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Next step: Apple removes hardware from box and ships aspiration only.

As an end user, ie. not someone who either hosts an instance or has extra permissions, can we in anyway see who voted on a post or comment?

I’m asking because over the time I’ve been here, I’ve noticed that many, but not all, posts or comments attract a solitary down vote.

I see this type of thing all over the place. Sometimes it’s two down votes, indicating that it happens more than once.

I note that human behaviour might explain this to some extent, but the voting happens almost immediately, in the face of either no response, or positive interactions.

Feels a lot like the Reddit down vote bots.

It absolutely is.

It’s possibly also how they’ll get broken up by the DoJ.

I think that every single provider tracks your activity and the vast majority of them use it to optimise their service income from you, either by giving you better engagement, ie. making you use the service more - endless searching for content for example, or by selling the captured tracking data to the highest bidder.

I experienced this crazy onslaught of advertising to the point of reducing how much I watched YouTube. I was pretty upset and not at all inclined to pay, especially since YouTube was even putting ads on my own videos without me seeing a single cent, because my channel is too small.

Then my partner bought me a few months of a Premium Subscription as a Christmas gift.

It was pointed out to me that I watched more YouTube than any other streaming service which I was paying for.

Combined with background music on mobile, it’s changed my life.

I’m still unimpressed with the business model, but the alternative is so far worse.

Find me a self publishing video platform with the reach of YouTube that doesn’t require self hosting and I’ll happily move my content there.

For the purpose of?

Venting? Warning? Praise?

Something else?

You could use a cron job to grep through the file and reformat the output into a webpage, markdown, or plain-text file.

Well, clearly this is a credible source, even has it’s own substack domain, what could possibly be suss?

I’ve seen this type of issue multiple times. If I’m really interested in the item I’ll contact the supplier and often they’re just as flummoxed as me.

Of course then there’s the "other"response as well, where the supplier has no interest in actually shipping outside their own country, but that’s a whole different thing

A.I., Assumed Intelligence

In my opinion it’s criminal just how often this happens. Big business making obscene profit off the back of volunteer work like yours and many others across the OSS community.

A.I. or Assumed Intelligence

Multiple camera angles are used for two reasons:

1. Added visual interest. People tend to want variety and colour and movement offered by different views can provide that. This is the obvious reason it’s being used.
2. Ability to edit without it being obvious. Often a presenter will require multiple takes to “get it right”. If you edit in the take, the picture “jumps” because humans move around. If you have multiple cameras you can edit and switch cameras without it looking like an edit. If you then also look at a different camera when you make a mistake, you can keep recording and fix it when you edit it together.

I was thinking in terms of human vs shark apex predatory behaviour…

There’s a joke here about swimming, apex predators, balance of power and Nom Nom Nom, but I’m Too Tired to figure it out.

So, a profitable half and the one that will go bankrupt?

Paywalled , or so horribly broken that you cannot scroll past the first page using Firefox Focus on Android.

“Groan…”

He’s now been indicted:

https://www.yourerie.com/news/international/telegram-ceo-indicted-in-paris-court/