Hamartiogonic

Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago to technology in Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.

You can also buy used DVDs. Just got a stack of studio Gibili movies for a fraction of the price they cost when they were new. Still haven’t watched all of them, but some I have watched more than once.

Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago to technology in Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram

FB is struggling with an interesting problem. If you have enough early adopters, the rest of the population will follow. These things behave a bit like the critical mass in nuclear fission. Once you cross over a specific threshold, that’s when things start happening. In the early days of FB, it was all about growth and providing value to the users.

Once they had enough users, they started selling user data to advertisers. At that point, most users weren’t particularly privacy aware, and you could argue that it still isn’t ja major concern for a most people who use platforms like Tweetook or Snapstgram. People here on Lemmy aren’t really a representative sample of the rest of the population.

Providing a privacy friendly option wasn’t really that necessary back in those days. Providing a paid option might also hurt the ad sales, so that would have been a risky move. If only a certain part of the uses are subjected to data harvesting and ads, you’re essentially selling an inferior product to the advertisers. Sounds like a very risky move if the subscription becomes more popular.

If that happens FB would have to cross that bridge quickly. Being in the middle is a very precarious position, because the way I see it, these options don’t really support each other.

Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago to technology in Netflix is planning to raise prices… again

When the platform dies.

“first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. “

Source

Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago to linux in Anyone have a better solution? :P

Nobody asked, but I needed it. Thought that perhaps I’m not alone, so now that I have the answer, might as well share it here.

Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago to technology in These Prisoners Are Training AI : In high-wage Finland, where clickworkers are rare, one company has discovered a novel labor force—prisoners.

Rule number 1 on Reddit is: “never read the article “

I guess that still applies here.

Rule 2: “disagree with everyone”

Rule 3: “You’re always right”

Rule 4: “everyone else is always wrong“

I’m sure there are lots of other rules, but that should get anyone started in the modern social media.

Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago to linux in Anyone have a better solution? :P

“The script accepts the name of a program or package as an argument when you run it. This value is then referenced as “$1” (argument number 1). Everywhere the script says “$1”, it substitutes in the name of the package you gave it. The end result is the name being tried against a large number of software repositories and package managers, and hopefully, at least one of them will be appropriate and the program will be successfully installed.”

Source: explain XKCD

Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago to technology in Phones should have FM radio again

You still can, and nowadays we even have a word for it: distracted driving.

Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago to technology in Phones should have FM radio again

My guess is that eventually the back of the phone will be completely covered by cameras.

Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago to asklemmy in What if you are not the “highest” level of consciousness in your own body?

See also: emergence

Hamartiogonic , 10 months ago to technology in Kids and teens are inundated with phone prompts day and night

I prefer to give them a chance first. As soon as an app abuses that privilege, the permission to show notifications gets instantly revoked.

If it’s a somewhat useful notification, but I don’t need to read it right now, it gets scheduled and I’ll read that in the afternoon if I feel like it. If it’s a serious offense like spamming, then that right is gone forever. The app may also get a negative review as result.

Now that I look at my notification settings, I can easily identify three groups:

1. Serious apps that never send me anything, or if they do, it’s actually something I need to know. There are surprisingly many apps like this.
2. Semi-serious apps that send notifications a bit too frequently and they aren’t really that important anyway. These get scheduled. If I ignore the notifications for a week, nothing bad will happen.
3. Back-stabbing cannibalistic monetary predator apps. They send nothing but trash and land mines, and they do it all the time. Their business model is usually based on manipulation, misdirection, deception and straight up lies. They try to trick you into clicking some stuff and then rely on you forgetting to cancel the subscription later. I don’t have many apps like this, but all of their notifications are forever blocked. If you have a lot of this cancer of the app store type of garbage, I can totally understand why all notifications are blocked for all apps.

Hamartiogonic , 11 months ago to technology in Tom Hanks Warns Fans About ‘AI Version of Me’ Promoting Dental Plan: ‘I Have Nothing to Do With It’

In the fires of Mordor, or the bottomless pit of Z’ha’dum, depending on your interpretation of the starting point. Either way, it’s pretty dramatic.

Hamartiogonic , 11 months ago to technology in Tom Hanks Warns Fans About ‘AI Version of Me’ Promoting Dental Plan: ‘I Have Nothing to Do With It’

And so it begins.

Hamartiogonic , 11 months ago to asklemmy in What if you are not the “highest” level of consciousness in your own body?

Think about the behavior of the colony. What does it do and when. How does the colony solve problems. That’s emergent behavior far beyond the capabilities of a single ant.

Hamartiogonic , 11 months ago to technology in Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

The byproduct is a sort of like salt water, but a lot more concentrated. It’s mostly NaCl, but there’s also various other anions and cations such as Al, Ca, Mg, K, SO4 etc. Those metals came from the ocean, so you might be inclined to think that you can dump them back into the ocean. The problem comes when you dump a lot of that stuff and you get very high concentrations locally. When the concentration of those compounds is within the normal range, sea life can handle it. Once it’s above the limit, you can expect things to struggle or die. Eventually, it will get diluted in the ocean, but before that the concentrations will be high enough to cause damage to most living things.

Hamartiogonic , 11 months ago to asklemmy in What if you are not the “highest” level of consciousness in your own body?

A group of brain cells begins to have emergent properties such as consciousness and intelligence. A group of human brains has similar emergent properties. An individual human mind wants this and that, but an entire human community will have completely different priorities.

I prefer to think of the human population on Earth as a single massive organism that spreads like the mycelia of a fungus. Individual cells have simple needs and goals, but the organism as a whole will do much more than just expand everywhere and extract nutrients.