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- Comment on Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU 1 year ago:
This isn’t the solution people think it is. The only thing Google needs to do now to make it legal is to force a prompt asking for your consent where if you disagree you are completely blocked off from the site. That is, assuming Alexander Hanff, the one carrying on this narrative since 2016, is correct and interpreted the response correctly. In Article 5 of the 2002/58/EC there is a second paragraph that states the following:
Paragraph 1 shall not affect any legally authorised recording of communications and the related traffic data when carried out in the course of lawful business practice for the purpose of providing evidence of a commercial transaction or of any other business communication.
I’m no lawyer, but I tell you who has them in droves, Google and YouTube. I’m not sure how a two page reply from the EU commission to his request telling him Article 5 applies really helps the guy out if Article 5 also includes the means by which YouTube is allowed to run adblocks. Yet, assuming Alexander Hanff is right, again, goto start of comment, so it seems to me it is damned if it is right, damned if it isn’t right.
- Comment on Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law - Insider 1 year ago:
They can still move to whatever substitutes it, like the fediverse, but that also likely means more pressure to make it better, too.
- Comment on Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law - Insider 1 year ago:
Please do it and convince Richard as well. The fediverse always welcomes more users.
- Comment on lemmy.ml has been banned in China mainland 1 year ago:
I recently commented on memes@lemmy.ml in a post that shouldn’t have been there about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and instead of removing the post they removed my comment while lying about the reasons, and the modlog is full of those. All of lemmy.ml should be considered suspect, and I’m not sure if lemmy itself shouldn’t be as well - anonymous voting, comments removed from communities are also removed from personal user profiles on your user host, no warning when your comments are removed … it’s basically everything that was rife for abuse with reddit, except handed to developers who get the first say about where lemmy is heading who clearly have fringe questionable political biases. I’m considering switching to my kbin.social account - which begs the question, shouldn’t there be an option to migrate user accounts between instances?
- Comment on lemmy.ml has been banned in China mainland 1 year ago:
Is there really any irony? China has troll factories operating on popular factories like Twitter and Facebook, and those are banned in China as well.
- Comment on Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X 1 year ago:
Oh, cool, so when does he sacrifice himself for the good of mankind?
- Comment on German anti-racism body leaves X over 'rise in hate speech' 1 year ago:
It’s a stain on government agencies that haven’t left it yet, honestly.
- Comment on So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off 1 year ago:
Well, they don’t want to do the one thing needed to make it successful: transparency. Maybe it can’t be.
- Comment on People Are Okay With Wind & Solar Installations In Their Neighborhoods, Studies Say 1 year ago:
Until populism gets a beef with it and begins appealing to the crazies, who will happily egg and throw paint bombs solar panels. But at least we haven’t reached that point in the timeline yet.
- Comment on Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X 1 year ago:
Is he … is Musk growing an evil goatee?
- Comment on The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation 1 year ago:
Of course, it’s by design.
- Comment on Chad scraper 1 year ago:
So, where can I find the Chad scrapper for reddit?
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- Comment on Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram 1 year ago:
Do it. Not only will that move a large segment of the content providers away from the social network, but it will open the market up again to the competition, which includes the Fediverse. By all means shoot yourself in the foot because those “dumb f-cks” no longer trust you because you’ve burnt that good will.
- Comment on X Social Media is suing X, a social media company 1 year ago:
Someone needed to press the X on the X.
- Comment on Sometimes I question my sanity 1 year ago:
It’s almost as if people had a biological drive to it that only tends to balance out when they find a mate to share it with.
- Comment on Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024 1 year ago:
Not to the corporate world. What do you think makes it obsolete and or replaces it, in regards to legal, official, and business matters?
- Comment on Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024 1 year ago:
I think there is room in the world for an basic HTML service that can be viewed in lynx/links, in no small part due to how it usually means those services can be used by the blind and visually impaired as well under more circumstances.
- Comment on Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024 1 year ago:
Where to? I’d love to hear about what basic HTML service you are migrating to … admittedly in no small part due to wanting to see whether it really is a basic HTML service and judge your comment acordingly.
- Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian? 1 year ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called 1 year ago:
I thought it was pronounced “shitter”.
- Comment on Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee 1 year ago:
Now I’m just curious, did he do it to make the company seem like the victim or did he do it because he disagrees with what the executives are doing?
- Comment on Unity deleted these terms, don't let them get out 1 year ago:
I want to know who hired that fucking CEO
Clearly someone who came from the same line of thinking as Steve Huffman.
- Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes 1 year ago:
I do feel sorry for them. Death threats are not ok in this scenario, boycotts and protests are. Death threats makes them a victim, and this shifts away the discussion from the victims they’ve created. The people making death threats as well as those who do not condemn them are helping support Unity indirectly.
- Comment on AITA: My Starfield wife wants a divorce and all I did was chuck one grenade into a crowd of bystanders 1 year ago:
That’s your fault for marrying discount Sarah.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
In other words, lemmy population isn’t just an ever-increasing growth slope, let’s panic.
- Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed? 1 year ago:
There’s no way it’s a sci-fi version of Skyrim and it does not live on in the gaming zeitgeist, specially when the mods really begin rolling out.
- Comment on Is it just me or is Starfield kinda meh? 1 year ago:
Loading screens isn’t so much for a problem if you’ve got fast NVMe SSD drives. The travel is very akin to old school privateer games, where you basically traveled from loading screen to loading screen., so I don’t mind it that much. If you want something more spaceship focused, I’d recommend Everspace 2.
The gun play is basically a progression of Fallout 4, and if you go fully automatic instead of semi, you will have to spend those credits to purchase ammo and spec appropriately. People should be leveling their personal combat skills first, since that’s what the majority of the combat in the game involves and what most of the RPG components are designed around. Ships, well, you don’t even need to level anything to keep on par with them, I’ve found you can just slap particle weapons on those bad boys to cheese even the hardest fights.
Having said that, if you go the sneaky route, well, I’m going just fine with level 4 sneak bonuses without any rifle bonuses to my suppressed semiautomatic rifles (I’ve leveled melee first and am waiting to see which damage type I will prefer later on, even though I’m pretty sure I will be sticking to rifles).
You also should do the main story quests enough until you get to the game’s fusrodah moment, and then a few missions of that afterwards, since you will gain access to alternative ways of taking down enemies. You might also consider making use of and arming your companions with better weapons, since they don’t consume the ammo you give them.
The UI, well, that might hint at a performance issue again, otherwise it’s just been getting used to it for me. Most annoying thing for me has only been not being able to switch between the mission UI and the map UI easily, but I don’t consider it game breaking.
- Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed? 1 year ago:
I’ve seen some pretty absurd complaints, like the not being able to land on gas planets, or people complaining due to ridiculously high but present area limitations. Absurd complaints always seem to surround the media people whom people blame of being “woke”, which is why I usually give them the extra benefit of a doubt, people will make or criticize shit for reasons they don’t say out-loud.
Then there’s the real complaints about performance, which I personally haven’t experienced because of a top tier PC, and people not liking the Bethsoft sort of gameplay loop, which this is and has definitely improved upon IMO. Not only will this game be played for years on end like Skyrim, but I suspect it will also spark a much needed MMO off-shoot in the space genre just like their Fallout and The Elder Scrolls games did.
- Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed? 1 year ago:
That is definitely not my experience.