hikaru755

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[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

One country cozying up to Putin is hardly a reason to call the entire EU divided

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

This is not at all relevant to the comment you're responding to. Your choice of password manager doesn't change that whatever system you're authenticating against still needs to have at least a hash of your password. That's what passkeys are improving on here

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

I'm German, and I've never heard that before. I'd be seriously weirded out by someone saying that or teaching it to their kids

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago

You need both ends of the cable connected, so the phone is out. And even on PC, I'm not sure if it would work with the USB drivers in-between the software and the actual ports

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Could you link that review, please?

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So you consider the side effects an acceptable risk?

Doctors that are specialized in that field should know that better than you or me, no?

But I'll humor you anyway. You know what also has side effects? Going through puberty. And those side effects are permanent. If your puberty changes you in ways that don't align with your gender identity, those side effects include higher risk of dying by suicide, as one example. So yeah, that seems like a risk that I, with my unqualified opinion, would be willing to take in order to make sure my child and their doctors have enough time to figure out who they are and what they need.

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Reading the article, it seems like it will actually be opt-in for everyone

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The algorithm is actually tailored to find out if/when you fall asleep while watching videos, and then recommends longer videos in autoplay when it believes you are, because they'll get to play you more ads and cash out more.

You might be misremembering / misinterpreting a little there. This behavior is not intentional, it's just a side effect of how the algorithm currently works. Showing you longer videos doesn't equate to showing you more ads. On the contrary, if you get loads of short videos you'll have way more opportunities to see pre-roll ads, but with longer videos, you're just to just the mid-roll spots in that video. So YouTube doesn't really have an incentive to make it work like that, it's just accidental.

Here's the spiffing Brit video on this, which I think you might have gotten this idea from: https://youtu.be/8iOjeb5DTZI

Edit: to be clear, I fully agree that YouTube will do anything to shove ads down our throats no matter how effective they actually are. I'm just saying that this example you've brought is not really that.

[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Oh awesome, thank you so much!

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