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xodoh74984 ,

This is a major problem for all democracies, and LLM driven troll accounts probably do exist. But this xitter post is a fake error message. It’s clearly a troll.

Blocking fake accounts would help with the misinformation problem, but it’s a cat and mouse game. It could ultimately give additional credence to the trolls who slip through if the platform is assumed to be safe. The reality is that there will always be ways for fake accounts to avoid detection and to spoof account verification. Making it harder would help, but it’s not a comprehensive solution. Not to mention the fact that the platform itself has the power to manipulate public opinion, amplify their preferred narrative, etc.

The solution I’ve always preferred is the mentality the 4chan community had when I was younger and frequented it. Basically, and I’m paraphrasing:

Everyone here needs to grow up and understand that no post should ever be presumed to be true or legitimate. This is an anonymous forum. Assume that everything was written by a bot or a troll in the absence of proof that it wasn’t.

I think people put too much trust in social media precisely because they assume that there’s a real person behind every post. They assume that a face and a few photos gives an account legitimacy, despite the fact that it’s trivial to copy photos from a random account (2015/16 pro-Trump Facebook style) or just generate all of the content from scratch with AI (to avoid duplicate detection).

Trust itself is driver of misinformation. On social media, people should only fully trust posts made by people they know. That is the simplest and most comprehensive solution to the problem.

xodoh74984 ,

100%. I subscribe here to learn about new advancements—to learn about technology.

The finances and politics of the tech industry have a home in those respective communities.

xodoh74984 , (edited )

First of all, they spelled Heelys wrong. Second, Heelys are a great idea, even better as an adult in an office with polished concrete floors.

xodoh74984 ,

Yep. It bothers me, but I respect the decision.

xodoh74984 ,

What’s controversial about OnlyOffice?

I only recently discovered it, and I’ve been happy with it so far. I’ve found the interface a little more snappy and easy to use than LibreOffice.

xodoh74984 ,

Nah, condoms have existed for ages and have many other benefits.

FTFY

xodoh74984 ,

Not sure what buying a short form video platform has to do with creating a new internet dedicated to privacy and open protocols, but cool? Maybe he just wants the user base

xodoh74984 ,

Who exactly was hyped about this?

Personally, I typically want my interactions with technology to be quiet. I don’t want it talking, and I don’t want to be talking to it.

Not to mention the privacy implications of an always-on camera and microphone connected to the internet

xodoh74984 ,

This sounds like the open source LLM community

Practical Quantum Devices Now Closer to Reality – Scientists Unveil Room Temperature Photonic Chips (feddit.cl)

A new study by Hebrew University has made a significant breakthrough by successfully incorporating single-photon sources into small chips that operate at room temperature. This development marks a crucial progress in the field of quantum photonics, opening up possibilities for its use in quantum computing and cryptography. full...

xodoh74984 ,

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Yeah, no. Here is a direct link to the article:
scitechdaily.com/practical-quantum-devices-now-cl…

And a link to the paper:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c03672

xodoh74984 ,

Hah, I would assume they mean not beholden to a government that tracks its citizens with facial recognition, data mines its citizens’ personal communications to arrest them before they can even organize a protest, and is run by a dictator who literally made it illegal to call him Pooh Bear.

The sphere that America exerts control over is not without its issues and is surely corrupt. But it is nowhere near as corrupt, oppressive, and lacking in individual freedom as China and the other contender for world domination. Unlike China, America has no social credit score enforced by an all-seeing mass surveillance mechanism where VPN’s and other attempts to hide from it are strictly illegal. And while many Americans might be racist toward Muslims, the American government does not dehumanize them and force them into labor camps.

Your whataboutism is clearly just a Chinese troll, but I’ll leave this comment as a reminder to others reading that there is zero equivalence.

xodoh74984 ,

I don’t think anyone in this thread thinks it’s good for any government to be spying on everyone. But if we can cut off that flow of data to at least one government, great. Especially since that government is oppressive and authoritarian.

