Oh, interesting! The last time I tried it was long, long ago, so I didn't realize that they had expanded that configuration. Or maybe I just don't remember seeing it.

I don't use sponsorblock myself (though I don't begrudge anyone who does). For a couple of reasons:

1. I don't trust SponsorBlock necessarily, since it's community-noted. It's become clear that I have different opinions than others about what constitutes a sponsor spot. uBlock can be more certain about what constitutes an ad or not, since it comes from a different domain than the content, but with sponsor spots, they're part of the same content stream.

2. Sometimes host-read ad spots are actually clever, or integral to the video in some way.

3. I have a lot more sympathy for the individual creator who gets all of that money than I do for the trillion-dollar multinational conglomerate.

In any case, I am typically pretty good at skipping ahead. And if the sponsor segments get too onerous, I tend to just stop watching that channel.

EDIT TO ADD: I've been informed that SponsorBlock now does a good job of solving the first problem by categorizing sponsor spots. I'll have to try it out again.

Yep, I block the embedded ads from YouTube, too. I don't use SponsorBlock to automatically skip the ad spots that the creator put in themselves, though. Sometimes they're actually clever, but more to the point I have a lot more sympathy for the individual creator who gets all of that money than I do for the trillion-dollar multinational conglomerate.

You'd think so, but no! My only real ad surfaces anymore are YouTube (sponsored spots), podcasts, and billboards. I am very good at skipping podcast ads and sponsor spots on YouTube, but when I don't I mostly just fume about how I can't for whatever reason (usually when I'm washing dishes and my hands are wet). Billboards are easy to ignore most of the time, too, because on my regular routes I know where they are and have apparently trained myself that there's not anything of interest there.

They each have dozens of dollars?

He's six months in and like ⅔ of the way through his campaign promises. And that's with standing against ICE and dealing with both an extreme winter and and extreme summer. He defeated multiple establishment-backed candidates. And he's managed to do this all without any major scandal.

Plus, if this is a psyop by the right, it's absolutely backfiring. Mamdani is showing the electorate how a government can work for its people. That's good for people, but terrible for the establishment.

I realize where the cynicism comes from, but "just don't change" is always true right up until it isn't.

And then the other half, too, of course.

This may be the first time since the 80s where the OS you're first exposed to will be anything other than Windows or Mac.

We're already well past that point, honestly. Kids graduating high school this year grew up on iPadOS and ChromeOS. Last year I taught someone who is going to college this fall how a directory structure works.

As for me, our household is a Windows-free environment (except for a VM on my personal laptop that I use for DRM'd ebooks). We're Mac-free except for my work computer. My kids are learning Linux as their first real desktop OS (previously they had only used school Chromebooks), and it's been pretty smooth sailing.

It definitely doesn't. Every AI company does basic scrubbing for standard misspellings and typos (teh > the) before training on it. It doesn't even take any extra measurable time. Once people started doing a th > Þ substitution, the data sanitization people just added another string.replace to the pipeline. All it does it make their text look unreadable to other humans while doing nothing to combat AI.

It's possible to not like AI and what it's doing to society and the planet but also to be concerned about executive overreach and corrupt abuse of power.

One more pizza party oughta do it.

I just want one of these Discord alternatives to code up a "migrate-from-Discord" script that admins can use to scrape all of their messages and media, save out their channel structure and access rules, and pull their user list for later mapping, and box it all up into some sort of standards-compliant package.

They keep saying we're going to get left behind, but then they never actually leave.

If there were any sane Republicans, DeWine comes the closest, I think. The Overton Window has moved so far that a lot of MAGAts in Indiana call him a socialist.

Easier onboarding should be a priority once they feel like they can handle a solid influx, especially for the ones that are backed by a company dev team with money.

I know why Discord isn't offering that, but there are at least three FOSS options (Element, Stoat, and Spacebar) that could really use a good way to get content off of Discord and into an open format (sure, Matrix is a solid option). Any data that can be accessed publicly can be scraped, even if it'd take a while. I think one of those teams should be considering this.

Sure, XMPP is a fine option, too. I don't really care what the open format is, because converting between them is going to be frankly trivial once it's extracted from the walled garden.

I'm kinda thinking that by the time we get done with the other 11,000 (a thousand more happened between your comment and mine), Anthropic won't be much of a going concern anymore.

Sure. But this is one of those stories that hits right down the middle in places like Lemmy: it's a fascist government causing harm to a company with a long history of anti-human operation. It's a total sweating-guy-two-buttons meme situation: "Trump is a fascist" vs "And Nothing Of Value Was Lost." Seems like most people are picking a side. I think we shouldn't.

I tend to agree, but the internet amplifies polarization. Not a great thing for discourse.