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  • If only

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  • Those local ads clutter the landscape and litter. They also wouldn’t be necessary if people went back to local community engagement for things like art rather than over reliance on corporate art forms, eg if advertising didn’t permeate every facet of our existence the problem might self correct.

    Also in a just society one could just play music to enjoy the art form rather than submit to the vanity of self promotion to try and gather fame.

    You’re also confusing advertising with information. The bar website having information on happy hour is not an ad. That is information. This is why the yellow pages were not an ad. The difference here is consent. You chose to seek that information out, so it is fine. Obviously there needs to be a way to find information for like local mechanics and shit. But getting a flyer in the mail from one? Yuck.

  • It will trickle down any second now

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  • So then forcibly nationalize their companies if they won’t share the equity in their companies with the workers who built it. Fuck your stupid argument that defends oligarchs

  • Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

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  • Do you not realize they were created on the backs of oppression? This is part of why the middle class is a myth, we are all working class comrade

  • Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content

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  • so just the imperialism meatgrinder of stuff like the vietnam war and a time of racial segregation domestically and the immediate aftermath of its end (bc everyone totally respected the change and that’s why we aren’t still dealing with the impacts to this day with elder boomer maga shitheads that literally grew up with it). these were definitely great times and a wonderful country to want to return to and you’re definitely not holding up some whitewashed bullshit in your mind.

    Like literally telling someone they can’t use a water fountain because they’re too black and violently invading a country for decades because they chose a system of government you disagree with seems pretty right wing authoritarian but maybe that’s just me. America has literally always been fascist, there’s just a few times in more recent history where ultra fascists like the Nazis gave us a villain to be like “well at least we aren’t that” as we send the cia into Latin America to overthrow a democratically elected government that once again doesn’t align with capitalism

  • JD Vance is sick of 67: ‘Ban these numbers forever’

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  • Yeah I mean the majority of the time we had them out in 3 days so that’s probably what I’m remembering. I don’t miss those days

  • JD Vance is sick of 67: ‘Ban these numbers forever’

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  • Well I’ll be damned.

    I also work in pa and while I do outpatient now I worked in inpatient for years. Whoops! To be fair it’s been years since I did hospital stuff and admissions was never my deal. I couldn’t remember the longer ones for the life of me. I could’ve sworn 302 was 72, but you’re definitely right

  • JD Vance is sick of 67: ‘Ban these numbers forever’

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  • In Philly (where the song 6-7 originated comes from and the code being referenced) a 72 hour involuntary mental health hold is a 302 (and then 303/304 if the hold is extended beyond 72hrs). 5150 is a California code, I think, but it’s def not national

  • It's so beyond over

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  • Duolingo has been one of the most aggressively pro AI companies since the arrival of LLMs. They cleared house of as many employees as possible years ago and their ceo is a mega piece of shit. A great example of a product that had value that was utterly ruined by profit motives; while there were a few years where it was a solid app for language learning with a gamefied approach duo now actively pursues engagement and pushing opportunities for creating purchases over education.

    There are hundreds of stories of people who use it for years, even with paid subscriptions and daily practice, and find it teaches them very little. Granted this is on the learner to some degree but it’s also because the app pushes the learner to keep progressing/momentum up rather than do “boring” drills, it locks actual feedback behind not just paid subscriptions but the most expensive tier, etc.

    Fuck duolingo. Don’t waste your money, don’t back that gross company, but most importantly don’t waste your time and energy to just increment a counter. Just use anki. Plenty of free decks and honestly making your own deck is a good exercise in and of itself. Remember the one good thing from duolingo: they are really seriously good at abusing the notifications system and bothering the shit out of you to get you to sign in to the app daily. Recreate that with some reminder app and build the habit to do language practice daily for 30-60ish minutes with an actual good resource (like anki and a recommended text for whatever language you’re learning like assimil, hsk, genki, etc but they all have pros and cons) and in 1 year you’ll be miles ahead of anyone using duolingo for the same timeframe

  • Command line tip of the day

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  • My home generator is automatic but you still need an ups because the transfer switch and power on process for the generator isn’t instant. Takes like 10-30 seconds depending on how cold it is and how recently I serviced the generator.

    You also ideally need a higher quality ups that can handle the shitty power coming from a generator, although the overall ups doesn’t need to be as “hefty” as a result. My ups is the kind that has extra filtering and stabilization of incoming power. My old ups was a cheaper cyberpower and it died after a few months of generator usage (we lose power here roughly every 4-6 weeks, thus the auto generator). The cheaper cyberpower would be fine in the majority of home circumstances tbh otherwise.

  • If only

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  • No ad is fun, no ad is art, no ad is good. Anyone involved in the creation of ads is a terrible person and you are brainwashed by a culture in decline

  • Ope

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  • Why is there an arch that distorts the text for the image in the center? You couldn’t just make the overall image like 10 pixels longer??

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  • Reply to another comment regarding phones not actually being “off” when off. iphones at least since the 11 are not off when off and keep the secure enclave powered to transmit phone location

    This is 100% true on newer iphones and they explicitly tell you as much every time you power the phone off. It can be disabled, but only temporarily.

