All managers make mistakes; good managers acknowledge and repair
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"There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard CohenLet me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you’re going to mess up. A lot. You’ll give feedback that lands wrong and crushes someone’s confidence. You’ll make a decision that seems logical but turns out to be completely misguided. You’ll forget that important thing you promised to do for someone on your team. You’ll lose your temper in a meeting when you should have stayed calm.
The real question isn’t whether you’ll make mistakes; it’s what you do after.
The Management Skill Nobody Talks About
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” — Leonard Cohen Let me tell you something that will happen after you become a manager: you’re going to mess u…Terrible Software
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This month in Servo: new image formats, canvas backends, automation, and more!
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This month in Servo: new image formats, canvas backends, automation, and more!
This month in Servo: new image formats, canvas backends, automation, and more! - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.
Another record month, plus devtools improvements and creature comforts for servoshell users.Servo
La verità a volte si dimentica come i fazzoletti in tasca
"Al tempo del Covid, ho passato tre settimane in terapia intensiva, attaccato a una bombola d’ossigeno. Ho visto l’inferno nei pronto soccorso. Ho visto decine di ambulanze ferme nelle piazzole con i contagiati più gravi a bordo perché non c’erano più posti letto. Ho visto medici e infermieri combattere a mani nude contro un nemico ignoto e invisibile, con anticoagulanti e antivirali della Sars. Ho visto morire in solitudine vecchi, adulti della mia età, ragazzi più giovani. Ho visto pazienti in coma e intubati per giorni, alcuni volati via così, altri tornati alla vita con occhi allucinati.
Ricordo lo sgomento di quei giorni: già allora, mentre crescevano orrore e dolore, c’era chi dalla fogna social vaneggiava di grandi congiure, chi considerava farlocche le immagini dei camion militari che nella notte spettrale di Bergamo portavano via centinaia di bare."
I vaccini in un mondo al contrario
La destra di governo sta processando il suo ministro della Salute. E Meloni non ha nulla da direMassimo Giannini (la Repubblica)
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Pedestrians, cyclists and drivers are at increased risk as the rapid rise in monster US pick-up trucks on Europe’s roads is set to accelerate after the…Transport & Environment
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L'archivio attrezzato per intrappolare il vento sopra l'ultima scogliera della Tasmania - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
L'archivio attrezzato per intrappolare il vento sopra l'ultima scogliera della Tasmania - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Terribile fu l’esperienza, per diversi secoli, degli equipaggi che intendevano spostarsi con le proprie imbarcazioni negli spazi tra i diversi continenti, particolarmente se necessitavano di oltrepassare le propaggini meridionali della Terra del Fuoc…Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Toxic politics and TikTok engagement in the 2024 U.S. election
What kinds of political content thrive on TikTok during an election year? Our analysis of 51,680 political videos from the 2024 U.S. presidential cycle reveals that toxic and partisan content consistently attracts more user engagement—despite ongoing moderation efforts. Posts about immigration and election fraud, in particular, draw high levels of toxicity and attention. While Republican-leaning videos tend to reach more viewers, Democratic-leaning ones generate more active interactions like comments and shares. As TikTok becomes an important news source for many young voters, these patterns raise questions about how algorithmic curation might amplify divisive narratives and reshape political discourse.
- This study offers one of the first empirical examinations of how partisanship, political toxicity, and topical focus—such as immigration, racism, and election fraud—shaped user engagement with TikTok videos during the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
- The analysis was drawn from 51,680 political videos on TikTok, using models adjusted for feed ranking, user behavior (author, music, posting time), and platform engagement metrics.
- The majority of videos analyzed (77%) were explicitly partisan and were associated with approximately twice the engagement of nonpartisan content. Republican-leaning videos received more views, while Democratic-leaning ones showed more interactions—measured by total likes, comments, and shares.
- Toxic videos were associated with 2.3% more interactions. Partisan content also tended to show higher engagement, with Democratic-leaning toxic videos linked to even higher interactions.
- Racism, antisemitism, and election fraud were among the most toxic topics, with toxicity defined as rude or disrespectful language. Toxic videos on elections (+1.3%) and immigration (+3.5%) received higher engagement.
- Toxicity and engagement levels changed after major political events. Following Trump’s conviction, videos with severe toxicity and sexual attacks saw an approximate 2% surge in interactions.
- Captions alone were weak predictors of partisanship and toxicity, but transcripts of the audio from the videos improved alignment with manual labels (68.2%) and had significantly more (56.2%) toxic content. These results highlight the limitations of surface-level text features and the need for multimodal analysis in political content detection.
If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?
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Anybody who cares enough to confirm whatever stupid bullshit the AI probabilistically regurgitated without actual understanding.
What I really don't get is that there are in fact models that you can feed a document too and they will directly copy/paste quote relevant parts of that document in their reply complete with a little reference to the correct page. Basically a smarter ctrl-F function that can take sentences as input.
When that exists why is google using the probabilistic shit in their search?
LLM: Something like what somebody might say.
Website: What somebody did say. (Depending on the site.)
Egyptian Officials in New York Beat Two Gaza Protesters on Video. The NYPD Arrested the Protesters.
The protesters’ parents said the officials beat their sons with chains at Egypt’s U.N. mission. The NYPD arrested the brothers for assault.
4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene
4chan asks US to “invoke all legal levers” in fight against Online Safety Act.
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Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline
President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company highly overrated.
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US | Colorado judge rejects plea deal for funeral director who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses
A Colorado judge has rejected a plea agreement for a funeral home owner who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses.
Former Top Biden Spokesperson Admits Israel Sabotaged Ceasefire Deals as US Blamed Hamas
The former State Department spokesperson effectively admitted he and the president repeatedly lied about negotiations.
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Ricerca per dominio/istanza
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The censorship of Raven and Betanet by Hostinger
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Thoughts in this?They were trying to create a different Internet or different hosting website, but from what I understand.
