The second-highest hit gives a clue as to why:

Relevantly to Lemmy’s existence in the first place, it suggests Reddit as a pretty pivotal training data source, which Reddit tries to cash in on while also killing 3rd party apps due to apathy

Can’t believe relevant xkcd hasn’t been posted.

Almost like they’re creating the problem in order to sell the “solution”

Weird, but almost nostalgic experience to be a Chapo head since The Poop Touchening episode or thereabouts, follow it from Reddit to Chapo.chat, then hexbear, then sort of fall out of touch with it for years, then see it pop back up here on the fediverse.

Nothing happened because he forgot to uncomment the commands im_stuff.jpg

False; it says “100% Safe & Secured” right there on that logo. How could that possisbly be a scam?

Up next: companies continue 5-day workweeks anyway, because they’re not even rational in their mandates. (See also: forced RTO).

Peer-reviewed publication link

It should be illegal for news articles to report on articles without actually posting the publication link

Edit: pertinently, I’m not 100% sure that’s the same publication, as there doesn’t obviously even seem to be a journal with the title Microbiota (their citation)

How does this work lol. VPN is some third-party node that’s relaying network traffic. Do they mean stealing some kind of authentication credentials for said node (maybe baked into the VPN-connecting software itself?)?

xkcd “standards” comes to mind

Same energy: kitchen implements

My wooden spatula is cracking and warping after being put in the dishwasher every time, but too bad. I’ll use it until it splinters into pulp

Not dishwasher “safe” for whom?

Oh snap