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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • Wow great point!

    btw I’d also thought to mention how I wish it could just be merch or live show tix b/c: did that creator I love REALLY like the new widget that was released or were they financially incentivized?

    Which is why I mentioned transparency & labeling. Some will falter and some good people will subconsciously be incentivized, but some will choose sponsors so well they’ll be fine, too.


  • Related note

    I’m a Ublock Origin kinda guy, but not a SponsorBlock one

    Because gestures at capitalism is the thing for now:

    Sponsorships, when transparent and well-chosen and clearly labeled and clever, are less grating and don’t use anti-privacy targeting methods. That’s a path forward I’m pretty much OK with (remember capitalism is the thing, you & I have to eat like the YouTubers?).

    My expectation is not “everyone should do everything for free” or “you’re only allowed to sell merch, without ever mentioning it” or “uploaders must have live shows and sell tickets if they ever want a dollar”. It’s “ewww, ads” and the malware that we’re exposed to alongside them.


    Meant to make a post about this but your comment triggered it early :)





  • Did you mean to post a link to the index or a deeper link? Looks like the website is employing… URL cloaking, I once saw it called?

    Nowadays we see that all the time on mobile where a website pushes a special URL when we use the share sheet, but manually copying the URL out of the address bar remains unaffected.

    Not in this case though!







  • I imagine even the fk_ai crowd appreciate the non-gimmick stuff as long as it is nothing like a chatbot

    Tiny example from Gmail:

    This is all over, and it can be super useful from time to time.

    They say “f AI!” but I mean sure they don’t want better searches than were possible five years ago? If it’s not sycophantic and confabulatory etc. etc.

    Good point on intrusivity

    PS

    PS: I translated news from Iran this week using AI tools and using traditional translators. Who would advocate for the garbage traditional translation—soon as I went the “AI” route, it was suddenly possible to understand what the journalists were trying to say. That doesn’t mean I want translators to lose their jobs, it just means I know what the best available technology is and how to use it to get a job done. (And does not mean just because it translates well that I will also trust it to summarize the article for me.)









  • Hey there I didn’t complain or downvote but also declined to upvote cuz of the two little tiny words of ad hom……

    … (idea!) …

    DINGUS! Dingus would’ve saved it!

    ya dingus

    Perfect, feels very Lemmy-appropriate—gets the insult with a perfect lulz factor so even the parent commenter could’ve kinda laughed (I hope ppl can take jokes!)

    …sorry I know I’m not your mom, hope this doesn’t come across maximally prescriptive (just my 2c!)