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It never died, because it already existed for fucking years: Active Worlds from 1995 is where I started, Second Life later, now the dominant "metaverse" is VR Chat.

The corporate simpletons just never did their homework to see what the market is like for this.

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You don't "blame" the holy spirit. That means she's saying one of the incarnations of God wanted her to do it. That's like saying God is a Nazi.

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I think they are starting to write this way, because there's huge numbers of Americans who do not even know what the Holocaust is and that it happened let alone the basic facts about it. It's shocking when you read the recent polls which demonstrate the levels of ignorance we are dealing with around this.

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I'm surprised that people don't know about the ignorance of the Holocaust. Here is some reading for our collective edification.

It might seem unbelievable to see how ignorant people are of the Holocaust, but what you and I find common sense and basic facts of history which we all know are unfortunately not generally known to be basic facts of history and we do not all know these facts. Less and less of us know these facts.

It's alarming and it's good that publishers are writing to state basic facts for an ignorant readership. Because of this we shouldn't see this style of informative writing as a fault but rather as a boon to ignorant readership.

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In a podcast I listen to where tech people discuss security topics they finally got to something related to AI, hesitated, snickered, said "Artificial Intelligence I guess is what I have to say now instead of Machine Learning" then both the host and the guest started just belting out laughs for a while before continuing.

Survey research is hard -- especially when you are a student learning to do it.

It's not a blog. These are the strongest of the tech journalists from Vice News's Motherboard (tech section) who started their own separate venture independent of Motherboard.

Yeah they (Facebook) chose the word as a form of marketing to rebrand something that already existed. It's similar to how we went from "machine learning" to "AI".

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Privacy Friendly QR-Code Scanner by the research group SECUSO (Security • Usability • Society) at Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). They make a bunch of simple privacy respecting apps.

All it does is display the text of the QR code for you so you can copy investigate it.

Sorry, Snapz, we're discontinuing steaks to keep our restaurant stock value going up.

Out of fear of losing access to my accounts I've been moving them out of Gmail as the central point of control. I suggest other people do this too.

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Oh yeah if you read the scifi written during that time it's just a big male fantasy of easy access to loose women.

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And let's be honest about who this is paying: Alphabet's 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Adversarial tech, like adblockers, is good. We should use it. If people want users to not want to use it, they should change the product so that we don't want to use it.

It's not illegal for me to use an ad blocker and it should never become illegal.

Read the issues on that git and you'll see that it only works on comments visible from your profile which has a maximum limit. It doesn't get everything, because of that profile limit. There is a python script listed in there but it requires an API key.

Speaking of this, what parts of the fediverse have added the option to block training generative AI to their respective robots.txt?

https://blog.google/technology/ai/an-update-on-web-publisher-controls/ https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/28/medium-hints-at-a-nascent-media-coalition-to-block-ai-crawlers/

It looks like there's a handful of these lines you'd have to add to robots.txt

Is there anywhere that keeps a comprehensive list of these?

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Every time I went to sign up for their site they required that I list my Twitter account. But, I've never had consistent interconnected social media profiles.

Most people meet partners through mutual friends and at work.

To people who say the link won't work: I opened a private window in Firefox and it worked for me.

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-What-is-the-Web-Discovery-Project-

If you opt in, you’ll contribute some anonymous data about searches and web page visits made within the Brave Browser (including pages arrived at via some, but not all, other search engines). This data helps build the Brave Search independent index, and ensure we show results relevant to your search queries. By “data” we mean search queries, search result clicks, the URLs of pages visited in the browser, time spent on those pages, and some metadata about the pages themselves.

My emphasis.

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I tested it in Firefox InPrivate, Edge, Brave, and Chrome and all are identical for me. I think they just fucked up YouTube. 😂

even then it’s grim how many aren’t available to stream, or even buy legally.

At that point you should honestly just pirate it so that a copy continues to exist.

There's so much FUD about Signal it's ridiculous. I'm starting to believe those glowie memes are true it's just the "lol like I'd ever trust Signal!!!" folks who I think might be the glowies. 🫣🫣🫣 ::: spoiler spoiler (No I don't actually believe they're glowies lol). :::

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I bet the list maintainers accept tips!