    This brings up that as long as the battery is sealed in the phone you’re relying on trust in the software/hardware vendors to ensure the phone is actually “off” in the traditional sense and not “off” in one of these modern “standby mode” senses where it can boot faster or something (and therefore run some process that can do something else nefarious, though tbf probably not much)

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  • This is 100% true on newer iphones and they explicitly tell you as much every time you power the phone off. It can be disabled, but only temporarily.

    This brings up that as long as the battery is sealed in the phone you’re relying on trust in the software/hardware vendors to ensure the phone is actually “off” in the traditional sense and not “off” in one of these modern “standby mode” senses where it can boot faster or something (and therefore run some process that can do something else nefarious, though tbf probably not much)

  • 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

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  • Or they’ll do what plex did. Reminder that plex started life as a fork of xbmc/kodi for macos. When their fork showed some popularity they shifted development to various names (plex home theater). While this still contained a lot of GPL code they then spent a good deal of dev time rewriting said code to be fully closed source.

    This is less discussed but also why plex is one of the most insidious and disgusting pieces of unethical software one can use. The writing is on the wall and the company is led by scumbags, sure, but people don’t talk as much about how they forked xbmc, built a huge product based on everything learned from it, and then closed everything off once they did the minimum required cover your ass moves.

    What they did is legal but is it ethical? If they did it to a company like apple or Microsoft they’d get sued, that’s for damn sure. And ethically speaking I would say it’s really fucked to take all this stuff from the community: architecture, ideas, ui/ux, approaches to plugin design, data modeling, etc and build a whole company off of it, then basically give nothing back. They closed it off so they could get their bag, fuck the community that taught them so much and helped build their MVP.

    What you describe is similar to the creation of jellyfin from emby though; where embys dev team suddenly decided to close source the GPL server code (a violation) and add monetization. the community rejected this, and forked the last version prior to the nonsense into what is now jellyfin.

  • Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video

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  • This is the inevitable next step. YouTube is looking at doing this too, where ads would be served as part of the same stream id as the content (eg your page wouldn’t refresh and the ad would be cut into the video itself) but they have to make the player work with changing states without refreshing the page across all platforms and it puts a lot more stress on CDNs (plus sponsor block would still be a method to defeat, although not as effective).

    But integration of the ads more deeply into the content has always been the goal. That’s why product placement exists. The fault of commercials is that people can simply disengage - go to the bathroom, talk to friends, fuck around on phone, etc. but if the ad is part of the content they have to see it if they want to engage with it. You lose the ability to shill as effectively (unless you do the youtuber paid segment thing, which makes your ads programmatically skippable again eg sponsorblock) but you gain an ad that is practically unblockable unless the show is essentially censored.

    Advertisers are scum. Destroy all advertisers. Admen are the cancer that destroy society. Every cool thing has advertisers encroach in on it once people realize how cool it is and then they destroy it - radio, tv, newspapers, books, the internet, literally any public space, etc. if you work in advertising you should be ashamed of yourself and your parents definitely feel like they went wrong somewhere

  • 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

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  • Like sftp?? Hope you configured it right

  • 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

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  • Plex took a significant degree of other people’s money, to the tune of over 40 million dollars. The people who gave said money were not kickstarter funders, donators, subscribers, etc but investors, who have an expectation that plex will move the company in a direction that makes them profitable enough to not only repay the 40+ million investment, but to then earn profits for a lengthy period (possibly in perpetuity) as they are stakeholders. This is the same thing that happened to Reddit (though Reddits scale and timeline was FAR more vast), openai, Google, literally every company ever basically. Plex now has an obligation to not just continue development but to continue it in a way that maximizes growth and revenue, even if that is anti consumer.

    Jellyfin on the other hand has language on their contributions page that almost discourages financial support. This is because the only financial support they accept is donations, which are clearly explained are to support the free software and give no ownership stake. The software does not generate profit and donation does not equate to any kind of investment, other than supporting continued development. Expecting any kind of return on your part (again, other than the project continuing to move forward) is foolish. Lemmy is similar, as are many other FOSS projects. Jellyfin can remain ideologically stable to its goals, and because it is free if its users feel the lead developers are straying from this they can fork it and make “new ideologically pure jellyfin” (see xmbc to plex to emby to jellyfin, or lemmys 938 forks, many of which are tweaks and some of which are because people got beef with the main devs)

  • Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway

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  • One is easy and one is hard, duh. If you want this nerd to stop recording you you smash his dumb facebook glasses. If you want the us government to stop surveillance of you through shit like whatever Pegasus has evolved into, Cambridge analytica, and palantir, you do what exactly? Install Adblock? Do linux? Tor? News flash: you’re still getting profiled, just not as well. Move into a Unabomber style shack and eschew technology all together? Sounds expensive. Violent uprising against the most powerful military in the world? Good luck with that.

  • Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair is worth the time and money. spoilers inside.

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  • Well color me a stupid idiot