Maybe one day the US government will be cut off from mass surveillance as well.

In terms of reciprocity, the TikTok ban is long overdue. The US government’s most valuable mass surveillance tools – Google, WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, etc – aren’t allowed there.

xodoh74984 ,

The best part is that this whole thing is about having the “opportunity” to purchase reddit stock at its IPO price. This user generated content farm wouldn’t dare give away equity for free to users responsible for the site having any past, present, or future value.

I’m not a finance person, but the only gambling I’d do on this company is hope that Wall Street pumps the price post-IPO so I can short it.

My understanding is that the value of each reddit user is priced roughly at $2. A Facebook user is priced at roughly $40. Their only options to maybe be profitable are more enshittification, more users, or both. Or, you know, not paying hundreds of millions of dollars to the execs of an RSS feed with voting and comments.

xodoh74984 ,

Elon is a megalomaniacal cunt, but I was wondering why environmentalists of all people would push to limit electric vehicle production. It seems a little brain dead while we’re actively watching the climate warm at a much higher rate than was predicted when I was young.

Anyway, this is about protecting their water.

Environmentalists also worry about the pressure the factory puts on the local water supply and the risk of contamination.

xodoh74984 ,

Great to have this context

xodoh74984 ,

Lower Wacker in Chicago is a black hole

xodoh74984 ,

What happened is that the FTC is taking on Amazon in court as we speak:

FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power

xodoh74984 ,

Subjects who received the wasabi treatment saw their episodic memory scores jump an average of 18%, Nouchi said, and scored on average 14% higher than the placebo group overall.

xodoh74984 ,

Do you mean Equifax?

Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California's new climate laws – that will have a global impact (theconversation.com)

Exxon, Apple and other corporate giants will have to disclose all their emissions under California’s new climate laws – that will have a global impact::California is the world’s fifth-largest economy. Laws tested there often spread across the U.S. and around the world.

xodoh74984 ,

This is not a post about technology.

xodoh74984 ,

Please elaborate on the technological advancement that was made here

xodoh74984 ,

This news is as related to technology as a weather report citing rain in Silicon Valley is relevant to technology. It doesn’t fit the sub.

xodoh74984 ,

The other posts aren’t very related to technology either, and that’s my point. There was a time before Lemmy, when /r/Technology was focused on delivering news about new technology. Not tangentially related news about pro climate laws. Not the politics of social media companies. Not Elon Musk spam. Technology. /r/Science was vastly different in the past as well. In general, these communities had much more substantiative content with nuanced discussions in the comments from experts in relevant fields. Lemmy was a bit like that as well in the past. But unfortunately bots like this one started reposting all of the drivel from Reddit to the main Technology community, drowning out content with more depth. I want communities that I can genuinely learn from. I want to feel hesitant to comment, because everyone in the room is smarter than me. I miss that version of the internet.

xodoh74984 ,

Yet you are, however, following a direct mirror of reddit right here in this community. Fully automated for your convenience.

xodoh74984 ,

Actively contributing to this community being dumb and irrelevant I see. Trust me, I’ve already left. Eternal September has arrived.

Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. (lemmy.world)

So this started coming up today. On every video. I can (so far) click the “x” and remove it to watch (still see 2 ads before the video, and one after 4 minutes - ruins music on YT), but did click the “Report issue” only for the dialogue box not to work....

xodoh74984 ,

NewPipe has been my go-to for years. Available on F-Droid with regular updates.

xodoh74984 ,

I actually didn’t realize it supported anything other than YouTube. TIL

xodoh74984 ,

Can we let this platform die quietly and stop bombarding the feed with Elmo spam?

xodoh74984 ,

Techies?

xodoh74984 ,

I think this is fair, but man the retaliatory tariffs for NSA backdoors would be atrocious

xodoh74984 ,

Gavin Belson has entered the chat

xodoh74984 OP ,

This is the beginning of monetizing the app after they started collecting user data a few months back. The more aggressively they decide to monetize, the more aggressive they’ll be about pushing promoted content. Remember when Instagram had no ads?

