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  • YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household

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  • I really think corporations are starting to overplay their hands here. People don't need Prime as much as Amazon thinks they do, people don't need YouTube as much as Google thinks they do, and so on. Especially in the case of YT, yeah, turns out it's easy to compete when your service is free. But once it gets freemium enough, things like Peertube start to take a place on the optimal frontier. Right now Peertube only competes with YouTube if you're sensitive to the dimension of a service being centralized or not, most people don't give a shit about that. But the dimension of cost and ads? Enshittify YouTube too much and suddenly Peertube has its place for anyone who cares about money or time (i.e everyone).

    And Prime? Don't think people won't start just going to stores again, or buying directly from producers. At least if I go to an actual website to buy my stuff I don't need to worry about getting ripped off by some drop-ship fake brand garbage.

    People love their little conveniences and will try to hang on to them, sure...but I think this could really start to backfire if they push it much further.

  • LinkedIn cap

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  • I NEED this for my next in-person PI Planning

  • Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras

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  • Yooooooo what he's the Flashbulb!? Crazy lol. I've loved his music for years now. Did not at all realize it was the same guy. Taste goes with taste I suppose

  • Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras

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  • Woah, this guy is great. I wish it were possible for me to do something like this full time, but I lack the wide skills he's got. I wonder how long it takes to get to that level? And I wonder if there's any organizations that might sort of scratch this itch? Been fantasizing about working for the EFF or something like that.

    Really really love how he ends the video by insulting and criticizing the companies that asked him to be sponsored by them. Insane power move

  • Texas is about to ban talking on college campuses at night. Seriously.

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  • " a similar policy at Indiana University that required prior approval for protests on campus occurring between 11:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m"

    Kinda off topic but I think we need a different word for this kind of "protest". If you're gathering at a place chosen by the people you're protesting against, at a time chosen by the people you're protesting against, you aren't protesting. You're having a protest-roleplaying picnic

  • Calese Carron Crowder Arrested Again For Alleged Butt Sniffing | The Pop Radar

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  • Idunno, sniffing butts in public? I mean, surely there's not even any actual smell to pick up on lol. If I saw some guy running up to ladies in the Walgreens and smelling their asses, like an actual dog, that would 100% register as mental illness to me. Not to mention doing it again while on parole at the very least shows some sort of seriously impaired self-control. I mean, it's not impossible that he's just really pervy and stupid, but idunno.... And regardless, it's a shame that the system won't even attempt to find out

  • Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying.

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  • Oh God yes a still sentient and thinking brain just completely devoid of sensory input for eternity until he goes mad. Ironic fates ftw

  • Donald Trump says people are in Epstein files who ‘don’t deserve to be’: ‘It’s a Democratic hoax’

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  • Adding this to my list of "great gifs for grooving to music that feel a little dicey to actually send to anyone".

    The only other gif in my list is the Jay-Z head bobbing one

  • Donald Trump says people are in Epstein files who ‘don’t deserve to be’: ‘It’s a Democratic hoax’

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  • It's actually ridiculous how transparent he is, and that people still don't see through it. Like how much more obvious could he get?

    "The Epstein files mention many great people who definitely never raped children, many innocent great billionaires and politicians are in there. Even some presidents have been unfairly and wrongly mentioned in the files, I'm told. I'm not in there myself, of course, but I've seen that even the great and innocent sitting president is in the Epstein files, which is all the proof you need to know the files are meaningless if they exist, which of course they don't, but if they did exist they would have SOME people's names in them, not sure who, it could be anyone...even people we all know and love...many people whose names start with T and end with rump, for instance, luckily not myself, but many people..."

  • Donald Trump says people are in Epstein files who ‘don’t deserve to be’: ‘It’s a Democratic hoax’

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  • That hat might literally be the most joke-tier, unbelievable, ridiculous thing ever in political history. Just the sheer blatant stupidity of it is hard to even comprehend. Like. Literally no country in Earth has their leader doing something that ridiculous. I remember back when the world used to laugh at the bizarro propaganda and behavior in North Korea. But even Kim Jong Un is doing nothing so ridiculous as wearing a hat like that. Can you imagine it? Him in some hat saying "I'm right about everything all the time hahaha losers". Even in NK they know that's ridiculous, they know it looks stupid. A population full of people born and raised in multiple generations of propaganda, almost entirely isolated from the world, and even the hard-core kool-aid drinkers would see that and feel their respect for their leader falter. Not all Americans are dumb, but the dumb subset of Americans may really be the dumbest of any group on Earth right now. Like I get that the hat is a "joke" and he's "trolling", which makes it slightly less stupid than if it was meant in earnest, but the thing is, like any multi-layer irony, it simultaneously is and isn't what it pretends to be. I cannot imagine a real human being looking at that hat and thinking anything positive about it. Yet my fellow Americans continue to move my bar for stupidity deeper and deeper to the core of the Earth. Trump has done sooooooo much stupid shit yet somehow this hat manages to take the crown. It's not the worst thing he's done, but my god, it's so stupid. You couldn't even write a more farcical joke to make fun of it if you tried. How could you parody that hat? It's already reached the apex.

