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Threat/abuse tracking, History/Geopolitics thonking, Misinfo/Grift fan, PDX based

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garrett ,
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Just started toying with Jellyfin for my media after Plex started being freaks about everything. I love PlexAmp though so anything that moves the needle on that is excellent. Tried some other players but currently, my setup only works in network and I’ll need to configure SSL somehow.

Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)

this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...

garrett ,
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You pay for WordPress.com though. That’s crazy to offer a paid service and use that data in AI training.

garrett ,
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It stinks that what seems like the most critical reporting lands behind paywalls.

garrett ,
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While you’re not wrong, the social contract we’ve adapted to is that paying means you have some sense of ownership. It’s unreasonable to expect folks to read every Terms of Service with their legalese. Perhaps the new reality we need to accept is that there is no such thing as a good actor on the internet.

garrett ,
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I don’t really disagree with you at all but repeatedly reminding us all that you’re “not surprised” isn’t the savvy commentary you think it is. Especially since it’s historically been the case that any service you pay money to has said “no, you own your content”.

The marker has just moved gradually on this with companies slowly adding more ownership clauses to their Terms of Service in ways that aren’t legible to average consumers. Now they’re cashing in on that ownership.

garrett ,
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Interesting and all but boy, Threads sucks as an environment. It’s just the worst algorithm and their stance on “political content” is misery.

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Feishin: An open source self-hosted music player that can connect to your Navidrome and Jellyfin libraries

https://github.com/jeffvli/feishin

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garrett ,
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This looks badass. I do wish there were better mobile apps for a lot of these media servers. I’ve been mostly sticking to Plexamp for now cause of it.

garrett ,
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I don’t have an Android but thanks for the links regardless.

garrett ,
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If you both want to debate moderation decisions on lemmy.ml, can you do that on lemmy.ml?

garrett ,
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Yeah, I don’t like a guy who consistently tries to embody “move fast, break stuff” in the places I least want that to be the case.

garrett ,
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Someone’s researching governance in a federated environment and that’s scary because…?

garrett ,
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That hardly means they’re investigating how to take over instances… These egghead think tanks will do research on anything that matches a couple buzzwords and this is one of them.

garrett ,
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You all can downvote me but if you’re not interested in living in the land of facts, demonstrating any attempt at backdooring Fediverse products beyond “bad money in a think tank”, then there’s literally not even the smoke to indicate a fire.

Can you share anything that indicates that understanding governance is even tangentially related to backdooring these products or the teams behind them? Is the best response really “wait four years and see”?

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These companies are just miserable to talk to, trying to stay out of the legal handling themselves by being mum, passing along the reports.

garrett ,
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It’s about the intersection of their app, their rewards systems and the dark patterns in the whole system that lead to them accruing a lot of money that they don’t really deserve. That’s pretty much a tech story.

garrett ,
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Badass!

garrett ,
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Fun device but I feel like we’ve most past the longing for physical keyboards.

garrett ,
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With how bad Lemmy federates across other platforms, even those still federating won’t be seen on Threads lol

garrett ,
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I always hate policy talk trying to split the hairs of Nazism and “calls for violence”.

Even worse, I just can’t get allowing monetization. If you truly “hate the views”, stop lining your pocket with their money…

garrett ,
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Especially since this was what was touted as the solution when spiking high speed rail in California… Drives me mad.

garrett ,
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I know folks usually skew that way but it’s server to server. Frankly, I don’t use any warnings because I can’t be bothered and my instance is fine with it.

garrett ,
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Spot on. I do understand that there’s a bit of difficulty to it considering its a fairly significant paradigm shift from where we were.

garrett ,
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Honestly, this is kinda making me wanna redeploy a couple app stacks I have on a VPS. Hmm.

Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching (futurism.com)

If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month....

garrett ,
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Yeah, this whole thing is gross but this post summarizes it best.

garrett ,
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Just make it all paid only and kill it once and for all…

garrett ,
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Just a small counterweight to everything being chromium. I’m still having trouble with them not having passkeys yet but I know the feature is coming.

garrett ,
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I don’t think he’s smart enough to stick the landing on anything. Based on the new biography, it sounds like he’s just mad at his daughter over “wokeism”.

garrett ,
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You’re gonna make me cry.

