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grue , to technology in Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

Ironically, watching this video on Osysee results in me consuming more ads that help LTT than usual, because I don’t have SponsorBlock set up for that.

x00za ,

Why did you not set it up? I think they added it recently and when I found out I instantly enabled it. It also works for Invidious.

grue ,

Because I’ve literally never watched an Odysee video on Firefox on my phone before that, so I never felt the need.

x00za ,

I see. I thought you were trying to only use Odysee like me.

0xD ,

SponsorBlock does not change anything about the money they get from sponsorships. So no, that does not help them more than otherwise.

kalleboo ,

YouTube creators can see the view rate for each section of the video, I’d be surprised if sponsors didn’t ask for that data (if just to know the viewer retention for sponsor segments at the beginning vs end of the video)

Drusas , to nostupidquestions in Why are doctors so hands off and unhelpful in the USA?

I'm sorry you've gone through this, but I am also an American suffering from the same issues as you, and I have found no shortage of ENTs willing to shove the camera down my nose. That seems to be what they always recommend straight from the get-go.

Buttflapper OP ,

Seems to be especially bad in Georgia where there’s very poor access to healthcare. More progressive places like NY may have different results I’m not sure. It’s just shocking, no one will even consider helping me

Drusas ,

That is difficult. I assume you've tried Atlanta? I would think you would be able to find decent care there. If not, it might be worth traveling a few hours to wherever you can just to get a diagnosis at least.

And make sure the doctor or clinic knows in advance what you are seeking.

Imgonnatrythis , to science_memes in Blood Meal

Stuff is expensive. It’s the best thing I’ve found for keeping deer from eating my plants, but then I got a dog that just went nuts for the stuff and would just eat it like mad when he went outside. So now the dear just eat my plants again.

chiliedogg ,

Our dachshund picks up and eats all kind of shit. She’s a destroyer of SHOES and CPAP masks, of course, but she also eats rocks, plastic, or whatever else she finds.

The other day I walk in, and she has 2 milkbones (we don’t buy them and I have no idea where they came from). She just moved them around for a few days and never ate them. But a stick is fine dining.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8b9b0f3f-c9e4-4106-a6d0-896a590dbd0d.jpeg

Dogs are weird.

xantoxis ,

This is what I came here to say. The clarification on the post is not about humans eating plant food, it’s about idiot fucking pets eating plant food. They eat grass, why wouldn’t they chow down on something that smells like blood.

brucethemoose , to lemmyshitpost in this game much bad!!!1

Top 50% of the population still.

After all, they wrote a review.

ExtremeDullard , to mildlyinfuriating in Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I would cancel and tell the restaurant why.

Businesses need to know why they lose customers, because if enough of them report the same reason, they might do something about it.

pruwybn OP ,
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

In a perfect world, yes, but it’s not always easy to change plans at the last minute.

corsicanguppy ,

You didn’t pay a deposit for the seat, and everyone on the planet is near their cell phone or someone else’s. We have two each, here. It’s NOT like the news of a venue change won’t reach everyone.

Moonrise2473 ,

You call the restaurant and explain the reason, they would be super happy to mark as cancelled on Yelp, but still keep booked on their system: Yelp is not giving this service for free, but they charge a lot of money on each single reservation.

And hopefully realize to stop offering the service at all

corsicanguppy ,

I would cancel and tell the restaurant why.

Oh, absolutely immediately.

WhatsHerBucket , to showerthoughts in LLM's are just as revolutionary as Automated Assembly Lines were.
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And if you’re not careful you can fuck up your fingers in either case

Coki91 , (edited ) to memes in Let's Morb one more time..
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There is actually an amazon show (idk the name) thats having a Concord devoted episode sometime this november, that might be a lead for re-releasing concord as f2p, idk but would be funny

Gerudo ,

I’m a sucker for hero based OW style games. I would have played it if ANY marketing had happened at all, and I had had ANY idea it was even launching this year.

The only marketing I heard was the less than 1k players at launch.

Dark_Arc , to explainlikeimfive in ELI5 how come Discord can give out military specs and warn the FBI about a shooter without being tried to shutdown like tictok and others??
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Don_Dickle OP ,

Hate to ask this but can you slim down the links for us? I appreciate the effort…but thats alot to read thru. And something tells me you probably have so was wondering if you could kind of cliff note it for me?..no sarcasm in any of this.

Dark_Arc ,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

Basically TikTok has been proven to serve the Chinese Communist Party (via influence over what users see and data collection). Additionally, the Atlantic article goes on to explain how the United States has a long history of protecting its citizens from foreign influence campaigns going back to the early radio days (and trying to ban TikTok is not a divergence from the status quo or an attack of free speech, rather the continuing of policies that have largely worked and served the public good).

Thavron ,
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protecting its citizens from foreign influence campaigns

As opposed to domestic influence campaigns, I suppose.

bigfoot , to piracy in NFL
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seasons4u is amazing

DaddleDew , to mildlyinfuriating in Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation

Here are the trackers contained in Yelp’s app according to Exodus:

  • Adjust (analytics)
  • Braze (formerly Appboy) (analytics advertisement location)
  • Brightcove
  • Bugsnag (crash reporting)
  • ComScore (analytics advertisement)
  • Facebook Analytics (analytics)
  • Facebook Login (identification)
  • Google AdMob (advertisement)
  • Google Firebase Analytics (analytics)
  • Snowplow (analytics)

That’s a lot. They make money off of people having their app running on their phone. That’s why they push their app.