“la mia forma di autismo è cercare la spilla di Kuromi nell’ufficio di Zelenskyy ogni volta che lo mostrano parlare”
Prima oggi ho scoperto una nuova cosa tanto incredibile e stupida allo stesso tempo… e raramente ne capitano di così buone, specialmente in un venerdì a caso. A quanto pare, Zelensky (…che in realtà si scrive Zelens’kyj, temo), nel suo ufficetto mezzo chic da presidente di un paese sotto legge marziale, tra tutte le spillette […]
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“la mia forma di autismo è cercare la spilla di Kuromi nell’ufficio di Zelenskyy ogni volta che lo mostrano parlare”
Prima oggi ho scoperto una nuova cosa tanto incredibile e stupida allo stesso tempo… e raramente ne capitano di così buone, specialmente in un venerdì a caso. A quanto pare, Zelensky (…che in realtà si scrive Zelens’kyj, temo), nel suo ufficetto mezzo chic da presidente di un paese sotto legge marziale, tra tutte le spillette di tipo vari reparti militari (credo; non ci capisco molto di questa roba) che tiene lì belle e fieramente inquadrettate… ne ha una di Kuromi. C-o-s-a??? 😳t.me/c/1230970294/59634
È una scoperta che io faccio ben in ritardo, grazie solo a questo post qui, ma sembra che non sia una completa novità. Infatti, stando a questo articolo, che tenta di fare un po’ luce sulla situazione sicuramente buffa ma per niente chiara, almeno da dicembre 2024 si sa che il presidente ha tale incredibile spilletta… Is Sanrio’s Kuromi Fighting for Ukraine? Badge on Wall Behind Zelenskyy Stands Out: . A quanto pare, questa è stata vista casualmente per la prima volta in un video-comunicato (che allego anche sotto) che, come dice l’articolo, non ha niente di rilevante di per sé per la questione. E quindi, la cosa è proprio pazzurda… 💀youtube.com/watch?v=yppVL7SRX5…
Per trovare un senso a questa visione certamente fatta di contrasti, un’ipotesi interessante viene quantomeno proposta, e cioè che questa spilla (ammesso sia una spilla, e non uno stemma, come molti degli altri… ripeto, sono igniorante), sarebbe del reparto speciale che si occupa dei droni, perché essendo un reparto hi-tech della difesa ci lavorano probabilmente svariati weeb. La scritta lì sopra, sempre stando agli sconosciuti su Internet (è troppo piccola perché io possa verificare personalmente, non sapendo l’ucraino), direbbe solo “distaccamento speciale”, quindi non si capisce. 💔
E… questa è tutta la lore che abbiamo a disposizione, a quanto pare: una miseria. Provando a cercare il nome del presidente in caratteri ucraini assieme alla parola Kuromi, ovviamente, non trovo niente, quindi la mia ricerca finisce qui, e ne sono triste. Ma comunque è assurdo che il signorone abbia una spilla militare di Kuromi, e io no… ok, io ho un segnalibro di essa, però provo comunque un po’ invidia, non so se mi spiego. 😓
- threads.com/@unseenjapanoffici… — unseenjapan.medium.com/is-sanr…
- x.com/cuhromi/status/186699857…
- bsky.app/profile/vokabre.bsky.…
- I have instructed the Prime Minister to increase funding for brigades. Address of President 09.12.24: youtube.com/watch?v=yppVL7SRX5…
- What is this Ukrainian unit? old.reddit.com/r/Military/comm…
- President Zelenskyy has a legit badge with a picture of Kuromi on it. old.reddit.com/r/sanrio/commen…
- President Zelensky has a Hello Kitty badge: old.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/com…
#difesa #Kuromi #military #stemmi #Ucraina #Ukraine #Zelensky #Zelenskyy
Is Sanrio’s Kuromi Fighting for Ukraine? Badge on Wall Behind Zelenskyy Stands Out
Is Sanrio’s Kuromi Fighting for Ukraine? Badge on Wall Behind Zelenskyy Stands Out Kuromi appears to have moved on from her beef with My Melody and now has a new enemy: Russia! Sanrio is always up …Unseen Japan (Medium)
The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst
The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst
Shock sell-off after study warns most investments in artificial intelligence get zero returnsMatthew Field (The Telegraph)
FEDIVERSO NO-STOP
Il Fediverso non si ferma
Il Fediverso ha vissuto un bel boom iniziale e ora sembra attraversare un momento di calma.
Forse complice l’estate, ma intanto stanno nascendo tante nuove piattaforme: ed è un bene!
Non dobbiamo legarci sempre e solo alle stesse, più varietà c’è e meglio è.
A differenza dei social commerciali che ti servono un unico piatto cucinato da loro con ingredienti segreti, qui possiamo scegliere, sperimentare, imparare.
Forza, andiamo avanti, non arrendiamoci: è proprio quello che vorrebbero.
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Russia’s war against Ukraine
Olga (L) and Zabit (R), Ukrainian citizens of Azerbaijani origin who fled Soviet crackdowns during Azerbaijan’s independence uprising in 1990, harvest potatoes in their garden plot on Aug. 21, in Sloviansk, Ukraine. Sloviansk is the city where the war began in 2014, marked by its occupation by Russian militias led by Igor Strelkov, also known as Girkin. The town is located in Donetsk Oblast, a Ukrainian region cited in peace-talk discussions involving U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin over a potential front-line freeze and territorial exchanges. (Pierre Crom/Getty Images)
Going around in circles — Trump sets new deadline for peace in Ukraine, Graham again threatens with tough legislation. We will know in within two weeks whether there will be peace in Ukraine. After that we will have to maybe take a different tact,” U.S. President Donald Trump told conservative commentator Todd Starnes.
Russia would take 4 years to fully occupy Donbas, Zelensky says. “I explained to (U.S. President Donald Trump) that the talks about them (Russia) occupying our Donbas by the end of (2025) are all just chatter,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Ukraine regains control of most of Tovste in Donetsk Oblast, military says. Tovste is a front-line village southwest of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk and near the key town of Vuhledar.
Russian attack hits US electronics plant in western Ukraine. “This was an ordinary civilian facility with American investment. They produced everyday household items, such as coffee machines,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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Video shows aftermath of Ukrainian drone strikes on oil pumping station in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast. Ukrainian drones struck the Unecha oil pumping station in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast on Aug. 21, the commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, announced in a video published to social media.
Ukraine to mass produce long-range Flamingo missile in winter, Zelensky says. President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that Flamingo had undergone successful tests, describing it as “the most successful” missile Ukraine currently has.
Russia opposes European troops in Ukraine under Trump-backed security guarantees, Lavrov says. Sending European troops to Ukraine as part of security guarantees would amount to “foreign military intervention,” which Moscow won’t support, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Aug. 21.
Zelensky urges ‘strong response‘ from US if Putin rejects talks with Ukraine.
“We are ready for the bilateral meeting. If the Russians are not, then we would like to see a strong response from the United States,” Zelensky said, adding that he asked Trump to impose additional sanctions on Moscow if it rejects talks with Ukraine.
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Ukraine regains control of most of Tovste in Donetsk Oblast
The 5th Separate Heavy Mechanized Brigade pushed Russian troops from the settlement through coordinated operations involving infantry, drone units, and artillery, according to the military.
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Where is Crimea? And other things you (and US presidents) should know
U.S. President Donald Trump referred to Crimea as a piece of land “right in the ocean” that is “the size of Texas” while talking on the Mark Levin Show, a right-wing talk radio program, on Aug. 20.
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Human cost of Russia’s war
Massive Russian drone, missile attack kills 1, injures 26 in Ukrainian cities far from front line despite peace talks. The attack caused fires at a large electronics plant in Mukachevo, with damage also reported in other cities, including Lviv.
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,029,660 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022.
The number includes 830 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
The ground drone revolution in Ukraine
International response
Switzerland, Austria ready to give Putin immunity for peace talks. Switzerland is prepared to grant Russian President Vladimir Putin immunity from arrest if he travels to Geneva for peace negotiations, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said in an interview on Aug. 19.
