i'm genuinely curious about some alternatives to this sort of surveillance to solve issues like CSAM etc., which aren't "it's the parents responsibility". section 230 reform? links to further reading appreciated.

i found this to be an interesting talk by a specialist on the way risks from these things are ranked and where the state of currect research is: https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=vocvz6N6faI

the important takeaway for me was that "micro"plastics aren't exactly microscopic

i’d love for a good tech journalist to look into how and why this is happening and do a full write-up on it. come on ars, verge, vice

these numbers are nearly reaching the point where buying seasons of shows on iTunes, which always seemed insanely expensive, becomes the better option for people who watch specific stuff. never thought I’d see the day

update: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/16/lbry-closes-odysee-cryptocurrency-tech-sec-fraud-extremist

youtube suggestions are genuinely terrible for the individual and humanity as a whole

wow, i completely missed this the last time i tried out calibre-web, if it was even integrated. awesome, thanks. i also found this guide: https://code.mendhak.com/kobo-customizations/#syncing-kobo-with-calibre-web

as in it pulls everything you add to the calibre library on a schedule rather than pulling individually/manually like from OPDS? how do you pull this off?

nice little guide, i'm surprised your pi can run the media servers though without being really slow. i'd also suggest using an alternate webui for qbittorrent if you're only interacting with it through the webui. i like https://github.com/WDaan/VueTorrent

i've used this one before but i hasn't been updated in a while

idk, i wonder if youtube could even work if you always had to be logged in. when i imagine what most of youtube's activity is, i think of the foreign music videos with billions of views. could their ad model with those kinds of numbers possibly work if they put account auth barriers in front of it? how many hotel lobbies, barber shops, etc are playing youtube on loop logged out worldwide? netflix level drm would radically change the platform.

rss is working on the instance i'm using. make sure you're on a recently updated one

i wonder if doing this habitually would make tinnitus worse

it’s also full of fascists a la rumble

i'd love to read an alternate proposal for solving some of the issues this is trying to address, cause doing nothing is no good either.

along these lines, here’s one that specializes in Japanese games and supports rss by category for large and small developers: https://themakoreactor.com/

and another indie one for JP stuff that maintains RSS: https://noisypixel.net/

since those are news feeds rather than people, i gotta shout out this Firefox add-on for finding people’s mastodon accounts after visiting their blog or other pages. it’s really cool: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/streetpass-for-mastodon/

edit-homepage with other platforms: https://streetpass.social/

some high-volume automated aggregator news feeds:

• https://mastodon.social/@Mediagazer@mstdn.social (media)
• https://mastodon.social/@memeorandum@universeodon.com (politics)
• https://mastodon.social/@Techmeme@techhub.social (tech)

and a personal fav: https://mastodon.social/@archaeology@mstdn.social

i agree. some values are universal, like what should be considered cruel, but slaughtering pigs is pretty cruel too (i eat them anyways!). to me, what's funny here is how privileged first world people just hate to see how the hot dog is made, so to speak.

it's like privileged people hating to simply see homeless people in cities even though the system that makes people homeless is necessary to keep the high property values that they benefit from. the mere witness of the cruelty we benefit from in modern society makes the privileged one feel like a victim.

this guy always gives some good context for this kind of sensational diet/health claim: https://proxitok.pussthecat.org/@roblapham/video/7252049382957255942