If you have a bunch of people guess how many M&M’s are in a jar you can average the guesses and you’ll come very close to the correct amount. A recommendation system can be very democratic in that way. When reddit still had their public API I would take advantage of this fact and use it to decide if something was a “deal” or not on PC parts. I was tracking the prices of computer ram at the time as an experiment. It worked very well. If they are federated properly, then their content can be filtered and appear on an instances front page.
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I can definitely see certain brands doing well with their own forums. Sports teams would be a very good niche for hosting their own instances. Another one would be the entertainment industry. It’s just not feasible for companies that aren’t interesting to talk about. Like there won’t be a Coca-Cola instance worth a lot of users.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn’t understand the concept of fun
30·2 years ago“Metaverse” was the idea that you would use only Meta services instead of the wider Internet. Much like AOL and Yahoo tried back in the 90s and 00s.
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Technology@beehaw.org•California passes right-to-repair act guaranteeing seven years of parts for your phone
10·2 years agoThe bill text excludes video game consoles completely.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•How to use ProtonMail in my Android phone without letting Google know about my Proton account?
51·2 years agoIt’s not important at all why they want to do it.
I was upset when games like world of warcraft were charging for online play. I could see it back then that companies would charge you multiple times just to play games.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Meeting new roommates for college and I suggested Signal and this was someone's response. I hate Gen Z.
1·2 years agoI thought gen z was already adults and this is some kind of new wave of kids that didn’t get social skills because of the pandemic.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’ - The Verge
5·2 years agoIt’s hurting the commuting industry.
In keeping with Nintendo naming conventions it with be the “switch u” or more likely “switcheroo” It will be a VR based system that seems like an add on peripheral for the switch, but is actually a new system that nobody buys due to confusion and lack of titles.
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Technology@beehaw.org•What’s the Matter with the smart home?
2·2 years agoI ran it for a little while, but it was too much work to set up what I ultimately wanted it to do. On top of that I don’t want to have touch it after I set it up. I use a lot of dumb motion sensors instead. Not the best solution sometimes, but better than having constant downtime at the worst time.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Meta discontinues Messenger Lite for Android, it will be unavailable after Sep 18. Users need to install regular Messenger app instead
5·2 years agoMarketplace became the defacto replacement for craigslist in my area 😔
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Technology@beehaw.org•Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over
1·2 years agoYes, you can rewrite something in your own words and as it isn’t copied verbatim, then it isn’t infringement. You can’t copyright the idea of something.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start overEnglish
4·2 years agoI read an article in NYT and then I used the information to make money. Come sue me.
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Operating Systems@beehaw.org•I'm looking for the best way to recover data from an android phone that isn't unlocked or rooted.
2·2 years agoThank you for that. The video is .mp4 1920x1080 7 minutes and 15 seconds, 1.21 GB in size! frame rate was set to “Automatic” in the stock photo app. that’s quite a big video file for 1080p. maybe there is a tool for analyzing that instead?
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Operating Systems@beehaw.org•I'm looking for the best way to recover data from an android phone that isn't unlocked or rooted.
2·2 years agoI have a lawyer for the criminal case, unfortunately without evidence, there’s not much to be done. If under questioning, the officer states that he did review the footage, then I can assume that he did do something. If the recording is unedited, then my phone was theoretically locked when they grabbed it since it stopped before they got there, so my phone should have been locked by then. Unfortunately, any chance to ask questions will be weeks away from now.
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Operating Systems@beehaw.org•I'm looking for the best way to recover data from an android phone that isn't unlocked or rooted.
2·2 years agoI think I’m still going to poke around and see if I can find some workaround to get it rooted without wiping. I know that there are more robust tools out there that the police and governments have that allow them to do it. They always say there’s no way to delete something, so there are ways they just aren’t widely available.
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Operating Systems@beehaw.org•I'm looking for the best way to recover data from an android phone that isn't unlocked or rooted.
2·2 years agowoops, thanks, my mind isn’t where it should be at the moment.

Pihole hasn’t worked with YouTube in almost a decade. They changed their ad service to their own domain, so there isn’t any way to distinguish between an ad and a regular video on the domain level that pihole uses.