JelloBrains

You thought it was going downhill before, but now that it will need to answer to money men, who want profits at all costs, it’s going to be sterilized eventually, piracy and porn are on borrowed time in my opinion.

$193mm for the Spez, this world sucks sometimes. I wonder how long the current Reddit admins stick around once the IPO goes live, I wouldn’t be surprised if they cash out and run once their options go live.

When it comes to Google, even if you pay them you are still the product, YouTube Premium might stop the ads on YouTube but it doesn’t stop the data collection for other Google products and partners.

Fulton County regularly allows cameras into the courtroom, and sometimes they run it on YouTube, It’s from their public access tv channel and it’s how we watched the Stop Cop City council meeting, so it’s not just because it’s the Donald circus. Fulton county is pretty open with court cases.

As for why it should be televised, we deserve to see the evidence and have the whole picture laid out, you deserve to hear what the Government’s case is against him and if it helps even 10 percent of his followers to see the light, that’s a plus.

Now, I am on the can we ban Threads train, I wasn’t at first because they hadn’t gotten involved in actually joining the rest of us, now they are and they’ve admitted they want all our information too, I just don’t want any part of that.

Things collected from fediverse participants that interact with Meta users…

- Username
- Profile Picture
- IP Address
- Name of Third Party Service
- Posts from profile
- Post interactions (Follow, Like, Reshare, Mentions)

They’ve never met a piece of data they didn’t want to mine, have they?

It reads to me they want their own store so they don’t need to pay the other stores fees or give them a cut of potential sales. I wonder how many other big tech groups are considering the same.

Maybe I’m mistaken, but outside of Pokemon Go, it doesn’t look like people really care for the AR stuff. Is there something I’m missing? Because if not, it’s no wonder Google keeps letting it fall to the wayside.

It also says that the change going to happen even though X ran it by advertisers who didn’t like it.

Holy shit this man is a fucking idiot. Advertisers who left in droves and he is now trying to get back have told him they don’t like this, and the motherfucker says yeah, who cares what you think I’m doing it anyway. I never got on the Musk is a genius train, and now I hope all those that believed he was are waking up.

Musk tweeted that journalists who want “more freedom to write and a higher income” should publish directly on X.

Yeah, I just don’t see that happening, it’s also a plan to get more users for his paid checkmark because to publish directly on Twitter, they’ll need those extra 25k characters.

I like that rain on the tin roof sound, not necessarily that podcast, that the record executive hates and I would pay more for that than I ever would for anything by Ed Sheeran.

If you are basing the use of a product on the politics of people involved in the project, then you are going to end up with no products to use.

If you are basing it on it being based on Chromium and having a crypto scam built in, then I get that. That being said, the browser isn’t super bad, just not good. Viva La Firefox.

I tried it, just to see, and all I could think of is what is going to stop some anti-piracy group from having 5-10 people sit in a room and constantly refresh the link and collect the domains to take them down easier?

They forgot to put how they now let verified subscribers hide the blue check so the rest of us will quit making fun of them.

These smart glasses failed when Google introduced Google Glass in 2015, then failed again when Google brought them back this year. It’s almost like people don’t want to wear camera glasses that record their every move.

Somewhere the lawyers for the MPAA have dreams of Tesla money dancing in their heads.

All Google has to do is sell this idea to websites and big companies that hate adblockers to try and ram it through. It’ll be like the old days “This site only works with internet explorer 3.0 or greater.”

I appreciate them getting the warnings out and standing against it but if you use one of their browsers or follow their blogs/socials, then chances are you already knew Google Chrome was bad for you.

It isn’t much better if they are doing it though… CNBC’s YouTube did a video on why EV range is flawed. Video

TL, DW: Most EV estimates from the EPA window stickers are lower than stated by an average of 12.5%.

Mastodon also doesn’t feed you content from my understanding, you have to curate your feed yourself, and a lot of people don’t mind the algorithm of places like TwitterX and Facebook feeding them random stuff.

Well your PSA may be wrong in some places now, The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that compelled passcodes don’t violate the 5th Amendment. Source

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App functionality, Fraud prevention, security, and compliance, Account management

What function could Meta possibly need for this? Why would Instagram/Threads (Same policy it looks like) need your Credit Score? WTF?

I’d only touch this if the team behind Instander made an app for Threads and I’d still use fake info.

Every great sci-fi book with robot overlords tells the same story, we built the robots with a failsafe so they couldn’t take over then one day the robot takes over anyway because it has convinced its human or figured out how to bypass their safety feature.

What is the bottom line here? Is Youtube big enough to be allowed to publish full albums of Pink Floyd? Or does Youtube pay a dime to Universal so they are allowed to publish the audio content?

The short answer to both is likely, yes.

Google has a lot of money and can prolong court cases, you’ll notice most copyright bullies tend to go after the small fish so they can get a precedent before using it against the bigger fish. What protects them the most is that they have installed their copyright system, Content ID, which allows Universal to upload hashes for their content and it will then hunt for any video with that in it, at which point the automated system is designed to block the content or leave it up if that’s the publishers wants or monetize the content and send the money to the publisher.

My question is: If Youtube can go away Scot’s free with this, why can’t the fediverse? If we start to host massive video/audio content, what will happen to the fediverse?

The owner of those instances will likely be sued, if their server host doesn’t kick them to the curb first, probably both.