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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-15 20:20:51

Cloudflare starts blocking access to pirate sites in the UK; previously, blocking was almost entirely done by local ISPs (Andy Maxwell/TorrentFreak)
torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-st

Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users - That's a Pretty Big Deal * TorrentFreak
Cloudflare has become the first intermediary to join the UK's pirate site blocking program. It's a shift that may surprise VPN users too.

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-07-16 02:45:48

Cloudflare starts blocking access to pirate sites in the UK; previously, blocking was almost entirely done by local ISPs (Andy Maxwell/TorrentFreak)
torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-st

Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites For UK Users - That's a Pretty Big Deal * TorrentFreak
Cloudflare has become the first intermediary to join the UK's pirate site blocking program. It's a shift that may surprise VPN users too.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2025-06-15 02:00:07

wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.
This network has 138592 nodes and 740397 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed

wiki_users: Wikipedia user interaction (2011). 138592 nodes, 740397 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/wiki_users

wiki_users — Wikipedia user interaction (2011)
A network derived from interactions between editors of the English language Wikipedia, as derived from the edit histories of 563 wiki pages related to politics. A positive sign indicates positive links such as trust or similarities, and a negative sign indicates distrust or disagreement.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-06-16 10:54:42

New study on the effects of LLM use (in this case on essay writing):
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four month…

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalo…

@dichotomiker@dresden.network
2025-06-16 07:45:56

"Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity."
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work."
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

Scene from Idiocracy (2013): An underperforming Oval Office advisor gazes thoughtfully into a glass ball, displaying a rather average level of brightness.
@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-16 11:02:45

Meta Users Feel Less Safe Since It Weakened ‘Hateful Conduct’ Policy, Survey Finds 404media.co/meta-users-feel-le

Meta Users Feel Less Safe Since It Weakened ‘Hateful Conduct’ Policy, Survey Finds
A survey of 7,000 active users on Instagram, Facebook and Threads shows people feel grossed out and unsafe since Mark Zuckerberg's decision to scale back moderation after Trump's election.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-14 22:20:45

Reddit says it has started verifying UK users' ages before letting them "view certain mature content", in order to comply with the country's Online Safety Act (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view adult content
Reddit hires company to verify user age with selfie or photo of government ID.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-15 20:46:08

Users have uploaded 5,000 AI models, previously banned from Civitai for generating nonconsensual sexual content of real people, to Hugging Face (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
404media.co/hugging-face-is-ho

Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People
Users have reuploaded 5,000 models used to generate nonconsensual sexual content of real people to Hugging Face after they were banned from Civitai.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-12 23:20:47

Instagram plans to let users rearrange their grid, a first, and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without it appearing in users' feeds (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/inst

Instagram will finally let you rearrange your grid | TechCrunch
Instagram is finally going to let users rearrange their grid and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without having the content appear in users' feeds.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-06-16 17:01:21

Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
theverge.com/news/687570/patre

Patreon is raising its fees for new creators soon
Patreon is raising the rate it charges to most creators, but existing users won’t see an increase — nor will anyone who signs up by August 4th.