The article also linked to this Mastodon post where someone has been sharing their findings

https://digipres.club/@foone/113313513964826090

One potential concern is

the fact that Redbox machines contain a file that has “a complete list of titles ever rented, and the email addresses of the people who rented them, and where and when.” She also found that the first six and last four digits of credit card information was logged. She said that the records on the particular unit that she was looking at contained 2,471 different transactions and had records on it dating back to 2015.

I don't think anyone answers the phone now, unless they recognize the number.

Most of the calls I get are

• spam
• spam
• someone sent me a time sensitive message, so they ring me once to respond faster
• spam

Should the Lemmy devs create a way to make the votes anonymous?

I'm not sure if there is a good way to have the content federate anonymously. Even if there was, it would be a vector for spam.

Vote manipulation is a growing problem on Reddit. It's only getting worse with all the AI spam bots and they don't have an incentive to stop it. Why trust a review on Reddit if bots are upvoting/downvoting on behalf of a company, or worse what happens in news communities when a well funded group wants to change perspectives.

Admins need to know if the votes/likes coming in are legitimate, else they should block them. It's too easy to abuse anonymous votes to affect how content is ranked.

I left a long comment in the other thread which I will link in a moment, but I think either

1. We keep the current setup, but we put in more effort to make new users aware that vote records are visible to admins/mods
2. We make it public for everyone and take steps to deal with the new issues that it could cause

Other comment on the benefits/issues: https://lemmy.ca/comment/11097046

We get posts here too, and on Reddit

The posts here get reported and removed very quickly, sometimes within minutes of the account being created or the first post.

I searched Reddit for the website they were linking and saw the spam posts on Reddit have been up for months.

Few possible differences:

• We have a better ratio of users/moderation, where the lower volume of posts means everything can go through human moderators

• Our users are more actively trying to keep the platform good by reporting spam

• The incentive here is to create a good online platform. The inventive there is profit. The priorities are different as a result

Huh, so people DO get tired with apps nickel and diming every interaction

Want to filter by more than 2 things? Pay up. Want to send a message? Pay up. Want some privacy measures? Pay up. Also the features are scattered across multiple paid plans, with separate per-item costs for roses/likes/super-likes etc.

This isn't limited to Bumble either

Eh, I don't know the wider context around this but the headlines criticism doesn't seem valid.

Makes me think of the "you criticize society and yet you live in it" meme. It's fine to use social media and still talk about the harms. It's also fine to try and regulate the social media companies while still using social media, In the same way that it's fine for environmental activists to travel for their work.

There's nuance to it and it's still possible for hypocrisy to occur, but I don't see it here (from my quick skim)

I might be mistaken, but I think Apple started with a licensing deal and then walked back on it?

Googled and found this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38774769

I think both things are valid points, but it's worded in a weird way

A more explicit pro/con would have been better

No big corporation that controls everything

• Pro:
• Con:

Eh, it's probably good to have regardless?

It's less about being careful around the car and more about how you might interact with it. For example, honking the horn or flashing your beams wouldn't have the same effect. On that note, it might be nice to have some way of telling a self driving car to temporarily use elevated sensors or something, the same way a horn tells a driver that something is wrong. As long as there's a way to prevent abuse of the system

I don't know much about these lights, but we COULD use some new standards in general with how many things have changed with cars in recent years. Brake lights on electric vehicles being another thing to consider.

That "gentle horn" everyone wants being another

At this point we just need a large compiled list of every instance of it. There's so much that I can't think of an example right away.

From the comments I'm noticing a trend

• Google Chromecast issues
• Not allowed to do background effects in Google meet

and from personal experience:

• issues using the store to update add-ons on Google docs
• can't authenticate desktop Google drive

I use a lot of Google products, but avoid Chrome because of nonsense like this. Firefox works fine for everything else EXCEPT certain Google products. Feels intentional

Zoom is used by a lot of institutions for official, sometimes sensitive work (ex. Healthcare, education, etc.)

How are those plans affected by this change?