• Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    5 hours ago

    I wonder how many of your interactions on Twitter are bots already though… These are just being honest with you

  • Bad Jojo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
    94·
    1 day ago

    We are literally destroying our planet and the water ww drink to feed AIs, not to help us cure all diseases, educate our population, help us develop clean way to power our present and our future, but to wank to Louis Griffin. Literally something many of us have been able to do quite succesfully for many years without the assistance of AI.

    • kieron115@startrek.websiteEnglish
      3·
      13 hours ago

      I’m not trying to support AI but I’m pretty sure the water that is “lost” to data centers is due to evaporation, which would return it to the water cycle. I think the rest of the water use is “closed loop”, so minimal losses.

      • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        I have no idea why but this made me laugh uncontrollably

        I rarely do that for things online so

      • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
        9·
        22 hours ago

        Hey everybody how’s it going, hope you’re having a lovely day-welcome to today’s episode of how you’re getting F’ed I’m your host Louis Griffin.

        Boop wants to introduce tiny holograms that interrupt your cutaway gag by showing up announced in your living room without your consent. This is asshole behavior and privacy invasive. Here at Griffin Griffin Griffin and Griffin Repair group we believe in a brighter future where Alexa can’t save you with Amazon drones while you’re getting hunted down by 2 employees from the last Blockbuster on earth. She would’ve never known you were there. Thats why im running for mayor of Quahog to pass right to repair legislation in Rhode Island. Remember to change your profile picture to Rupert the Bear, because Rupert together strong.

        As always, I hope you learned something, bye now.

        five minutes of outtakes of Brian the Dog interrupting filming

    • tankfox@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      I think in the long term AI is going to save the planet via mechanisms exactly like this; reducing the population level to something the planet can support not by culling existing humans but by preventing new humans from being born in the first place! This is the most gentle of all apocalypse, the one where humanity just packs it in and stops messing with the planet.

      also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXTSrC1_7QQ

    • Binzy_Boi@piefed.caEnglish
      16·
      1 day ago

      YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. What if I want us to do things sideways, frontwards, backwards, upside down, 360 degrees, in the living room, in the bedroom, on the ceiling, in the closet, on the fridge, in the car in our Disneyland resort hotel?

  • recklessengagement@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    22 hours ago

    I started getting these ads on my Lemmy app (sync). Anyone got a reccomendation for another app that also does keyword blacklisting?

      • recklessengagement@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        12 hours ago

        Momentum, I guess.

        Side note, it’s great that Lemmy has so many other choices. Any other platform you’d be stuck with the ads. But now that they’ve exceeded my threshold for tolerance, I can drop the whole app and still get all the features I want.

        Not a lot of places left where you can do that.

    • chetradley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      I switched from Sync to Boost and it’s been a pretty good experience so far. I used to love Sync, but the developer has obviously given up support for the app. I paid for a year subscription, but when I got a new phone I couldn’t sync my purchase, so I was still getting obnoxious ads. Posted in the community and reached out to the developer directly… and nothing. Cancelled my subscription and I’m never going back.

      • Randelung@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        I have an always on VPN to my pihole. Boost only has ads when I fuck something up and have to disable the VPN. Which is every few years, and the experience with the internet in general makes me so thankful for pihole.

        Actually, I should donate a few bucks.

    • Javi@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      16 hours ago

      I use sync too; though I’m running it through proton VPN (largely due to my govs increasingly authoritarian stance on internet freedoms, but that’s neither here nor there), which has built in ad and tracker blocking, so I don’t see any of the ads in sync.

      This is what it looks like behind an ad blocker:

      • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        12 hours ago

        Switch to a better app like voyager. The sync dev isn’t great (I admittedly have an axe to grind) and I thought I saw they were abandoning the project.

        But either way, grab an app that isn’t trying to monetize you like they do. And don’t pay for the app, they will eventually rug pull it (they did it to me with the reddit app years ago)

        • Javi@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          Yeah I’m aware of syncs controversy; the app hasn’t seen any updates in a year or so. But using an adblock to circumvent the ads isn’t supporting the dev, and it works well enough for my needs. I definitely wouldn’t pay for a premium account; feels very anti-fediverse in nature.

          I did start to use voyager on my Linux phone, though it doesn’t seem to connect to my home instance. Admittedly that’s via the web app, so perhaps there’s some issues with connectivity there rather than voyager in general; but that experience sort of solidified me on sync on my android. I setup a second account on db0 and it worked with voyager, but I’m generally pretty happy where I am.

          Feddit.uk have setup a blorp frontend which I may just convert to a web app for use, but I just haven’t got around to it.