Chee_Koala

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[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

With shorts specifically, on my old now non existant account, which had a scary good profile of me, I got washed with right wing bullshit and transphobia when it shoehorned shorts in my life. It knew very very well who I was and that I would not enjoy any of that. I notified YT through don't show me this again buttons, and when it wouldn't stop I informed them they had 7 days to get this out of my recommendations or I would close my activity at their website. They did not react, they did not make shorts an option, they did not get the right wing garbage out of the 3 shorts they managed to throw in my face somehow every day when using YouTube. This account was over 10yo. Seeing how good their normal recommendations were, I can only conclude it was broken or bought for shorts, and thus you should be extremely reticent/reluctant blaming it on the users when they get wierd stuff.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

My goal is to inform you that your N=1 is unrepresentative, I came in to say: "shorts algorithm suggestions were completely out of wack to my YouTube account(too!)" so now we have at least n=3, and if we can trust each other to say the truth, your 'its a you problem' is false. That's important, because you accused someone of having certain interests, based on their experiences with that algorithm. I think that's pulling the gun and putting too much 'trust' in a commercial YT algorithm, that worked for some (you I guess) but not for all.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I thought it was one of the most intense city builders I ever played. I love the genre, and I love this style. Pretty difficult as well.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (5 children)

So what you're saying is you trust YouTube to do it right? With shorts? I got bombarded with bullshit in shorts, the 50 times they got it in front of my eyes somehow, I never watched any of that in my normal yt rounds. That algorithm is made to brainwash, not to serve you what you want.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's great, I drive a low compact and because all the boomers around me drive a small tractor/SUV, whenever dusk starts I can look at all the pretty hard white suns behind me instead of traffic. If a big cargo truck can have good unobtrusive lighting, your fucking boomer mobile should also be able to have it, so it's basically a choice made in the factory: yeah this will fucking blind everyone on the road, but think of how COOL it will look guys!!

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Promising gains with that ubershader!

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Slots ruin everything..

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I think I whistle the Pennsylvania Polka at least 5 times a week.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Snowpiercer is so, so very weird. Fantastic!

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

<3. The letters in the title could be a DNA sequence. We might watch this tonight, for date night!

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I never heard about pre paid electric meters for homes. May I ask where you are located? Small UPS seems like the frickin perfect addon to that situation!

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's because this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabhakar_Raghavan thinks that keeping people engaged on google search longer is what it is all about. Not finding what you search for, no, engagement with your search tool.

"He was the head of search for Yahoo from 2005 through 2012 — a tumultuous period that cemented its terminal decline, and effectively saw the company bow out of the search market altogether. His responsibilities? Research and development for Yahoo's search and ads products.

When Raghavan joined the company, Yahoo held a 30.4 percent market share — not far from Google’s 36.9%, and miles ahead of the 15.7% of MSN Search. By May 2012, Yahoo was down to just 13.4 percent and had shrunk for the previous nine consecutive months, and was being beaten even by the newly-released Bing. That same year, Yahoo had the largest layoffs in its corporate history, shedding nearly 2,000 employees — or 14% of its overall workforce. " - https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

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