SkaveRat @ SkaveRat @discuss.tchncs.de

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You sound like such a typical Leo

Last week tonight reported on that one a couple weeks ago. It's fun

I mean... Also your ancestors

ah, makes sense. didn't know that mbin hides the instance. Maybe as an additional link after the current one?

In any case: thanks for the work so far! Great service

for the links to a discussion, yes. But for a link to the community which has been decided, it's probably more user friendly to just do the exclamation mark style instead of a normal link

Any chance of using the !-format for the links in the list? makes it easier to just visit and subscribe

The trick is to hold the third with your teeth

You should see a doctor for that

Is there any technical reason that it has to send your notification data to Google and Apple or is it just to get more data on you?

the API that for example Google Firebases provides (most used, as it supports ios and android), is basically "send a notification with following content to this device".

Which is very simple to implement. as it's just fire and forget. But you send the actual data to Google in this case.

There are way to do it differently, for example how signal does it: They send a silent (e.g. invisible) notification to the device, which has no data in it.

That notifiation tells the app to check for new messages.

The app will then fetch messages in the encrypted way as it always does, and displays a notification if needed. No need to send actual data through the notification service (other than the metadata, that notifications should be pulled)

This is the name of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphene#Mechanical_stimulation

man, I'm going to steal that analogy. it's perfect

Bold to assume that there a QA step

What’s with the “aggressively American” AI narrator-voice?

I hate the AI voiceover feature. It's genuinely baffling that YT released it. It sounds worse than microsoft sam and is one of the buggiest messes I have ever seen on the platform.

For the people who don't know: you can deactivate it by selecting a different audio track. And it will mostly remember the selection.

I know creators who started to deactivate it for their channel, as it genuinely made people unsubscribe, because they thought it was done by the channel

Do you know the "new to you" feature?

It's agenuinely neat thing by YT, so of course it's completely hidden away.

In the browser you can find it at the top below the search bar, where you see all the genres:

You just need to scroll aaalllll the way to to right.

I don't use it often, but the feature is basically a recommendation feed on steroids. Videos in the same style that you already seem to like, but from creators that you haven't or rarely watched.

I found some real nice gems in there. As well as small creators that are geninely good and would later explode in popularity

that was my reaction as well.

I did a non-scientific poll in my friendscircle and fedi followers, and aparently only about a quarter of the people even know that "subscriptions" is an actual tab.

They just assume if they subscribe, that it will show up on the home page / main feed somehow.

It absolutely explains the "youtube unsubbed me from you" comments you always see. They never were subscribed in the first place (always saw releases on the home page when YT felt like it). Or they subbed, but never use the sub tab

People need to learn to subscribe to channels they like and then actually use the subscription tab.

Don't just let YT suggest videos to you. be active in your content consumption

aparently that's what they have been doing. This attack was in the works for quite a while

in a trusting ally relationship this would probably be fairly normal. In this case especially since the US is providing a lot of intel.

the hard part is being able to export them from some apps (looking at you, authy...)

Every robot is a sexbot if you're brave enough