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  • Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft

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  • Yeah, I’m glad I’m not alone in having that vibe about Phil.

  • 'It's happening': Journalist warns Trump's UFO order a smoke screen for something bigger

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  • I don’t mean to imply any sort of assessment of your intelligence or care in thinking. I’m mostly calling out over broad generalizations.

    And I understand where you are coming from on moderating speech. But I also feel that until better solutions are devised, and the ramifications of unchecked noise are well understood, that moderation on digital platforms is needed. And that digital spaces can’t just be treated as if they are not “real spaces” with boundaries circumscribed. I feel people have the right to build and maintain spaces for specific styles and structures of discourse.

    And this comes into conflict with ideas of censorship.

    Analogy: But I’m not censoring you if I exclude you from my book club meetings that you attempted to participate in at the public library. I am curating the space I have built, and the way you attempted to participate was disruptive, or incongruous with the intent of the group.

    In any case. I’m not trying to tell you you are wrong. But I do think that mega-scale platforms like Reddit and Twitter and others of that scale intrinsically have to function at a different level.

    What was once a space that people like yourself could be free to be provocative, and shit post, and push difficult ideas has become a space where there are innumerable people like you who build up what ends up being noise. Your style of discourse is probally better suited to smaller spaces. IMO.

    It’s a difficult problem. And I think you know that. And you are just arguing your side. I’d just suggest not being too overly broad, and uncharitable.

  • Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100-billion deal in favour of $30-billion investment

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  • I’m guessing based on the downvotes, he does.

  • 'It's happening': Journalist warns Trump's UFO order a smoke screen for something bigger

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  • I don’t like to be that broad about things. This is because I know how difficult it is to do moderation. There are so many shitheads in the world who will disrupt curated spaces. They ruin it for everyone, and that leads to needing strict policies that otherwise wouldn’t be needed in a more civil space.

    But with the r/ufos, I’m down with calling out their over moderation and terrible justification for removing many things. And in their case, it’s because they are trying to insulate themselves from the flood of attention they are getting post pandemic era from people who poke their head in, realize how much bullshit is going on in the scene, and then point it out.

    Over the past six years the sub has seen a steady increase in people who are not just there to listen to story time. And these new people are fed up with the nonsense, and they call it out. And this isn’t being a team player. People want their story time. The people in control of the sub don’t want critical opinions to outnumber those of the belivers.

    So yeah. I’m not on the side of broadly talking shit about moderators across the platform, or any platform. That’s stupid.

    You know who sounds like you do here? r/ufos people who try to post UFO grifter slop on r/politics or r/science. They sound just like you, even though they are posting trash in subs that must have strict moderation lest they become overrun with nonsense and noise. Those subs get sooo much traffic. Etc. etc. etc.

  • 'It's happening': Journalist warns Trump's UFO order a smoke screen for something bigger

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  • The UFO community has been wanting Trump to and suggesting Trump would do this for years. And at least on Reddit, they can’t stand anyone pointing out that it’s all just to garner attention and support from a fringe base. And to sow distrust in government institutions. (they won’t tell you the truth, but I will etc)

    I was banned for pointing this out because it was “off topic”.

    I hope this at least brings real proper reporting and debunking to the subject. Fringe online media, and conservative mainstream media already cover this just to placate their base. And they can’t call it bullshit, or offer balanced reporting on it because they will offend the people they are trying to rope in.

    And hey, if it turns out the US really does know stuff they have tried to keep from the public, that would be cool. But after following this during the pandemic era, like many people did, I came to the conclusion that most of it is rehashed bullshit and circular reporting and grifters telling stories for attention. It’s also clear that the topic is exploited for ulterior motives by governments. Someone elsewhere in this thread listed a few concrete examples. And this looks like this will be the largest such exploitation of the topic ever.

    Also, I love how the slug for this story is just “trump” with a long string of numbers. It really represents the news cycles of our time.

  • Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100-billion deal in favour of $30-billion investment

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  • Does he say the same word over and over in a run on sentence to be purposefully confusing for effect? It’s his favorite bit to do. Bubble bubble bubble.

