AlexAplin

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by AlexAplin 29d ago
Democracy, even at its most ideal, is often about overriding preferences. Netflix helps to float an entire industry of creators and a tangible pop culture. It's not entirely clear (or softened, maybe not clear to communities) what AI b
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by AlexAplin 1mo ago
They aren't my indicators, but they read as sweat against the observable metrics being in decline. There is a perception that they want to pull on users outside of Bluesky that I don't really think exist, and I guess I share in th
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by AlexAplin 1mo ago
It's probably silly to make OP's judgement of any of these implementations in isolation, but you can sense a real fear about the growth (or lack thereof) inside Bluesky. Fiddling with the presented metrics (likes count getting mov
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by AlexAplin 1mo ago
The attendance was clandestine and performed by actors that misrepresented themselves to gain an intelligence advantage. I'm not sure what else you would call it.
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AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest(ohiostatefair.com)
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by AlexAplin 2mo ago
Feeds still have a lot of inertia, at least. Most blogs generate them out of the box, and Wordpress being as predominant as it still is means you can still find them even where you don't expect to. Even social media profiles can compre
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by AlexAplin 2mo ago
Any boast about AI accelerating the development lifecycle comes with an equal or greater stock that examples like this become more frequent when there are less opportunities for someone to interrupt them with a smidge of common sense.
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by AlexAplin 2mo ago
I should have specified I meant the custom melodies. My understanding was that they're now all generic. https://sheets.works/the-bells-of-tokyo is a good reference for the transition.
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by AlexAplin 2mo ago
JR East is already in the process of eliminating departure melodies as they transition to one-man station operations, so these will unfortunately be gone sooner than later. The Nambu and Joban lines got rid of them last year and it looks li
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by AlexAplin 4mo ago
Besides the context in the other comments, they pushed the Japanese fresh food angle in a media blitz pretty hard last year ( https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/business/7-eleven-ceo-ste... ). Egg sandwich
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by AlexAplin 4mo ago
Dead internet theory seems mostly proven by blog posts gesticulating about it. Digital creation is easier, more collaborative, and just as fun as it has ever been if you stop thinking in terms of mass audience and following the herd. I&#x27
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by AlexAplin 5mo ago
The advertisers that evaporated and left behind a lot of no label dropshipping scams seem to think so. Did a lot of them eventually come back because there is some audience to squeeze numbers from? Sure, but I also wouldn't negate that
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by AlexAplin 5mo ago
We have probably crested over some peak, but you would not look at the broad numbers and say 3% of a peak is organic to that trend. That is a dying/dead website, at least from the position of someone running socials for EFF. https:&#x
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by AlexAplin 6mo ago
Notably, this primer on Sora safeguards was published only yesterday: https://openai.com/index/creating-with-sora-safely/ Not a great look that either the teams responsible for Sora didn't know this was comin
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by AlexAplin 7mo ago
I'm pretty forgiving about accessibility (I'm able to say this at all because I don't have to rely rigidly on accessibility tools) but nav menus feel like a baseline we shouldn't muck with. Tabbing doesn't seem to r
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by AlexAplin 9mo ago
The current utilization of generative video is almost universally horrible, which this article does suggest, so I'm not too surprised there are players trying to differentiate themselves. Slop for thee, not for me.
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by AlexAplin 9mo ago
Comparing views cross-platform is not a very useful study and YouTube routinely adjusts what a view means. Shorts changed earlier this year to count all playbacks and loops without a minimum watch time requirement. https://suppor
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by AlexAplin 9mo ago
For what it is worth, they have communicated that they do eventually plan to retire the domain themselves [1]: >Re-enrolling your security key will associate them with x[.]com, allowing us to retire the Twitter domain. [1] https:/&
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by AlexAplin 10mo ago
Cloudhiker is pretty healthy as a StumbleUpon revival. I've found lots of great personal blogs and sites across a lot of categories through it. https://cloudhiker.net/
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by AlexAplin 11mo ago
Google had a tailored fair use argument because they never made more than snippets public and searchable. It was also prior to Hachette that controlled lending with one-to-one digital copies for every physical copy was a status quo that p
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by AlexAplin 11mo ago
Stick figures run through a lot of amateur digital animation, for probably obvious reasons. Pivot reigned on a lot of early YouTube and the stubby stick figure style ran through a lot of Flipnote Hatena. I'm not sure if it's simpl
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by AlexAplin 11mo ago
This exact arbitrage, performed by Doordash, was exploited. https://www.readmargins.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage
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by AlexAplin 1y ago
Some of the major hosted feed readers (Inoreader, Feedly, Feedbin) include subscriber count in their user agent. I usually run a filter on requests to the feed links in my access logs to get an idea of how they're changing. Anecdotally
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by AlexAplin 1y ago
Quibi launched in April 2020. TikTok by this point would have 2 billion downloads [1]. It's difficult to assess they were trailblazers here. I might even say a component of their failure is free mobile video was widely accessible by th
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by AlexAplin 2y ago
Watching the firehose events they're probably clearing Mastodon for now. We'll see how that looks after it stabilizes again, the surges tend to have pretty steep dropoffs so far. https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats http
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by AlexAplin 3y ago
Neil Cicierega's Ariel Needs Legs somewhat infamously had the audio corrupted on its YouTube upload over time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nH6ya5g2-s It actually seems better from when I last looked at it, but you
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by AlexAplin 4y ago
IA received and posted a dump of MP3.com dated just prior to their takeover by CNET a few months back: https://archive.org/details/mp3-com-rescue-barge