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NixOS project calling contributors "nazis" - dunno what to make of it. in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm not familiar with Lunduke. Could you elaborate?

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[–] crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago (38 children)

I wish Telegram would just enable default E2EE. Oh well, time to switch to Signal!

Research suggest LLM chatbots may be effective against conspiracy theories in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Here's a link to the chatbot. It's pretty good at explaining things and has a lot of patience for the hopeless drivel conspiracy theories contain. I like how it doesn't just refute them with specific evidence, but tears apart the very logic of the conspiracy theories.

https://survey.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a63Ctm1v22DNlie

Avowed: We Finally Played Obsidian’s First-Person RPG and It’s Fantastic in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

It doesn't seem so. I looked on YouTube and someone cut together a lot of gameplay footage from different sources. It's enough to get a sense for the game. It looks really cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhhH_ocfqZw&t=957s

YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] crimsoncobalt@lemmy.world 67 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

I think you're giving companies too much credit. Freakonomics did a series called "Does Advertising Actually Work?" and the tl;dr was ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-work-part-1-tv-ep-440/

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/does-advertising-actually-work-part-2-digital-ep-441/