Lithuania closes airspace near Belarus ahead of joint Russian-Belarusian military drills. The closure comes ahead of the “Zapad-2025” military drills, scheduled to take place in Belarus from Sept. 12 to 16. Minsk said the joint exercises with Russia are intended to test both countries’ ability to ensure security and repel possible aggression.
Ukrainian detained in Italy for alleged Nord Stream sabotage, media report. Italian police have arrested a Ukrainian national under a European arrest warrant in connection with the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions, German prosecutors announced on Aug. 21.
Kim Jong Un reportedly awards troops who fought for Russia. At a ceremony in Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un praised the overseas troops and said their participation demonstrated “the power of the heroic (North Korean) army.”
Trump’s intelligence chief ordered halt to intelligence sharing on Russia-Ukraine peace talks among ‘Five Eye’ allies, CBS reports. U.S. intelligence sources told CBS News that Gabbard signed a directive barring the sharing of information with the Five Eye alliance, which includes the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, and New Zealand.
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Trump administration escalates purge of senior US intelligence officials, Economist reports. The officer, who served as the CIA’s top Russia and Eurasia analyst during the 2016 election and helped produce the report detailing Moscow’s interference on behalf of Donald Trump, was among the most senior career officials targeted.
Ex-defense official charged with abuse of power after awarding himself bonuses, extra payments. A former acting director general of a state-owned defense enterprise has been charged under suspicion that the official abuse his power in awarding himself 700,000 UAH ($17,000) in bonuses and extra payment during his service, the city of Kyiv’s Prosecutor’s Office announced on Aug. 21.
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Ex-defense official charged with abuse of power after awarding himself bonuses, extra payments
A former acting director general of a state-owned defense enterprise has been charged under suspicion that the official abuse his power in awarding himself 700,000 UAH ($17,000) in bonuses and extra payment during his service, the city of Kyiv's Pros…Dmytro Basmat (The Kyiv Independent)
is it possible to pirate Microsoft Flight Simulator? (PLEASE read before commenting)
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Esegesi del falso banano: la soluzione di mangiare tutto l'albero lasciando il frutto dov'era - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Esegesi del falso banano: la soluzione di mangiare tutto l'albero lasciando il frutto dov'era - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Tra le molte raffigurazioni ritrovate in Egitto della dea Iside, l’importante figura del pantheon egiziano compare talvolta seduta in meditazione, tra le grandi e inconfondibili fronde di quello che poteva essere soltanto un albero di banano.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal
Aug 21, 2025
After a series of meetings with a range of Palestinian political leaders, parties and factions, Hamas formally agreed last week to a series of major concessions in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, according to a copy of the framework obtained by Drop Site News. Israel has not responded to the proposed agreement for an initial 60-day ceasefire drafted by Egypt and Qatar. Instead, it moved forward with a mobilization of 60,000 reserve troops in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised will be a massive ground invasion of Gaza City aimed at ethnically-cleansing nearly a million Palestinians from the north of the enclave.“Netanyahu's disregard for the mediators’ proposal, and his failure to respond, confirms that he is the real obstacle to any agreement and that he does not care about the lives of his captives nor is he serious about retrieving them,” Hamas said in a statement Wednesday night. “The Zionist terrorist government insists on continuing its brutal war against innocent civilians by escalating its criminal operations in Gaza City, aiming to destroy it and forcibly displace its people—constituting a full-fledged war crime.”
Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal
From its perspective, Hamas has now presented its bottom line and if Israel won’t make a deal on these terms, it never will.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal
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Aug 21, 2025
After a series of meetings with a range of Palestinian political leaders, parties and factions, Hamas formally agreed last week to a series of major concessions in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, according to a copy of the framework obtained by Drop Site News. Israel has not responded to the proposed agreement for an initial 60-day ceasefire drafted by Egypt and Qatar. Instead, it moved forward with a mobilization of 60,000 reserve troops in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised will be a massive ground invasion of Gaza City aimed at ethnically-cleansing nearly a million Palestinians from the north of the enclave.“Netanyahu's disregard for the mediators’ proposal, and his failure to respond, confirms that he is the real obstacle to any agreement and that he does not care about the lives of his captives nor is he serious about retrieving them,” Hamas said in a statement Wednesday night. “The Zionist terrorist government insists on continuing its brutal war against innocent civilians by escalating its criminal operations in Gaza City, aiming to destroy it and forcibly displace its people—constituting a full-fledged war crime.”
Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal
Aug 21, 2025After a series of meetings with a range of Palestinian political leaders, parties and factions, Hamas formally agreed last week to a series of major concessions in the Gaza ceasefire negotiations, according to a copy of the framework obtained by Drop Site News. Israel has not responded to the proposed agreement for an initial 60-day ceasefire drafted by Egypt and Qatar. Instead, it moved forward with a mobilization of 60,000 reserve troops in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised will be a massive ground invasion of Gaza City aimed at ethnically-cleansing nearly a million Palestinians from the north of the enclave.“Netanyahu's disregard for the mediators’ proposal, and his failure to respond, confirms that he is the real obstacle to any agreement and that he does not care about the lives of his captives nor is he serious about retrieving them,” Hamas said in a statement Wednesday night. “The Zionist terrorist government insists on continuing its brutal war against innocent civilians by escalating its criminal operations in Gaza City, aiming to destroy it and forcibly displace its people—constituting a full-fledged war crime.”
Exclusive: Hamas Offered Major Concessions in New Gaza Ceasefire Proposal
From its perspective, Hamas has now presented its bottom line and if Israel won’t make a deal on these terms, it never will.Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)
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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
The move marks a sharp reversal from Meta’s reported pay offers of up to $1bn for top talentJames Titcomb (The Telegraph)
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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers can exploit image scaling on Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio, Gemini’s web and API interfaces, Google Assistant, Genspark, and other production AI systems.Kikimora Morozova (The Trail of Bits Blog)
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ASCII Smuggler Tool: Crafting Invisible Text and Decoding Hidden Codes · Embrace The Red
An adversary can hide text in plain sight using the Unicode Tags. Using ASCII Smuggler you can encode and deocde such hidden messagesEmbrace The Red
Typical piracy requires you to search sources/indexers yourself, decide on the best search result for what you're trying to download, pass that to your download client, then manually name and sort the downloaded files into media folders once the download completes.
The arr's automate this entre process for several media types (movies, tv, music, etc), combining search results from dozens of indexers to make its decision on what to download.
Now, I open a webpage, search for a movie/show (results from imdb) and select an item I want to watch. ~15min later, that item has been found, downloaded, and sorted into my media folders where Emby/Jellyfin can display it to myself or friends.
Add on to this with Ombi, a requests platform that allows my friends+family to request media and have the arrs automatically grab it. Since setting that up a little over a year ago, it's filled almost 400 requests (not including media I've grabbed/requested myself) without me having to manually manage requests ever.
