Just the tip 😏

I see where you’re coming from, but my understanding is that the tracking cookies are already on your machine when the banner is presented, so they’ve already put in the proverbial tip.

Absolutely wild that they’re still allowed to call this “consent”

If we imagine the idea of sexual consent being given in the same circumstances, it sounds a lot like a fucking crime.

“Either you consent to having sex with me right now or you pay me a subscription fee in order to not consent. If you do that, I’ll still fuck you, but I’ll use protection”

Lmao even if you pay, you still see ads, they just won’t track you. What an insane monetization scheme

Person I’m responding to said this was common in continental Europe

Wouldn’t this be blatantly in conflict with the EU cookie law? Like I’m not from Europe but my understanding was that it needs to be equally easy to accept or reject all cookies. Dark patterns aren’t allowed

Unfortunately Lemmy is a lot more ephemeral than Reddit. If a post here gets deleted, it and the comment thread are basically gone. On Reddit deletion simply hides the post unless the post was of something illegal for Reddit to host. I really miss that behaviour.

As a result, I doubt Lemmy will ever become a valuable backlog of information like Reddit.

I’m not sure, I think it may use an FB account. But you could make one specifically for this one use-case and then nuke your IG account.

If the only thing you use it for is chat, I think you can chat with instagram users on FB messenger instead, which you can then heavily restrict in terms of the OS permissions you give to it.

Goes to show that security through obscurity is no security at all.

So I’ve heard of this a bit before but never really got it. Is the idea that the cable could access all of the channels, but the box had some sort of DRM on it that prevented it from actually tuning into those channels?

Newpipe does this I think. Not sure if you can get it on your TV

Oh wow, I had no idea you could opt out. I flew to Paris recently and they were herding people like cattle through CDG and at no point was it clear that there was an opt out. Hell, it wasn’t even obvious I was about to have my face scanned until I stepped into a very claustrophobic chamber, the doors shut behind me, and it told me I needed to scan my face before I could walk out the other side of that chamber. In a moment like that, after being awake for 30 hours because some crotch goblins were screaming the entire flight, trapped in a pod the size of my closet, telling me to stand still and let the techbros steal your faceprint, my personal morals about facial rec were the last thing on my mind.

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This is like those people who say that the only form of safe sex is abstinence. Technically true, practically useless.

I think the philosophical concept of Open Source can’t really work in ML models unless the training data is open as well. As it stands, these “open source” models are still very much a black box. Nobody was really questioning the implementation of the GPT.

The funny thing is that the people who complain most about stuff like this, tend to be the people who contribute the least.

Why would I donate to them if they are going to advertise at me either way?

Conda environments can encapsulate more than just Python packages, it brings the pip/venv model to the ecosystems of many languages (R, Go, etc.), and does so at the user level rather than in a folder for one project. The other Anaconda stuff is pretty useless IMO, but Conda is exceptionally useful. Although I would echo what the other commentor said that the mambaforge version is even better than vanilla miniconda

Conda package manager is like pip on steroids. It’s great for science, especially when working on Linux servers where you don’t have root

I believe there is more functionality that is supposed to exist beyond just the cross platform search, but that functionality depends on the cross-platform identity thing I mentioned.

In theory yes, but in practice Grayjay doesn’t really work that way. I think for it to work as intended, the creators need to actually create a Grayjay identity and connect it to their accounts. Which literally none of them do.