jarfil

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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That is true, but only works at a single thread level:

  • Mallory posts some misinformation - A
  • Alice replies with a rebuttal - B
  • Bob replies to Alice with further fact-checking - C
  • Mallory hides Alice's comment B, leaving Bob's C only visible to Alice
  • Eve adds a supporting reply - D
  • Charlie replies to Eve with a rebuttal - E
  • Eve can hide Charlie's E, but Mallory can't

Now Mallory has to decide whether to:

  1. Hide D+E, losing Eve's support D
  2. Hope for Eve to hide E
  3. Leave Eve's support D with Charlie's rebuttal E visible

If Mallory keeps hiding replies, her post A will have less engagement, with a notification of "Some additional replies are unavailable".

Meanwhile... Alice doesn't need to stop rebutting A:

  • Alice reposts Mallory's A as a quote with her own comment - B(A)
  • Mallory can do nothing about B(A) since it's under Alice's control
  • Alice replies to her own B(A) with a quote of Bob's C - C2
  • If Alice got to see Charlie's E, she can also quote it - E2

If people like Alice's rebuttal, then it can get more engagement than Mallory's misinformation, which makes the algorithm show it to more people.

So while the system can create echo chambers at a single thread level, as long as a post is open to comments and resharing, which are essential to spreading it, anyone can also grab it and create their own chamber around it.

It's usual to see these kinds of reposts, with separate discussions, sometimes linking to each other and creating larger discussion pools.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Facebook has a "real name" policy. It doesn't work, some people create plausibly sounding fake accounts, while others get banned for not sounding plausible enough. Chinese social networks require official ID registration, they're still full of trolls, bullying, and fake accounts. The EU is working on an expanded Digital ID service suite... theoretically it could be done well, but based on past experiences, I remain somewhat skeptical.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 6 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

For 2-way blocking, check Threads. It has more trolls and spam, but also more options like:

  • User "Mute": 1-way block, like Lemmy
  • User "Block": 3-way block, you don't see them, they don't see you, nobody sees their replies to your comments
  • Reply "Hide for everyone": hide replies to your comments
  • Comment "Limit who can reply": Anyone / only Followed / only Mentioned

Although it's a Meta spawn, it ends up being relatively clean since users can "ban" each other from discussions, which works as a de-escalation mechanism.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 13 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I'm rarely out of Beehaw, works like a charm.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago

"When facing the evil, the lawful neutral stands below the chaotic good."

Peaceful protests are a great idea, up to a point.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

These shenanigans are likely illegal in the EU:

  • All products have to offer a minimum of 2 years of warranty, including access to online services on the same terms as sold. If they can't afford 2 years of servers, then they shouldn't've made the basic service free from the beginning.
  • Collecting excessive personal data (not personally identifiable, just personal) without prior approval by the user, like data about whether a user would pay or not, is a GDPR violation.

If people got serious, they'd be looking at some lawsuits and fines.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 10 points 1 day ago

Wikipedia and Archive.org need international mirrors. Just saying.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  1. Books bought a long time ago (created the account last century)
  2. Books not available on the high seas that were 50% cheaper on Amazon
  3. Books from Humble Bundles

And who said anything about being surprised? Got my offline copies of all of them already, but can get another one.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Below-average gross wages (expense for employer), with above-average net wage purchasing power (how much employees can buy).

Meaning: can pay less, without people protesting more.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_average_wage

For comparison: Denmark has 309% gross wages, with only 167% net purchasing power... so for the same employee's purchasing power/satisfaction, an employer can pay only 54% wages in Poland.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nice. May I ask, how did you do that? AI summary? I don't see that content in the page source. 😯

I've seen a LinkedIn comment calling it an "untapped opportunity in the west", wonder what's that about.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're right. However, we learn slurs as a shortcut to express sentiment. For educational purposes: what would be some acceptable ways of expressing the same sentiment?

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 6 points 2 days ago

"Charlie Chaplin's"... "roman salute"? 🤬

For context: PiS representatives keep getting invited to, and attending, all European neofascist alt-right meetings.

 

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jarfil@beehaw.org to c/support@beehaw.org
 

It's unnerving to find an interesting post, with an interesting conversation, only to see it deleted (not even mod removed) with hanging replies in the inbox and no way to reply back.

Is there any feature that would allow continuing those conversations? Other than direct messages, which get "black holed" (no way to see own replies). Could these conversations be somehow continued, either recovered in Lemmy, or maybe via Mastodon?

 

The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google's cloud services.

While it may seem like Enhanced Safe Browsing is the better way to go, there is a slight trade-off in privacy, as Chrome and Gmail will share URLs with Google to check if they are malicious and temporarily associate this information with your signed-in Google account.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jarfil@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
 

This time, straight from a patent granted to a blockchain company, with no accompanying paper or proof.

Edit: after reviewing the patent, and as pointed out by @floofloof@lemmy.ca, this is an incredible amount of BS. The patent's initial date is Feb 2020, issue date Dec 2021. It has no proof, because it claims to speculatively apply a possible theory by someone else, onto how to make a flexible Type II semiconductor out of a Type I semiconductor, in case this ever happens to be possible with that theory. Basically a patent troll waiting to see if someone happens to make possible the elements they've used in the patent, then jump in and claim an application.

Honestly, didn't know speculative patents like this were possible.

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