"It's time we grow up," says former moderator of jailbait subreddit.

Behind every simple action that we do everyday is very often something incredibly complex: countless systems and protocols and just tons of stuff that all works together to give you ungrateful folks the perception that everything is simple and seamless. Well.. once you dive in, it's not.

Note: this is not a comprehensive analysis and it missing on many pieces like CDNs, half of the OSI model, most of the complexities of h264 and the fact that other codecs and streaming protocols can be used depending on video and device. But hey, at least you got rickrolled.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/93361

APIs for content sites must be free (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)

Link: https://readhacker.news/s/5GSi2 Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/5GSi2

TL;DR: LLMs are just mimicking natural language and conversation. Fact checking and healthy skepticism is not part of their model. For example they can be easily tricked into advocating conspiracy theories, like a fake moon landing. Google Bard is even stating arithmetic falsehoods like 5*6 != 30

Bionic Reading is a new way of reading text that uses a patented algorithm to highlight the most important parts of words, making it easier and faster to read. The method was developed by a German software developer named Renato Cukar, who was inspired by the way the human eye reads text.

Bionic Reading works by highlighting the most important parts of words, which helps the eye to follow the text more smoothly and efficiently. This makes it easier to read longer passages of text, and can also help to improve comprehension.

Bionic Reading is available as a free Chrome extension, as well as a mobile app for iOS and Android. It can also be used on websites and in PDFs.

See https://www.howtogeek.com/882688/why-you-should-use-bionic-reading-in-chrome-or-any-browser/

EDIT: Although some individuals claim to see improvement, it may be that results do vary as one test shows no real improvement across the board - https://blog.readwise.io/bionic-reading-results/

#technology #bionicreading #reading

I'm looking for getting an RSS feed up and running for tech news on my phone and was hoping for suggestions for some good feeds that aren't clickbait garbage, I currently have BBC News and Ars Technica, does anyone have any other website suggestions which are worth subscribing to?

Makes me think that reddit will still grow even after implementing all of the unpopular decisions.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/11661

With a fresh new start we have the power to enforce some unspoken etiquettes on the site in the hopes of a better platform than Reddit.

One great feature I see no one talking about is that we can write our own text when posting links, which is extremely useful for communities that mostly link articles. A lot of the political and tech related articles are mostly fluff, filled with jargon and clickbait only to have a one line news at the end of it all.

We should try to make it a habit to write the main point(s) that the article is making to avoid misinformation and ragebait titles. Ideally, a post without any text backing the article would become a red flag that it's posted by some bot or mass spammer, and would not be floated to the front page.

Interested to hear what the rest of the Lemmy community thinks!

If you have time, the ArchiveTeam Warrior runs easily in VirtualBox.

Also, you can request a copy of your personal data from reddit at (useful if you wish to delete your account):

https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request