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In-reply-to » YouTube Stops Recommending Videos When Signed Out of Google An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: YouTube is no longer showing recommended videos to users logged out of a Google account or using Incognito mode, making people concerned they are being bullied into always being signed into the service. This change, which is now rolling out, shows a simple YouTube homepage without any videos or tip ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Huh that’s interesting, is there any more details to this?

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In-reply-to » YouTube Stops Recommending Videos When Signed Out of Google An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: YouTube is no longer showing recommended videos to users logged out of a Google account or using Incognito mode, making people concerned they are being bullied into always being signed into the service. This change, which is now rolling out, shows a simple YouTube homepage without any videos or tip ... ⌘ Read more

So a way to opt out of the algorithm? What is the negative I’m missing here? 😅

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In-reply-to » Google Steps Up Microsoft Criticism, Warns of Rival's Monopoly in Cloud Alphabet's Google Cloud on Monday ramped up its criticism of Microsoft's cloud computing practices, saying its rival is seeking a monopoly that would harm the development of emerging technologies such as generative AI. From a report: "We worry about Microsoft wanting to flex their decade-long practices where they had a lot of monopoly ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net wowee, pot-kettle-black Google!

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In-reply-to » Tinder Owner Inks Deal With OpenAI An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In a press release written with help from ChatGPT, Match Group announced an enterprise agreement with the AI chatbot's maker, OpenAI. The new agreement includes over 1,000 enterprise licenses for the dating app giant and home to Tinder, Match, OkCupid, Hinge and others. The AI tech will be used to help Match Group employees with work-related tasks, the compa ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net just what the dating app world needs, more robots…

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In-reply-to » 'Damn Small Linux' is Back - But Bigger Back in 2006 Slashdot reported on a 50-megabyte "micro" distro called Damn Small Linux. (And in 2012 we wrote that it "rose from the dead" with a new release candidate.)

50mb to now 700mb… I dunno, I know the numbers would have to inflate quite a bit since the days of 2006 etc but for a distro with that ethos I would have thought maybe 300-400mb would be more in line with what it wants to be.

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In-reply-to » Deep Abandoned Mine In Finland To Be Turned Into a Giant Gravity Battery James Felton reports via IFL Science: One of the deepest metal mines in Europe -- the Pyhasalmi Mine in central Finland -- is to be turned into an enormous gravity battery capable of storing 2 megawatts of energy. [...] Despite the cool name, the idea behind gravity batteries is really simple. During times when energy sources a ... ⌘ Read more

Pretty cool!

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In-reply-to » FUck'n hell I hate Youtube now.

It really does need viable competition. It’s a difficult one though, because it has by virtue of it being of the best early video sites in town and subsequent popularity, an absolute treasure trove of content, as bender says. But all owned by now what is a jackass company that loves being a monopoly.

Sadly the only way it changes is the people that post content on there move it all to other viable places, old and new, like mass migration. I don’t see how that happens, especially when content creators don’t want to lose the ad-revenue. But hopefully something gives eventually.

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In-reply-to » Update on my Fibre to the Premise upgrade (FTTP). NBN installer came out last week to install the NTD and Utility box, after some umming and arring, we figured out the best place to install it. However this mean he wasn't able to look it up to the Fibre in the pit, and required a 2nd team to come up and trench a new trench and conduit and use that to feed Fibre from the pit to the utility box.

@prologic@twtxt.net At least Cat 6 though surely?

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In-reply-to » Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows Jay Peters reports via The Verge: Plex, known for its media server software and as a place to watch ad-supported content, is going to launch a store for to buy and rent movies and TV shows in early February, executives told Lowpass' Janko Roettgers. "Most studios" are lined up for the store's launch, and there are "plans to complete the catalog soon after," Roettgers says. ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net exactly! Plus they get pirated anyway even with every restriction they apply, so they’re just inconveniencing all of us including those of us who would pay money.

