Subjects who received the wasabi treatment saw their episodic memory scores jump an average of 18%, Nouchi said, and scored on average 14% higher than the placebo group overall.
So this started coming up today. On every video. I can (so far) click the “x” and remove it to watch (still see 2 ads before the video, and one after 4 minutes - ruins music on YT), but did click the “Report issue” only for the dialogue box not to work....
I found a website on twitter a while ago called getmusic.fm that’s basically a collection of free Bandcamp vouchers artists will submit to the site to try to get exposure by giving away their music. I’ve used it a few times, and a lot of it is a bit rough but there’s a few gems in there....
The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch? Exclusive.
This is the beginning of monetizing the app after they started collecting user data a few months back. The more aggressively they decide to monetize, the more aggressive they’ll be about pushing promoted content. Remember when Instagram had no ads?
That’s how this works. And they’re certainly not going to choose to make less money off of their app over time with the market dominance that they have. Why would they when users will continue to use it?
I remember when it was trash in like 2013, but it’s been something I recommend to family and friends since at least 2020. UI is clean, modern, and uncluttered IMO.
Not sure I’ve ever seen Signal push anything crypto related.
Telegram is “pinky promise” secure with a closed source encryption mechanism. I love that it was created by the guy who created VK and fled Russia when the oligarchy wanted control, but that was years ago. Signal is fully open source, including its encryption.
They store no information on users, not even metadata like phone numbers, and this is documented in the blog posts they make when governments get mad about it after their requests for user data can’t be filled.
The fact that you need a phone number to sign up bothered me early on, but over time I’ve realized how helpful it is from a UX perspective. Friends and family want to be able to connect to their contacts directly – not ask for a username.
I fully support the push for open protocols. It’s insane to me that most walled garden messaging apps are largely a wrapper for XMPP.
Signal supporting SMS would be nice, but I certainly prefer web based protocols over MMS for sending media. The less compression there is on the photos and videos I share the better.
Other than being forced to use WharsApp due to their market dominance, I have no desire to use anything proprietary or closed source.
Signal is my top choice open source option, because it’s easy for my family and friends to just use, and it’s one of a very small pool of messaging apps that is verifiably private and secure.
Turning a messaging app for myself and friends into a data farming social media app full of paid promotions is absolutely the definition of enshittification.
You mean they’re adding ads but it’s cool because we don’t have to click on them? You’re right, this will never be made more intrusive, and it’s definitely not an anti-feature.
Because adding paid promotions to something that never had them is always the beginning “making things worse” -ificaton.
The rest of this story is very predictable following Meta’s track record with social media. Everything will go to shit from a UX perspective now that they’ve decided to put ads in the app. That is how this works.
Unofficially, yes probably. But officially Facebook only upped the ante on user data connection from WhatsApp more recently according to their privacy policy. Sorry, “Meta”
I also find it crazy that people don’t understand the value of privacy. Telling people that Nissan wants to sell information about your sexual activity seemed to wake some of my social circle up. But only in the context of Nissan, which almost certainly doesn’t have that data. Meta almost certainly does.
What sort of roadmap are you looking for in Signal? It does everything I need it to do, personally.
Yeah, no, I’m right. This is always how it starts, and these new Channels “partners” will definitely be a revenue stream in the future if they aren’t already. Your view is naive.
The fact that this is the only new “innovation” worth writing an article about is sad. Technological progress has declined so much over the last decade as Big Tech has consolidated the market. Doesn’t help the every minor leap gets turned into a subscription these days either.
To my knowledge, Signal is the only verifiably secure encrypted messaging app that’s market ready. Signal is fully open source, including its encryption algorithm which has been tested numerous times and even gotten government agencies like the FBI all butthurt that can’t break it or get a backdoor from the devs. I have a friend whose cryptography professor contributed to the project.
It was only in recent years that Signal upped their game enough with the user experience for me to start recommending it to friends and family. In 2013, when I first recall trying it out, Signal was more clunky and always wanted to be your default SMS app. I didn’t like that, because at the time they didn’t have a client to send messages from your computer.
Nowadays they have an desktop app that syncs with your phone, video calling, and even stories – which some people find weird but I’m all for non-Zuccubus owned private and secure alternatives to social media. I’m pretty sure anyone on Lemmy would love to pull more power away from these surveillance based ad companies and stop being data cows.
Tl;dr: Fuck the Zuck, keep promoting Signal, democratize the internet
Late reply, but my main sticking point with Matrix is that it isn’t just an app you can tell your non-tech savvy friends to download. I like the decentralization, but most people don’t care and want something easy to understand and use
Wasabi, beloved on sushi, linked to "really substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds (www.cbsnews.com)
Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. (lemmy.world)
So this started coming up today. On every video. I can (so far) click the “x” and remove it to watch (still see 2 ads before the video, and one after 4 minutes - ruins music on YT), but did click the “Report issue” only for the dialogue box not to work....
Do you guys ever find anything decent on getmusic.fm? (www.getmusic.fm)
I found a website on twitter a while ago called getmusic.fm that’s basically a collection of free Bandcamp vouchers artists will submit to the site to try to get exposure by giving away their music. I’ve used it a few times, and a lot of it is a bit rough but there’s a few gems in there....
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” (arstechnica.com)
LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find (venturebeat.com)
Building Meta’s Threads App (Real-World Engineering Challenges) (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch? Exclusive.
Peter Bjorn And John - Young Folks (2006) (www.youtube.com)
The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] (about.fb.com)
Apple Maps will finally be getting offline downloads (lemmy.world)
US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art (arstechnica.com)
Controversial AI art piece from 2022 lacks human authorship required for registration.
Teens Hacked Boston Subway’s CharlieCard to Get Infinite Free Rides (www.wired.com)
Google Messages just flicked the switch on end-to-end encryption for all RCS and group chats (chromeunboxed.com)
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Every tech company rn (lemmy.world)
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‘X’ Rebrand Gets Twitter Blocked Under Indonesia Porn Laws (www.thedailybeast.com)
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The codified Library of Alexandria (madhakker.com)
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