[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The algorithm is actually tailored to find out if/when you fall asleep while watching videos, and then recommends longer videos in autoplay when it believes you are, because they'll get to play you more ads and cash out more.

You might be misremembering / misinterpreting a little there. This behavior is not intentional, it's just a side effect of how the algorithm currently works. Showing you longer videos doesn't equate to showing you more ads. On the contrary, if you get loads of short videos you'll have way more opportunities to see pre-roll ads, but with longer videos, you're just to just the mid-roll spots in that video. So YouTube doesn't really have an incentive to make it work like that, it's just accidental.

Here's the spiffing Brit video on this, which I think you might have gotten this idea from: https://youtu.be/8iOjeb5DTZI

Edit: to be clear, I fully agree that YouTube will do anything to shove ads down our throats no matter how effective they actually are. I'm just saying that this example you've brought is not really that.

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The meme only says "if ... then ...". It does not imply the reverse relationship of "if not ... then not ...".

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Oh awesome, thank you so much!

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Seconding this. Legitimately better than Google photos in a lot of ways, even if you don't care about the data ownership aspect. If you've ever been annoyed at how Google Photos handles face detection / grouping, you'll love Immich.

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

I'd love to know what font was used for the big "Saturday" there!

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

we're going to ostracize you from society forever

That is very different from simply not wanting him to be a representative for his country and potential role model for aspiring athletes in one of the biggest media events of the world though. Being welcomed back as a member of society is one thing, but there is a point to be made about expecting more of Olympic athletes than your average member of society.

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

No, nutomic started by ignoring the actual question that was asked and instead starting an ideological argument with a bad faith question. You might say that OP shouldn't have taken the bait, but this was not started by them

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

It still protects you from your passwords being compromised in any way except through a compromise of the password manager itself. Yes, it's worse than keeping them separate, but it's also still much better than not having 2fa at all.

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

It depends on where you live. In Germany, forced arbitration in general TOS is invalid and has to be separately negotiated and agreed to. In general, what you can put into your TOS is pretty restricted, anything you put in there that a consumer wouldn't reasonably expect is not gonna be legally binding.

https://law.stackexchange.com/a/82748

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

The German saying says "Hut", which is a less broad term than the English "hat". And it definitely does not include that.

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

I mean, this is one of the few cases where you actually can reasonably say that you might not have to give a damn about GDPR. Assuming this is in the US, there's a high chance that no EU citizen lives in that building, and thus GDPR doesn't apply.

(Yes, I know this didn't actually happen)

[-] hikaru755@lemmy.world 53 points 6 months ago

I don't know about this case specifically, but I own Alan Wake on steam which has since been delisted because of music licenses running out. At least for that one, I still own the game on steam and can download, install and play it normally whenever I want, it's just that people cannot buy it anymore through steam. If you're lucky, it's gonna be the same with the adult swim games.

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