@glynmoody

Ah, yes. I forgot that he knows everything (:

✨ c a t ✨ #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon

@jfmezei oh it’s just a normal November day around here! 😊 Lightning again last night with the rain. Now the rain has tapered off and the wind is gusting.

Beautiful west coast day!

(Not fond of how the article breathlessly lingers over other projects by the researcher in question simply because they include "AI" buzzwords, but still this is useful information.)

@ai6yr oh yes - tons of em. now its furry porn, but last time i looked it was catgirls in finland advertising contract sysadmin services

@publicvoit You are free to believe that.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

ur gonna do great today, u got this

@tusharhero @alex I do think that this is terrible. 😀

@arstechnica it was SO full of snake oil 😟

@ilja I'm going to add the link to the map to hrt.cat rather than the top post. mostly because the post focused almost exclusively on DIY, and hrt.cat I'm allowing to be a bit broader

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#mastoart

the board house is finally done with the assembly of this year's classic MNT Reform/MNT Station mainboard batch, here are some confirmation photos.

Brute force moderation is what killed it IMHO. Same shit that as happening to .world

@GrapheneOS okay guys, this is stupid question but.. the mte, is it safer with it on the 11 or the 8 or on a Motorola?.. like do you understand what I'm asking? Is there a difference , or you either have it, it makes your phone super safe, or you don't have it and you're effed..?

From #Samsung's user agreement:

'However, to use your content in our Services, you need to grant us a licence for any content that you create or upload using our Services. When you upload, transmit, create, post, display or otherwise provide any information, materials, documents, media files or other content on or through our Services (“User Content”), 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝘂𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲, 𝗿𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹𝘁𝘆-𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆, 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲, 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁, 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗳𝘆, 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁, 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲, 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵, 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 (“User Content Licence”) to provide our Services to you and other users. We do our best to keep User Content safe, but we are not responsible if any of your User Content or other data is lost.'

Fuck you Samsung, I'm not agreeing to that!

there is always more anger at the accusation than at the accused. Always, always, always - until suddenly everybody is so sorry about that one particular individual, but damned if there’s a pattern, oh no, gods forbid we say there is a pattern.

No-one else cares, not unless it’s touched them personally, though by the goddess they pretend to when it’s politically expedient, when it’s one of ‘theirs’, not one of ‘ours’, and still the great majority are angrier at the suggestion that they might have done something wrong, that their entitlement might be thwarted, that their good pal might not be a good guy,