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Creative Good: Why customers don’t want chat bots
  • It's a bit like having a conversation with a toddler, to be honest. They'll link together concepts that have no business being together and speak as if they're the rational ones. It won't stay that way though—chat bots are evolving at a frightening speed because the capitalists have learned if you can pretend to be a person on the internet, you can buy votes.

  • LGBTQ conservatives say they feel misled by DeSantis
  • Any LGBTQ person marching to the goose step of the Nazis that is surprised the Nazis turn on them is repeating the same mistake Jewish kapos made in the concentration camps. "Surely the Germans will see my value, keeping the other Jews in line," says the Jewish kapo every day until he is burned up in the gas chamber—replaced by another kapo who thinks the same. Educate yourself on history so you don't end up doomed to repeat it.

  • Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it.
  • You might like StoryGraph better for that. I switched from Goodreads because I got sick of all the social aspects of the site. I just want to keep track of what I've read and update it so I get a Spotify Wrapped like experience for books—StoryGraph offers that.

  • /r/blind community migrates to Lemmy
  • They tried to walk it back by only cutting deals with app developers that blind people rely on, like RedReader with its screen reading functionality. But that just highlights how selective reddit is being at working with third party developers. So fuck spez and reddit. I hope the blind community gets everything they meed from their Lemmy instances.

  • The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy app
  • I switched away from Sync to Boost some years ago, but would happily switch back for a Fediverse app. Jerboa is okay, but it doesn't have the slick look I've come to expect from reddit apps like Sync and Boost.

  • Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform
  • He's a doomsday prepper with a massive bunk. He's actively driving society to the brink thinking bunker living is going to save him and his millions. All it takes is one trigger-happy shotgun wielder to realize your millions mean nothing. But always remember—he's hoping, expecting society as we know it to end in his life time.

  • Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform
  • My question is how long are they going to let him flounder as CEO? He thinks Musk is doing a great job at Twitter when in reality, there are so few advertisers on the platform that once you block the handful of Amazon bot accounts you have a basically ad-free feed. Before Musk took over, you'd see advertising from trusted brands. Now? It's a video of some useless junk and a link to Amazon to buy it—or weirdly custom t-shirts. That's not good business. Twitter is gasping and dying and the CEO of reddit sees it and goes, "damn, maybe we should be doing that?"

  • As the Reddit war rages on, community trust is the casualty
  • The spez articles are gross, especially the interview on The Verge. He's clearly salty at Christian Selig for building an app that iOS users prefer over the default reddit app. He rails against developers making millions on reddit's content. But its not reddit making the content. Reddit is a content aggregator. Stop aggregating your content there. Stop consuming it there. Reddit dies without its power users.

  • What are your favorite browser extensions?
  • Thanks so much for sharing this extension. I was looking for something that worked better than the tab tree extension I was using. I also found a way to custom edit the userChrome.css to hide the top tab bar—which really makes Firefox feel like Opera. Love that.

  • Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts
  • The changes are coming at a good enough clip that it feels like it's worth taking a stand here. Even if things don't feel like reddit yet, we're getting there. Enough people leave and they'll have a pool of content consumers and no creators and that's a fast ticket to a quick death.

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation shouted out Lemmy, Kbin, and Mastodon in their Reddit coverage today: What Reddit Got Wrong
  • They're betting that the masses are too baked in to care. Reddit's CEO said it himself, they're counting on this to blow over. The best message you can send to them is to delete your reddit account and in the box that asks why you're doing so, tell them you're leaving for lemmy. Encourage your communities to follow you. This has happened one before with us old-timers who remember the Great Digg Migration. (Interesting internet history read if you have time.)

  • Paul McCartney Reveals AI Used on Upcoming Final Beatles Album
    www.digitalmusicnews.com Paul McCartney Reveals AI Use on Upcoming Final Beatles Album

    Paul McCartney has revealed AI's role in recreating John Lennon's voice for a forthcoming final album from The Beatles.

    Paul McCartney Reveals AI Use on Upcoming Final Beatles Album

    Quoting Paul: “It has great uses. So when we came to make what will be the last Beatles record, it was a demo that John had that we worked on. And we’ve just finished it up; it’ll be released this year. We were able to take John’s voice and get it pure through this AI so then we could mix the record as you would normally do.”

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    Nintendo stalked 3DS pirates to shutdown their operation. No wonder it doesn't want Dolphin on Steam.
    nintygamer.com Nintendo Stalked Hardware Hackers to Prevent 3DS Piracy

    Leaked internal documents from Nintendo reveal the Japanese company sent dedicated teams to 'stalk' 3DS hardware hackers to prevent piracy.

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