As I said, that’s a bootlegged NES! look at that Ghostbusters cart on the right :)
And you’re right, the controller looks like a Genesis one. But zoom enough on the pic and you’ll see that where the ‘C’ button would be, it’s actually the ‘Start’ button
I just want to say, if you have an electric oven… you have an ‘air fryer’.
Usually electric ovens have indirect and direct options of heating (upper elements for example, compared to ones hidden in the back closer to the fan).
Granted a tiny ‘air fryer’ might do something a little quicker. But I struggle to see their benefits if you have an electric fan forced oven (all electric are). Its an additional $100 - $200 for no real benefit, other than something else you have to clean. And I’d argue that cleaning an oven tray out of the oven is much easier (granted I have a dishwasher) than baskets and oil catchers etc, but can you put those parts of an oven fryer in the dishwasher? ( I use cheap cookie coolers on an oven tray if I am going to cook something like chicken that would drip, keeping the pieces crisp.)
If your oven is gas or coal, then absolutely - get the Air Fryer.
As someone who has both a regular full-size electric oven and an air fryer, I use my air fryer a lot more and would 100% recommend it.
It’s not just quicker, it’s a lot quicker, considering you don’t need to do a 15 minute preheat like regular ovens. On the other hand, my air fryer only needs 2 minutes.
Saves a lot of energy - I mean, who doesn’t like to save energy? Especially when I want to reheat stuff, I’m done with the air fryer - even cleaning it - all in the duration a conventional oven would take just to finish heating up.
In my experience of cleaning both ovens and air fryers, I’d say an air fryer is easier to clean, simply because the surface area is a lot smaller. Sure, you can put an oven tray in the dishwasher, but don’t you clean the rest of the oven? As for an air fryer, you may be able to put the tray/basket in the dishwasher, depending on the model, but even otherwise, a couple of quick swipes with a paper towel does the trick.
In saying that, newer tabletop electric ovens also double up as air fryers, such as the one by Breville - so if you have the space and don’t have an existing oven, get one of of these I’d reckon as they would be more versatile.
I know enough about internet porn to know that the online-porn communities will love something like Fediverse, and furthermore, the child-exploitation groups would also love something like this.
But what’s surprising to me in this study is that they focused on the top 25 Mastodon servers. They’ve included specific keywords they were looking for (yall know what keywords I mean), and include a practical methodology involving just hashing files + matching known CSAM databases, rather than forcing a human to go through this crap and picking out what they think is, or isn’t CSAM.
It seems like a good study from Stanford. I think you should at least read the paper discussed before discounting it. We all know that even here on the Lemmy-side of the Fediverse, that we need to be careful about who to federate with (or disfederate from). Its no surprise to me that there will be creepos out there on the Internet.
112 hits is pretty small, in the great scheme of things. But its also an automated approach that likely didn’t get all the CSAM out there. The automated hits seem to have uncovered specific communities and keywords to use to help search for this stuff + moderate, and includes some interesting methodologies (ex: hashed files compared against a known-database) that could very well automate the process for a server like Lemmy.world.
I see this as a net-positive study. There’s actually a lot of good, important, work that was done here.
The "report" is issued by something called the Stanford Internet Observatory, which is not in fact a telescope on a hill, but rather an operation by the guy who, from 2015-2018, was the "Chief Security Officer" of Facebook - an ironic title, considering that this was the period of the Cambridge Analytica machination, the Rohingya genocide, and the Russian influence operation that exposed 128 million Facebook users to pro-Trump disinformation.
Why would anyone use Mastodon for this stuff? It would be private Telegram groups or something like that. This kind of “research” is barely a step above trolling or low-effort clickbait.
While I don’t agree with the author’s use of “major CSAM problem”, if you browse instance federation list, you might notice a few mastodon instances that suggest they might be a MAPs community at best (domain name like pedo-school, mapsupport, etc usually with cute dolls in their banner image). They are closed community so can’t see what happening inside.
The researchers are looking at actual posts on actual servers. The research itself is not made up. The speculation and handwaving that the tech press feels the need to introduce into it? That’s made up.
As for why would anyone use Mastodon for it — your typical Internet pedophile isn’t any smarter than your typical Internet user, and half of those are below average.
I’m not fully sure about the logic and hinted conclusions here. The internet itself is a network with major CSAM problems (so maybe we shouldn’t use it?).
According to BlueSky’s own timeline - the original account was deleted 18 days after it was created. They were quick to react once they knew about it, but they took too long to find it.
