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@ chicken @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • YSK that TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale. We know this because we obtained internal documents from the company

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  • I accept that providing social commons which are largely independent from culture and belief is the legitimate purview of the government, but there should be a line right there because when governments manipulate their populations to think or behave a certain way it usually isn't towards the best interests of the people.

    Which isn't to say that nothing should be done to prevent mega corporations manipulating people, I just don't think that should come in the form of things like, for instance, what they've actually done with TikTok since this article was written, which is mandate the creation of a US specific version that is obligated to be increasingly friendly to the propaganda interests of the current regime. I think that any solution in the form of a formal government regulation will be subject to that kind of corruption, and real solutions need to be found elsewhere.

  • YSK that TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale. We know this because we obtained internal documents from the company

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  • "Why the education system is horrible and needs to be dismantled and entirely reconsidered" is slightly off topic, but yeah you got me I do not think the argument is all that different wrt education. It is very different from those other things though.

  • YSK that TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale. We know this because we obtained internal documents from the company

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  • Providing healthcare and social services is not inherently about controlling how people think and what information they have access to.

  • Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

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  • It reminds me of the things people have posted about the AI-compiled info about users Reddit itself shows moderators. Probably Reddit gave feds an API that lets them use those systems they were already building.

  • My based boomer friend rule

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  • I think he's just genuinely more motivated by concerns of personal gratification and being sick in the head than political self interest. He wants people to know what he did.

  • Not that limit

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  • There's no way ChatGPT would be creative enough to put a number on its side

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • That's fair. I think if I wanted a larger screen I'd look into big monitors and some kind of expansion of my homelab setup to display things to it, but I can see why people might want a dedicated device with less setup required, even one where the setup is still pretty confusing.

    I looked up some statistics and it seems, depressingly, that consumers are in fact buying more televisions and it's projected to increase, so I guess I have to concede the point that what they are doing is successful despite all reason.

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • You can choose not to have a TV. I only know about the current state of smart TVs because of sometimes being around the ones other people have, I would never buy one myself, there's no need. Any media you want to see can be viewed in other ways.

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • I don't buy it, they would be better at whatever nefarious crap if they didn't take a full second to navigate between menu options, or had a UI designed by someone competent. Even people who have subscriptions to the services the TV is a gateway to have a hard time figuring out how to use them. These things aren't even good at exploitation, they are decaying technology.

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • "Smart" TVs. Somehow they have replaced normal televisions despite being barely usable, laggy, DRM infested garbage.

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • Beat Saber and VRChat are genuinely cool at least. I think what it comes down to is that the illusion of physically being somewhere is cool and can be useful for some stuff but not as cool as everyone used to assume. More abstract entertainment and art works basically just as good or better most of the time because it doesn't require specialized hardware, acclimating to nausea, and learning novel control schemes.

  • How Big Tech Killed Online Debate

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  • Really hate this, the article focused on other platforms but I want to call out the stuff Reddit and many of its moderators did to actively prevent debate from happening, like generally regarding disagreement as something to be moderated away, the way the updated block feature works, and locking any thread with a contentious topic that people wanted to argue about.

  • How Big Tech Killed Online Debate

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  • IMO verbal debate is a poor substitute for writing, where you can take more time to consider what is being said and look up or cite information. Anonymity also helps a lot in various ways, when in person social considerations normally trump the interest of crafting good argument. Also personally something about speaking and interpreting speech makes it harder to think.

  • I made a way to remotely control my homelab without any internet access required

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  • Is MeshCore a separate network?

  • Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages.

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  • The video gets into this a bit; what the workers are threatened with for not working is stuff like being put in a more dangerous environment and not being able to see their families.

  • Bitcoin Plunge Reveals Possible Vulnerabilities In Crazy Imaginary Internet Money

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  • Biggest vulnerabilities are probably unwillingness to consider upgrades to deal with quantum computing threats and its structurally dwindling security budget (if there is a maximum number of bitcoins, much less money will be paid to miners in the future, greatly reducing the cost of attacking the network). Not like you can trust the market to be rational enough to actually factor this stuff into the price though.

  • Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue

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  • “Our main result is that under traditional OSS business models, where maintainers primarily monetize direct user engagement…higher adoption of vibe coding reduces OSS provision and lowers welfare,” the study said. “In the long-run equilibrium, mediated usage erodes the revenue base that sustains OSS

    "Monetize direct user engagement", does that mean their argument is that AI makes it so people don't need to pay devs to handhold them through using very user unfriendly software?

  • I'm there already

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  • Definitely one of the most impactful music videos I've seen, this is why I know who Gesaffelstein is

  • Every comment on this video is responding to the title and description despite them being on the wrong video

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  • superfluous conspiratorial conjecture

    Isn't it pretty much established fact at this point that a large proportion of comments online are now from bots? Maybe this explanation isn't 'banal' but that doesn't make it farther from the edge of occam's razor than the other options you're proposing.