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In-reply-to » Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows Jay Peters reports via The Verge: Plex, known for its media server software and as a place to watch ad-supported content, is going to launch a store for to buy and rent movies and TV shows in early February, executives told Lowpass' Janko Roettgers. "Most studios" are lined up for the store's launch, and there are "plans to complete the catalog soon after," Roettgers says. ... ⌘ Read more

I’m glad I switched to Jellyfin for my home library a while ago. They say “buy” movies but like most services, it’ll most likely “buy” a subscription to access said movie, that can be revoked any time. Unless you could buy a movie and have the file on your hard drive DRM-free, but that will never happen with the movie studios involved.

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In-reply-to » Chinese Chess Champion Stripped of Title After Defecating In Hotel Bathtub Agence France-Press reports: The world of Chinese chess is in uproar over rumors of cheating and a bad behavior scandal that saw the national champion stripped of his title on Monday after a victory celebration ended with him defecating in a hotel bathtub. Xiangqi, or Chinese chess, has been hugely popular for hundreds of yea ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net WTF did I read 🤣

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In-reply-to » Risk of Penile Fractures Rises at Christmas, Doctors Find An anonymous reader shares a report: It may be the season of loving and giving, but doctors have warned against embracing this spirit too enthusiastically -- at least where sexual relations are concerned. They have discovered that the Christmas period is associated with a significantly increased risk of penile fractures -- a medical emergency in which the er ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net bahahaha wat

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In-reply-to » Microsoft Ending Support For Windows 10 Could Send 240 Million PCs To Landfills, Study Finds According to Canalys Research, Microsoft's plan to end support for Windows 10 could result in about 240 million computers being sent to landfills. "The electronic waste from these PCs could weigh an estimated 480 million kilograms, equivalent to 320,000 cars," adds Reuters. From the report: W ... ⌘ Read more

Would help if Microshaft didn’t force the TPM/Secure Boot requirement. I bypassed that requirement using a registry tool and was able to upgrade one of my “incompatible” machines to Windows 11 just fine.

But yes, in any case there’s always Linux. My Thinkpad X200 from 2008 still flies along with Arch Linux and a lightweight DE.

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In-reply-to » Meet Ashley, the World's First AI-Powered Political Campaign Caller An artificial intelligence campaign volunteer named Ashley is being used to call thousands of Pennsylvania voters on behalf of Democrat Shamaine Daniels, "ushering in a new era of political campaigning in which candidates use technology to engage with voters in ways increasingly difficult to track," reports Reuters. From the report: Like ... ⌘ Read more

So it begins.

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When it’s a hot day and you realize your Raspberry Pi 4B is running at nearly 80c (it has a case but no fan or heatsinks) and you CBF waiting for one to arrive.

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Works a treat 😅 Just grabbed an unused PC fan, adapted it to an old 5v phone wall charger and hey presto, instantly cooler by 25c+.

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In-reply-to » 1960s Chatbot ELIZA Beat OpenAI's GPT-3.5 In a Recent Turing Test Study An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In a preprint research paper titled "Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?", two researchers from UC San Diego pitted OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model against human participants, GPT-3.5, and ELIZA to see which could trick participants into thinking it was human with the greatest success. B ... ⌘ Read more

That is pretty hilarious 🤣

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In-reply-to » Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. : youtube

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Apparently it’s not necessarily targeted at Firefox per se, as the delayed loading thing has happened on Chromium-based browsers too, but more YouTube targeting those running an adblocker. The only part about that I don’t quite get is why just spoofing a Chrome user agent often fixes it.

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In-reply-to » Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away. : youtube

This war on adblockers by Google is particularly interesting with the way they’re doubling down so desperately.

For one thing I bet their higher ups making these decisions probably run adblockers themselves, but the other thing is it’s arguably downright dangerous to not use at least a basic adblocker.

And I’m not even talking about the wider web, I mean even on YouTube itself. It’s plagued with scam ads, nsfw ads (ironic given how YT insists the content creators have to keep things clean to satisfy the ad payers) and even ads that’ll lead to actual malware, if not spyware.

