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Internet Archive likely wouldn’t be able to handle it. They’re already struggling currently, as it is, and dumping a few petabytes of caches of the entire internet onto them probably won’t help.

I hope so. Preemptive defederation is a stupid idea.

It’s not that ironic. In this case, the tool was creating a near-identical replication of the Disney logo. Generally, AI hasn’t been able to convincingly reproduce a logo like that with any degree of reliability (for instance, the jumbled logos in the Getty Images situation). It looks like the AI has actually advanced to the point where it actually violates Disney’s trademark. That crosses the line of fair use at that point.

It’s pretty common in a lot of cities for apartment complexes to have deals with cable/internet providers that require residents to sign up for cable TV if they want internet service, so a surprising amount of people still have cable these days, even if they don’t actually watch it. My apartment forced us into getting cable service with Spectrum so that we could have internet, and we never even bothered to pick up the cable boxes because neither I nor my roommate watch live TV ever, but we still have to pay for it, anyway.

Apple was kind enough to beta test it on Android for years, too!

Some biometric data can be used for IDing, but unless you have a particularly unique sinus rhythm, I don’t think heart rate can really be used to identify anybody.

Right, this is exactly my point. One biometric data point on its own isn’t enough, you need a lot more to glean any useful information.

Until your earbuds start tracking all of these, worries over whether or not it’ll be used for advertising are just FUD.

Yes, 100%. For instance, my Pixel Watch measures and logs my heart rate every second. Though I doubt that something as volatile as a user’s heart rate has any significant value to advertisers, over the treasure trove of other, more reliable data points they already have collected on any given user.

People act like every single facet of their lives has some intrinsic advertising value, when really it’s only specific things that advertisers are interested in. They want to know your habits; what sites you go to, what physical spaces you frequently visit, what sort of content you consume, what you spend your money on, etc. Those are metrics that advertisers can capitalize on to make sure that they’re serving you ads that you’re more likely to engage with.

Biometric data, on the other hand, is basically worthless. Even if we pretend that Google is using my heart rate data from my Fitbit profile for advertisements, that data gives Google basically nothing to work with. Did my heart rate fluctuate because of an ad I saw? Or did it fluctuate because I stood up and walked to the kitchen while a YouTube ad was playing? There’s no easy way to discern this sort of nuance, making it effectively useless for advertising purposes.

Maybe if we lived in a more cyberpunk world where advertisers could access things like our serotonin or dopamine levels, and could link that directly to things we’re actively seeing/hearing, that would be worthwhile to advertisers, because then they could actually know how something you interacted with affected your brain chemistry. But as it stands right now, heart rate by itself is little more than junk data.

There’s already plenty of porn on it.

Yeah, I feel like if you don’t engage with the “social” aspects of it and just treat it as an easily-shareable resume platform, it works exceedingly well.

Though, getting to see an insight into the people you may potentially work with is also a nice touch, in some instances. You can get a good feel for the type of environment those people would like to foster in their workplaces, and make an informed decision about whether or not you’d feel comfortable working for them.

I see that as a win. You saved yourself the heartbreak of learning about your attorney’s rancid viewpoints much later into your relationship with him.

I’ve had similar experiences. I’ve gotten to see how terrible some of the recruiters/managers I’ve dealt with actually are, and was able to dodge any long-lasting engagement with them.

I think Meta already forgot Threads.

Yelp is just the BBB for millennials. Fuck both of these extortionist organizations.

If we could all be so lucky.

Interestingly enough, this uncreative article has excellent SEO.

I don’t see a use for regular hashtags on Lemmy

Discoverability is still a weak point for Lemmy, so adding more ways to find content would be useful.

Who implied this would be done haphazardly?

Also, there’s plenty of use for tags. They’re already on Kbin and work great.

Kbin already supports this, and it makes it a lot easier for Mastodon users to find and interact with Lemmy content. Hopefully Lemmy gets it soon.

So things should never improve?

Not my circus, not my clowns.