That was also followed by almost two weeks of activity without clearly making any statement about what was going on. Better late than never but this “Letter to the Community” should have been written over a week ago.
As for how long it should take to take an account offline on Lemmy - personally I’d like to see some kind of karma based system. If an active account that’s been around for years is flagged… maybe ignore that unless there are multiple flags. But if a brand new account or an old account that hasn’t been very active is flagged, kill it instantly and flag it to be investigated (and potentially restored).
Good question; it doesn’t seem misleading to me. Here’s the relevant bit:
Willner is staying on in an “advisory role” but has asked Linkedin followers to “reach out” for related opportunities. The former OpenAI project lead states that the move comes after a decision to spend more time with his family.
Hope it has some more settings. It’d be nice to get rid of the verbose mode by default and not have to prompt for succinct answers every new chat or when it forgets the instructions
i mean i would get it if the platform wasn’t trying to take advantage of you, but considering youtube’s moves in the past few years and especially recently with some people getting adblock-blocked, yea i don’t think supporting them further is a good idea
You can get it in a bundle with YouTube music It’s not that bad of a deal. Music and YouTube are the two pieces of media I consume most, so it makes sense for me.
Also the fact that they were sneaky about it. But this is just how YouTube does things. They know being loud is the best way to get hate, just like what happened to Netflix. They have pushed longer ads in sneaky ways over the years. Now they are evaluating blocking ad-blockers, also in sneaky ways, they are never loud about it.
I kinda wanted to for awhile because I’d much prefer to have a service like that be paid instead of driven by ads, but it’s getting harder to do that with how they’re operating.
I recently started paying for it when I realised the only reason I wasn’t already was the fact I didn’t want to give Google my money.
You agree with me in this or not, but I use youtube more than any other video service. I pay 10 euro a month for Disney+ and maybe watch an episode or two maybe once or twice a week, while I’m constantly on youtube (I use it a lot for podcasts while travelling hence why I want background playback). I use youtube more than anything else and since I do wanna support the creators I watch, paying for youtube was the logical thing to do for me.
Yes, i don’t like giving Google my money, but Disney is just as terrible of a company. At least when buying youtube premium I get benefits on a service I’d use anyway and support people I like, be it through Google.
I was in the same position until a few weeks ago; mainly used YT for podcasts, downloading videos to watch while travelling etc.
If you have an Android phone, get the NewPipe app from F-Droid. It has pretty much everything that YT Premium offers, but free. It’s been working really well for me.
I’ve had new pipe before switching over to premium. After coming from vanced, new pipe still just feels too clunky for me and like the recommendation feed and using shorts here and there. If new pipe was more like vanced was, I’ll probably switch back but until then I’ll think I’ll cough up for premium
yeah, ad-free youtube, downloads, and background playback is only a couple dollars more than spotify. it’s one of the easiest subscriptions for me to justify.
I was paying $90 a month for cable TV. Something that I hardly watched. When I did watch it, half the time I was watching OTA channel that I could just pick up with rabbit ears.
I was spending more time watching YouTube (everything from car crash videos, to videos of people doing lawn care, to reviews of tech stuff), and I was getting fed up with the ads.
So, I stopped paying the $90 for TV, bought a new HDHomeRun with a new antenna, downloaded the Pluto TV app, and subscribed to YouTube Premium.
Now I get my OTA shows, get some of the stuff I liked with cable (The 24/7 Tosh.0 channel on Pluto TV is pure delight), and I can binge all the dumb shows I want on YouTube without a single ad getting in my way.
So I’ve had YouTube premium for years now, going all the way back to when it was still called YouTube red so I’ve been on the legacy $10/month plan and because I got to keep my old pricing it’s stopped me from canceling at any point when I was rebudgeting and it even stopped me from getting the cheaper $8/month student plan as I didn’t want to lose my legacy pricing once I was done with college but considering they’re hitting all subscribers and not just new subscribers I’m going to jump to that student plan to pay less each month instead.
It just doesn’t quite make sense why they’re increasing prices besides greed(or they know they can with the roll out of ad blocker blockers). If it was still during the YouTube red era they could have at least used the argument that they were re-investing in originals but they stopped creating YouTube originals. The only real new thing to YouTube premium since the rebrand from YouTube red is PIP and you can join the beta program.
YouTube premium is their way of hedging bets against advertiser revolts they don’t want a controversy like Elsagate or Logan Paul’s forest adventures to cause their profits to tank.
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