
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Elon Musk pledges "war" over H-1B visa program, calls opponents racists

    www.axios.com /2024/12/28/musk-war-h1b-racists-maga-doge
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Musk calls MAGA element "contemptible fools" as virtual civil war brews

    www.axios.com /2024/12/27/elon-musk-contemptible-fools-maga-doge
  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world
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    MAGA vs. Musk: Right-wing critics allege censorship, loss of X badges

    www.axios.com /2024/12/27/musk-x-loomer-h1b-maga-verification
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender @lemmy.world
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    Brainstorming Post LoK/Avatar Seven Havens Story Ideas

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    'Avatar: Seven Havens' Rumors Emerge

    knightedgemedia.com /2024/12/avatar-seven-havens-twin-earth-avatar-series-will-initially-be-26-episodes-long/