OT: my man in the thumbnail looks like Homer Simpson backing into that bush tho fr
Are those posts/comments/images available on other instances?
If an instance just shuts down, we just lose all that content? Sounds like a pretty fatal flaw.
Biden, the RAVE Act guy, selling water? This empire is so fucking cooked
See, it must have made their passwords easier to guess…
Rent seeking, theft/copyright infringement, walled garden you can’t escape (if Microsoft holds all your files good luck getting them back on Linux)
Microsoft needs to die.
SmashBurger did the same and also had a spicy version that was awesome; also gone 😔
Hey guys not to be a downer but like…what DO we do when a federated instance goes down and takes all its content with it?
Bro I’m American and they didn’t even mention algebra until 9th grade, the fuck you mean quadratics in middle school
As far as I am aware, yes you have a small amount of time to get your affairs in order and then you report.
I’m sure there are plenty of cases when they just take you away immediately and let your outside life fall apart. I think that’s an exercise for the sentencing judge and you can imagine how well it goes for poor people, PoC, etc.
He has to report by July 7th IIRC
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They call me mista bombastic
Instructions unclear, I installed something called “Project Bluefin”?
Seems if the messages are sent in an inherently insecure fashion, all one would need to do is set up an instance that purposefully does not filter out all the things it’s supposed to be kind/competent enough to filter out, and boom it has everything.
The ads are not part of the stored video file, they are sent in as chunks of the stream in place of the actual video. When the ad is done, the regular video starts playing again. They are not “editing in” anything to be permanently stored as part of an uploaded video.
Imagine thinking they can’t detect when you try to skip forward during an ad.
All of that targeting data lives on Google’s servers already. Your computer isn’t trying to figure out who you are and what you like each ad play, Google already knows who you are when your browser makes a request for a video. Everything you are talking about is already server-side.
The ads won’t be baked in beforehand, they’ll be injected into the stream in real time. Videos are broken into chunks and sent over HTTP, they’ll just put ad chunks in during playback. There is no need to re-encode anything. If you deep link to a timestamp, the video just starts from that timestamp as normal. If you are a Premium user, the server just never injects the ads.
But you are correct that the client needs to be aware that ads are happening, so they can be indicated on screen, and so click-throughs are activated.
This is why Chrome went to Manifest v3 - so you can’t have any code looking for ad signals running on the page to try to counter it.
Still not an official act