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

And pray tell can you show me where to grab this “exodus?”

DaddleDew ,

Here you go: reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

Warning: This will open your eyes and make you want to dump all your major apps for FOSS alternatives.

DoucheBagMcSwag ,

Thanks!

Rekhyt , to linux in Can't connect to WPA2-EAP on Fedora Kinoite

EAP is a wrapper for a bunch of different protocols. EAP-MSCHAPv2, EAP-TLS, etc. If you have access to the network settings on a Windows machine you may be able to get more information there.

Also, try stack exchange: askubuntu.com/…/how-to-connect-to-wpa2-peap-mscha…

nokturne213 , to nostupidquestions in Why is there no Christmas version of Spirit Halloween?

In 96 I worked at a Halloween shop that I do not think is around any longer. It may have been called Halloween Spirit. They had a year round shop called Spirit or something. They sold pool tables and ping pong tables. Anyway when the Halloween shop was closing for the year they were going to open a Christmas version. That was the only year I remember seeing it. I also do not remember the Halloween shop coming back the next year. (This was in Berks County PA in case it was regional, and now that I am thinking about it, their main location may have been King of Prussia)

simonced , to technology in Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

It has been reuploaded already with a nice “re-upload” added in the thumbnail.

WhyJiffie ,

I don’t see it, probably it was removed again

simonced ,

Actually, it’s not on their channel. I just checked again, its on a channel called “floresdorf gaming”.

wolfcatreader , to technology in Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

I have no longer watched their content since the scandal.

TheMinions ,

Which one?

2pt_perversion ,

Probably the sexual harassment one that’s when I left. The billet labs stuff was bad too though.

tuxed ,

Feels like I remember that one getting pretty good proof Linus didn’t do anything, but could be wrong

CleoTheWizard ,
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People can say nothing was done but the only info you’re going to get is going to be from the accusers. The company isn’t going to speak publicly about it and so we won’t ever know what their views are or what proof they have.

tuxed ,

They hired an external firm to investigate themselves and they found nothing, while the accuser had zero proof. There is plenty of things to accuse them for, the gamers nexus thing for one, but I’m a bit annoyed about false accusations sticking so hard when there is little reason to believe it. If anything it makes people less likely to believe actual victims.

CleoTheWizard ,
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This was my impression. All of their scandals they’ve taken extremely seriously(it appears), done the work to fix and improve, and a lot of their issues seem to be results of fast scaling and organizational level problems that can be fixed.They haven’t just swept things under the rug where they’re able to be transparent. I just think the problem is what Luke has always said: When you open a company up to transparency, you gain criticism, and then the company has large incentives to shut down that transparency because all you use it for is to cause them problems.

Aside from that, the LTT community and outsiders seem very toxic toward them.

2pt_perversion ,

Linus wasn’t accused of sexually harassing anyone. His company was accused of being a hostile work environment with sexual harassment by a former worker, but the accusations weren’t against Linus himself. LTT hired a 3rd party law firm to investigate - LTT said the law firm basically said there wasn’t legal liability based on the documentation they could find and LTT used that to absolve themselves and threaten to sue the accuser if she said anything else.

But this was an LTT hired lawfirm and LTT themselves reporting on what the report said - and since it’s confidential you kind of just have to take their word that they’re accurately reporting the findings. Further there were initially some corroborators of Madison’s story who retracted and apologized quickly (assumingly after being threatened with legal action - Aprime is the example). Besides that a lot of the accusations were things that happened in person that wouldn’t necessarily leave a digital trail so it’s possible even if the 3rd party investigation was completely unbiased that everything Madison said was still true.

In the end believe what you want but it seems slimy enough that I stopped watching.

rolling_resistance ,
flork ,
@flork@lemy.lol avatar

Thanks for sharing? Why is every Lemmy single comment section filled with unrelated iamverysmart comments.

cyberpunk007 ,

Ok linus.

stoly ,

I stopped because they are bro douchebags.

cyberpunk007 ,

Same.

CleoTheWizard ,
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I’ll be that guy. I don’t understand why LTT gets so much crap from people constantly, they seem to have a very toxic community even without the scandals. But in regards to the more recent scandal, I really think a lot of those things are fixable and I’ll be watching to see if they fix them.

As far as the sexual harassment stuff goes I can see that as a legitimate reason to stop watching. At the same time though, how should we feel with such limited and one sided information? And especially how should I feel if the problems aren’t inherent to the company and if they don’t reoccur?

Maybe someone can help clear this up for me because I’m not that informed and I’m still giving them a chance but maybe I shouldn’t be.

BluesF ,

Check the other comment thread from the parent, there’s a discussion which goes into it.

eran_morad , to showerthoughts in There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel.

PBS is the only television worth a damn. Incidentally, it is replete with history, documentaries, non-editorial news, music, and science.

jaxiiruff ,

So true. PBS has always been a reliable place to find something decent to watch when all else fails I feel. Not to mention no commercials! or very little if any.

CaptDust ,

Shout-out the PBS passport. $5 a month and I get all the antiques roadshow I can handle.

Chewget ,

That’s why they want to get rid of it

MelodiousFunk ,

Their YouTube channels are also top notch. Spacetime, Storied, Eons, Terra, Origins, Be Smart… all gold.

IsoSpandy ,

Man I love Spacetime and Eons. I have watched almost all of spacetime. I wish there were a spacetime hardcore where they threw as much math at me as possible. Awesome channels

Jolteon ,

It’s the tv version of NPR

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