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Cake day: June 10th, 2023
  • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgtoAnnouncements@lemmy.ml•Lemmy v0.19.0 Release - Instance blocking, Scaled sort, and Federation QueueEnglish
    17·
    11 months ago

    It’s always a treat to see the wheels of open source & community funding meshing together to bring about a better internet. You and @[email protected] have already done the honors of thanking the open source contributors, so I think it’s now my turn as an ordinary user to thank you both for your continued hard work and leadership – I have my quibbles, but these do not preclude the giving of a well-deserved and hearty thanks: Thank you! It continues to please me greatly to have the privilege (in both senses of the word) to contribute to the financial sustainability of the project as one of its many small recurring donators.

    And, while I’m at it… since the opportunity doesn’t come up often: I also want to specifically express gratitude to dessalines for their (unrelated) work on the thumb-key project. As a long-time user of MessagEase (10+ years!), I’ve become a happy convert to your more well-maintained and open source replacement. So, thanks for that too! Please continue to suffer my past & future criticisms with the knowledge that it always originates from a place of equal parts respect & gratitude.

  • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgtoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Does anyone have a list of "bot infested" lemmy instances so that I can ban them preemptively?English
    2·
    1 year ago

    If anyone’s curious, you can view the raw API output here: https://overseer.dbzer0.com/api/v1/instances

    Example (expand) 
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      "active_users_monthly": 1,
      "signup": true,
      "activity_suspicion": 51870.0
    },
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      "domain": "ttrpg.network",
      "uptime_alltime": 100.0,
      "local_posts": 27,
      "comment_counts": 130,
      "total_users": 4487,
      "active_users_monthly": 49,
      "signup": true,
      "activity_suspicion": 28.579617834394906
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    {
      "domain": "lemmy.fyi",
      "uptime_alltime": 100.0,
      "local_posts": 3,
      "comment_counts": 6,
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      "active_users_monthly": 1,
      "signup": true,
      "activity_suspicion": 5035.333333333333
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      "domain": "cubing.social",
      "uptime_alltime": 100.0,
      "local_posts": 2,
      "comment_counts": 5,
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      "active_users_monthly": 5,
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      "activity_suspicion": 7851.142857142857
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      "domain": "fedit.io",
      "uptime_alltime": 100.0,
      "local_posts": 2,
      "comment_counts": 6,
      "total_users": 1208,
      "active_users_monthly": 2,
      "signup": true,
      "activity_suspicion": 151.0
    },
    {
      "domain": "lemmy.cloudsecurityofficehours.com",
      "uptime_alltime": 70.63,
      "local_posts": 37,
      "comment_counts": 3,
      "total_users": 11750,
      "active_users_monthly": 5,
      "signup": true,
      "activity_suspicion": 293.75
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      "domain": "nlemmy.nl",
      "uptime_alltime": 100.0,
      "local_posts": 1,
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      "active_users_monthly": 2,
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    {
      "domain": "lemmy.nexus",
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      "local_posts": 1,
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      "domain": "veenk.help",
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  • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockersEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Alright, let’s say I do that. I’ll take my $12 and split it equally between every unique channel I’ve watched in the last 30 days. Eyeballing my watch history shows… about 100 different channels.

    Let’s ignore for the sake of argument the incredible overhead I’d have to take upon myself in order to facilitate and account for 100+ recurring micro-donations. How much more money do you think these creators would get from my direct donations rather than going through greedy Alphabet? Let’s do math together:

    • Subscription: $12.48 (the extra $0.48 is applied at checkout for the 4% VAT)
    • 4% VAT (rounds up): -$0.48 ($12.00)
    • 1.9% + $0.30 Processor Fee (rounds up): -$0.53 ($11.47)
    • 45% Platform Split (not rounded!): -$5.1615 ($6.3085)
    • 100x split: $0.063085 p/channel

    Ok. That’s ~$0.06 per channel instead of the $0.12 each creator would have gotten had I simply hand-delivered two pennies and a dime to every single individual. I don’t know about you… but I’m kind of too busy watching YouTube to go outside right now, so let’s go ahead and factor in what would happen if I managed to donate using a platform like Patreon instead:

    • Not-Subscription: $12.48
    • Rounded up: $13.00 (the donation has to be evenly divisible by 100)
    • Per-creator donation: $00.13
    • 4% Local Digital VAT (rounds up): -$0.01 ($0.12)
    • 5% Platform Fee (rounds up): -$0.01 ($0.11)
    • 5% + $0.10 Processor Fee (rounds up): -$0.11 ($0.00)

    In other words: I’d be paying $0.52 more to donate a grand total of: no money. If we ignore the “no money” problem, there’s also the issue of it being literally impossible to donate such a tiny sum in the first place. Of course, we also conveniently ignored the issues of currency conversion and the man hours required to fill out 100 donation forms…

    Let’s be honest with each other: you weren’t being completely serious when you said that your suggestion had anything to do with ✨the creators✨. Even if you were serious, I’m certain that you don’t follow your own advice because it’s quite clearly impossible for a normal person to internationally distribute $12 among dozens of strangers.

  • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockersEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Eh, I’m not here to hawk product. The higher bitrate is nice to have, but the impact of bitrate on video quality is perhaps a bit overblown. In a lot of situations, you’d have to pixel-peep to spot the improvement – youtubers are pretty good at making videos look nice under the core quality settings.

    On the other hand, ads suck. I’d have never watched enough YouTube to buy premium without years of heavy adblocking (shoutout to ReVanced Manager). Getting an ad-free experience out-of-box is very convenient and could possibly be worth the value of the subscription depending on your usage & means.

  • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockersEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    I’ll say something unexpected: I pay for YouTube. With money! Why?

    • I use it every day and I’m a human who likes boosting the things that I enjoy
    • I think YouTube’s content recommendations are a genuine value-add and not easily replaced
    • A cut of my subscription fee goes directly back to the video creators that I watch
    • The “premium” encoding levels are actually a substantial improvement to video bitrates
      • Important: the premium bitrate is higher than anything previously offered and probably would not have been otherwise practical to serve for free

    So yeah. I personally like YouTube enough to pay for it and I have the financial means to do so. Am I a clown for expressing personal appreciation towards a faceless megacorp? Yes. Yes I am. Constantly trying to win at every transaction in life is a drag though, so I think I’ll continue to enjoy getting swindled.

  • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1
    8·
    1 year ago

    Well, it’s bound to happen to some extent (e.g.: instances blocking lemmygrad), but you have a lot of power to mitigate this effect as an individual user. By default, nothing’s blocked, so it’s on you as a user if you choose to “live” somewhere that’s interested in proscribing undesirables.

    It’s not a perfect solution. Perhaps leadership changes (or you change) and suddenly your interests are no longer aligned. Nobody wants to get stranded! Eventually maybe user migrations will be a thing, but for now we’ll just have to do our best to choose our home-bases wisely based on our own ideological and practical needs (SDF represent!)

  • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•How to reverse engineer most ChatGPT pluginsEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    It almost certainly can hallucinate the known function list, but it’s unlikely since the model necessarily needs to have a strong conception of the functions to interface consistently.

    That’s speculation, of course, since GPT is a closed model, but, based on how like-models are known to work, we know that there’s just one single “slot” for input to flow into without any backdoor pathways for specially priviledged input.