  • Apple Just Officially Ushered in Podcasting’s Generational Shift

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  • Video has returned. It was attempted back at the beginning too, but hosting was infeasible and it was RSS and not amalgamated on a platform.

    It’s interesting how platforms are all converging on being twisted frontends for RSS. I’m disappointed that this isn’t actually the return of video podcasts. This is the is the reintroduction in captured form.

    I hope at the least this becomes completion for YouTube, and other platforms compete in the space too. Netflix is planning to do this too. Maybe we can get direct video podcasts back. They are still alive for audio.

    We should encourage video podcasts on proper RSS feeds with high ratio modern video compression. Though that does make me imagine the video version of automatic ad insertion. And that does not seem like fun. Hmm.

  • Acer and Asus ordered to halt PC sales in Germany after Nokia wins HEVC patent ruling

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  • There’s another patent suit with Disney+ over HDR, or maybe the same thing, in Germany right now, too.

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    People are saying there's a gap in the Epstein files around 9/11

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  • Source: Reddit.

    🤦‍♂️

    Also, I bet that graphic is AI generated. Via an LLM, not via image generation.

    Edit: lol, if you read more, this “research” was done by Gemini. And the user trusted it when it hallucinated what it could access. I guess fair play that they admitted it.

  • Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans

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  • just one more AI model, please, that’ll do it, just one more, just you wait, have you seen how fast things are improving? Just one more. Common, just one more…

  • Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers

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  • I don’t think someone has the right to sell someone else’s product without permission. It’s as simple as that.

    Note that this is differentiated from piracy. Y’all are muddying waters and sabotaging the cause when you entertain the idea that selling bootleg dvds should be equivalent to someone downloading something from the internet with no money changing hands. Regardless of constructed reasons related to availability.

  • Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers

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  • No, but they shouldn't be allowed to sue for physical piracy on products they do not produce physically.

    This is nonsense.

    I can’t just go and sell physical copies of Stardew Valley because the person who makes the game does not sell physical copies for XYZ platform.

    Just like I can’t go and sell digital copies of something I don’t own the rights to just because it’s only available in physical form.

    Y’all are doing that thing where you feel you have the right to other people’s labor. And going further and saying you have the right to profit from other people’s labor because they didn’t package their labor the way you want.

  • 12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us

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  • “Learn to work like this now or you will be left behind.” The “experts” say.

  • Post on r/Privacy discussing reddit alternatives such as Lemmy & Piefed

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  • Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers

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  • So, companies should be legally forced to produce DVDs?

    Also, piracy is one thing. Selling pirated content is another.

    Some of this has the color of people feeling entertainment is a human right or something.

  • You NEED To Selfhost

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  • Wouldn’t this topic be more appropriate in other communities? Preaching to the choir here.

  • OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI

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  • And isn’t this not a unique idea? Surely OpenAI had something in the works already.

  • A New Era of Safety: Facial Age Checks Now Required to Chat on Roblox | Roblox

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  • That sucks. And it’s a great example of how people don’t get how difficult it is to deal with this stuff as a parent. Even when you know better.

  • Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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  • Everyone has learned to keep this private now. If it leaks, that’ll get less attention.

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    Bug/Question: misaligned tap targets

  • Gaming @lemmy.world
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    So you want to make your game accessible after your company fails

  • vegan @lemmy.world
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    Indonesia's Toxic Tofu

  • Uplifting News @lemmy.world
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    Mask requirement returning to B.C. health-care facilities

    bc.ctvnews.ca /mask-requirement-returning-to-b-c-health-care-facilities-1.7168789
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    What it's like scrolling YouTube these days

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Cathedral Pictures Plus (Animusic fan animation)

  • nootropics & friends @lemmy.world
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    Arizona Company and CEO Plead Guilty to the Distribution of Drugs Not Approved by the FDA and Will Pay $2.4 Million

    www.justice.gov /usao-nh/pr/arizona-company-and-ceo-plead-guilty-distribution-drugs-not-approved-fda-and-will-pay-24
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Google has a VPN service now