YouTube, if you can’t even moderate your ad network properly, let alone the fact that at the very least they are WAY too frequent/obnoxious, you cannot insist on people disabling their adblocker

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In-reply-to » So.. Of y'all that had covid. Did you have at the end a night where for no reason your brain amped up to 11 and can't sleep at all? It happened to me last night and my FIL the night before.

Nah, I just had really hyper sensitivity to sensations and pain for a few days. Like even getting up in the morning and putting on a slightly cold shirt actually “hurt”. And just generally felt sore and joint pains. Was really unpleasant, but once that passed for me it was like a regular cold. So I was both unlucky and lucky with my experience. It’s interesting how wildly different people experience it.

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In-reply-to » How AI avatars of the deceased could transform the way we grieve Companies are now offering chatbots that appear to come from beyond the veil. But psychologists say this "grief tech" may interfere with the patterns of brain activity through which we adapt to loss ⌘ Read more

Yeah, yikes.

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In-reply-to » Is Capitalism Dead? Yanis Varoufakis Argues Capitalists are Now Vassals to 'Techno-Feudalists' Greek economist/politician Yanis Varoufakis "was briefly Greek finance minister in 2015," remembers the Conversation. Now his new book asks the question, "What killed capitalism," with the title's first word providing an answer. "Techno-feudalism."

Maybe a little hyperbolic but definitely an interesting argument.

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In-reply-to » So my work Macbook Pro M1 just died on me. And... It won't boot into recovery mode (because I think we've disabled that from the corporate mdm side) 😢 Looking likely that I'll have to order a new one... I saw signs of I/O error(s) before I rebooted it, which has me suspciious that the disk has died 😱

Wow that’s a bugger. Can’t you just replace the disk? Not sure what’s involved on those Macs though.

Side point, I swear hard disks, whether it be the mechanical drives or flash memory, seem to die much faster these days…

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In-reply-to » Google Only Improves Products Under Pressure, US Argues Google -- under fire in court for allegedly resting on its laurels thanks to its 90% market dominance -- only made an effort to beef up the quality of its search engine in the European Union after being hit by a record antitrust fine, according to internal documents revealed in the US Justice Department's monopolization case against the tech giant. From a report: T ... ⌘ Read more

Corporation with monopoly gets lazy, news at 11

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In-reply-to » I finally setup a Pi-Hole yesterday 👌

I’m not sure about installing Unbound now anyway. Apparently your ISP can see the unencrypted DNS queries.

My ISP is Starlink and while its a great connection for me, I wouldn’t want to give them anymore data than necessary lol

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In-reply-to » ‘Particularly concerning’: Minister announces review of nationwide Optus outage Federal Communications Minister Michelle Rowland says the government will undertake a “post-incident telecommunications review” into the network outage, which affected millions of Australians on Wednesday. ⌘ Read more

Optus are in for a world of pain. Bad enough with the data breaches they cause a large percentage of the country to have to be issued new license numbers, now they can’t even have basic redundancies in place.

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In-reply-to » So Youtube rea really cracking down on Ad-blockers. The new popup is a warning saying you can watch 3 videos before you can watch no more. Not sure for how long. I guess my options are a) wait for the ad-blockers to catch-up b) pay for Youtube c) Stop using Youtube.

Haven’t seen this using Brave and its blockers.

Anyway, people will always find workarounds. YT are shooting themselves in the foot.

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In-reply-to » Discord Discloses Data Breach After Support Agent Got Hacked Discord has informed users of a data breach that occurred after a third-party support agent's account was compromised, exposing user email addresses, messages exchanged with Discord support, and any attachments sent as part of the tickets. Discord immediately disabled the account and worked with the customer service partner to prevent similar incidents in ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net FFS there’s so many data breaches these days, who wants to give anyone/anything their personal data anymore?

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