That’s how this works. And they’re certainly not going to choose to make less money off of their app over time with the market dominance that they have. Why would they when users will continue to use it?

xodoh74984 OP ,

Monetizing the app

xodoh74984 OP ,

No, this is absolutely how it begins

xodoh74984 OP ,

Signal is great!

I remember when it was trash in like 2013, but it’s been something I recommend to family and friends since at least 2020. UI is clean, modern, and uncluttered IMO.

Not sure I’ve ever seen Signal push anything crypto related.

Telegram is “pinky promise” secure with a closed source encryption mechanism. I love that it was created by the guy who created VK and fled Russia when the oligarchy wanted control, but that was years ago. Signal is fully open source, including its encryption.

They store no information on users, not even metadata like phone numbers, and this is documented in the blog posts they make when governments get mad about it after their requests for user data can’t be filled.

The fact that you need a phone number to sign up bothered me early on, but over time I’ve realized how helpful it is from a UX perspective. Friends and family want to be able to connect to their contacts directly – not ask for a username.

xodoh74984 OP ,

If you log into the app, you’ll see promoted content from celebrities and organizations. What do you think drives those promotions?

It’s either direct paid promotion, user data being sold to ad firms, or a combination.

xodoh74984 OP ,

I fully support the push for open protocols. It’s insane to me that most walled garden messaging apps are largely a wrapper for XMPP.

Signal supporting SMS would be nice, but I certainly prefer web based protocols over MMS for sending media. The less compression there is on the photos and videos I share the better.

Other than being forced to use WharsApp due to their market dominance, I have no desire to use anything proprietary or closed source.

Signal is my top choice open source option, because it’s easy for my family and friends to just use, and it’s one of a very small pool of messaging apps that is verifiably private and secure.

xodoh74984 OP ,

Turning a messaging app for myself and friends into a data farming social media app full of paid promotions is absolutely the definition of enshittification.

xodoh74984 OP ,

You mean they’re adding ads but it’s cool because we don’t have to click on them? You’re right, this will never be made more intrusive, and it’s definitely not an anti-feature.

xodoh74984 OP ,

I feel like this thread has been bombarded by the Zuckerberg defense brigade.

xodoh74984 OP ,

Is it? How do you define enshittification?

Because adding paid promotions to something that never had them is always the beginning “making things worse” -ificaton.

The rest of this story is very predictable following Meta’s track record with social media. Everything will go to shit from a UX perspective now that they’ve decided to put ads in the app. That is how this works.

xodoh74984 OP ,

Unofficially, yes probably. But officially Facebook only upped the ante on user data connection from WhatsApp more recently according to their privacy policy. Sorry, “Meta”

xodoh74984 OP ,

Ew. Thanks for pointing me to that. TIL.

xodoh74984 OP ,

I also find it crazy that people don’t understand the value of privacy. Telling people that Nissan wants to sell information about your sexual activity seemed to wake some of my social circle up. But only in the context of Nissan, which almost certainly doesn’t have that data. Meta almost certainly does.

What sort of roadmap are you looking for in Signal? It does everything I need it to do, personally.

xodoh74984 OP ,

Yeah, no, I’m right. This is always how it starts, and these new Channels “partners” will definitely be a revenue stream in the future if they aren’t already. Your view is naive.

Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it's your go-to online search engine, DOJ says (www.businessinsider.com)

Google spends $10 billion a year to ensure it’s your go-to online search engine, DOJ says::Google shells out billions to be the default search engine on Apple’s smartphones and on web browsers such as Mozilla’s Firefox, the DOJ said.

xodoh74984 ,

Pretty sure I first read this headline in 2012. I’m glad the DOJ finally woke up

xodoh74984 ,

We’re gonna have some juicy legal battles when Hollywood start leveraging generative AI more and more

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