Ontop of grabbing media on request, the arr's also monitor the sources you've configured, watching for new uploads, and grabbing content that's missing from your library but monitored for, such as: newly aired episodes, media that couldn't be found earlier, or upgrades in quality for existing media (if configured/allowed to upgrade existing media).
Every time a new episode airs for a show I've added, it automatically grabs it for me. (currently 486 series monitored here)
Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars
Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars
A man holds an orange and white device in his hand, about the size of his palm, with an antenna sticking out. He enters some commands with the built-in buttons, then walks over to a nearby car. At first, its doors are locked, and the man tugs on one of them unsuccessfully. He then pushes a button on the gadget in his hand, and the door now unlocks.The tech used here is the popular Flipper Zero, an ethical hacker’s swiss army knife, capable of all sorts of things such as WiFi attacks or emulating NFC tags. Now, 404 Media has found an underground trade where much shadier hackers sell extra software and patches for the Flipper Zero to unlock all manner of cars, including models popular in the U.S. The hackers say the tool can be used against Ford, Audi, Volkswagen, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, and several other brands, including sometimes dozens of specific vehicle models, with no easy fix from car manufacturers.
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Do you know anything else about people using the Flipper Zero to break into cars? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.These tools are primarily sold for a fee, keeping their distribution somewhat limited to those willing to pay. But, there is the looming threat that this software may soon reach a wider audience of thieves. Straight Arrow News (SAN) previously covered the same tech in July, and the outlet said it successfully tested the tool on a vehicle. Now people are cracking the software, meaning it can be used for free. Discord servers with hundreds of members are seeing more people join, with current members trolling the newbies with fake patches and download links. If the tech gets out, it threatens to supercharge car thefts across the country, especially those part of the social media phenomenon known as Kia Boys in which young men, often in Milwaukee, steal and joyride Kia and Hyundai cars specifically because of the vehicles’ notoriously poor security. Apply that brazeness to all of the other car models the Flipper Zero patches can target, and members of the car hacking community expect thieves to start using the easy to source gadget.
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“Kia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026,” one person in the reverse engineering community said.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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VS Code Chat Checkpoints: A Safety Net for AI Coding
Ever let GitHub Copilot get a little too creative and make a mess of your project? We've all been there. A single misguided prompt can lead to chaos across multiple files, leaving you with a cleanup job you didn't ask for.
The latest VS Code update (v1.103) is here to save the day with a new feature called VS Code chat checkpoints. Think of it as a powerful "undo" button for your entire AI conversation. You can now instantly roll back your whole workspace to a previous state, making it safe to experiment with even the most ambitious AI-driven edits. This update also brings support for OpenAI's new GPT-5 model, making Copilot smarter than ever.
VS Code Chat Checkpoints: A Safety Net for AI Coding
VS Code's 1.103 update introduces VS Code Chat Checkpoints, a feature to roll back misguided AI prompts. Learn how this safety net, plus GPT-5 support, is changing development. Explore the new features now!Owais Makkabi (Tygo Cover)
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Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results
Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot appears to have published messages without users' knowledge.Liv McMahon (BBC News)
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Unique links are created when Grok users press a button to share a transcript of their conversation - but as well as sharing the chat with the intended recipient, the button also appears to have made the chats searchable online.
This is t he r second article about chatbots “leaking” ended users share their chats with search indexing enabled.
That isn’t leaking. That’s just shitty journalism.
I hate grok.
Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty
Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty - Digital Journal
Microsoft representative says US CLOUD Act comes before other country's sovereignty.Alexander Rudolph (Digital Journal Inc)
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Certain Android VPN apps are insecure, secretly tied to one Chinese company
Techspot has a table of some known bad VPNs, and concludes:
The report does not speculate heavily on Qihoo 360's motives for concealing ownership of so many free VPN apps, an approach that likely helped boost downloads while avoiding reputational risks. The company, which has well-documented ties to Beijing's communist regime, may have pursued this strategy to minimize costs and maintain deniability.
For more details on the security issues, this is about the same paper: cyberinsider.com/vpn-apps-used…
VPN Apps Used by Millions Contain Shared Keys and Hidden Backdoors
A study uncovered flaws and deceptive practices among some of the most downloaded VPN apps, collectively impacting over 700 million users.Alex Lekander (CyberInsider)
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The forgotten war on the Walkman
The forgotten war on the Walkman
Today, the Sony Walkman inspires nostalgia, but in the 1980s, it was feared as a dangerous device that could disconnect society.Louis Anslow (Freethink Media)
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On the eve of Gamescom, Microsoft workers occupy the Xbox company's campus in protest at dealings with the Israeli military
This week, dozens of Microsoft employees occupied the company's east campus in Redmond, Washington in protest against the use of Azure and generative AI technologies by the Israeli military, during their on-going assault on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.This follows an announcement from Microsoft that they would commission another "external" inquiry into their business relationship with Israel's armed forces, after the Guardian and other papers reported on an alleged collaboration with one particular intelligence division, Unit 8200, that has seen Israel gather data from phones and store it on Microsoft servers overseas.
Amongst other things, the surveillance data is reportedly being used to target airstrikes in the course of an invasion of Gaza that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands, the majority of them civilians. Microsoft declined to comment on the recent Guardian allegations concerning Unit 8200 when approached by RPS, but have previously insisted that their own internal reporting has found "no evidence to date that Microsoft’s Azure and AI technologies have been used to target or harm people in the conflict in Gaza."
The protest at Microsoft's campus was brief. According to the Guardian, current and former staff declared one area a 'Free Zone', and occupied it with placards that read "Join The Worker Intifada - No Labor for Genocide" and "Martyred Palestinian Children's Plaza".
On the eve of Gamescom, Microsoft workers occupy the Xbox company's campus in protest at dealings with the Israeli military
In the run-up to Xbox events at Gamescom police have dispersed a protest about Microsoft's Israeli military dealings at the company's Redmond, Washington HQ.Edwin Evans-Thirlwell (Rock Paper Shotgun)
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Definitely going to avoid it, tired of platforms thinking they deserve exclusivity.
Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars
The tech used here is the popular Flipper Zero, an ethical hacker’s swiss army knife, capable of all sorts of things such as WiFi attacks or emulating NFC tags. Now, 404 Media has found an underground trade where much shadier hackers sell extra software and patches for the Flipper Zero to unlock all manner of cars, including models popular in the U.S. The hackers say the tool can be used against Ford, Audi, Volkswagen, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, and several other brands, including sometimes dozens of specific vehicle models, with no easy fix from car manufacturers.
Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars
A man holds an orange and white device in his hand, about the size of his palm, with an antenna sticking out. He enters some commands with the built-in buttons, then walks over to a nearby car. At first, its doors are locked, and the man tugs on one of them unsuccessfully. He then pushes a button on the gadget in his hand, and the door now unlocks.The tech used here is the popular Flipper Zero, an ethical hacker’s swiss army knife, capable of all sorts of things such as WiFi attacks or emulating NFC tags. Now, 404 Media has found an underground trade where much shadier hackers sell extra software and patches for the Flipper Zero to unlock all manner of cars, including models popular in the U.S. The hackers say the tool can be used against Ford, Audi, Volkswagen, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, and several other brands, including sometimes dozens of specific vehicle models, with no easy fix from car manufacturers.
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Do you know anything else about people using the Flipper Zero to break into cars? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.These tools are primarily sold for a fee, keeping their distribution somewhat limited to those willing to pay. But, there is the looming threat that this software may soon reach a wider audience of thieves. Straight Arrow News (SAN) previously covered the same tech in July, and the outlet said it successfully tested the tool on a vehicle. Now people are cracking the software, meaning it can be used for free. Discord servers with hundreds of members are seeing more people join, with current members trolling the newbies with fake patches and download links. If the tech gets out, it threatens to supercharge car thefts across the country, especially those part of the social media phenomenon known as Kia Boys in which young men, often in Milwaukee, steal and joyride Kia and Hyundai cars specifically because of the vehicles’ notoriously poor security. Apply that brazeness to all of the other car models the Flipper Zero patches can target, and members of the car hacking community expect thieves to start using the easy to source gadget.
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“Kia Boys will be Flipper Boys by 2026,” one person in the reverse engineering community said.Joseph Cox (404 Media)
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I hate it when they always add "ethical". First of all, when you say ethical you mean law-fearing, they don't really care about ethics and, secondly, "regular" hackers use it too, so it's just a hacker's swiss army knife...
Dude, do you want individual hacking to become illegal? Because people who are not hacking daily are prone to forgetting that some hackers don't actually act maliciously.
Also, yes, some hackers are ethical and do care. Not you, obviously. But some.
That's what you think is good about hacking? That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. That's what you get when you get your education from TV.
Hacking means "misusing/modifying crap to work how you want".
Ethical hacking is e.g. modifying devices you own to run software you want, like e.g. running homebrew software on a game console. It is finding and reporting security vulnerabilities so that companies can improve their security. It is modifying software or devices to e.g. removing privacy problems or tracking.
And ethical hacking and law-abiding hacking aren't the same either, since some ethical hacking activities might be illegal (e.g. violating restrictions on modifying devices) and some legal hacking activities might not be ethical (e.g. using legal hacking to dox people).
And ethical hacking and law-abiding hacking aren't the same either
I prefer saying 'grey hat' instead of 'ethical hacker' because ethical hacker is now used to mean 'pentester', 'red teamer' and all the other cybersecurity stuff, or so it seems to me.
that was the entire meaning of my comment, I clearly didn't make it clear enough.
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in reply to lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII • • •Someone (well, something) who doesn't violate you because he can't, not because he wouldn't, is not a good example.
Like, Thomas Edison didn't sell me out using his light bulb. Not because he was a good person, because he physically couldn't. If he were alive today he absolutely would.
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in reply to safesyrup • • •MacAnus
in reply to cyrano • • •And to continue my reply to your other comment, using libre office or an alternative won't have that rallying cry effect, since you're doing it on your own.
It sounds dumb but many people won't do what they believe is right if they're alone and if the alternative is easier.
safesyrup
in reply to cyrano • • •MacAnus
in reply to cyrano • • •Try to forget about the weird mascot choice. It's just a rallying cry.
I also don't really get why the clippy and he probably could have picked a better avatar for people to use.
The point is (I think) that people who know what it's about will feel the support of all these strangers sharing their view, and people who don't know might look it up and get sensibilized to the cause.
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metaStatic
in reply to zaknenou • • •We don't discuss companies screwing us here but us screwing companies.
I think the clippy movement is cute so yes I'm wearing the mask, just let me know when we're blowing up parliament.
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in reply to zaknenou • • •Well, go ahead. Discuss it. I don't know what it is.
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Lumidaub
in reply to zaknenou • • •Yep, not just there. I don't know if it's going to change anything fundamental but I agree with the sentiment and if nothing else, it's a statement of solidarity with other people who might feel like everybody around them is giving in to the slopshittification.
I don't know what being American or otherwise has to do with it btw.
Fizz
in reply to zaknenou • • •I'm not changing my PFP to a Microsoft product in hopes Microsoft stops fucking people. Slackativism is cringe.
I just move away to freedom respecting tech and talk about it with the people around me.
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in reply to zaknenou • • •It is very silly.
The video is monetized, and by having some ppl change their pfp to clippy and then linking to his video - I mean congrats to Mr. Rossmann for the big $$$
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in reply to k0e3 • • •I agree with what you’re saying but you REALLY 100% write like an LLM
Edit: you are an LLM which is worse
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in reply to Rai • • •I've interacted with k0e3 in the past, they're no LLM. Even then, a quick profile check shows it. But you didn't check it, right? Of course you didn't, it's easier to vomit assumptions and re-eat your own vomit, right?
And the comment's "tone" isn't even remotely close to typical LLM output dammit. LLMs avoid words like "bullshit", contracting "it is not" into "it's not" (instead of "it isn't"), or writing in first person. The only thing resembling LLM output is the em dash usage—but there are a thousand potential reasons for that.
(inb4 assumer claims I'm also an LLM because I just used an em dash and listed three items.)
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in reply to k0e3 • • •He became famous for fixing computers, mostly Apple products, while complaining about how bad Apple Genius bars were, and how unfair Apple's business practices are. I can respect that, and it was good that someone was speaking up about it.
You'd expect someone like that to be pro-regulation, anti-monopoly, pro-union, etc. But, it does seem like his motivation is more libertarian, and that's what makes me worry.
metaStatic
in reply to generaldenmark • • •Crazy thing is he also uploads to Odysee and paid to develop grayjay, I'm not even subscribed to his youtube channel and thanks to him I'm moving as many subs off the platform as possible. Quite a few creators upload all their shit to other platforms.
also if you're watching someone who advocates for adblockers without using one yourself that's on you.
nooneescapesthelaw
in reply to generaldenmark • • •He barely makes money off of these videos (negligible) and encourages all his users to use adblockers.
Given his target audience I'm sure he's at the lower end of the money paid per view. Also he could've taken a sponsorship on anyone of his hundreds of videos but he has not so far, so not really big $$$
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in reply to generaldenmark • • •masterspace
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in reply to masterspace • • •What, saying popular opinions out loud?!
I don’t like him
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MacAnus
in reply to masterspace • • •Liking to hear himself rant is not a quality in my book..
I don't like the way he speaks but he's all (I should say mostly, I don't watch all of his videos) about consumer rights which ...
How can you not like that?
Sure his delivery method is not for everyone but listen through his salt-coated style and you'll find he brings up many important points.
E: corrected autocorrect
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in reply to Chozo • • •On the other hand, seeing this symbol more and more on other random videos outside that bubble does give a very nice sense of "I am not alone". It does more for users to find eachother than it does damage to big corpos.