At the bottom of the uBlock Origin homepage there's links to the most popular list homepages which would be a good starting point.

The Peter Lowe’s ad tracking list links to its own Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/blocklist (Confirm by clicking on the link at the uBlock Origin homepage, then at the top click on patreon).

The other ones I couldn't find any obvious way to donate to the list maintainers.

Just do a bit at a time. I even installed a desktop email manager to help me with it, since it's easier to switch between the two accounts in a single application versus having the two webpages up.

Also, if you use a password manager you'll be able to filter your database by email since email address = account login credential in most cases.

Is there a way to pipe the download directly to a video player so it's more like a stream so that the data is just cached and deleted afterwards?

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Oh my god I remember this too. It looks like there's a revival project. https://www.cybertownrevival.com/

Check these out:

I want to add:

Most books have never been digitized. Most information that you would learn in college is still in books and not on the Internet. You can't replace access to information (and reading that information) in college with lack of access to information (and thus not reading that information) online.

In addition, the Internet doesn't give you access to passionate subject-matter experts who are necessary guides to help us travel down the path of acquiring the knowledge that they have. Sure, there's recordings of MOOC lectures, but they become outdated and you can't ask them questions or have them help you by giving useful assignments and answer your questions and give you constructive criticism.

If higher education is going to work we would do better to pay those experts (the poor teachers) a fair living wage so that they can focus on the quality of their teaching and not be desperately trying to survive and navigate departmental politics while hoping that bureaucratic administrators don't cut the library budget (again) while dumping money into a new football field (why is sports part of college anyway? Why can't there be a separate and unrelated sports-academy system for the sports people so that it's impossible to misappropriate from academic budgets in favor of sports?).

I've blocked maybe eight people in thirty minutes who are implicitly demanding that corporations create the law.

There's a bot that goes through and identifies link rot so editors have a backlog queue of them to go through.

I think Marlinspike's weird crypto turn is what got him pushed out so we now have the wonderful Meredith the first tech company leader I've ever looked up to.

Hopefully they remove that crypto thing from it.

I remember this system. I had to apply to do it after my account was old enough, then they'd give me a little bit to rate at first. Then IIRC they gave me more to rate after it was clear I wasn't abusing it.

They had a guideline page I had to read before I started to rate comments and I don't think those attributes were optional. So, comments got a primary attribute associated with their rating.

I wasn't able to rate comments that I saw as I browsed but rather it was a collective rating system where volunteers were served comments (with expandable context) to curb the tendency to downvote just because you disagree with something.

At the height of Slashdot the discussions on there were incredibly educational and thoughtful and that rating system worked very well.

Google rewrites links in Google search (not that you use it but maybe you do sometimes). So, if you want the links you click in Google search to not go through a Google referral URL and instead go to the link advertised in the search result, then Privacy Badger is useful for this purpose.

My reply was purely to get to the accurate information versus your reply which says that they are "collecting data from their search engine not the browser" as it's important that people reading know what's actually going on.

I'm not here to argue about whether they should or should not do that and I'm not going to (and when I used Brave I consciously went into the menu to opt into this to improve their search engine so we could have a competitor).

Creators really need to release torrents of their libraries of content so that we can access it without having to go through platforms. Maybe release them twice a year? Four times a year? Imagine just pulling up a creator's torrent, clicking which videos you want to download to watch, then waiting a few minutes and playing it right off of your computer. I bet that could also work with peertube?

And remember to read the help page. You can do batch downloading IIRC with the -a flag pointed at a text file like urls.txt

Put one video per line and it will just chug away grabbing them all for you so you don't have to type the command over and over again.

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The game is so funny if you know all of the Y2K era stuff that it's a satire of.

Yes. In college libraries I remember opening handbooks on critical thinking and they were as you said.

Here is one that is available online for free as an open access PDF and has all of the best and current science on many aspects of rationality from cognitive science to philosophy: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/5525/The-Handbook-of-Rationality