SMNI News’ YouTube channel got terminated. The red-tagging channel “Laban Kasama Ang Bayan” (named after the SMNI show with Lorraine Badoy) also got terminated on YT as well.

I was bored/procrastinating on some work.

It’s not really an in-depth thing, I just used Lemmy’s search capability and took note of the number of responses and the number of deleted responses. I added the number of responses with the number of deleted responses (a negative number for new responses, a positive number for new responses is ignored). I did it for both Lemmy.world and Lemm.ee and took the average. For the smoothed out version, I just took the exponential moving average with the following factors:

• sampling frequency = 1 day
• average age (ϰ)= 7 days
• EMA factor (α) = 1/(ϰ+1) = 0.125

That is, I am trying to smooth the values accounting for weekly variability in activity.

I guess I could have ignored the spike in activity during the Reddit blackout, but it seems that the smoothing took care of that quite well.

EDIT: Replaced chart image with a one that has a black background for legibility for people using light mode.

Someone made a thread the other day suggesting that r/PH switch to NSFW. This article explains what we already know and why it’s a bad idea:

Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else…

Contrary to popular belief, we’re not scared of being stripped our moderator duties… BUT it is a bad thing for the sub if they appoint AI mods or just any applicant that may or may not be from a troll farm.

Edit - Apologies for bringing r/PH drama again 🤪

You are the best thing that’s ever been mine

Good morning ka-phlemmies, clock watching time but it’s still an hour before I can sign out of work

Google: I’ll give you protection, I’ll scan your inbox and browsers to train our LLM Baby Bard and serve you more ads.

Enhanced Safe Browsing was only limited to Chrome users, and now Google applied it to Gmail. More “free” products everyone!

I keep thinking about it, my best guess is I got stung by a jellyfish kaso di ko kasi nakita and not knowing is even more annoying 😒 basta walang kakamot is the rule lol

I can really only deduce based on what I got. Either way, I still like jellyfishes. Next time mag full suit na lang ako.

Madami akong natututunan for my beach trip. One could call it a vacation, but I thought it was pretty productive too.

Next time baka try ko matulog sa hammock just so I can save on accomodation💲jk. I think I’ll seriously try it pero solo trip hahaha. Tapos kapag di ko kinaya pasok na lang ako and try to upgrade to an actual bed.

I wanna try things.

So, uh yesterday was reported by Yahoo! Australia to be the world’s hottest day of all time.

Friederike Otto, a German climate scientist based in Britain, was quoted (in the above news article) to say that this is a “death sentence for people and ecosystems”, and that we should expect more records to be broken in the coming months/years, in a negative way.

Well, shit. Better save up for the a/c and fans people. Hotter days lie ahead.

Edit: Clarity. Edit 2: Yestereday to yesterday.

Twitter threatens to sue Meta after rival app Threads gains traction

Twitter is threatening Meta with a lawsuit after the blockbuster launch of Meta’s new Twitter rival, Threads — in perhaps the clearest sign yet that Twitter views the app as a competitive threat.

On Wednesday, an attorney representing Twitter sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter that accused the company of trade secret theft through the hiring of former Twitter employees.

So yeah, I guess after posting that flying ipis thing (which makes sense to be gone for good right?), back to regular mini-OMC na naman. Skip niyo na lang haha, but yeah Advance good night, happy weekend na din. I’m positive I won’t be back sometime - till then. For now, tapusin ko lang ang mga “urgent” tasks daw sabi ni scrum master. 👍 Cheers! 🍻

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You’re probably back there and maybe not here. I really cannot gauge and I should not anyway. What I realized these past few days though? I won’t stop caring, but I’ll still have to keep this close to my chest. Bahala na ulit, as always. I’ll be here though, I’ll be around literally and figuratively, whatever happens from now on, as my many thanks well not only to you but for the rest of the folks that keeps me going, too. But yeah, be well, my friend.

Today’s Ask PHlemmy: The world would be 100x better without this, what is it?

Nearly a month ago I requested for my reddit data and I just got the file today. A few notes:

• It has all my comments since 2011. But a large part of it is unavailable on the actual site if I take a look at my profile.
• Most of the data is comprised of my comments (around 15000+), posts (almost 200), upvoted/downvoted comments, upvoted/downvoted posts, etc.
• IPs used to access the site are logged for about the last 3 months or so.

WHO WILL WIN?

Britney Spears
VERSUS
Victor Wembanyama’s security

Yesterday felt like it was summer season again. El Niño effect scares me. Well La Niña was also scary but El Niño is more prone to heat stroke. Let’s keep ourselves hydrated people!

Good morning Phlemmies! Tamad na ako >:( SHABU