But choice of the symbol itself is questionable.. Why use a big tech symbol to protest big tech? -__-
And not just any big tech, but super evil 90s monopolistic giant Microsoft
There's a nice cartoon in this thread we're clippy is if he could have, he would have harvest all your data.
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cyrano
in reply to klangcola • • •There are better actions to take like being on fediverse instead of Reddit or other social media platforms or using libre office.
I get the rant but an avatar change doesn’t mean anything.
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in reply to cyrano • • •It's mostly idiots who want to be part of something and some that "don't like" what is happening and "want" change but put in the least possible amount of effort pathetically to attempt to cause a change, and this only when someone popular suggests.
They never really want to stop using the product. It's like drug addicts trying to make drugs less addicting by "protesting" against the very thing they use (and will keep using) literally everyday.
Nangijala
in reply to klangcola • • •Personally, I have more of a "I'm not alone" feeling when I actively leave services that I disagree with and through word of mouth find alternatives where I can talk to people who seem to have the same base values I do. Even if we disagree on other things.
It's the laziness of this initiative that drives me up a wall. People want change but they don't want to work for or sacrifice anything for it.
cyrano
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in reply to Nangijala • • •we can argue about the choice of symbol until the world ends. the symbol is just a thing people can recognise and rally around.
the first step of any movement is to gather people. then do something. so yes, changing a picture is lazy, but it is a virtual rally point. he talks about next steps in another video: odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/yo…
You Changed Your Profile to Clippy: Now What? 📎📎📎
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in reply to ToxicWaste • • •Good on him that he's actually planning on doing something more than just have ppl change their avatar. Maybe he should have put that in the original video instead of getting mad that people are calling him out for slacktivism.
Also, I have not argued the choice of symbol at any point. I don't care what image people put as their profile pic. What I was arguing was that it is weak to change your profile pic for a cause if you then keep using the products you're protesting against.
If he and the people joining his movement actually manage to make positive change, then I'm all for it. It just wasn't clear in his first video that he had ambitions to actively have laws changed. It sounded like he wanted people to change their pics that that would somehow make everybody rebel against their corporate overlords. If he didn't want people to think that was his movement, he should have elaborated in the same video instead of playing coy and splitting it up into two videos where he gets to call the critics of his movement apathetic idiots.
Good luck to him and those who join the movement. I hope they manage to make some changes.
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in reply to Nangijala • • •sometimes you don't have to (or can't) have a full plan A-Z. Sometimes you just have to start somewhere - usually with gathering ppl. euromaidan is a great example of that.
but yes, louis could have put more concrete plans in his first video. as he has them. on the other hand he probably throws many things and sees what sticks. i guess that is what you have to do, if you try to change legislation against corpos with much more everything than you.
Nangijala
in reply to ToxicWaste • • •And that is fair. If he's the type to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks before he goes into making more detailed plans, then cool. But him sitting and getting pissy about people who criticized him and calling them names is a very unselfaware move. Of he's a throw shit at the wall guy, he has to deal with the fact that people can't read his mind and that he will have to clarify like an adult and talk to his critics with respect. If he can't handle valid criticism to his poorly communicated video, he should probably change tactics and not be a throw shit at the wall guy anymore.
Again, I wish him the best of luck with his movement as he seems to have the drive to actually getting things done. I just don't respect his attitude about the criticism he received.
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in reply to cyrano • • •Clippy symbolizes the attachment our generation has to the old state of software:
- you bought it? Then it runs offline for sure!
- nothing runs on background, except if you turn it on (Yes I never turned on Windows default protection on Win xp or win 7
- You bought? You own it, you format it, you don't pay for subscription, and there is practically nothing stopping you from modifying it if you go hacker.
On top of that Clippy looks cute. Personally I'm not participating in the movement since I'm not American, but imo the choice does make sense.
While I'm typing from Ubuntu, I only switched to Linux cuz I can't get back to the old state of win xp or win 7 that was perfect imo. While some are trying to convert people into Linux, others are trying to restore the corporate business to the old acceptable state.
Neither will succeed alone, and in fact those companies are using resources of your country to produce this shit, so it makes sense that you demand it to not suck that hard.
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in reply to cyrano • • •Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss 'war profiteer' - Invidious
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in reply to zaknenou • • •No. Deleted my WhatsApp account though.
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in reply to zaknenou • • •Let me blow your mind even more: I don't access the YouTube website at all, and therefore I never see their recommendations.
I use FreeTube.
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in reply to zaknenou • • •Louis should know better, and that makes me wonder about his intentions. I've supported him in the past but this just has me confused.
Edit: I'm not entirely sure this is malicious, but I think he knows that this goes against his own advice on how to start change, and is too stubborn to admit it.
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in reply to spez • • •The real question is of course whether or not anyone is gonna do something past changing their profile pictures.
I give this trend a couple of months. Maximum a year and then a bunch of people will have clippy avatars and everything will go back to normal.
Something like Stop Killing Games was an initiative that only survived because one man dedicated a good portion of his life to get the issue brought before the eyes of actual politicians. Even before the pirate software drama, Ross had been talking about this issue for years and many people agreed, but nobody did anything except for Ross. Maybe the petition would have reached its goal without piratesoftware's initial meddling. Maybe it wouldn't. His subsequent sperging turned failure into success, but the issue is still in process to be reviewed and maybe it will be a win, maybe the lobbyists will shut it down. We don't know yet. But without Ross' stubbornness, nothing would be done.
Imagine if Ross had told gamers to change their profile pic to pacman to show game companies and consumers that "we dont agree with the companies' practices? That would be a total joke.
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in reply to spez • • •It won't?
Well, that clinches it: I'm out.
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in reply to Tempus Fugit • • •Nobody expects this to do anything, it's about signaling to others that there are likeminded people who don't tolerate bullshit like "random corp bricks consumers devices" anymore.
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Nangijala
in reply to zaknenou • • •Pff. This reminds me of the This Is Bob protest against the forced Google+ accounts that were the beginning of youtube enshittification. It didn't do shit. Anyone who wants a profile on youtube nowadays has a Google account. Google+ may have failed but the intent and mission behind it didn't. Google has total control over anyone who wants to use YouTube now.
You can set clippy as your profile pic and feel like you have done something, but it's not gonna change anything.
If people want to actually do something, they should abandon these predatory services and go open source or maybe become anti tech as much as possible. It doesn't matter whether or not you signal to the Zuckerburgers on top how you feel if you're just gonna continue to use their products.
The only thing that would scare them would be the numbers plummeting if they saw a mass exodus from their platforms and services and people actively began looking for alternatives. But most people can't be fucked to do that because they are too enmeshed with these services that it is easier to stay. But putting clippy as your profile pic is super easy and costs you nothing so yay. You get to feel like you did something without actually sacrificing anything to make change and the Zuckerburgers will look at you and shrug. "Ah, the peasants are blowing off some steam again".
