@Seimhe@lemmy.world

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• A lot of them use this in the HTML:

  <meta property="article:post_date" content="2026-09-24T15:42:36+0100">
  <meta property="article:post_modified" content="2026-09-24T15:54:02+0100">
  <meta property="article:published_time" content="2026-09-24T15:42:36Z">
  <meta property="article:modified_time" content="2026-09-24T15:54:02Z">
  

  I’ve scripted a fair bit of scraping in the past just by looking for those kinds of entries. But only focussed on a few dozen websites so I can’t say how common it is.

  If the fetching function can validate the data it should be able to continue without a date if needed.

  on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says (2025) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4h ago

• Yeah, dates in submission links would be great. Wonder if it can be automated so when I submit a URL, lemmy fetches the creation date while it’s fetching the headline.

  on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says (2025) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19h ago

• They must have a lot of disk space.

  on Hackers find huge security flaw in Flock’s surveillance cameras and extract 1.6 million images and 27,000 videos from just one device in c/technology@piefed.social · 2d ago

• Yeah, it seems like a new type of judgement is needed that I don’t normally encounter in a day. Like, I use a hammer to hammer nails, then I put it down. I don’t try to cook with it. This tool has a weird, abstract nature to it where you can drift between using / misusing / abusing without necessarily noticing. A strange position to be in while trying to work at the same time .

  on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• I’m finding it hard to reconcile the people who find it useless with those who find it useful. My own experience with languages is that it speeds me up for tasks I have the skills to verify, but with ones I don’t it can slow me down doing the verification and fixes.

  I know software developers in a Fortune 500 company who swear that overall they are far more productive with “agents”. I don’t know if it’s a highly tailored system rather than the more all-purpose ones the general public have. So I do wonder if there are use cases for it.

  It’s ruining the planet and our societies, though. And it’s distracting us from what really matters. Net negative for sure.

  Edit: they’re also not very good at their most basic tasks. Researchers have found that when the major LLMs summarise articles, it misrepresents the facts 51% of the time.

  on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• It’s not just about business use, but citizen access to content. I looked it up and this is the stage it’s at now gizmodo.com/the-first-us-law-targeting-vpn-use-ta…

  The new law is narrow. VPN companies say they can’t do it. Fines for businesses that don’t are real. It’s all a little strange.

  Very few people will set up their own business or technical venture, though. That’s enough to have a chilling effect.

  on EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• The US claim they are going after the VPN companies now too. Of course it could be all lies and deflection like most things they say now.

  on EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• I think so too.

  on Zuckerberg's Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta's Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• This is still surveillance, just with audio instead of video.

  But this actually creates a new problem: wearers of pervert glasses have plausible deniability. “Are you filming me?” “Who, me? Oh no, these ones don’t have cameras. Trust me”.

  on Zuckerberg's Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta's Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026

• Fair points. In the Anglosphere, there are groups called Volta using this exact same phrase. The even use imagery of racist genociders like Winston Churchill in their promotional material. They call themselves progressive. I wish I was joking.

  on It is time to build the United States of Europe in c/europe@feddit.org · 15 Sep 2026

• The USA is a model of excess, inequality and brutality. What kind of a lunatic uses that language or even role model? This is absolute fangirl language and doesn’t belong in civilised society.

  on It is time to build the United States of Europe in c/europe@feddit.org · 15 Sep 2026

• Dairy is Scary too (2015, 5 minutes long)

  on Researchers identify rubber-related chemicals in Swiss milk. The study, supported by the Food Safety authority, also suggests that dairy equipment may be an overlooked source of contamination in c/europe@feddit.org · 14 Sep 2026

• Or the technology has plateau’d and this is their cover story. I don’t know, but these two people are known liars.

  on OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Replacing Microsoft 365 with open-source alternatives might be the right approach to solving the sovereignty problem, but plans could eventually change. Replacing traditional software tools on aging IT systems is no easy “plug-and-play” task, as some users have remarked. The German city of Munich even tried to move from Windows to Linux in 2004, but eventually returned to the old operating system in 2017.

  Let’s hope the outcome is better this time. And i also hope the result can be leveraged by other nations.

  on Switzerland is paying $11 million to stop using Outlook and Teams in c/europe@feddit.org · 13 Sep 2026

• When I was on TikTok, I tried to stick to the “following” feed only, but it was very hard not to check the “for you page” (algorithmic feed), because the app is so good at knowing how to dazzle the user. It also defaulted to showing the algorithm when the app is reopened.

