I generally find it unhelpful. People’s reaction time sucks and and so many people hear ‘left’ and jump in that direction before their brain can process. It’s not an intelligence thing that some people try to make it seem, it’s just that the average person has this interaction like once per year thus don’t have muscle memory baked in.
I yell out ‘excuse me’ from several feet back or ring a bell if I’m on a bike. Or more often just slow down as I normally don’t really care.
No I enjoy it. I’m not sitting there getting angry over anything or having it ruin my day.
Just once and a while swing by and laugh for a bit. It’s like a zoo I guess? But I have more respect for zoos.
“What are the idiots up to today… oh being idiots lol”
Yeah this is all second hand from an announcement about something that is “going to happen”. So details might differ from what actually shows up.
And yes I think mod abuse is starting to show up in their bottom line. They need people commenting so they target ads more effectively, same reason they killed r/All. They need to know stuff about you so they can send ads.
Mods being the toxic assholes they are is driving people to lurk, as you stated.
They recently had a mod event where they announced they are restricting ban abilities from mods. Basically AI can ban, mods can choose to unban - but not initiate a ban in the first place.
There are a couple mods I like to hate-watch, once a month or so I swing by and see what kind of BS they have been doing lately. The schadenfreude of watching them mald over this was the best I’ve had all year.
Websites are basically just a program on a different computer somewhere. Think of it like passing notes back and forth.
User sends a note using their computer requesting the website content, that note gets passed to someone elses computer. That computer looks at the note and sends back a different note with some different information on it i.e. the website content. Then they keep sending notes back and forth as the user takes actions. The main two categories of “taking over a website” is to either catch the notes while they are being passed and change what it says (MITM attack) or to convince the other computer to send different notes to begin with.
But of course, the owners of the website have layers and layers and layers of protection to make it really hard to ‘convince’ their computer to do something unless you have all their special keys/passwords. That’s why you need to find some defect that lets you in anyways, or somehow get their keys/passwords.
Has yahoo become so desperate and/or scammy that they rely on malicious extensions to drive traffic to their shitty search engine
Yes basically. Ask.com went the same way.
Create an incentive program and then let the less ethical side of the internet build adware.
There are many news commentators I generally enjoy but EVERY SINGLE VIDEO has a headline about some person getting destroyed or how “it’s over” for them.
I just want like, 20-30 minutes coverage of whatever happens to be the most interesting & important stuff without a whole bunch of bullshit fluff. I’ve stopped watching news on YT in general because of this and just stick to the content that knows it’s slop i.e. video game challenge runs lmao.
View count is a tipoff. For whatever reason I get a lot of ultra-low view count videos in my feed, like single or double digit view counts. It’s almost always AI slop
Millennials were teenagers during peak cigarette campaigns but before vapes were readily available.
Also benefits your community. Kids that do little side gigs like that are significantly less likely to pursue nefarious ways of getting cash.
I’ve heard of Halloween parties where people wear cheap tank tops & what not and then via various games other people can cut away at the fabric, removing pieces until the inevitable orgy
Which is all fun and good for them, maybe they occurred once or twice for people in my orbit but I heard about them all the damn time. People were very proud of the fact that they were having sex.
Yeah Lemmy mods are just as ban-happy as Reddit mods. Lemmy as a platform is just more forgiving.
There are many that don’t know it’s theft, and others will argue with you that it isn’t even theft to begin with once informed. So yeah this sign probably does stop some theft.
spot of unpleasantness
Ok, lol.
Most people identify with gendered language & a binary gender. Like nearly everyone. So when discussing market appeal, it makes sense to discuss it in a gendered way.
Not every game, not all the time. But for a clearly femme coded game in makes sense to optimize towards you target audience
I’m convinced (and would place money on) the mechanism for LLMS to start self propagating and maliciously wreck all internet connected devices (read: Our entire society) is via companies trying to offload compute via something very similar to federated learning.
Just put a teeny model on everyone’s device and let it adapt to the user needs and oops skynet
You don’t even really get much equity out of it. If your houses value increases because of the market, so does all the other housing.
Wrong, so very wrong. First you get to keep 30-60% of your payment as principle, as opposed to rent where you keep 0. Second, the mortgage payment stays the same while rent goes up. Even during modest times this makes a noticeable impact but over the last 15 years the effect has been insane. Even just looking at equity your logic is wrong. Assume I buy a house worth $100k (to keep math easy) and pay $0 down. Now assume it doubles in value, the house is worth $200k and the mortgage is worth $100k. You just made $100k or in real growth close to $50k.
If you plan on staying in one spot for 4+ years, buying is essentially always the correct move. Renting gives you the ability to move as you desire but you’re paying in unseen ways.
I get that your argument is basically “You don’t realize how many people 8 billion people is”. My argument is “You don’t realize how big the mississippi is”.
Bringing up 20ft implies you are including the headwaters which is not my argument. I’m referring to downstream.
Even if in theory you managed to dam it - the Mississippi is so large and fast moving it would EASILY find another route. Like there would not be a “bay of Mississippi” or whatever.
At the end of the day tarot card reading is a form of a scam. You are promising a product that does not exist thus it is a counterfeit product scam.
It doesn’t have the same “everyone knows this is fake” thing that magicians get away with, many people believe tarot reading is real and the readers go out of their way to convince you it is real. So if you want to know how to get better at scaming people, idk, go talk to scammers that will train you and try not to get scammed yourself along the way.
If you actually believed you had some mystical foresight, you wouldn’t be here asking anyways…
Pretty much anything about science.
We all know models and simplifications but even the people at the utter cutting edge of any sub-niche of any sub-field you pick will agree there are parts they don’t really understand.
You can master & fully understand sufficiently simplified models but to actually understand the underlying process is to take a step beyond what humanity is capable of.