Chozo

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[–] Chozo@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's honestly kind of a short list of accounts, considering that most of the accounts listed there exist in multiple categories on the menu. And maybe this is just me being out of touch, but I didn't recognize a single person in any of the lists.

Mastodon really needs some help getting popular figures onto the platform. Hopefully Threads at least starts to open some opportunities in that regard once they begin federating.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

@neuraltimes That's awesome! This is something I wanna keep an eye on. Just curious, do you have any protections in place or any contingencies for a situation where the AI starts to develop a bias?

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@neuraltimes This looks really interesting! I'm also really enjoying some of the AI-generated images, as well. I'm guessing it's using the headlines as a prompt?

This image really tickled me, though: https://www.neuraltimes.org/post/american-couple-charged-30-000-for-55-uber-ride-due-to-currency-conversion-error-2023-07-15

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Not to stick up for Dorsey's new baby, but that's a misinterpretation of the text. Those labels are for reporting content, not for tagging your uploads. That's for moderation purposes, for users to report a post as CSAM.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah, Google has been weirdly tolerant of NewPipe and other YT-scraping apps for a while. I wonder what changed.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Now what is Google going to do with YouTube?

Hopefully keep Phil Harrison far, far away from it.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This looks really interesting! Do you know of any concerning limitations of the free version anyone should be aware of?

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (27 children)

I get why people choose to use tools like this, but I'm personally against SponsorBlock. Sponsors usually pay the content creator a LOT better than YouTube does, and the deals they offer to content creators can go up or down depending on the retention rate during the sponsored segments of previous videos.

That said, I still manually skip sponsored segments in anything I watch, usually. I'm not gonna pretend to be all high and mighty and act like I sit through every ad and that you should, too. But I'd rather do it manually, so that I can at the very least think about how bad I should feel for ruining their metrics. And also so that if they're a short one that I don't mind sitting through, or if I've stepped away from my screen while the video's playing, that they still get their playback metrics for the ad.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's always apps that you definitely don't need in the first place. File managers, battery savers, RAM managers, etc. The users who would think to install those kinds of apps, when their phone already likely already has built-in (and probably better) support for that functionality, are the same users malware developers look to target. They're usually not tech savvy, and less likely to realize that their data's been compromised, and even less likely to determine who compromised it.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Due to racist propaganda in the US during the 80s and 90s. Crack cocaine was portrayed in the media as a "black" drug, and many of the news stories about crack were specifically about it's effects on black communities.

While the name isn't inherently racist, in and of itself, it does still carry some racial connotations behind it. Maybe it's different these days for zoomers, but growing up during the "crack epidemic", as it was called, and seeing the way it was covered in the news, I can understand why some people are resistant to the name.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oh dang, if only somebody could have seen this coming! Oh well, nothing can be done.

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