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Circuit board earrings
  • Ooh does it light up? What is that unpopulated spot for?

  • Predictive text rule
  • I'm a bit confused about it and I'm going up there to see you EVERYWHERE

  • What does Lemmy do better than Reddit?
  • I've yet to see artists migrate here. The artists started on DA, Newgrounds, YT, Tumblr, etc. The professionals moved to Twitter.

    Reddit started from geek & tech culture, not creatives. Its ability to foster discussion extended well to not just techies but to everyone. Most creatives I've seen shy away from Reddit.

  • You are loved rule
  • maybe next time i see this it'll feel genuine

  • Find the cat
  • /r/thereisnocat

  • Mad Scientist Ethics Board
  • Formerly Lehman Brothers

  • 0 Counting Thread
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  • Seven Corndogs
  • this reads somewhere between Neil Cicirega lyrics and Clerks dialogue

  • Google spent $26 billion to hide this phone setting from you
  • I seem to be in the minority, but I've never had issues with it resetting my default browser.

  • The two wolves
  • Well you and I will get along swell cuz I don't turn mine off!

  • vast error rule 1
  • If you can't grow your own, store bought is fine.

  • The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar [2002] Dir. Michel Gondry
  • I've always wished there was a higher quality version of this.

  • ruleless charging
  • MagSafe charges super fast

    Magsafe has a 15 watt limit. Compare this to the 12 Watts you could get from an old non-fast charger, and the 45-100 Watts you can get from a modern fast charger. Also factor in that Magsafe is inefficient and creates more waste heat and likely throttles charging as a result.

    Much better than using a port that can wear out over time

    Meanwhile you're killing the battery with the extra heat.

    Also the lighting port is pretty darn durable, and I've had no major issues with USB-C disability either.

  • 🙃😵💀
  • already did. now what

  • Youtube reads our conversation?
  • They're not doing that. They have different ways of tracking you and don't need to listen to your real-life conversations, because they all (hopefully) know that if they were caught doing that, people would actually (hopefully) be upset enough to demand reform.

    Take for example your location data. Is Google storing your location data? Yes. Are they selling it? I doubt it. Instead, big companies at one point were able to track your movement within stores by using your bluetooth beacon address. IDK if that's still possible, but that's more in line with the way these things pan out. Also keep in mind some companies have incentives to keep data to themselves, usually when said company peddles ads themselves. You're still being tracked and are the victim of targeted advertisement, but your data is more siloed than you think.

  • Youtube reads our conversation?
  • Reminder that confirmation bias can be really hard to see around. It's literally one recommendation. About a submarine. Which you probably didn't talk about for very long. And is something you can't buy or have a choice in supporting. Let's be real, Discord and YT as corporations have little interest in furthering the Military Industrial Complex, and anybody who says otherwise better have solid evidence.

    As for the other comment, I don't see a source that says anything about Discord selling conversational data directly to advertisers. Discord is certainly not a privacy-focused application, but it's not in their best interest to sell your conversations directly like that.

    As for what they put in their TOS, it's pretty standard fare. Almost all user-generated content services will have clauses like that so that they don't get sued, because they're hosting your data. (reminder: this is not legal advice.)

    The clearest forms in which you will be advertised to are when you search for products, or visit sites with trackers. But even then, your data isn't necessarily being sold. Google, for instance, is generally not in the business of selling data to other advertisers, because they themselves are an ad business and having their own data gives them a competitive advantage. I tell you this to help you understand why companies are motivated to track you. Youtube, quite frankly, doesn't give a crap. For YT ads, expect to receive personalized ads, but for video recommendations, it's far easier for them to just do it based off of other stuff you've watched and what other people are watching. I'd be surprised if their algorithm uses external tracking data, because why would they? They have all they need in-house.

    If you and your friend really care about privacy and never want to worry about this again, you've got a lot of work to do. Stop using Chrome/chromium/blink/webkit. Use Firefox or one of its more privacy-focused cousins. Disable Javascript on as many sites as possible. Have as few accounts as possible, and delete your Google/AMZN/FB/reddit/YT etc. Use Tor or a VPN to prevent IP-based tracking. Make sure your DNS is 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8, or better yet, AdGuard DNS. And of course, stop using Discord or any cloud-hosted software. Teamspeak, IRC, and Signal/Matrix are good alternatives. Also shoutout to Quassel for a semi self-hosted IRC setup.

  • No need for labels
  • Bojack seems really depressing from the clips I've seen

  • It was 15 euros earlier today, what happened?
  • I paid the $30 for Lifetime Ultra after 7 years of using Dev/Pro just to support. But this new pricing is simply insane. I get the feeling LJ quit his day job to rush Sync for Lemmy out or something, because historically he never seemed to do this kind of thing.

  • Home Improvement @lemmy.world kenblu24 @lemmy.world

    New water heater got dinged during shipping/delivery. Is it usable?

    ! !

    Old one is leaking onto the floor, so I need to replace it fast. This is the new one and the delivery guy self-signed and left before I could talk to him.

    The product description says it has a glass-lined tank. Could the glass coating have been damaged?

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    lemmy.world counting - Lemmy.world

    Counting’s a good job mate. Challenging work. Click here for Newest comments [counting/data_type/Comment/sort/New/page/1] Etiquette: 1. No double-counting (don’t reply to yourself). 2. If the comment chain has split, continue the chain by replying to the earlier comment (go with whoever commented fi...

    Collaborative counting, just like /r/counting.

    In which you reply to someone's comment but add 1 to it.

    local link: /c/[email protected]

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    counting @lemmy.world kenblu24 @lemmy.world

    0 Counting Thread

    Starting over again.

    Get is at 1,000

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