Oh, I absolutely am blaming the politicians behind this (and the lobby groups behind them). The only strictly wrong thing Reddit does is how it implements that law, i.e., using third-party age verification that happens to also use your data to profile you and that has been shown to be insecure (Further Reading links in my post).

Agreed. Lemmy, while being very new, mimics features of ye olden times. Newsgroup era and all… But Reddit kinda started that way and then, as all good things, slowly enshittified. It seemed to resist enshittification longer than most sites. At least that was my impression. But good things can’t last. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, after all, I guess.

Here I am, not enough hands for all the cookies and kitties. Haven’t used Reddit in months and perfectly happy without it. Still sharing my sadness about seeing “the old internet” slip further and further down that slope.

Le texte suivant est en anglais. Avertissement concernant le contenu: violence sexuelle.

5 lines in and it reads like slop.

Spoilsport :P

Erm… OP, you know that blurring is not destructive, right?

Could one integrate this with apps like NextTube or PipePipe? I.e., When I search for a video on those apps, they search the torrent index first, then search Frama Tube / PeerTube second, then search YouTube-proper last. While I’m streaming a video from any of these sources, I am then also downloading and seeding it to the torrent network and I keep seeding the last videos I watched on a rolling basis until an allocated memory space on my disk is full and the oldest or least requested video in that local buffer is deleted to make space for new; while I’m on Wifi to save mobile data? I think providing such seamless integration is the best way to get this space densely populated enough to be useful.

I’m doing my part 😁

Absolutely delightful article about how limited our digital color space is, the history, technology, and physics behind that, and vivid examples where to encounter those exiled colors in our physical environment. Very approachable language.

billionaire tax backed by California governor and presumptive Democratic presidential aspirant Gavin Newsom

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Newsom, the California Democratic Party, and […] - are publicly opposing the tax.

and

Newsom said that the proposed tax “makes no sense” and would be “really damaging to the state.”

Huh? Wording?

Thank you for the context. Highly appreciated! I had gathered the gradual decline in funding and surveillance from this publication but they didn’t really talk about the damages done by COVID or DOGE.

Can we normalize tldrs under bot posts please?

Most probably a later addition to this myth, but there is a bemusing, historically stable, and well replicated correlation between stork breeding pairs and human births (1). On a per settlement level, this is commonly attributed to the number of chimneys as typical stork nesting places ≈ number of households ~ births. On a per area instead of a per city scale, I don’t know of any confounders that are quite as obvious; maybe industrialization as a confounder of the area of undisturbed wetlands as stork feeding grounds and an increase first of child mortality and later of sex ed. To be clear, I can’t exclude that medieval or early modern demografers already spotted at least the aforementioned city level correlation, as it’s strikingly clear and stable, but I highly doubt it’s the origin of the myth. 1: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26635482-600-the-uncanny-stork-baby-correlation-that-really-is-for-the-birds/

This article criticizing AI gives me strong LLM vibes. Especially this sentence, which addresses the reader directly, as if in response to a prompt: “The split you describe is real, but it’s not new, and it’s not caused by #AI, it’s the endpoint of a long enclosure of commons → platform capture (#dotcons), trust → contracts, sharing → surveillance + monetisation and public space → login walls.” by Hamish Campbell on OMN (or is it?)

Good bot