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A nice as it would be to have, I don't get how the messaging interoperability is going to work in practice. The different platforms have many technical differences between them at the backend, and also mismatched user facing feature sets. Ironing all of the that out into some sort of common ground is going to be difficult, especially without it being very janky.

I wouldn't be surprised if this is kicked into the long grass eventually.

Not only does YouTube allow content like this to be monetised, they are often also actively promoting it. Alt-right videos regularly pop up in YouTube recommendations, even for users who never watch any political content.

All that matters is engagement, and apparently that kind of content is very effective in keeping people watching. Regardless of the broader consequences.

Unfortunately it’s never-ending cat and mouse battle. The whole point of SEO is to game the search engines systems, so the spammers will now be adjusting their tactics.

I don’t think it’s just SEO that’s the problem with Google search either. They seem to put too much weight on e-commerce over information.

You’ve got this, the potatoes have your back.

Many things didn’t used to be packaged at all, they were sold loose in bulk. The shop would put them in a paper bag at purchase.

I ordered a load of network patch cables recently. They all came packaged individually in sealed plastic bags.

The Panasonic Toughbook has always been the go-to line for rugged laptops.

You may not need such a ruggedised device for workshop use though. I use an older ThinkPad as a secondary laptop for grubbier jobs and environments. It’s taken a real beating and still works fine, and has survived having all sorts spilled and sprinkled over it, hoovers clean with no issues. Easy to service and replace parts too when necessary.

Linux compatibility is also great, which might be more challenging for some of the exotic or specialist portable computer options out there.

We really need to reconsider the place for biomass. It may be “renewable” in that we can produce it. But the production and consumption of biomass is often anything but environmentally friendly.

There is plenty of this nonsense going on, like the increasingly farcical carbon credit system. Fiddling with the numbers is easier and cheaper than making real change, so that’s what is being done.

Yeah, as someone who uses public transport having the noise nuisances get 600% louder really doesn’t sound too great.

There's a big difference between reading an article claiming a politician did something, and watching video that (appearers to) shows a politician doing something. That's the danger with deepfakes, that they will reach the point where direct audio-visual sources can no longer be trusted.

The difficulties in monetisation is what had been slowly killing RSS support on websites. There have been services that have tried to solve this problem, one is mentioned in the article, but they don’t seem to have had wide adoption.

It’s not just inserting ads either, today it’s also the pervasive tracking that makes money.

RSS was great for things like personal blogs, but commercial sites came to see little value in it, and have been dropping it as a result.

Google+ could have been successful to a degree, in terms of features it was an improvement over Facebook in several ways. The problem was the invite only launch.

The invite period worked for Gmail because it was still interoperable with other email services, and made getting a Gmail address seem exclusive and desirable. Making a walled garden social network invite only, however, just lead to it being empty. Most who did sign up looked around for a few minutes then went back to Facebook.

So I’ve heard advancement at Google/Alphabet depends on launching new products, not improving existing ones. Which means a lot of continually reinventing the wheel, because crafting truly novel new platforms is actually quite hard.

Just go for it. At the end of the day it’s only internet points.

Rationing downvotes could help break the groupthink while still providing a crowdsourced method of controlling spam and trolls. Other platforms have systems like this and it seems to work.

I think there have been some Lemmy instances that disable downvotes entirely also.

Is it common for apartments to have shared extractor ducts? I've never heard of a setup like this before, and it sounds like both a pain in the arse and a potential safety issue.

Controlling the kitchen fan is probably the easier bit. Depending on the design of the hood, you might be able to control it with a smart outlet or relay. Turn the hood's switch to always on and control it with the relay. The difficult bit would be sensing when to turn it on.

Cooking will often produce VOCs, and VOC sensors are easy to obtain, but they are also have other sources that are likely in your own apartment. Maybe try using temperature and humidity sensors int the duct to activate the fan when there is elevated temperature and humidity inside the duct?

Knowledge is a bit more than just handling data, and in terms of intelligence it also involves understanding. I don’t think knowledge in an intelligent sense can be reduced to summarising data to keywords, and the reverse.

In those terms an encyclopaedia is also knowledge, but not in an intelligent way.

Well, presumably the others work.

The Russian nuclear capabilities are apparently not in great shape either if it’s any consolation.

Not really, the type of encryption used isn’t necessarily a barrier to interoperability.

Quantum computing is developing quickly, and is a threat to conventional encryption methods. There is a good chance we will see quantum computing break many forms of encryption used today in the near future. As such, most companies developing secure platforms are now embracing quantum-resistant encryption.

This isn’t necessarily (another) attempt to reinforce the walls around the iMessage garden, just Apple being proactive about a potential future security danger. Other messaging platforms will be doing the same, if they are not already.