[-] TAG@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago

I agree that Honey is a sleazy extension, but should I be worried that if they lose, it will set a bad precedent? From the video, the Honey extension works by injecting a Honey referral code into all online shopping transactions, possibly overwriting whatever influencer referral code the user was under. If Honey loses, the court decision is likely to say that an extension creator is liable if they tamper with referral codes and tracking links.

This will be a problem for privacy extensions that strip out tracking cookies and referral URLs, since they are also messing with influencer attribution, though not for profit but at the request of the user.

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 78 points 6 months ago

That reminds me of the time, quite a few years ago, Amazon tried to automate resume screening. They trained a machine learning model with anonymized resumes and whether the candidate was hired. Then they looked at what the AI was looking at. The model had trained itself on how to reject women.

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago

I am a little disgusted by this because now both major browser engines are being developed by an advertising company, creating more incentives for future web technologies that strengthen tracking and undermine ad blocking.

From what I understand, this is an anonymized targeted ad company. In other words, ads are still targeted to the individual user, it is just harder for the advertiser to track (or profile) an individual user. Are there any companies still doing untargeted ads, ads where the advertiser might pick what site their ad goes on but cannot target a specific user demographic?

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 54 points 7 months ago

As mentioned in the article, now Tesla is scrambling to rehire them. I am curious how many will come back, how much of a premium they will want, and how many will stay long term. It makes sense to take the offer (especially if it comes with a better salary), wait for your former colleagues to find jobs, get some feedback from them about companies, and then jump ship.

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 44 points 9 months ago

Douglas Adams is undoubtedly one of the greatest writers of the period.

He is known for light, surrealistic science fiction comedy, not a genre generally considered "high art" but his mastery of language is superb. He is a master of analogies in a way that is both funny but also makes the reader think about the roles and conventions of symbolism in language.

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Are there any good April Fools jokes today? For example, a few years ago Google announced a sewage based ISP (i.e. flush some fiber optic cable down the toilet and they would fish it out and connect it).

The only one I have come across is IGN article about the Nintendo Virtual Boy Pro.

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Note, that is not 154 random people on the street. That is 154 US academics specializing in presidential politics, a much smaller total population.

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago

As someone born in the Russia, I support Zelensky looking at the old borders of the Kievan Rus.

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submitted 1 year ago by TAG@lemmy.world to c/boardgames@feddit.de

Has anyone ever shopped at the online store Gate Play? I have never heard of them.

I saw an out of print expansion being sold below MSRP and wanted to see if anyone knew if the site was a scam. I am going to pay by credit card and read the terms of service, but don't want to have to bother with charge backs if I am not their first victim.

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Share your gift ideas, because I am a bit stumped.

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Trees are great on sidewalks, but it is much easier to control the weight of an algae tank if you want to make a green roof for a building.

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 121 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is why Anikin was too old to be trained as a Jedi. Not because he was too old to learn how to fight, but because he was too old to be brainwashed to be a warrior monk. He had ties to the outside world. If they had started his training at birth, he would have no worldly ties to hold him back.

And before anyone calls me out on it, I have not consumed any Star Wars media other than the first 6 movies. I am well aware that I am pulling lore out of my butt.

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Nadella said Google's dominance was due to agreements that made it the default browser on smartphones and computers.

Google gained dominance in the early 2000s when the dominant platform was the ~~smart phone~~ Windows computer, which had a default browser of ~~Google Chrome~~ Internet Explorer and a default search engine of ~~Google~~ MSN search.

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

The airlines are right, pilots should not have to pick between flying a plane that they don't think is safe and having to authorizing refunds for passengers… they should be able to call an airline safety whistle blower line so that an independent safety officer can take a look and ground the airline for not maintaining their airplanes.

Seriously, how can airlines argue against it? They are saying that they will pressure pilots to fly death traps? I think airlines would be ashamed to have airplanes in such condition.

[-] TAG@lemmy.world 113 points 1 year ago

Landlords do have to pay an income tax on property regardless of whether it is occupied or not, it is just that when a property is not being rented, it generates 0 income and 30% of $0 is $0.

Do you mean some sort of land appreciation tax?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by TAG@lemmy.world to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

From what I understand, KBin can import a Lemmy Community as a Magazine. Is the inverse also possible? Can I subscribe to a KBin magazine in Lemmy?

I want to subscribe to @boardgames@kbin.social, but !boardgames@kbin.social returns no search results on https://lemmy.world/ .

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