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dedale
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Google Apps are like junk food, bad for your health/privacy, but very good in taste/product otherwise.

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  • They can fingerprint your browser and (very) probably your hardware, along with ip, location, and other leaked data, allowing them to reliably identify you whether you're logged in or not.
    At this point, it's more of a symbolic protest.

    • NATO stops short of Ukraine invitation, angering Zelenskyy

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  • They do feel their existence is threatened since NATO expended to the east in 1999.

    • newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request

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  • You've got to be quite the masochist to still use google for search.

    • Is there a way to block entire instances?

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  • Ah weird, it seems to work for me.

    edit: I checked, it doesn't work.

    • Is there a way to block entire instances?

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  • Get used to it, it'll do you good.
    But yeah on kbin you can block instances.

    • A new twist on an old classic

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  • It may be viral marketing for that biopic..

    • An Artist in Lyon Known as “the Pavement Surgeon” Repairs the City’s Sidewalks using Colorful Mosaics

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  • They'll stop anything out of the ordinary.

    • What would be the long-term impact on the internet and society if Google were to completely fail?

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  • I don't see a scenario where google or the likes would be allowed to fail. So moot point.

    Hypothetically it would open a window for open source services to sneak in.

    • Microsoft moving fully to the cloud, does this mean something to us?

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  • Middle term? The phasing out of personal computers, and moving toward a system of servers/terminals where noone owns software.
    You'll rent computing power or storage space, you'll only pay for the interface.

    • 2 authors say OpenAI 'ingested' their books to train ChatGPT. Now they're suing, and a 'wave' of similar court cases may follow.

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  • AI fear is going to be the trojan horse for even harsher and stupider 'intellectual property' laws.

    • In NYC, companies will have to prove their AI hiring software isn't sexist or racist

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  • Isn't the whole point of AI decision making to provide plausible deniability for these sort of things?

    • TIL of Dead Internet Theory that asserts the Internet now consists almost entirely of bot activity and automatically generated content

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  • It's not just a theory. Anyone who've seen internet before 2015 knows the difference.

    An unforeseeable and unfortunate side effect of humans interacting daily with bots masquerading as humans is that we mimic them.

    And that we lose our ability to see humanity in others. Being flooded with machines who cannot understand or be touched, influenced, which whom we cannot empathize changed the way we see our fellow humans.

    I don't think there's any coming back from that. Hopefully there's a way forward, now that AI's aren't a big secret anymore.

    • Version 5.2 of Peertube is out!

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  • I use it from time to time. The tech is getting better.
    But it's very hard to find anything interesting on it.
    They REALLY need to focus on implementing content filter and discovery tools.
    Right now it's a lot noise and reposted videos. The search function doesn't work at all.

    I think the platform could be viable with a decent, verbatim search function; a tag-based browsing system, and the ability to visualize the federated instances and browse any of them as local.

    It's still possible to find interesting videos by browsing an instance focused on a specific interested as local.