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Melody, to privacy in Cleaning up my digital presence - Meta endboss
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If they care, they will migrate. Leave behind all the rest, they’re not worth your time.

Melody, to chat in Recent and perplexing ordeal with YouTube
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You can appeal this bogus appeal outcome; but prepare to go to battle on Twitter with TeamYoutube and don’t expect to win…unless you can prove your channel was either “more official”, “not claiming to be official”, or "Not Official, not claiming to be, and you started your channel before they started theirs.

Most of the time it’s not worth the effort unless you have overwhelming evidence.

Melody, to firefox in How to disable auto tab sleep/hibernate/inactivate on Firefox for Android?
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That’s the fun part…You don’t!~

Melody, to memes in I hope there's color options
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At least it showed some creativity and effort…if only a little.

Melody, to privacyguides in yubikey and USB
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You should be safe if you are the only one with access to that computer.

If you are sharing the computer with another human being; please Unplug your Yubikey and take it with you when you are not using the computer and it is likely that another human being could be using the computer. Just to be safe; Do Not Leave Your Yubikey Plugged In If Another Person Is Using It…unless you’re authorizing them to access something.

Your Yubikey can’t tell who clicked it’s button as it is NOT a Fingerprint Reader.

Melody, to technology in Chat GPT Did NOT Like My Memory Test
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I could prompt engineer around this in 10 seconds flat but at least they patched it.

Melody, to asklemmy in People Who Don't Wear Deodorant or Seemingly Bathe Regularly, Why?
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Personally; I manage my BO. If I can lift my shirt up, pull my head inside the shirt, and smell my own armpit odor, then I’m in need of some DO.

I’ve been using a Dove branded Spray-On (AP/)DO for Women and it’s effective. By combining the acts of applying DO, then, changing clothes; I don’t particularly sweat over much.

I Do Shower on an As-Needed Basis. That’s saying that I do shower, without committing to any specific showering pattern or timing basis. If you try to imply I don’t shower regularly you will look foolish.

If I stink, then it’s either uncommonly hot and humid or I have not yet had the opportunity needed to shower. The hows and whys of this are not important; but generally if I choose not to shower, it’s probably for a good reason.

I do suffer from some allergies and disabilities. I won’t comment on what they are specifically, but they do exist, so I keep my fragrances light and unobtrusive; and I try to shower only when I can manage to handle doing so. I’m not going to uproot or upset my health, focus, peace or routine just to take a shower to please someone arbitrary; but I do allow the people whom I live with and love to remind me gently should I forget about addressing my BO in the chaos of life.

This isn’t saying that I don’t care. It’s saying I’m imperfect, I have a life, and I do get overloaded sometimes.

Melody, to memes in Skipping along, missing most of the beats...
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Nice. Once upon a time Winamp had a functional preferences slider that controlled the “Shuffle Morph Rate” and I can imagine it likely used a similar algorithm to shuffle.

I only wish this existed in more software in general…and that music players would let you select what method the randomization is achieved with.

Melody, to memes in Skipping along, missing most of the beats...
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Just because someone skips a track doesn’t mean that track was wrong for that playlist. It just means the time was wrong for that track. The mood.

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed; but “Shuffle” used to be a good thing! Now; it frequently just isn’t good at it’s job. There’s no control over the “Randomness” of the shuffle anymore, and there’s no way to turn off any “Algorithm” that promises it can pick the next song better than random shuffling can.

Sometimes that experience of a truly random or an algorithmic shuffle is good; and sometimes it delivers bad options, and being able to say “Nah, I’m just not into this track today, NEXT!” is something I regard as a fundamental right, and something that you too, should do. Skips shouldn’t be precious actions. Your mental heath shouldn’t be impacted by an unlucky shuffle, nor should your mood.

Music is a deep, and almost primal form of expression; and it can express many things. Sooo…Being able to skip the emotional equivalent of a 💩 pile of poo 💩 is actually pretty important…even if it doesn’t 🌹 always (metaphorically) smell 🌸 like poo to you all the time.

Melody, to privacy in Self-hosted rotating proxy
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Yeah; without more information about your threat landscape, aims and needs; you probably won’t get more specific information.

