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trashboat

@ trashboat @midwest.social

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  • Supurrvisors must always do quality control on your projects

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  • Sick map of the Wheel of Time world! I’m still working my way through the fourth book in the series

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  • Better yet, crack it open and find a way to load alternative firmware onto it

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  • I’m imagining some sort of an Iron Man situation

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  • Is Pebble still alive? I quit using mine a long time ago because I wound up getting an AW, but I’ve still kept it somewhere

  • Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted

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  • Any FOSS alternatives to Pinterest out there?

  • Your Earbuds Are Gross. Here’s How to Clean Them Properly

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  • Holy

  • Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again

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  • I am not interesting

  • ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online

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  • Fuck ICE

  • YouTube shorts disproportionately promotes alt-right content according to this experiment

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  • sites feeding content that use an algorithm to personalize feeds for each user are all compromised.

    Not arguing against this at all because you’re completely correct, but this feels like a key example of governments being too slow (and perhaps too out of touch?) to properly regulate tech. People clearly like having an algorithm, but algorithms in their current form are a great excuse for tech companies to use to throw their hands up in the air and claim no foul play because of how opaque they are. “It only shows you what you tell it you want to see!” is easy for them to say, but until consumers are given the right to know how exactly each one works, almost like nutrition facts on food packaging, then we’ll never know whether they’re telling the truth. The ability for a tech company to have near unlimited control and no oversight over what millions of people are looking at day after day is clearly a major factor in what got us here in the first place

    Not that there’s any hope for new consumer protections during this US administration or anything, but just something I had been thinking about for a while

  • Was the whole TikTok drama a bait-and-switch to make Trump look good?

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  • Do you have a source for that? I’ve heard about this, too, but the evidence was dubious at best