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Cake day: May 2nd, 2023

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  • Screw community names, I want instance agnostic URLs for posts and comments.

    Right now lemmy.ml/comment/123456 and lemmy.ml/comment/123456 are two different comments, and there is no simple way to find one comment on another instance (so you can interact with it from your logged in account). What we should have is lemmy.ml/comment/123456@lemmy.world to point to a comment made on another instance, then you can just change the instance name after the @ to find the comment (or post) on any other instance.







  • I did read it, however the article never really called him out on it.

    I get that journalists shouldn’t express opinions, and this article does manage that at least. However they should at least clearly display contradictions and hypocrisy, such that no reader can walk away without recognising it. This article doesn’t quite meet that bar - someone hooked on this paedophile’s lies could walk away after reading all his quotes and still think he’s fair minded.





  • TWeaK@lemmy.mltoLemmy@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    Power Delete Suite doesn’t get everything. PDS goes through your New, Hot, Top & Controversial posts and deletes those - however your reddit profile doesn’t display every comment there.

    For example, I had many comments that were older than 3 months and <50 karma that were still left unchanged after running PDS to completion several times. In particular, replies I’d made to my top comments were still there, while the top comment itself had been deleted. I also had a couple comments in the gilded tab that it had missed.

    The only way to get everything is to do a GDPR request to get all the comments with links in a CSV file. Apparently shreddit can take this to clear the comments, however the PDS dev shits on shreddit for requiring you to input your username and password. I haven’t yet tried this, but I’m not aware of any other service that uses the GDPR CSV files.


  • TWeaK@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml1337
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    1 year ago

    I like to give it slightly wrong answers first, then right answers on the second attempt. Because they’re blatantly using it to train AI (for free, without paying users for their work), I want to poison the data. The first one tells it that it’s guess is wrong, the second one proves I know what I’m talking about - if you do everything wrong it will just discard your training data.


  • I went to a gas station that had facial recognition cameras. They cited theft, but also their “legitimate interest”, using website cookie language - only there was no easily apparent way to object to their legitimate interest.

    What we really need is legislation. The law needs to recognise that businesses cannot just steal data from people for free for their own profits - not to mention exploiting that data against the data subject.

    If you build and sell a car, you have to pay for the nuts and bolts. You can’t just take them and say “well, you wouldn’t know how to build a car, and they only cost a tiny, tiny amount, so we don’t need to pay you.”

    Personal data has value. So much value, the businesses that focus on collecting it are some of the wealthiest in the world. We are all being robbed.