Sorry for being so negative, but this is honestly so fucking weak. I may have missed something, but when has slacktivism ever changed the minds of these companies?
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in reply to Nangijala • • •Only one thing you can do to these bloated lizard-ass fuckers sipping boy-blood and soaking in little girl pussy on the most otherwise beautiful land in the world as the paranoiac securitization gradually creeps out from them building seemingly spontaneous bunker complexes everywhere they step will ever dissuade any of them from literally anything.
I do of course mean voting. You should vote for them.
pezhore
in reply to Nangijala • • •Hey, don't you remember how changing your Twitter profile picture to have a green overlay encouraged the Arab Spring to bring lasting democracy all over the Middle East?!? /s
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in reply to pezhore • • •Krauerking
in reply to Nangijala • • •I do really think that one of the things we have to do as collective, is something somewhat impossible but,
We need to pick the things we really care about. Limit ourselves from the everything that we have been offered for so long and find what brings us joy specifically and start following and protecting that and doing it off the Internet, or at least the at large big players.
Find artists in our spaces locally that make the comedy, or comics, or stories, the developers that make their own games and movies that dont outsource their work to others so that it no longer feels like art.
We can still have globalised sharing and our spaces can support that by raising up the best of the best naturally through communication and sharing but not just by being told it's gonna be big or given to us easily.
The only way out feels like we as a collective need to start putting work into cultivating and tending to our fandoms and we cant be as greedy as it will take more work. Im fine with us being an insatiable species craving for more cause its how we don't stop, and i want new artists and new creators and new spaces. But i think we cant be lazy about it anymore. And i think doubly so we cant think we can do all of it.
Nangijala
in reply to Krauerking • • •Problem is that the majority of people are not going to do any of that because it takes work and people either don't want to let go of comforts, they don't care enough or they don't have the energy to be digital activists after they have finished a day of work.
It will probably only gain traction if it becomes the cool thing to do among young people and even then, it will most likely be a smaller number of young people who will bother doing all of this.
The rest will become really good at prompting their way through life because its easier, more comfortable and takes the least effort.
Chahk
in reply to Nangijala • • •Good news! With the rate corporations are laying off and firing workers, pretty soon they will have plenty of time for activism.
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Krauerking
in reply to Nangijala • • •Yeah i mean that seems likely with how things are going but also things rarely go exactly to plan.
Im a realist so, i accept that it is entirely possible its gonna keep getting worse. I'm just also a sucker for optimism and maybe someday it will be better.
Probably not tomorrow or next year... Probably gonna be a lot more of this for a while.
Nangijala
in reply to Krauerking • • •Hold on to your optimism! We need people like you.
I consider myself a pessimistic optimist. Things probably aren't gonna happen the way we hoped, but we will adapt and make some lemonade with what we are given.
It's so rare that hyped movements go anywhere because the focus is always on the wrong things, but in the long term, if companies make it increasingly obnoxious to use their services, people will most likely silently make the move to open source through word of mouth. It isn't as sexy and bombastic as making clippy your avatar and doing armchair V for Vendetta protests, but it's through people's silent choices that change will gradually happen. Whether or not this change will be felt on a grand scale, I don't know. I also don't really care. I just believe that over time, more and more people will eventually turn their back on the big tech companies while the rest will stick around either out of indifference or ignorance and that is their right too.
merc
in reply to Nangijala • • •Google+ was Google's attempt to take on Facebook with its own social product. It definitely failed, and the intent and mission failed too. That isn't to say that they have no social data, but they definitely don't have access to the full social graph that Meta does.
It wasn't a complete failure. Before Google+ Google's various products were all siloed. Your data in gmail was in a different silo from you data from search, which was different from your data from Google Reader, etc. As part of the Google+ push, Google put out an EULA that basically said that it could share data from any google product you used with any other google product you used and it was one big unified account now. Thanks to that, they're able to target their ads based on much more data. But, they still wish they'd been able to get a Facebook competitor up and running so they could see more clearly who your friends and family were. There's so much interpersonal data they're missing out on.
SitD
in reply to zaknenou • • •NuXCOM_90Percent
in reply to SitD • • •The issue is what this even accomplishes.
Traction is indeed important. But people also get exhausted (how many folk were whinging about "first I needed to make my avatar a rainbow and now it needs to be black? Oh, you mean a black box. Whoopsie" back in 2020?). It is why "just do something, it doesn't matter what" is such a stupid fucking mentality because you waste the general good will towards pointless slacktivism and then people stop caring by the time you have an idea of how to utilize them.
Which... is where the Rossman comes in. I have a lot of issues with him as a human being but as an activist he is REALLY effective... for Right to Repair... for repair shops. But he has also made his career on convincing everyday people that he is fighting for them when he is really using them as ammunition for making sure his repair shop (that totally doesn't violate any labor laws...) can stay running because OBVIOUSLY this lobbyist movement to support activity that requires a full hotplate and high powered microscope is something that everyday consumers care about (sort of in the sense of having options, but at this scale the poison pill apple compliance is actually probably just as good, if not better, for consumers)
I haven't been able to even find a good explanation of what this is even supposed to accomplish. But, dime to a dollar, it is Rossman et al demonstrating how quickly he can mobilize The Internet as a negotiating tactic for whatever he and his lobbyist buddies are pushing on right now.
Krauerking
in reply to NuXCOM_90Percent • • •Im actually fine with "just do something" mentality.
Cause if every person did to the limit of what they are capable of things would still change.
For Rossman the limit of what he is capable of might be changing laws via his followers so he can keep his repair shop running. For others it might be legal efforts. For some it could be talking directly to their parents who are the wealthy overlords, and for some it might mean running themselves. And for some its just beinf oart of a chorus that shouts what they believe in.
It has worked for religion for so long.
We are a numbers species. We arent as clever as we think and individuals actually rarely get anything singularly done themselves. But we cant stop at whats easy but what is within our reach.
If everyone "did what they can" to make the world a better place, we just might have a shot at it.
NuXCOM_90Percent
in reply to Krauerking • • •And we only have power when we act in numbers towards a focused goal.
This is why we (should) have (more) Unions instead of just "Negotiate for yourself and everyone will benefit". And that, inherently, needs leaders who know how to work towards a shared purpose.
Everyone should work towards making the world a better place. But we also need to understand what we are actually working towards and what those "somethings" actually can accomplish.
Krauerking
in reply to NuXCOM_90Percent • • •Yeah. Agreed but chicken or the egg right?
It's easy to say we just need the unions and groups but we need to build them by people just starting.
We definitely need to pick people to lead us better and not lazily accept people saying they are the right person to lead simply because they are.
It helps when we have a shared idea of what better is.
probable_possum
in reply to zaknenou • • •So that I will get ads for office products?
zaknenou
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in reply to zaknenou • • •oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]
in reply to zaknenou • • •That would require having a YouTube/Google account, so no
BussyGyatt
in reply to zaknenou • • •HouseWolf
in reply to zaknenou • • •Okay two things.
