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  • Eh. Gen-x here. I still have an hour long phonecall over signal with my best friend over signal two times a week or so.

    In my teens I wasn't too happy about making phonecalls either, but working on a helpdesk for a while sure cured that.

    On the other hand, I live in a country with consumer protection, so robocalls are not a thing. And I'd strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger (and GDPR) those companies who attempt to poison and destroy my personal attention.

  • I wasn't awake enough to appreciate the sarcasm in this comment when I initially read it. Nice one.

  • Lemmy allows it on a user level, since version 0.19

    But since I see you're on mbin, that don't do you much good, I'm afraid.

  • I see.

    As the other commenter also said: can't you just block the LW instance on your account?

  • What's the usecase for cloudflare filtering / blocking LW?

    I'm aware that the latter is a huge risk in what is supposed to be a decentralised solution, but I'm not sure why you'd need to filter hundreds of communities for that (rather than defed 1 server).

  • Also, its not clear reddit is able to retain deleted posts. They have a vast live site to maintain - why would they ever have been focused on having an immutable back up of all deleted posts?

    They do, though. Last year when there was a small exodus to Lemmy, lots of people deleted their history. Which reddit then recovered.

    The truth is, marking a comment or post as deleted, literally only takes one bit to store. deleted=1 or 0. However, if you go back and overwrite all your comments (not with an identical message, because that is easy to detect) - that would take more effort to recover.

  • Honestly, between these obsession posts and all the other non-tech news that gets posted here, I just unsubscribed this morning. The signal to noise ratio in this community is just not worth it to me.

  • I prefer the latter, because it's so much easier to filter out posts about Elon than it is to filter out posts about X (without creating a ton of false positives).

  • I might have been a teensie bit sarcastic when I wrote that ;)

  • Can you take your unopinionated headlines somewhere else? This is a technology community.

  • The sad state of political campaigning in 2024.

  • As long as ads and analytics are separate from each other and the rest.

  • Good question. The answer is: for a significant amount of people, politics is emotional - so what makes sense isn't necessarily relevant.

  • Before welcoming this as good news, be aware that democrats might also start thinking this misinformation is real, and decide to stay home and "not vote for a losing team".

  • I guess responses like yours is the reason the headline didn't mention the actual party gitlab is in talks with. People just love to have their villain.

    Ignore the headline. Read the article. Gitlab is not about to sell to Google. They are about to sell to Datadog.

  • But they have been partially owned by Google for the past time, and the product has been great.

    Google's involvement is only going to lessen, so the only reason to put so much emphasis on that in the headline would be to get those rage clicks.

  • Typical that the title does mention Google (who currently has a minority stake) but not Datadog, who would become the new owner.

    But yeah, I don't foresee a new owner making things better for gitlab.

  • They could, but adding random zero width characters into words would also destroy ever spell checker, giving it away immediately and making sure that even unaware people would filter it. Doing it outside the words would leave them with too few spots to use for proper watermarking.

    I think it's far more likely they'll use some kind of pattern in the tokens - that way the watermark will remain even when you don't copypaste it.

    But yeah, as said, they will never tell how it's implemented, but it can still be simply subverted.

  • Yeah, no chance they'd rely on something that would be so easy to defeat. Watermarking by using word patterns is far more likely.

    Still easy to defeat by just using another LLM to rephrase it though.