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  • Pretty much spot on. I believe they also saved the dislike counts on lots of videos from before the dislike removal, so it’s only new dislikes not reflected accurately

    Also, you can help fix the bias! The more people using the extension and disliking things they for like, the more accurate it’ll become

    (There were also plans for some kind of API that would link to YouTube accounts to allow content creators to feed the true dislike counts into it constantly, but I believe they were abandoned due to privacy and safety concerns as it required a lot of permissions and essentially root level access into your account to function)








  • Seriously, it’s probably some shit about being able to start/stop it remotely, or get notifications when the wash cycle finishes or something like that

    I don’t hate the idea of notifs when it finishes, but I’d probably get pissy at it. These “smart home” things usually get really shitty if you isolate them to your local network. Probably for advertising/data collection reasons, most won’t just send the notification to the app or anything like that, it’ll send it to some obscure server on the other side of the world, then they’ll ping each other about 30 times, before that server eventually sends you the notification

    As to why it’s using that much data, it’s probably for peer-to-peer software updates. I think windows does the same thing. Some companies prioritise updates via P2P so they don’t need to pay as many egress fees/maintain as much infrastructure, although they’ll sell it as “making the update experience faster and more totally AWESOME for everyone involved!”


  • Baku@aussie.zonetoCyanide and Happiness@lemm.ee26 November 2024
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    1 month ago

    Fun fact: if one person with an iPhone is messaging someone with an android using Google Messages, and the iPhone user hasn’t enabled RCS chats, any reactions the iPhone user sends will show up on the Android as a message reaction, but reactions the Android user sends will show up as something like “[phone number] reacted ‘😂’ to ‘so I bought an iPhone today…’” which is pretty funny. How the tables turn I guess



  • Baku@aussie.zonetoMemes@sopuli.xyzI want a name for this
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    1 month ago

    I actually thought I had dyslexia for a while because of this, plus if I don’t read correctly (which for me requires memorising each word in a sentence, then interpreting it as a sentence, as opposed to reading each word and interpreting it by itself), I get the order of words mixed up




  • Baku@aussie.zonetoComics@lemmy.mlMe too, thanks.
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    4 months ago

    Unfortunately most banks in my area don’t offer cheques on personal accounts anymore. You can still cash them, but my bank hasn’t offered cheque books on personal accounts in a good few years (and I think that’s the same case for other banks in my area, too)


  • Baku@aussie.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlYoutube is harassing us!
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    4 months ago

    One helpful thing I found is that it can skip “non music sections”, ie those cringey silent scenes they put in YouTube videos. If that’d existed a couple of years ago, I probably wouldn’t have switched to Spotify. I mainly switched because I was sick of random 10 second pauses for dramatic effect in the middle of songs, often right before the chorus