    /Rant

  • Elon Musk to Take on Microsoft With 'Macrohard'

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  • Ahhh no no that's because they're in Africa and not America 😌

  • Elon Musk to Take on Microsoft With 'Macrohard'

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  • Yeah, although if Elon hasn't convinced them I can at least take solace in knowing there was probably no way to convince them anyways. Total lost causes

  • Elon Musk to Take on Microsoft With 'Macrohard'

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  • We can only hope he blows ALL his money on it somehow. He seems almost stupid enough to pull it off

  • Elon Musk to Take on Microsoft With 'Macrohard'

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  • I remember back when I was a kid it was hard to convince people that wealth and success was not a matter of being better, smarter, or harder working - as we were told - but rather almost entirely a matter of luck. Thankfully, Elon Musk has shown many people the light that I could not. Thank you, Elon

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  • This is PURE speculation, but I feel like this could be caused by the only people who feel comfortable getting a philosophy degree being wealthy connected people. I know a lot of people from my high school that have stereotypical "be poor forever" degrees and are doing great - but if you knew them in high school, you'd know that they had millionaire parents. All the poor kids went for safer degrees because they knew they'd need money.

    To be clear: I love philosophy and think it is very valuable. But sadly it seems like something that only privileged people or the very passionate take a risk on.

  • Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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  • Yeah, you're absolutely right and I agree. So then do we have to resign the situation to being an eternal back-and-forth of just developing random new challenges every time the scrapers adapt to them? Like antibiotics for viruses? Maybe that is the way it is. And honestly that's what I suspect. But Anubis feels so clever and so close to something that would work. The concept of making it about a cost that adds up, so that it intrinsically only effects massive processes significantly, is really smart...since it's not about coming up with a challenge a computer can't complete, but just a challenge that makes it economically not worth it to complete. But it's disappointing to see that, at least with the current wait times, it doesn't seem like it will cost enough to dissuade scrapers. And worse, the cost is so low that it seems like making the cost significant to the scrapers will require really insufferable wait times for users.

  • Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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  • By negligence, I meant that the cost is negligible to the companies running scrapers, not that the solution itself is negligent. I should have said "negligibility" of Anubis, sorry - that was poor clarity on my part.

    But I do think that the cost of it is indeed negligible, as the article shows. It doesn't really matter if the author is biased or not, their analysis of the costs seems reasonable. I would need a counter-argument against that to think they were wrong. Just because they're biased isn't enough to discount the quantification they attempted to bring to the debate.

    Also, I don't think there's any hypocrisy in me saying I've only thought about other solutions here and there - I'm not maintaining an anti-scraping library. And there's already been indications that scrapers are just accepting the cost of Anubis on Codeberg, right? So I'm not trying to say I'm some sort of tech genius who has the right idea here, but from what Codeberg was saying, and from the numbers in this article, it sure looks like Anubis isn't the right idea. I am indeed only having fun with my suggestions, not making whole libraries out of them and pronouncing them to be solutions. I personally haven't seen evidence that Anubis is so clearly working? As the author points out, it seems like it's only working right now because of how new it is, but if scrapers want to go through it, they easily can - which puts us in a sort of virus/antibiotic eternal war of attrition. And if course that is the case with many things in computing as well. So I guess my open wondering are just about if there's ever any way to develop a countermeasure that the scrapers won't find "worth it" to force through?

    Edit for tone clarity: I'm don't want to be antagonistic, rude, or hurtful in any way. Just trying to have a discussion and understand this situation. Perhaps I was arrogant, if so I apologize. It was also not my intent, fwiw. Also, thanks for helping me understand why I was getting downvoted. I intended my post to just be constructive spitballing about what I see as the eventual inevitable weakness in Anubis. I think it's a great project and it's great that people are getting use out of it even temporarily, and of course the devs deserve lots of respect for making the thing. But as much as I wish I could like it and believe it will solve the problem, I still don't think it will.

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • I thought that at first too and I wasn't gonna say anything but I was thinking to myself "bro is definitely writing some really shitty code"

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • Oversaturated?!? Maybe if you're a plebian bootcamp passionless 0.1x-er who hasn't even contributed to multiple open source projects or founded at least 3 startups. Maybe you should try internalizing all PhD-worthy algorithms from the last 30 years to reproduce them on the spot from memory like I did, or else do you really even care about the craft??? You need to understand this industry is full of math olympiad prodigy coder geniuses who work 80 hours a week like me so yeah it's competitive. Nothing oversaturated about that

    /s