This is exactly my point; it’s easy to jump in and defend Valve for their good points when, at the end of the day, they take a third of all profits for themselves and have a pseudo monopoly with their platform, just to start.

One can make similar positive points about Amazon, about how much they can save retailers and consumers, especially before they enshittified so significantly.

I think they’re talking about Steam key resellers, which I wasn’t referencing. That’s a whole other thing (and can indeed be priced lower than the main storefront, with some complications IIRC).

It’s not an accident.

It’s probably not a conspiracy.

If seeing that so much as pauses your scrolling, the algo counts that as “engagement,” and that gets modeled into your profile for all of time. That’s all it cares about, not incel stuff specifically… though rage bait happens to work very well, which is how these jerks make a living.

You might fix it with a new account from a different IP.

It really is anticlimactic.

We get an honest to god pedo cabal, and a federal powergrab, and the response from factions who dedicated entire lives to warning, as loud as they can shout, about these two exact things is…

“Meh?”

Meanwhile, it seems the world is chanting for the Clintons to burn at the stake; the opposite of what they expected?

I would be so confused if I was QAnon.

Way too many DVDs are interlaced/telecined though.

Or worse, some hellish combination of both, because the producers edited different sources together. It makes scaled footage, panning, and some motion look really awful or jittery once you notice it.

Blu rays don’t necessarily escape this either, as they butcher the conversion to 24p and then you can’t even fix it.

For all their problems, streaming giants usual do this better. Amazon (and probably Netflix) had employees hanging out in the doom9 A/V forums long ago.

Dark scenes on a poor quality TV can look awful.

But many times they’re encoded dreadfully anyway, and DVDs tend to be better in this respect.

Interlacing is awful though.

Yeah…

That’s how Amazon worked. At first.

Back then, online shopping kind of sucked, and this little book store company made its so streamlined I got invested.

I’ve pointed out Valve doing basically the same thing; games can’t be priced lower than Steam on competing game storefronts (not Steam key resellers), or Valve will threaten to delist your game. Which would be essentially kill it. And they obviously do this to protect their chunky store fee.

But personal loyalty goes a long way.

I’m trying to reframe the perspective here, not drag into an argument about Valve. A whole lot of people feel good about finding “deals” on Amazon, about Amazon services that have helped them, and especially about the value and convenience the whole platform provides. It’s easy for Lemmy to hate on Amazon, but for the average person, I think this is a harder sell than most of us realize. They’ll dismiss it as the “market working” or California sensationalism or, more likely, just filter it out as noise in their feed, just like most PC gamers would when they read something bad about Valve.

Yep.

TBH I think it’s kind of silly for the Fediverse to try and block scraping, as long as that scraping isn’t effectively a DDoS. It’s public.

The users are still the users though, not the product like Reddit.

Why does this work? Is it a deliberate bypass on the NYT’s part?

Oh wow. That’s some weird shit piefed does.

The “entire internet” is not even that big these days. The Internet Archive, for instance, is on the order of 100s of petabytes. 10K (or at least less than 100K) spinning disks is almost trivial for Azure, who has many millions deployed.

And the actual training runs for text models are in the trillions of tokens; again, chump change data wise.

On the other hand, they’d lose a ton of ephemeral data scraping for training runs every time instead of just saving the good stuff. I suppose it’s possible they mass rescrape and filter the content redundantly, but… that seems like a colossal waste?

Hmm, could be what they do, I guess.

That’s so bizzare to me.

Why does OpenAI need to crawl your site more than once? Unless its fetching search results for some question, can’t they just copy it into their training archive, and be done?

Based on tiny bits of insider nuggets and some outside views, I’m increasingly convinced that these huge AI houses are efficiency shitshows. They do not care about internal overutilization, they don’t optimize or check for rogue bots and bugs. They literally run busywork to keep the appearance of busy GPUs. And it’s going to catch up to them when the Chinese models have the same capabilities, and run on peanuts.

That was a euphamism, heh.

I wish I’d see more political Eastern European posts, TBH. Not just Ukraine, but everywhere.

I am but an armchair observer, but my impression is you folks know precisely what happens under Soviet/Russian authority. You lived it. It… seems mixed. I am inclined to listen to whatever the intricacies are more than opinions from some tankie in Idaho.

Yeah, it is great advice. But I’m under no illusion that’s happening anytime soon, not for most people.

The context matters. And in this instance “stop using social media” feels more like blaming the abused teenager while the rest of the world carries on, like its totally dismissive of what she’s saying.

No, but it’s still a more isolated environment. There aren’t bunch of ads or grifters or whatever on campus because it at least tries to insulate kids from the outside world profiting off them, and to curate what they experience.

That’s what they need on their phones, too. Lord of the Flies is better than Big Brother.

I guess the difficult part would be to blunt the outside from flooding in, like kids mass reposting Andrew Tate. But at least there would be some control/fairness with exposure, instead of an engagement algorithm ruling their feed.

Oh, I 100% agree. I test installed the app, and it seems to be some of both (behavior tracking with a Safari extension, and store sponsorship).

That being said, I hate store monocultures even more, like how Amazon/Walmart can bully their suppliers through sheer critical mass and shoppers don’t even look anywhere else. That’s economic inefficiency. Price aggregators are a good thing.