AnonStoleMyPants

Man, I wish I could chromecast netflix from my phone but apparently Netflix now requires you to use their app.

I should get smarttube though.

You use it on Linux? I have used it in Windows (6700xt) and it is slow af (2 it/s or even in s/it range), apparently it should be a lot faster in Linux but haven’t tested it.

Onhan tuo tuomio kyllä aika minimaalinen.

Eiköa se pulju mennyt konkkaan ja toimari tuomittiin?

Joo toki, tuo sana “kyllästetty” vain omassa mielessäni viittaa johonkin jota on lisätty tietoisesti.

Ei torjunta-aineilla taida olla mitään tekemistä tämän fiaskon kanssa?

Jaa a, takapihalla on vielä kasvirompetta jonkun verran. Kuolleina sata vuotta varmaan mutta olen ollut laiska niiden siivoilemisessa. Jos vaikka nyt ne saisi pois nii ois jees. Porukoilla piti käydä syömässä sunnuntaina ja pakopelissä parin frendin kanssa huomenna. Kovasti harkitsen Debianin asentamista koneeseen mutta itseni tuntien tuskin saan aikaiseksi. Suapi nährä!

Edellisessä asunnossa tuli naapureille tuli juteltua kesäsin pihalla. Mukavaa porukkaa mutta siinä se.

Voi vittu nyt todellakin toivon että tällänen perseily ei mene läpi.

En tiedä onko siinä bisnestolkkua vai ei. Twitterille ei varmaankaan, mutta Muskille itsellee, ja hänen yrityksilleen? Ehkäpä. Twitter on hyvä paikka mainostaa ja puskea hänen omia idelogioitansa (tietysti se pitää vain tehdä hitaasti ja ei liian näkyvästi), yrityksiään, ja “häntä itseään”. Musk puskee tuota “X”:ää, jolloin se aletaan assosioimaan hänenä (Space-X, Tesla model X). Se toimii jo mainoksena. Onhan se helvetin iso sosiaalinen media, ja vaikka sieltä lähtisi todella moni pois niin se on silti helvetillisen iso sosiaalinen media. Suora yhteys satoihin miljooniin ihmisiin? Ei paha. Jos sieltä lähtevät kaikki pois jotka kyllästyvät tuollaiseen perseilyyn, ja paikalle jää ne joita ei kiinnosta? Vielä parempi? Riippunee lähtiöiden määrästä. Luultavasti on jokin piste milloin tarpeeksi moni lähtee pois ja moni huomaa, että heidän seuraajansa (tai seurattavansa) ovat lähteneet pois ja saattavat lähteä itsekin.

Aivan perseestähän tuo Muskin puuhailu on ja vaikka sitä tuntuu että mies on aivan päätön, niin tiedä häntä sitten. Tai ehkä hän vain on niin egoistinen että on täysin sokea mitä oikeasti on tapahtumassa ja kohta koko paikka palaa poroksi. Ei kyllä minua haittaisi.

Mukavaa mainetta 3D-tulostukselle. Uutisessa jankataan vain että he tekivät 3D-tulostettuja konepistooleja. Mistähän lähtien moiset ovat toimineet pelkillä muoviosilla? Varmaa hieman muutakin kamaa niihin laitettu kun muovia, ainakin jos ne halutaan toimivan ja varsinkin jos niiden on tarkoitus toimia enemmän kuin yhden laukauksen verran.

Mutta juu mitäs sitä turhia yksityiskohtia kertomaan.

I feel like this is a big thing that Lemmy needs quite soon. Lemmy system makes things more fragmented than in reddit for instance, so it would be great to combat this a bit. Sooner rather than later.

Something like when you go to a community there would be a checkmark that would also include posts from a list of communities curated by the mods of the community (or creator). Then when subscribing you would have this list of communities with checkmarks next to them to and being asked “want to sub to these communities as well?” and the user can un-tick some if they want to. Then later they can add their own communities to it should they choose to.

I’ve always felt like data gathering is kind of like lobbying. It is not directed toward you in person. It is used to shift the way people think and their opinions on topics.

A company / non-profit / movement / whatever lobbying towards a goal might be buying lunches or making seminars and talking about their point with selected group of people who have a say in a topic. Or they might not but they are in the vicinity of the topic or perhaps they are a group that a the company feels like they do not know what the fuck they are talking about and that needs to change.

These are not directed toward you but to a group of people whom you most likely have nothing to do with. This group has power to change something. Whether for good or for bad, that depends who doing the lobbying and for what purpose and how you think about the topic.

Data gathering is similar. This data that is being gathered is not identifiable to you (or it can be but this is not what I am talking about) but it gets clumped together with a buuuuunch of people. This bunch might be people from country x or Christians or people who like Mc Donald’s or who are against gun-rights or pro abortion or people whom think that companies should not be pushing climate change responsibility to the consumer. This clump of people are the same bunch that the lobbyists are targeting. But they do not have direct power over a subject, in general. Point being that even if most of the people have no power over a topic, some of them might (they might hold power oma person company deciding whether to do more against climate change). And even if they do not, they will converse about the topic and this will shift the general consensus around a topic.

And this bunch of people can be very accurately targeted. People in their 20-30s, who graduated (or will soon) from a university that are most likely to go work in high-tech companies in or in the government who have people around them (family, friends) that are against gun-rights but still own guns and do hunting? Ezpz. Or perhaps own a car and drive a lot and have relatives far enough that car is a necessity but have shifted their thinking being more against cars? Np.

The problem is that this does not easily be used against you in particular. But it can be used against a group of people that you are a part of. It is used to shift the way we think as a community. It is used to push ads and news articles (or just the topics of articles because glancing it also works) to you, comments in twitter, posts in Facebook, and change the search results that you might see. Kind of like ads as well; ads work really well even though lots (most?) people would say that ads don’t make them buy a product and only annoy them. Advertisers aren’t dumb, they know exactly what people think and how they function, and ads work.

And again to reiterate, it has nothing to do with you. You are a blip. But you are a part of a larger community and in order to shift that community toward something all of its little bits and pieces need to be moved toward that target. Not all of them need to move toward that target. Just enough.

This got a bit rambly I think but anyhooo it’s kinda how I see it.