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- on No Warrant Needed: Border Agents in NY, CT, and VT Can Now Search Your Phone in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
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on No Warrant Needed: Border Agents in NY, CT, and VT Can Now Search Your Phone in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
We all need shitty travel phones with very little on them now.
Or don’t travel there.
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on No Warrant Needed: Border Agents in NY, CT, and VT Can Now Search Your Phone in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
The pile of reasons to not visit the USA grows daily.
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on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
it speeds me up for tasks I have the skills to verify
The issue is that the executives only see the potential to speed up, and not the necessity of having skilled people who can do that verifying.
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on Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’ in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Sep 2026
Realistically, they should require a warrant.
Legally they should require a warrant.
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on TiVo Plans to End Free Automatic Commercial Skipping in November, Tests Paid Premium Replacement Service in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
TIVO still exists?
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on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Walmart was also telling their employees in some states how to apply to food banks and other social supports, because they refused to pay their workers adequately.
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on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
“Somebody else will pay the salaries of our customers”.
That’s been the mindset of these business “leaders” for a few decades already.
The difference is now they have a tool that promises them that they can eliminate workers at an increasingly rapid rate.
Of course that’s a false promise, but once they realize that, a helluva lot of damage will have been done.
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on Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
we all just need to accept a “compromise” between privacy and safety.
You will be safe from retribution when you respect our privacy and stop spying on us.
That’s a fair "compromise ", isn’t it?
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on U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
If you are a citizen, they can not deny you entry.
But they can detain you at the border
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on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
Compromise offer: you stop spying on us and we’ll stop breaking your cameras.
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on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
What I want though is memory prices to go back down here.
A price war might lead in that direction.
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on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Nothing a import ban can’t fix.
Just because the US bans something, that doesn’t stop the rest of the world from buying.
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on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
I suspect Chinese company will be quite happy to just flood the market with cheaply priced (relatively speaking) products and just get everyone’s money.
And will still be able to make a very healthy profit by doing that.
The quest for “max_profit” is not (and never has been) sustainable.
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on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
I’m not sure what would stop them from charging whatever they can
Undercutting the competition to gain market share is a time tested business strategy.
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on Tesla Robotaxi Mows Down Bollards & Keeps Driving, After “Impeccable” Record Touted on Stock Call in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Question: what value do self driving taxis add to regular taxis?
Additional profit for the owners.
Paying drivers cuts into the profits.
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on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Nebula tightly currates which creators they accept onto their platform. Nobody who doesn’t already have a long track record of creating and publishing quality videos is going to be accepted.
Which is good for viewers - less slop to wade through. But it’s hard for creators to break into.
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on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
There is peertube as well, but it lacks monetization
It also lacks an audience at any sort of scale.
I publish on both YouTube and peertube. 3-4000 views on youtube, 10-30 on peertube.
Also published on odysee for a while, with similarly 2 digit views.
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on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
You can set up tipping links on youtube on day one as well.
And it has a much bigger pool of potential viewers.
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on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
The end result is that channels will just post twice as much slop to get to those hours
Slop doesn’t get return viewers, which is counter-productive to reaching a watch hours (or subscribers) threshold.
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on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
I’m honestly surprised they don’t charge for cloud storage for YouTube.
That’s more how Vimeo works. The creators pay a monthly fee (for uploads over a very small threshold of storage) and have the option to PPV paywall their videos.
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on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Small creators cost youtube more than they earn.
Youtube ads are sold by auction, and there is very little bidding interest in small channels with small audiences. The advertisers want as many eyeballs as possible.
But a small channel’s videos cost youtube the same amount to store as a big channel’s videos.
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on YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
What is the best social media platform for niche content creators?
Like it or not, youtube still has the biggest audience and the best discovery algorithm (even with it’s flaws).
And, even with this latest change, still pays better than other platforms.
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on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
So, step 1 is to restore the government
I hope you guys can accomplish that before they permanently destroy your country (and mine, as your president has threatened to do multiple times).
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on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
I would rather have my subsistence at the whims of the entirety of the country’s economic activity
Ok, how do we organize that in an equitable manner?
Isn’t that more-or-less what a government is supposed to be?
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on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Your government and mine may be different.
I’d rather have my subsistence at the whims of the government than at the whims of a billionaire business owner.
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on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Why fear that?
People still gotta eat, and unless we can jump directly to a Star Trek post scarcity utopia, people need an income in order to get food.
UBI has been proven to work, but no government has the guts to implement it lest they anger their corporate owners donors.
There is a lot more reasons not to do that than there are reasons to go there.