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[kosmogrl]

[messengerofmechs]

Hey everyone. There's a new youtube feature that rolled out just yesterday that's raising some privacy concerns.

Expanding ways to share on YouTube

People in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and Singapore can now share videos and chat with friends directly within the YouTube app. The update bring

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.

[rubylang-official]

Important reminder to circumcise your links!!!

both Spotify and YouTube have either ?si=kfhdheuuehdjd or &si=kfhdheuuehdjd in their links when you push the share button.

REMOVE ALL OF THIS!!!

with YouTube, sometimes the link will be youtube.com/watch?v=jhhehhdehhe which is fine, but if it's followed by the &si=...., remove that part!!!

This lets the apps track who you send links to AND shows your username (USUALLY YOUR REAL NAME) in the DMs feature of the platform

When opening YouTube links, please circumcise them before opening them or the person who sent it might be able to see your name too!!

Also, as OP said, go to your settings and turn that off!

[mmelete]

The Tumblr Experience

[snowkissedmonsters]

"Don't be anti-AI because if you don't keep up with technology you'll be left behind" okay boohoo you tell me. What skill is required to use an AI. What training or personal advancement am I being left behind on. Is it likely that using an AI chatbot will ever require a degree of skill that the average 7 year old cannot perform. And on the flip side, what skills are you LOSING by using AI. What are you gonna do when the subscription prices skyrocket and you have to re-learn how to write an email or do 10 minutes of independent research or even think of your own social media caption. Which of us is actually likely to be "left behind" because of AI.

[dateamonster]

can we send up a quick thank you to pdf uploaders, torrent seeders, copy sharers, scanlators, fansubbers, digitizers, paywall dodgers, and various other internet archivers for making niche art and information more accessible in a media landscape where all but the most profitable mainstream are often tossed aside and left to rot

[apolladay]

On what part of your body is your biggest scar?

head

torso

arms/hands

legs/feet

a different part of my body

I have 0 scars

Remaining time: 2 days 18 hours

[mandatoryrollercoaster]

This is Progress

[asparklethatisblue]

ou ever have a migraine and think "damn. maybe those ancient medical interventions of drilling a hole into your skull or bleeding had a point. surely worth a try"

[theprofessional-amateur]

She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodat

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse," wrote Corey Quinn, a software-startup founder in San Francisco, on X.

Employers could wind up in court if they outright dismiss workers who request a faith-based exemption from using AI, said Ashley Herd, a former McKinsey counsel and head of North American HR who now advises managers and employers on workplace issues.

"Playing priest, and telling employees their request isn't legitimate, does not tend to bode well for companies," said Herd, also a cohost of the "HR Besties" podcast. "A jury doesn't like it when employees get made fun of by managers or HR."

[leebrontide]

This is Hilarious.

[generatingfail]

I mean... whatever works, I guess!

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: How I created this visual magic (cr 阿梓蔗)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the thing about being "good with kids" is all it takes is literally just not trying to control and mould them with every interaction. it's just being a normal person and engaging with them through normal interactions like having conversations and playing games. it's just being genuine and friendly and not perceiving them as lumps of wet clay you are there to shape. "oh you're so good with kids" thanks it's because I think they are people

[crimsonqueen3991]

Alternatively, I'm asked why I'm not good with kids

I'm not good with people. I'm very bad at social interaction in general, and I hear like "but it's just a kid"

Exactly, that's a small person. The thing I'm not good at.

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[thulium]

[crab-justice]

[fullfrontalfish]

Watching this forever goodbye

[fullfrontalfish]

WHOS SEXY IM SEXY WHOS SEXY IM SEXY

[monochrome-merchant]

Thats a ShrimplyBeautiful video! And that's a critically endangered cardinal sulawesi shrimp!

The accounts are run by a person named Timothy Utterback, he's a conservationist who posts videos of his shrimp "dancing" (this is how they eat!) to rave music and uses the revenue to fund their maintenance. There's typically a couple of shrimp rave livestreams a week over on tiktok, so check it out!

[star-mom-selkie]

happy pride month

[autumnjjas]

So my Twitter account got suspended even though I haven't made a single Tweet in two months.... and here I thought I'd be addicted to that site forever. What a relief!