Onno (VK6FLAB)

It is again beginning to feel rather dysfunctional…

Next step: Apple removes hardware from box and ships aspiration only.

As an end user, ie. not someone who either hosts an instance or has extra permissions, can we in anyway see who voted on a post or comment?

I’m asking because over the time I’ve been here, I’ve noticed that many, but not all, posts or comments attract a solitary down vote.

I see this type of thing all over the place. Sometimes it’s two down votes, indicating that it happens more than once.

I note that human behaviour might explain this to some extent, but the voting happens almost immediately, in the face of either no response, or positive interactions.

Feels a lot like the Reddit down vote bots.

It absolutely is.

It’s possibly also how they’ll get broken up by the DoJ.

I think that every single provider tracks your activity and the vast majority of them use it to optimise their service income from you, either by giving you better engagement, ie. making you use the service more - endless searching for content for example, or by selling the captured tracking data to the highest bidder.

I experienced this crazy onslaught of advertising to the point of reducing how much I watched YouTube. I was pretty upset and not at all inclined to pay, especially since YouTube was even putting ads on my own videos without me seeing a single cent, because my channel is too small.

Then my partner bought me a few months of a Premium Subscription as a Christmas gift.

It was pointed out to me that I watched more YouTube than any other streaming service which I was paying for.

Combined with background music on mobile, it’s changed my life.

I’m still unimpressed with the business model, but the alternative is so far worse.

Find me a self publishing video platform with the reach of YouTube that doesn’t require self hosting and I’ll happily move my content there.

You could use a cron job to grep through the file and reformat the output into a webpage, markdown, or plain-text file.

A.I., Assumed Intelligence

A.I. or Assumed Intelligence

So, a profitable half and the one that will go bankrupt?

It’s staggering to me the number of black cars being sold in hot countries like Australia. Not to mention just how hard they are to see against the background of a bitumen road.

Yeah, good luck with that. In Australia they stopped paying and now the media organisations that relied on this income are pretty much stuffed.

This reads like an ignorant rant about a transient fault at Google.

@w0odl@lemmy.radio, are you aware of this update?

That’s good to hear.

In my understanding, deleting (and moderation) are pretty much unsolved mysteries on this platform.

For example, last I heard, an administrator has to drop into a command line to delete media from removed posts, otherwise they’d still be accessible if the URL was known. (Think illegal material.)

Filtering is similarly done at the client end, so that’s fun.

Note that I’m not associated with the source code, only as a user and am repeating things I’ve observed, read, or have been told. YMMV.

I use “Connect” and it has all those filters.

I was making a joke about statistics not being science, but it’s clear that not everyone got the joke … pretty much the same as the original meme.

(This is humour, laugh.)

So really, this is not a joke about dinosaurs at all, it’s a statistics joke … which would put this meme in the wrong community 😇

So, it’s a joke about the fact that both are essentially dinosaurs?

… nope, I got nothing …