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Comment · 1 day ago
Seems these days that the most marketable threat modelling for your product is against the company's own CEO.
Comment · 11 days ago
I also suspect that the quality of transcription depends on the popularity of the video. So maybe it's decent for videos with 000,000s of views. Same way the video codec is changed from AVC to VP9 - and occasionally AV1 nowadays.
Comment · 17 days ago
I recently redeemed three months of free Apple TV+, and it drives me crazy to get a preroll of other TV+ movies and TV shows I couldn't care less about.
I like to think it's only going to be there while I'm freeloading on the three-month offer, but all I know is that I don't get this with Netflix.
Comment · 17 days ago
So far, I've had a hard time setting up an iCloud passkey on desktop Windows. Windows Hello keeps intercepting most attempts at a passkey, and 1Password will usually step in otherwise. The UX around it continues to be baffling to me.
At least there's a dedicated migration protocol for passkeys, but I'm not super stoked about how basic Apple's password management is, and how few fields there are for each profile.
But I also feel like it's time to retire my YubiKeys ...
Comment · 24 days ago
I can't tell if this is about specific subreddits or Reddit itself. Subreddits often have to implement some threshold for karma or activity within the subreddit because of brigading - or these days, botted promotion.
I thought this was largely not possible anymore after the APIpocalypse, but maybe Reddit implemented some tools of their own that are either more opaque in their rules and requirements, or more prone to false positives than their third-party counterparts?
Comment · 25 days ago
Anil Dash can probably call someone he knows if his account is shut down for upsetting the moderation algorithm. For people whose careers and livelihoods depend on their online presence, it's easier said than done for people with that kind of privilege. People losing access to their Instagram accounts with no option of appeal or support is the norm.
Social media is a big part of people's lives, and getting your account canned or shadowbanned might not be the most useful form of activism. People try different things instead of just the one. When nothing works to stop and hold Big Tech accountable, what really counts as actual activism? Sure, some people act way more oppressed than they are compared to others, but the "lingo" at least implies an awareness of the censorship. Some of these attempts at special language or emoji is too absurd to the point of being offensive like the grapes and overly coded language to the point where it trivializes the severity of the issue.
Some people make money by using social media. How do you talk about real issues without being at risk of effectively ending your primary source of income? Talking about "politics" on Twitter can get your content reclassified as "Political", which greatly diminishes the advertising on your channel: https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Update-on-CCL-for-Politic.... Political and advertorial censorship are similar, but separate things, both of which have major chilling effects. This isn't to excuse influencers etc from using their platforms responsibly, but let's at least understand their daily reality.
This might be a hot take, but I also think part of the problem is that the adults also need to realize that we fundamentally just need to be less online. Instead of coming up with "Twitter alternatives", it'd be better for most to just hand their kids an analogue diary to type all their cringy thoughts into so that only they will know the embarrassing stuff they would say when they didn't know any better.
Comment · 26 days ago
After people getting pilloried for social media posts from twenty years ago, I really hope (sensible) people will have the wherewithal to think twice about what they hand over to their chatbots.
Comment · 1 month ago
Trying to download all my 5GB of files from the web client gives me an "Attempted to zip too many files."
I guess the only way to get or export your data is through the desktop client?
Comment · 1 month ago
Gonna need these people to at least prefix their prompts with "You are Edward Tufte and have an allergy to chartjunk".
Comment · 1 month ago
Third-party calls won't eat into Apple's compute, so it's not entirely against the interests of Apple as they put caps on people's AI use.
I wonder what the margin on this stuff is for them:
Some Apple Intelligence features in the Home app, such as
video summaries, are available for a limited number of
cameras depending on your iCloud+ plan — up to 1 camera
in the 2 TB plan, up to 2 cameras in the 6 TB plan, and
up to 5 cameras in the 12 TB plan. Supported camera
counts and other iCloud+ plan features may change over time.
Comment · 1 month ago
Sony TVs are handled by TCL now, so time will tell how Sony-branded models act (up) in the future.
https://www.tomsguide.com/tvs/sony-just-handed-its-tv-busine...
Comment · 1 month ago
I like Kagi, but is it me or have their results been less than great for the past 1-3mo? Maybe the places they're pulling their results from have had some changes?