AmbitiousProcess (they/them)

https://workspace.google.com/blog/identity-and-security/an-overview-of-gmails-spam-filters

User feedback, such as when a user marks a certain email as spam or signals they want a sender’s emails in their inbox, is key to this filtering process, and our filters learn from user actions.

Maybe a lot of people just mark it as spam for some reason, wonder why that could be? Could it be because they simply don’t like your emails and think they feel spammy? No, that couldn’t be it, it has to be that the same company that kissed up to Trump also just hates republicans now for some reason! /s

For anyone actually curious if sunflowers do that, they do not, in fact, do that.

I doubt that’s the case, currently.

Right now, there’s a lot of genuine competition in the AI space, so they’re actually trying to out compete one another for market share. It’s only once users are locked into using a particular service that they begin deliberate enshittification with the purpose of getting more money, either from paying for tokens, or like Google did when it deliberately made search quality worse so people would see more ads (“What are you gonna do, go to Bing?”)

By contrast, if ChatGPT sucks, you can locally host a model, use one from Anthropic, Perplexity, any number of interfaces for open source (or at least, source-available) models like Deepseek, Llama, or Qwen, etc.

It’s only once industry consolidation really starts taking place that we’ll see things like deliberate measures to make people either spend more on tokens, or make money from things like injecting ads into responses.

He’s absolutely talked about it. It was a core marketing and campaign promise of his.

But has he actually pushed forward any meaningful legislation or rules that would actually reduce or eliminate the harms of UPFs yet? No, not really.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/will-rfk-jr-really-curb-ultra-processed-foods-like-he-promised-experts-weigh-in/

Both, I believe. I haven’t used reddit for a while, but when I was on there and they were selling NFTs, they were both avatars (more specifically, a combination of outfit pieces you could mix and match with other pieces from other NFT and non-NFT avatars) and a collectible at once.

I honestly don’t have much of a problem with how they did NFTs as avatars. If you want to monetize your platform in a way that doesn’t paywall any actual features or meaningfully impact the user experience, go for it. But they really started to go hog wild on it and promoted it so persistently that it felt like you were being made to care about a profile picture you probably wouldn’t have remembered you even had otherwise.

It’s worth it to note that deflock is highly incomplete though. I’m working on finding ALPRs in my community to add to the database, but based on just what I’ve seen, it feels like it might only cover 10%, if that, of what actually is deployed on the streets, and I live in a city, not some small town either.

I have a feeling it’ll simply grow more in popularity, since stable release will probably make a lot more people feel more comfortable recommending it to people, myself included.

Right now, I don’t treat it as if it’s a backup in any way due to its beta nature, and I hope that can change.

Maybe a simple photo editor would fit in nicely?

Basic photo editing capabilities are planned after stable release, this year :)

Yes, there is.

Here’s the official Android Developer page on the developer verification program. Bottom of the page, green square on the right labeled “Do you have any additional questions or feedback?”

Link is the same as in the post.

B-b-but think of the PATRIOTS!!! They don’t want their feewings hurt by you burning a piece of fabric with the shapes they like way, way too much, is it too much to ask??/??//?? /s

Just checked the contributor’s page, the crawled privacy policy being referenced is stated to be 4 months out of date, but the policy on Nebula’s website hasn’t been changed since Aug 31 2023, so I think TOSDR might be a little bugged, and just doesn’t have all the current policy’s points available for contributors to tag. The current privacy policy is much more lengthy to cover local state privacy regulations, the scope of what they now offer, etc.

Still, it’s all pretty boilerplate, and nothing about it is really out of the ordinary or super harmful. Extremely basic attribution might be used if you click onto Nebula from an ad, and they might share a non-identifying hashed ID with that company. They’ll collect aggregate statistics to determine the impact of marketing campaigns, they sometimes email you, they collect data on your device that most webservers would by default in logs. All very standard.

If they update any part of the policy about how they collect/use/share your data, they’ll notify you,

They even explicitly say to not provide them with info on your race/politics/religion/health/biometrics/genetics/criminality or union membership. You are given an explicit right to delete your account regardless of local privacy laws, and they give you a single email to contact specifically regarding any requests related to the privacy policy.

None of this is crazy, and I have no clue why artyom would call it a “shithole” based on that.

Except for these people, it almost definitely is. They have staff, an office, inventory to manage, etc. Most YouTubers nowadays aren’t just operating on their own, and thus have financial expenses outside of just paying themselves for their own labor, that can’t just keep going if their revenue stream goes down, or even just takes a large enough cut.

It’s unfortunate, but that’s just how a lot of the content creation industry works right now, especially on YouTube.

That would depend on the way in which the individual became quadriplegic, any treatment they’re receiving, and what parts of their body are affected by it.

It seems there’s very cursory research showing some spinal injuries can increase your likelihood of developing conditions like pneumonia, and your risk of infection from most bacteria, but it doesn’t seem to be true in all cases, nor has there been a lot of research as to if it persists forever, the exact mechanism by which it happens, or to what degree it can impair the immune system.

That likely isn’t very relevant to the original question of asthma, though, unless the quadriplegic individual…

• Acquired any of a very small selection of respiratory viruses as a young child
• Received many antibiotics as a young child
• Became quadriplegic later in life and were exposed to a large quantity of non-pathogenic bacteria/viruses
• Exposed very little exposure early in life to non-pathogenic bacteria/viruses (e.g. from farms, pets, general non-sterile environments)

…since those are the primary mechanisms by which any form of immune reaction could be impacting the likelihood of asthma developing and/or getting worse/better.

Maybe, but it seems more like it’s likely due to genetics, and exposure (or lack of exposure) to given environmental compounds, whether it be those that cause asthma directly, or those that could cause the body to develop resistance to developing asthma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asthma#Causes

However, a lack of strenuous activity could be correlated with obesity, from which:

There is a correlation between obesity and the risk of asthma, with both having increased in recent years. Several factors may be at play, including decreased respiratory function due to a buildup of fat and the fact that adipose tissue leads to a pro-inflammatory state

It’s also just generally easier for first-time users to start using. For anyone curious, their little “feeds” of communities you can follow in one go by topic are super handy.

For example, if I subscribe to the activismplus feed, I automatically subscribe to communities like antiwork, solarpunk, socialism, leftism, anarchism, unions, antifascism, human rights, left urbanism, etc, from a number of different instances all at once.

For a first-time user, it’s easier to pick a topic they’re interested in and automatically be following all the relevant communities across most instances, rather than subscribing to communities one-by-one over a very long period of time.

Can confirm, used to have an account on lemm.ee, switched to PieFed just before lemm.ee went down.

This is a good answer.

It’s not like doctors are always right, but they will almost always have a better understanding of how you can go about the process of transitioning, the risks of doing so, and determining if it’s the best course of action for you, given those risks, then refer you to specialists that know how to handle your particular case.

There’s one key demographic I think they’re missing…

Cancel every pointless reboot and give me this instead. Please, I need it now.

If only it were that easy.

Most third places have either disappeared, or been replaced with ones that you can only really enjoy if you’re able to spend money every time you go there (e.g. bars, theaters, cafes, clubs, etc).

Many small towns are only getting smaller, leaving people that still live in them with less and less people to talk to.

Economic circumstances are consistently getting worse across the board, meaning people are spending more time at work just to stay alive, rather than being able to easily arrange to spend time somewhere with people.

It’s not like it’s impossible, obviously, but the state of the world is actively discouraging prosocial behavior through both cost and just circumstance.