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Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation

Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation - Lemmy.World

We have no idea what content is most viral on YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, or X – because they refuse to share basic data. On the DSA’s Birthday (Oct 4th) we’ve led a “mass data access request” along with @mozilla and DSA40 Data Access Collaboratory, where a series of ~20 orgs requested daily data on their top 1,000 most-viewed posts in EU Member States. Every single one refused. Join us in demanding platform transparency. Posted on mastodon: https://chaos.social/@algorithmwatch/115620980818833875 [https://chaos.social/@algorithmwatch/115620980818833875]

gi1242 Sep 16, 2025

Middle aged television

https://lemmy.world/post/36001500

gi1242 Aug 20, 2025

Using fd vs indexed searches (baloo)

https://lemmy.world/post/34738405

Using fd vs indexed searches (baloo) - Lemmy.World

Hi All, I recently tried out the KDE/Plasma search (Baloo). 1. Indexing full content was too slow (I have some 100GB of data), and I disabled it. 2. Indexing filenames only was reasonably quick. 3. The search was very restrictive (full words only, miscategorized files). To make it usable for me, I had to get a list of all files and dump it to fzf, which worked reasonably well. 4. Using baloosearch6 to get a long list of files provides almost no noticable performance improvment over fd: > time ( baloosearch6 mimetype:application/pdf | wc -l ) 0.05s user 0.03s system 111% cpu 0.069 total > time ( \fd -H --no-ignore-vcs --xdev -tf -tl ‘.pdf$’ | wc -l ) 0.24s user 0.15s system 364% cpu 0.107 total (Both commands found about 11,000 files. I’m using a SSD with about 500mbps read speed). 3. If I try it again with a larger file set : > time ( baloosearch6 -d VSync/ ‘’ | wc -l ) 0.23s user 0.10s system 123% cpu 0.264 total > time ( \fd -H --no-ignore-vcs --xdev -tf -tl --base-directory=VSync/ | wc -l ) 0.13s user 0.11s system 456% cpu 0.052 total This time baloo found 96000 files, and fd found 59000 files. (fd might have run faster cause of disk caching.) fd used more CPU no doubt. But the wall time difference in performance is so small that it doesn’t make sense to me to use an indexed search anymore. Any thoughts?

gi1242 Mar 25, 2025

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

https://lemmy.world/post/27357922

gi1242 Feb 13, 2025

Accidentally typed 'sl' instead of 'ls'? Install this and get a steam locomotive to run across your terminal.

https://lemmy.world/post/25540308

Accidentally typed 'sl' instead of 'ls'? Install this and get a steam locomotive to run across your terminal. - Lemmy.World

or be boring and alias sl=ls

gi1242 Jan 23, 2025

It's Actually Infuriating that Actually Infuriating has no posts and no users

https://lemmy.world/post/24649498

It's Actually Infuriating that Actually Infuriating has no posts and no users - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

gi1242 Jan 21, 2025

Endangered and unpaid: Mukesh Chandrakar’s life symbolised the Bastar media story

https://lemmy.world/post/24534601

Endangered and unpaid: Mukesh Chandrakar’s life symbolised the Bastar media story - Lemmy.World

Unpaid Basar journalists write story following up on the tragic death of a six-month-old girl who had got caught in a crossfire the previous year as well as landmine deaths in the region. They also report on conditions of new schools, the salaries of teachers and the implementation of government schemes in the area. One of the authors is murdered and his body is found in a septic tank in the area near his home. He was 32 years old. The main suspect was Contractor Suresh Chandrakar, who had recently had an extravagant wedding for which he’d used a helicopter and organised Russian dancers, and was a distant relative of the victim.

gi1242 Jan 18, 2025

Open letter to Zuckerberg from Pixelfed creator Supernault

https://lemmy.world/post/24419112

Open letter to Zuckerberg from Pixelfed creator Supernault - Lemmy.World

his post on mastodon is here: https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/113849098386232034 [https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/113849098386232034]

gi1242 Jan 4, 2025

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

https://lemmy.world/post/23878262

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

gi1242 Dec 3, 2024

here are a few ideas I had:

invest / subsidized green tech
lobby to stop oil and gas subsidies
lobby to stop meat subsidies
lobby for stricter environmental taxes and regulations.
subsidize repair services so that it’s cheaper for people to fix things instead of buying new
offer bad politicians a lot of money to resign
buy companies that provide essential services (water gas net) and make them non profits
do the same to things like Uber Facebook Google, and make ads optional
make public transit free
make affordable healthcare
set up a charity with whatever’s left. withdraw 4% a year and split evenly it between to anyone who asks for it