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YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers
  • I wonder how they will enforce this. If you can just open a private window to bypass it, it won't be very effective. Sure, they could do some fingerprinting, but I imagine avoiding false-positives would be very important, so I doubt they'd get very far with that.

    Honestly, the only way I see is implementing a login wall, which I wouldn't put past them. And that's kinda scary. It would render so many links inaccessible to people without a Google account.

    Or who knows, maybe they just want to make it more cumbersome and not completely prevent it, to get more people onto YouTube Premium, while the more determined people can continue adblocking because it's not worth fighting a small minority.

  • Silent anger*
  • Oh my god this is awesome!! I wanted to make something like this for myself for a while but never got around to it, unfortunately.

  • Your favourite themes
  • Typomagical. I love serif fonts.

  • Would digital signatures be a useful feature in lemmy?
  • For the "server shutting down" part, what you want is nomadic identity. There have already been a few discussions around this stuff, here's a good summary (scroll down to the bottom): https://blog.erlend.sh/fragmentations-in-the-fediverse

    Most fediverse platforms don't seem to see this as a priority at all right now, for what it's worth.

  • Kbin.social turning federation back on "soon"
  • The thing is, I just really prefer the tree view of Lemmy/Kbin...

  • Reddit is OpenAI's moat
  • Yeah, but the reasoning in the post is that OpenAI has already profited from the data, and might have a better position to negotiate special access with them than smaller companies, thus reducing competition.

  • Reddit is OpenAI's moat
  • Yes, but the special thing here is that OpenAI, which has a lot of shared stakeholders with Reddit, has already trained their models on its data, so they might have an interest in turning it off for the other companies. Also, they might be in a better position to negotiate with Reddit for special access to the data than smaller companies.

    It's a pretty wild theory, but interesting nontheless.

  • Reddit is OpenAI's moat

    www.cyberdemon.org Reddit is OpenAI’s moat

    Interpreting Reddit's API changes in light of how it serves OpenAI.

    Interesting theory for what might have been another motivation behind the API changes. After all, Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) is a member of the Reddit board. What do you think?

    edit: this is not my article by the way

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    Two routers - one exit point?
  • Ugh, internet providers are annoying. Why is stuff like that even legal.

    For situations like this I've had success with Shadowsocks, which you can combine with Wireguard, and run over Port 443, here's a guide.

    You could also try if it's sufficient to just run vanilla Wireguard over port 443.

    Edit: One issue you might run into with Shadowsocks is that combining it with Wireguard is not possible on mobile AFAIK.

  • Fake zero-day PoC exploits on GitHub push Windows, Linux malware
  • huh, this is weird. one would think people would use separate machines / vms to test zero day exploits, not their main machines.

  • How are you finding communities to subscribe to?
  • Could recommend this thing someone posted earlier today.

  • electronic fans?
  • Let me know if you have other cool artists to listen to!

    Edit: Should probably create a hyperpop community, but I don't really want to do it partly because I'm on a german speaking instance and that wouldn't make sense...

  • Danke und Hut ab!
  • Erst einmal hilft es sehr, wenn du viel postest, kommentierst etc. Außerdem kannst du die Lemmy-Developer finanziell unterstützen.

  • electronic fans?
  • ah yes, 100 gecs. at first I hated it, but after listening to it again a while later I started loving it. I can also recommend underscores, SOPHIE, Hyd, Cecile Believe, Arca, Xiu Xiu and Shygirl as some other loosely related random artists I've found recently.

  • Nun wo ihr hier seid: Wollt ihr überhaupt zurück zu Reddit?
  • Ja, wenn jetzt der Protest "schiefgeht" und der Großteil der Community wieder zurückgeht, dann weiß Reddit natürlich, dass es egal ist, wie sie ihre User behandeln, die kommen sowieso zurück. Und ich schätze mal, dann wird es nur immer schlechter.

  • How to follow a mastodon account from here?
  • Well, I'm not sure how to post to communities, but you can see all posts from a community by just searching for it on mastodon (use @ instead of !). (so to find lemmyworld, go to i.e. chaos.social and then enter @[email protected] in search) There you can also reply to posts, and these replies will show up on Lemmy. In addition to that, you can follow Lemmy users so their comments will show up on your timeline.

  • ‘These Bills Will Make Children Less Safe, Not More Safe’
  • This is terrible in every way. These online resources are incredibly important for teenagers who feel isolated, and it could even cut off adults' access to these resources because people might have to hand over their ID to get access to mental health content, which e.g. people with drug addictions might not want to do for various reasons.

  • Rob Grant, Lana Del Rey - Lost at Sea
  • So beautiful. It's so sweet that she's making music with her father :) Also think it's so cool that he's starting to publish music at this age.

  • How to follow a mastodon account from here?
  • Not possible yet. The devs said it may be coming in the far future. kbin supports this, but it's a bit buggy still and is not yet compatible with Lemmy. I'm considering switching once they turn on federation (so that you can join Lemmy communities from there and vice versa).

    This is all still a bit early still, unfortunately. Though I'm sure now that so many people are here development will accelerate significantly.

    Edit: People on Mastodon can reply to Lemmy conversations, though. And we can see their comments here.

  • App for lemmy?
  • Hah, I edited the same thing into my comment earlier :)

    edit: also that "unreviewed content" popup is such a scourge. it seems to pop up completely randomly, just to force you to use the app. glad to be off that platform.

  • various testing

    <!--- html comment -->

    hi

    this is a spoiler tag

    inline code

    python import praw print(praw)

    $\infty = \LaTeX$

    $$\sum{\frac{1}{n}}$$

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    Finding a post on your instance

    When somebody links to a post on some other instance you don't have an account on (or you find it on Google), and you want to comment, it's quite difficult to find the post on your instance. Post IDs seem to be local, so you can't just edit the URL.

    Is there any good way to do this? If not, some sort of permalink system could be useful? Maybe it would be nice if you could look up posts by hash or something?

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