Fuckin’ A.

I can finally take on General Kenobi.

While I would understand your reasoning for doing so, I would be disappointed to see it happen. There’s decent discussions on Beehaw that I enjoy taking part in, however if you guys decided to defederate or switch to a different platform entirely, I doubt that I would make another account somewhere else to follow. I like Beehaw’s content, but I have enough accounts to keep track of these days after everything split from Reddit, so it would ultimately be a loss for me.

I’m not sure if this is a commonly-held opinion for those of us outside of Beehaw, though.

if this was in lieu of data collection and tracking

I guarantee this isn’t in lieu of, it’s in conjunction with.

I’ve been replaying Cyberpunk 2077, in preparation for Phantom Liberty coming out shortly. The storytelling in this game is so damn good.

If we could all be so lucky.

i wish there was a paltform where everyone could have a respectable discussion without trolls or extremism…

I’ve got bad news for you: that never happens on any so-called “free speech” platforms.

The comments on that article are horrendous. So many people defending the creep.

Interestingly enough, this uncreative article has excellent SEO.

MP3s compress pretty well, depending on the bitrate you rip your CDs at. Your Pixel should be able to easily store upwards of 300 hours of audio without much issue.

OP specified that they do not have a PC. They have a Pixel phone and an iPad. I’m not sure if there are any Android or iOS apps that support connecting to a CD drive to rip audio files.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona

It’s a long read, but very much worth it. It goes into detail about the types of material these people have to spend all day watching and reviewing, and talks in length about some of the unhealthy coping mechanisms these teams develop for themselves. Lots of drug use, sex in the office, and suicidal ideation.

While the article focuses mainly on Facebook moderators, I used to share an office with YouTube’s content moderation team around the time this article came out, and a lot of the article rings true for YouTube, as well. I imagine it’s similar across all the big platforms.

Thank you for your service. o7

Not my circus, not my clowns.

You can’t always trust that the mods will - or even can - take any action, though. Especially due to the federated nature of things.

For instance, you and I are both commenting from different instances, on a post made on a third instance, by a user from a fourth instance. Who has power over who in this situation? Between you, me, and OP, none of us “belong” to the instance this thread is in. Who are the three of us supposed to be trusting to keep this place clean of that sort of content?

One could argue that that’s just the inherent risk you take in using federated platforms, but I don’t think that’s too widely understood among the user base at large just yet. A simple user-maintained scoring system, even as rudimentary as Lemmy’s implementation currently is, does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to filtering the good content from the bad.

For what it’s worth, the scores are rarely accurate, anyway, as not all instances sync scores with 100% accuracy, if they even sync them at all. Some instances don’t allow or even calculate downvotes. Your score can vary wildly from instance to instance.

It’s actually kinda funny to open up your comments in multiple instances to see what your scores are across communities. I’ve noticed that I’ll get heavily downvoted on some instances, but will see highly positive scores on the same comment from my “home” instance.

I’d have to say no. That allows for hate speech, harassment, and general trolling to hold equal footing with otherwise civil conversation.

I had a Ford Taurus that I swore by for several years.

Well, swore at, mostly.

I didn’t want the phone listening all the time just so I could occasionally say “Ok Google, play the news”

Just FYI, your phone isn’t truly “listening” to you. There’s a separate, low-power chip in most phones these days that has one singular function, which is to listen for the “wake phrase”. It doesn’t understand anything else besides “Hey Google” or “Hey Siri”, or whatever phrase your device uses. This chip has a very small amount of memory, and can only process about 2 seconds’ worth of audio, and has no storage or ability to transmit data to any other part of the OS. The actual OS can’t hear anything you’re saying 99.99% of the time.

When it detects the wake phrase, it triggers waking the phone and activating your mic, where it actually starts to listen to you for the next few seconds to hear your command. But before that, the device can’t hear you at all.

Same goes for smart speakers like Nest, Echo, Home Pod, etc. Granted, Echo has had some issues where it was improperly detecting the wake phrase due to some very bad false positives a few years ago, but I believe Amazon has patched that now, as verified reports of Echo devices hearing more than they should are a lot more rare as of late.

I just don’t understand why they removed Jen Taylor’s voice from Cortana. That was… the whole point of Cortana, IMO. Without Taylor’s voice model, Cortana is just another soulless, half-baked digital assistant that doesn’t do what you want it to half of the time. All of the charm came from the fact that it was literally Cortana from Halo.