  I only know a handful of other people who used the app, but they described the same problem: they follow people, but then they just use the algorithmic feed instead anyway.

  All this to say that there are ways to present a choice to the user in such a way that users will not engage with that choice.

  on Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• Dickinson is also a surname in England.

  on Lena means "lazy" (feminine form at least lmao) in Slovenian 😭 in c/transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 Sep 2026

• Thanks! Gonna watch it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_Town

  on The unseen dangers of Antarctic documentaries in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• If that’s a real photo, I have to know more about it!

  on The unseen dangers of Antarctic documentaries in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• Fair point / perspective. Very disappointed to hear that about Slovenia. They’ve been so progressive in other ways.

  on Germans pitch EU plan to circumvent national vetoes | Euractiv in c/europe@feddit.org · 31 Aug 2026

• That’s a good way to dispose of the few nations that oppose genocide.

  on Germans pitch EU plan to circumvent national vetoes | Euractiv in c/europe@feddit.org · 31 Aug 2026

• Yeah. I don’t know about the Netherlands but Ireland’s specialty seems to be protecting big tech from consequences, while making EU citizens vulnerable to online abuse and radicalisation.

  Britain left the EU to become “sovereign” and hasn’t done any better so I’m not sure who we can trust to regulate these platforms.

  on European Commission designates ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox under Digital Services Act in c/europe@feddit.org · 31 Aug 2026

• Déanta ✍️

  on Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification | European Citizens' Initiative in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• Yes. I think they just need to get their data centres built. Once they’re in position there will be less to report on, unless the people find a way to make the already existing centres newsworthy. That’s harder.

  on With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• The “backlash” is half hearted and also sensationalised a little in the media.

  People have not come together to meaningfully boycott these platforms. Boycott is the language these capitalists understand.

  I do not understand why people still use meta platforms, for example. We could level these companies quickly. The excuse that “everyone else I know is there” is wilful paralysis: waiting for someone else to go first. And that’s why these tech oligarchs are confident. They’re probably right to be.

  on With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• Yes, and the EU is currently promoting a very dodgy EU platform. When respected individuals report on the dodgyness , the get smeared as spreading “targetted disinformation” mastodon.ie/…/117149520169152585

  on BBC: “It shouldn’t have taken a lawsuit for Meta to implement safety measures, whistleblower says” in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• “Please for the love of the gods, report on me in relation to something other than the Epstein files”

  on Bill Gates warns ‘there is no plan’ for the ‘upheaval’ AI will cause in c/technology@piefed.social · 27 Aug 2026

• As much as i despise Meta and our governments who collude with them, my biggest disappointment is our fellow citizens who enable them the most.

  on BBC: “It shouldn’t have taken a lawsuit for Meta to implement safety measures, whistleblower says” in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• And like everything else there will be a false scapegoat. Likely immigrants.

  on German airport worker dies of malaria after 'mosquito arrives on plane' in c/europe@feddit.org · 26 Aug 2026

• You cannot run it locally and have the same thing that oligarchs and big-tech have at their disposal.

  on Do not use ai in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 25 Aug 2026

• Considering the vast amounts of knowledge it has at its disposal, I can only conclude that it’s not very smart at applying it. A person with a fraction of that knowledge will produce better results.

  So it has more access to information, but the results are poor compared to a person.

  on 80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• According to Cybernews research team, the only route to a definitive answer is to invoke your GDPR rights if you’re in the UK or EU.

  ClarityCheck’s privacy policy lists a privacy officer contact. Put these questions to them directly:

  Do you hold, or have you held, any image of me in the faces or profiles stores?

  Was any image of me within the set exposed between [DATE1] and [DATE2]?

  What was the source of each image, and which user account submitted it?

  Was an Article 34 notification to affected individuals considered, and on what basis was it decided against?

  But how do I identify myself to these people, and is it safe to do so …

  on People finder service leaks 9M faces: How can you be sure you aren’t included? in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026

• There’s a huge market for slop: junk food, slop entertainment, fast fashion. We’re a planet of slop lovers. AI slop will remain popular among many.

  on The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact. Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026