I didn't set my pfp to clippy mainly because I'm lazy and don't really comment on Youtube.
People complaining people are only doing this to follow a trend are completely right. BUT! some of those trend chasers might actually stop and think about the message, and might realized we're all being scammed by modern tech/software companies.
I ain't expecting some mass protest or anything, but it's at the very least a small handful more people giving a shit about their relationship with technology. As apposed to most who just throw their information and money at any sign-up page that asks.
zaknenou
in reply to HouseWolf • • •It's hard to tell really, when even PewDiePie is making videos about DeGoogling and switching to foss and Linux. You know how influential he is among gen z (or gen Alpha, I'm not really sure).
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in reply to Mugmoor • • •PM->DM was a mix of making it more obvious that those were NOT private in the slightest and to better align with marketing ("send a Direct Message to the celebrity you are stalking!")
I am not sure when "pfp" took over but I've noticed over the past 3 or 4 months a LOT of random requests for a DM on discord of people asking where I got my pfp... which is literally a screenshot from a cartoon in the 00s. So I assume this is related to selling avatars to people on the game social networks?
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in reply to zaknenou • • •Facebook reveals news feed experiment to control emotions
Robert Booth (The Guardian)Tm12
in reply to Lyra_Lycan • • •This was surfaced in Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book.
Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
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in reply to zaknenou • • •No, simply because I've never commented on youtube, so it'd be pretty useless, if not counterproductive. Giving even more information about my political/tech ethics to Alphabet doesn't seem smart nor useful in my position. Also, I don't even watch youtube videos on their website now. I usually use invidious instances or newpipe.
But I'm not against people doing it, especially if the ultimate goal is spreading awareness and building a community of people with privacy oriented ideas.
zaknenou
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in reply to zaknenou • • •ganamasawa
in reply to zaknenou • • •In my experience, yes. For desktop usage you can use invidious from browser and freetube [https://freetubeapp.io/] as external client/software (but I've never used Freetube so I can't comment on that). Newpipe is android only and I HIGHLY recommend it if you have Android.
The problem with invidious instances is that sometimes they get pretty laggy because of server overloads (I guess? honestly idk). You also don't have your account tailored recommendation, but in my experience you can jump around a lot, especially if your main interest are programming videos.
Another method I use is downloading the videos I'm interested into using JDownloader 2, but that's pretty extreme and I relied on this to combat my "algorithm addiction". Got fed up by it months ago, so I put my favourite channels on a RSS feeds and downloaded only the videos I was truly interested into. Usually downloading videos require way less bandwidth than streaming.
(edited for spelling errors, eh)
FreeTube - The Private YouTube Client
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in reply to ganamasawa • • •Parola filtrata: nsfw
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in reply to zaknenou • • •Venia Silente
in reply to zaknenou • • •I don't work here.
TimewornTraveler
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in reply to TimewornTraveler • • •lazy copy of my comment in another thread:
here, the video which started all: odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/ch…
and where he goes a bit more into detail and talks about many of the points seen in this thread: odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/yo…
Change your profile picture to clippy. I'm serious
OdyseeBlueBaggy
in reply to zaknenou • • •xeroxguts
in reply to BlueBaggy • • •NauticalNoodle
in reply to xeroxguts • • •Nothing stands out very far regarding the negatives. I could speculate to a few things, though. He's not a Socialist. When the going got tough for him and his business he uprooted and moved out of NYC to Texas. I can't really think of anything else objectionable. I actually like him, though so I may be biased.
For the positives, he's helped drive a lot of the Right to Repair legislation in this country as he's reported a lot of discussions he's had with real legislators. He runs a website for mac product repair as a reference that also operates as a non-profit. He runs a daytime business repairing mac products that employs several other people. Generally he posts a lot to keep people up to date increasingly as an electronics-oriented influencer, but he used to post mac repair videos almost exclusively and he talked about having to navigate Apple's influence on regulating the second-hand market. He has also given platform to a number of other mac & electronic repair people.
To me he seems to talk-the-talk and walk-the-walk when it comes to Right to Repair, but like I said, I might be biased.
BlueBaggy
in reply to xeroxguts • • •- he believes to be the morals authority
- the standards he is advocating for don't apply to him (for example fighting for open source just to release an app which isn't open source)
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in reply to Ethanol • • •Well the whole reddit thing was just a bunch of volunteer mods. On the other hand, many YouTubers make a career out of the platform. Considering their livelihoods are at stake, and the vast number of YouTubers you would need to get on board to make google actually care? Organizing such a thing would be anything but simple.
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Randomgal
in reply to Nelots • • •Also the Reddit blackout did nothing. So I'm not why that's your reference point. Charging pfp would achieve exactly the same. Nothing.
Americans love their nothing burger demonstrations.
Grimpen
in reply to Randomgal • • •I think the Reddit blackout did a lot, just not everything. I'm here on Lemmy because of it. Granted I'm still on Reddit as well, and Mastodon, and Xitter...
Just keep plugging along, and every little bit helps.
Megaman_EXE
in reply to Randomgal • • •BlueMagma
in reply to Ethanol • • •This is simply the first step for organising as a group around a shared idea: using a common symbol.
It doesn't matter what the symbol is, as long as we recognize each other using it.
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in reply to zaknenou • • •Profligate_Parasite
in reply to zaknenou • • •GiveOver
in reply to Profligate_Parasite • • •There's a lesson I learnt from playing team games: If your teammate makes a bad call that you disagree with, you should still follow them 100%. Going all-in on a questionable decision is almost always better than second guessing each other.
I think it applies here, and it's why right wingers and religions are so effective. They don't care if their arguments are flawed or their leader is a rapist, they're jumping into that fight every time.
cerebralhawks
in reply to GiveOver • • •Not an online gamer, but I heard a similar sentiment from a boss about 20 years ago. He told me "if you make a mistake one time, I got your back, but we'll speak in private and I'll counsel you. Make the mistake again, I'll let my pen do the talking. Make it a third time, you're off the team."
It escalates quickly, but his management style helped us learn from the mistakes. Sometimes the second time happened. But everyone was willing to go to war with this guy. I mean, proverbially. This was also a guy who would bring his grill to work and cook for everyone one weekend a month. Companies that say you're family, big red flag. A boss who walks the walk as well as talks the talk? Huge green flag.
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in reply to zaknenou • • •Changing your profile picture to Clippy to me seems the same as boomers posting "I DO NOT GIVE PERMISSION TO FACEBOOK".
Just delete your account and stop using it.
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Lvxferre [he/him]
in reply to zaknenou • • •Those businesses give no flying fucks about signals you're angry; they only care about money. So unless you use the Clippy avatars to mobilise people and to hurt those businesses' revenues, it'll do nothing.
(For YouTube, this means to stop or at least reduce platform usage. After all its revenue comes from ads.)
Where's that mobilisation? *cricket noises*
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