Melody, to privacy in Self-hosted rotating proxy
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Obligatory disclaimer here; I strongly recommend you do not do what you are planning to do with only rotating proxies. Tor is much safer and more private about this sort of thing; you will be de-anonymized easily if you do not use Tor.

Now that the obligatory “privacy community” disclaimers are out of the way; I can say that I do understand what you’re trying to do. Frequently many websites ban the ever loving crap out of Tor Exit nodes and simply will refuse you any service if they even sniff a hint of The Onion Router on your packets. This is, unfortunately, an intentional design decision of Tor Project. You see; they understand the massive potential for abuse of Tor.

Unfortunately…this probably leaves you, the reader, in a situation. You end up being required to choose to either trust or do without. In today’s world; that’s just absolutely freaking impractical even in the best of cases.

Unfortunately the same websites who block Tor are also the same kind of websites with the kind of kinks in their panties that also motivate them to block Proxies as well! Seriously; if your packets come in smelling like they came fresh off a SOCKS5 tunnel; the remote website can often tell. Sometimes the website will be nice and wave this on through; but only if you include headers like X-Forwarded-For: in your request…which defeats the entire purpose of the damn proxy; as that header is for putting your original IP address in.

So in the end your traffic will still ‘stink’; either of Onions or of SOCKS. Sure, you could buy a VPN; but now you’re coming from an obvious VPN proxy and websites that already hate Onions or Socks also hate VPNs; because they can’t see who might be abusing their service.

Now you can try all three ideas and see which one the site will accept. Your mileage may vary and some websites indeed will block all three; Cloudflare, which is a CDN that also services many other websites and protects their edges from DDoS attacks is notorious for doing this.

Best of luck. All I can recommend is a paid VPN plan, pay more than $0 and ideally less than you would spend on a week of coffee; and make sure that the provider not only does not log; but make sure that the provider also is verified by third parties who aren’t shady…to actually be a no-log VPN service. This will take lots of research but it’s worth knowing who in the VPN space are shysters and who arent.

No, I won’t recommend a particular service; I’d rather you did your own homework and risk analysis anyways

If a Paid VPN is out of the question; using Tor may be your only option. If you have multiple proxies you’re probably paying for them anyways and could afford a VPN.

Melody, to memes in do you guys have this movie?
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Or the relative of the “Worse” option:

“Oh, you’re paying a little extra to limit advertising interruptions? Oh sorry! That only works on pre-roll and post-roll ads. Enjoy your fucking Mid(t)roll ad that you can’t fucking skip!”

Melody, to memes in do you guys have this movie?
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Worse:

“I’m aware that you’re paying nearly $30 a month for our Ad-Free tier; but this content creator still demands we put Ads on this shit. Here’s an Ad!” Crashes and refuses to begin playback again when your browser that’s configured to block those ads blocks it.

Melody, to snoocalypse in Reddit might once again be flirting with an IPO
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I mean; we could always take reddit down the same way WallStreetBets took down GME… [/S] [NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE]

Melody, to technology in ethinically ambigaus
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I don’t like the idea of a prompt being subtly manipulated like this to “force” inclusion. Instead the training data should be augmented and the AI re-trained on a more inclusive dataset.

The prompt given by the user shouldn’t be prefixed or suffixed by additional words, sentences or phrases; except to remind the AI what it is not allowed to generate.

Instead of forcing “inclusivity” on the end user in such a manner; we should instead allow the user to pick skin tone preferences in an easy to understand manner, and allow the AI to process that signal as a part of it’s natural prompt.

Obviously; where specific characters are concerned, the default skin tone of the character named in the prompt should be encoded and respected. If multiple versions of that character exist, it should take a user’s skin tone output selection into account and select the closest matching version.

If the prompt is requesting a skin tone alteration of a character; that prompt should obviously be honored as well, and executed with the requested skin tone; and not the skin tone setting selection. As an example I can select “Prefer ligher skin tones” in the UI and still request that the AI should generate me a “darker skinned version” of a typically fairer skinned character.

Instead of focusing on forcing “diversity” into prompts that didn’t ask for it; let’s just make sure that the AI has the full range of human traits available to it to pull from.

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