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  • From games to reminders to drink water: The rise of 'streaks,' rewards that keep you hooked

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  • Every gamer should try cookie clicker once as it really does expose how many games work under the hood. If you play cookie clicker, you'll notice those number-go-up mechanics everywhere and that really gives you another perspective on some modern grindfests. It also is a really good game

    https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

  • From games to reminders to drink water: The rise of 'streaks,' rewards that keep you hooked

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  • I disagree. Let people learn in their pace and do not set unrealistic targets. It's not really possible to complete e.g. the french course in 3 months if you have other stuff to do like work or family. Took me longer, but now I'm able to be in France, read what is written on the signs and also able to communicate with the locals.

  • Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app

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  • Other users have written about GDPR, but just FYI: There are a lot of laws that apply worldwide. You might not like it, but states really do have laws in place that they are applying to everybody in the world. Thailand has draconian laws about insulting their king and they totally do not care if you insulted him inside or outside of the country. They can't arrest you whereever you are, but if you ever try to visit Thailand, you will get arrested. And many countries also have laws in place about stuff that their citizen do outside of the country.

  • Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'

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  • Yeah - people who are saying "no zionists" want to say "no jews".

  • Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'

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  • That's something that every company can easily detect.

  • Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app

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  • If you think about it: The GDPR applies to all data of EU citizens regardless of where they are or where you are. There is no way that this app is not having some EU guy in New York in it and therefore totally in violation of GDPR

  • Meta will cease political ads in European Union by fall, blaming bloc’s new rules

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  • Let's be honest: We are talking about several billions of dollars of ad revenue over the years. Meta has the resources to work within those rules and earn billions. If they do not want to do that, there is something really shady going on.

  • I love Lemmy

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  • It's not really free: Consider donating money to your instance in order to pay the server costs!

  • Medical AI Systems Are Moving Too Fast for Safety Rules

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  • Everybody can move really fast when ignoring safety rules, compliance, ethics. The problem is that all those pesky rules are in place for a reason and if you ignore them, people will die.

  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • The quote is even worse when you take this snippet from above:

    The study discovered that the majority of users did not choose to block ads, with ad-blocking technology often activated by a third-party like their employer at a network level, their educational institution, security software they installed, or public Wi-Fi networks. For example ad-blocking tech can be bundled with VPNs (virtual private networks that hide a web user’s location) and built into browsers like BRave and Duck Duck Go. There are also dedicated apps and cross-platform brands such as AdGuard which describes itself as “the world’s most advanced ad blocker” that can “even” block on Youtube.

    So they are trying to frame corporate security policies as "no consent". Which totally does not make sense as the contract the worker signed is consent for corporate IT to manage the computer and also to secure it against malware serves via ads. And to even suggest that users who are using a VPN with built in adblock or an alternative browser do not want to use the features the software they installed come with, is crap

  • Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows

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  • Which is totally a failure of Microsoft. People have their Xbox connected to their TV. They have an account and they have their payment information maintained there. And Microsoft can't make the simple proposal of "Hey, this device you have connected to your TV and where you are playing games on, you can also use it to watch movies and series"

  • Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows

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  • If you think about it: Microsoft owns XBox, that has been one of the three major consoles for decades now. They own Windows, the world's most popular operating system. They own Edge, one of the major browsers. And they still failed to create a movie and TV store and shut down their music streaming service. Which is totally insane - that shit was bundled with fucking windows and Xbox and they still made it suck so hard that it failed

  • Password manager by Amazon

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  • Yeah, my in-laws have such a book and it honestly is great. They live in their own flat where nobody can access the book without breaking in. They do not save their passwords in their browser, so anyone hacking into their PC can't grab them. If they want to login into an account, they take out their book, put in the user name and unique password and that's it. Quite the good method and I really do not see many problems there.

  • No trickle...

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  • Yeah, that statistic is obviously bullshit and people here should notice. They really should notice

  • Tesseract has been discontinued

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  • There are multiple reasons: If you want to fund your instance by donations, you need to be able to act under your real name. You might get away with a totally anonymous instance which you are funding via cryptodonations and which you are hosting at a provider who really does not care about KYC, but that is also illegal in many jurisdictions. There is totally a case for a lemmy instance admin to be known publically, to be able to interact with the community in person, to be able to go to meetups or to be able to give talks at conventions.

    And if you are not living in some country with totally crazy politics, most local laws are totally fine. Do not post hardcore pornography. Do not spread hatred or calls for murder and hate speach. Keep the piracy a little bit less obvious. Don't allow hardcore pornography and have a solid process to keep child porn from your platform. That might be different if you're living in Iran, Saudi-Arabia or Afghanistan, but in a western country it is totally ok to be in line with local laws.

  • Tesseract has been discontinued

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  • Not sure if "they should have seen it coming" really is the way to think about this. Yes, moderation is hard. Yes, it makes sense to build a team doing moderation. But let's be honest, Lemmy is insaner than other forums due to its federated structure.

  • Tesseract has been discontinued

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  • I'm not a mod there, but thank you :)

  • Tesseract has been discontinued

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  • I totally have to disagree. Instance owners are attacked here on Lemmy for trying to keep their instance in line with the local laws where they live. You know, which they totally have to keep free of legal trouble that might cost them a lot of time, money or even put them into jail. It's not great when admins have to deal with utter idiots in their free time. Remember the whole Nicole fiasco where some poor girl was harassed via a spam attack? Remember that spam attack with the scat porn? All this hate going around with the war in the middle east? I can totally understand why someone burns out dealing with this crap in their free time. Come home from work after a hard day. Another scat spam attack you have to deal with. Another Hamas sympathizer calling you genocide lover because you deleted his propaganda. Someone else attacking you because you removed content that is illegal where you live and you hope that no authority saw it before you deleted it. Go to bed. Go to work. Repeat.

  • Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

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  • There’s a reason why Firefox is almost non existent on mobile.

    And the reason is monopoly abuse by the big tech companies. Apple is banning other browser engines from the app store and does not allow Firefox onto iPhones. Google is shipping its own Chrome with every Android device and they are breaking their own sites like YouTube or Gmail on purpose for Firefox users and push them to install Chrome. Microsoft is bundling Edge with Windows as a default browser and will aggressively enable it as a default browser during updates.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android

    localmess.github.io
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    EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis

    www.iccl.ie /digital-data/eu-ruling-tracking-based-advertising-by-google-microsoft-amazon-x-across-europe-has-no-legal-basis/
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    Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint

    www.pentestpartners.com /security-blog/exploiting-copilot-ai-for-sharepoint/
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    Win10 Supportende - welche Geräte sind gebraucht interessant?

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    Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages

    www.theverge.com /news/639078/samsung-bespoke-ai-jet-ultra-vacuum-text-messages
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    No More Parts Guesswork With iFixit’s Device Compatibility Checker

    www.ifixit.com /News/108469/no-more-parts-guesswork-with-ifixits-device-compatibility-checker