[-] ram@feddit.nl 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Adblockers can do more than just block ads, they also allow you to customize websites. As a simple example you can remove the annoying headers on youtube channels that take half the screen:

It's also great for news sites. I have a filter to remove articles on topics I don't care about. I also have rules to prevent these sites from automatically reloading after certain amount of time, something that I find very annoying.

[-] ram@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago

I was playing a Souls game while checking some info from Fandom on my phone. Unbeknownst to me the site was eating all my mobile data because of a live twitch stream playing on a muted and invisible player. Fuck those fuckers.

[-] ram@feddit.nl 26 points 1 year ago

I'm curious. How do you train such AI without being raided by the authorities?

[-] ram@feddit.nl 13 points 1 year ago

Dude, chill. Even if you're right, having a meltdown on github doesn't help anybody. Go outside and take a breath.

[-] ram@feddit.nl 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Autonomously AI generated art cannot be copyrighted.

[-] ram@feddit.nl 17 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of the old linux hater's blog post "At least we don't have any viruses".

[-] ram@feddit.nl 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you get caught we've never met.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ram@feddit.nl to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

By advantage I mean posts from those instances receiving more visibility than others on feeds that sort by score (active, hot, top).

There seems to be at least two ways in which posts from instances that don't allow downvotes receive an advantage:

  • They don't federate downvotes. That means other instances only count downvotes from their own users but not from the rest of the fediverse.
  • A downvote sometimes can be counted and federated as an upvote. This happens when you first upvote a post and then change it to a downvote.

Let's see an example. Suppose we are a user from instance A that allows downvotes and we want to vote a post on instance B that doesn't allow downvotes. Watch what happens on instance C that also allows downvotes.

  1. Before the vote this is what users from each instance see (upvote - downvote = total score)
    A: 10 - 0 = 10
    B: 10 - 0 = 10
    C: 10 - 0 = 10

  2. Now we upvote the post:
    A: 11 - 0 = 11
    B: 11 - 0 = 11
    C: 11 - 0 = 11

  3. We misclicked, we meant to downvote the post:
    A: 10 - 1 = 9
    B: 11 - 0 = 11
    C: 11 - 0 = 11

If the post was hosted on an instance that allowed downvotes users from instance C would see a total score of 9.

[-] ram@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago

Remember when android phones fitted in hands?

[-] ram@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And those who want to review every single one manually can still do that.

But will they? This tool promotes blindly trusting another instance block list without due diligence from the admin.

[-] ram@feddit.nl 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is a terrible idea that steers lemmy into being an echo chamber. Let admins use their own judgement.

[-] ram@feddit.nl 22 points 1 year ago

Spez gambled that most mods would give up because they where power whores. He won because he was right.

[-] ram@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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