[I made] basic white bread (lemmy.ca)

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/1c8032ab-4e92-4f34-b58c-be8dac675502.jpegI came across this recipe for basic white bread (what the recipe called it), is a nice sandwich bread. Not to crumby and firm pain in taste. But it’s easy and cheap to make. I didn’t take pictures but used the dough from the other loaf to make cinnamon...

garrett ,
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Good grief this is beautiful and makes me wanna make a loaf.

garrett ,
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This is truly the biggest bummer since Plexamp is a really nice audio player.

garrett ,
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Yuck. I have to prop up a server and pay a monthly fee? They’re not doing that much for me.

garrett ,
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Yasha Levine has always been a cynic for the sake of being a cynic. I can respect it most of the time but it can also just be futile.

garrett ,
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Couldn’t happen to a better bunch.

garrett ,
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Yeah, this is a big issue. I know Lemmy blew up a bit before it was truly ready for prime time but I hope this cleans up.

Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing platform, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service (jitsi.org)

While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si, for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a “Know Your Customer” policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account....

garrett ,
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There was likely a broad campaign of abuse that violated some sorta law. There’s not really another reason for this move short of something that puts them in an untenable situation.

garrett ,
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Sounds awesome! I’m sure there’s a lot of cross-pollination with Vietnamese coffee but I’d love to try some Yunnan roast. My wife just brought back a bundle of beans from Vietnam and it was a real treat.

garrett ,
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As a “coffee fan”, I’d be siked to try some. Just gotta figure out what can make it to the US eventually.

garrett ,
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I appreciate the kindness but no sweat. Not in a hurry but I know it’s a pain to move stuff around the world for a random person on Lemmy. Maybe I’ll get some of those beans when I’m feeling a bit more fancy :)

garrett ,
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I think you’re mostly right but there’s a host of nuance and legalese that muddies this up. Social media is always in a conflicted relationship with speech, wanting to have no culpability over what’s posted while also making decisions over what to feature/restrict/etc. They’re actually really cautious to not position themselves as the “town square” for that reason since it does channel a sort of legal definition of such.

garrett ,
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Stupid idea that’s clearly motivated by the city’s deference to their tech gentry. Self driving anything has too many questions and issues still. I’m also not inclined to table “well what about the problems with people driving?” That only tells me we need transit, not robo taxis.

garrett ,
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Yeah, because there’s zero investment in transit. We literally don’t have the resources to make a bunch of EV cars so we’re gonna have to invest in transit one way or another.

garrett ,
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I promise I’m not trying to make fun of you but this sounds a bit like a suburban person’s perception of the city rather than what the city is actually like. None of this is more common on a subway than anywhere else.

garrett ,
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Having worked at a cloud provider for awhile and also done support, the reasoning is generally that Ubuntu is the “path of least resistance” to getting running. They have a super engaged community and the market share leads to a lot of guides across the web being primarily made for Ubuntu.

To be fair, it also helps that their LTS support is really nice and their repos are a lot closer to up-to-date than a bunch of others.

garrett ,
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I’ve been trying to run this with a Libra but the calibre-web sync has been borked for awhile. Kinda frustrating, tbh.

garrett ,
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Drives me nuts that people do this garbage “for the kids” while doing nothing to support the groups working to stop actual child abuse. Go support NCMEC or something instead of being worried a child might Google “gay”.

garrett ,
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Having had to work in removing CSAM from a hosting provider, it just feels extra insulting when idiots say things are “for the kids”. Between that, and the likelihood of all these companies holding your driver license and subsequently leaking it online in a hack, I just can’t wrap my head around it on any level.

That said, I suspect it’s untenable to apply this to smaller orgs like the fediverse anyway so I don’t see the rubber hitting the road over here.

garrett ,
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He’s been fixated on X for so long and everyone’s told him items a dumb idea. He’s finally in a situation where no one will tell him no.

garrett ,
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You just gotta stop listening to podcasts in Spotify. They’re hands down the worst listening experience for them.

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