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- Comment on Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira 6 months ago:
I switched all my domains to Porkbun. No way I’m hanging out in Squarespace land.
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 7 months ago:
I use it when I’m traveling and am on insecure WiFi.
However, it doesn’t let you pick your egress location,.so if you’re trying to get to PornHub in Texas, it won’t help.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
I’m more concerned that the company decided it was OK to meld the “From:” line of her email (asking for support) into her profile. If they think that’s an appropriate way to handle PII, I don’t trust them.
- Comment on Nokia tells Reddit it might be infringing on Nokia's patents. 8 months ago:
I hate patent trolls, but I will say “it couldn’t have happened to a nicer company”. I hope they both go broke on legal fees.
- Comment on How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can) 8 months ago:
Misread that as “cat” and thought I was in for a cute satire, not a boring dystopia.
- Comment on As a precaution, houses of worship in New Jersey are getting bleeding control kits 8 months ago:
- New Jersey distributed these kits to schools in 2020
- DHS isn’t involved, this is FEMA and NJOHSP
- The Interfaith Advisory Council helps churches, synagogues, temples and mosques
- Submitted 8 months ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
They’re working to improve login.gov to support the level of user verification needed for this service, but it isn’t there yet. Hopefully next year when tax time rolls around again.
- Comment on The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’ 8 months ago:
It should be illegal to use an AI in the hiring process that can’t explain its decisions accurately. There’s too much of a risk of bias in training data to empower a black box system. ChatGPT can lie, so anything powered by it is out.
- Comment on Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right 8 months ago:
Seems like you’re asserting that the article is sponsored content without being disclosed, in violation of FTC guidelines. Seems like a pretty serious claim that borders on libel. Do you have any proof of your allegations?
- Comment on 'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate 8 months ago:
Also, does the point of creating a game have to be making the “most” money? Isn’t it enough to make something awesome and a profit?
- Comment on Why the recent Mozilla news isn't actually a big deal 8 months ago:
The people who make up the 2% market share using Firefox overlaps with the people tired of AI - specifically LLMs - being shoved into everything.
Mozilla just released a LLM-driven website generator a few months ago. Why are we assuming they won’t add something similar to Firefox?
If Mozilla wants to use machine learning, awesome. But how about we treat the techies who support them like adults and say “machine learning” instead of using the AI buzzword which is overloaded.
- Comment on Another “patent troll” defeated by Cloudflare and its army of bounty seekers 9 months ago:
NewEgg is such a shell of its former self. They went from fighting patent trolls to platforming scammers.
- Comment on Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban 9 months ago:
I doubt most people know that country TLDs are different from vanity TLDs. I know when I look up domains, they’re usually all smooshed together and then the terms are in a giant block of ToS.
- Submitted 9 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 43 comments
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
I want the creators I watch on YouTube to continue to get paid, both from YouTube and their sponsors. My contributions through premium are sliver of what they see, but if everyone stopped supporting them in that way, the total would be zero.
I back some of them on Patreon where I can, but it’s not economically feasible for me to back them all in such a way.
- Comment on YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers 9 months ago:
Yeah, as someone who gets good mileage with YouTube Premium, I wish they offered a version just for ads without music. YouTube music sucks hard, but I can’t justify paying for another music app on top of it.
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 9 months ago:
The fact that Google started as a search company and yet search in their own apps sucks is boggling.
In YouTube Music, when you’re building a tuner to create a station, you can’t search at all. Instead, you get an endless scroll off bands and have to find the one you want that way. The order is random.
Like … Pandora let you do the same thing with search back in the 00’s
- Comment on Microsoft endorses anti-LGBTQ online "child safety" bill KOSA night before Big Tech hearing (US Politics) 9 months ago:
I agree with you, and normally like posts to just use the original headline, but in this case, it feels like the newspaper is pro-KOSA. They mention in the article hundreds of organizations support the legislation but don’t mention the hundreds that have opposed it.
Perhaps something like “Microsoft president endorses online child safety bill night before Big Tech hearing [Bill is opposed by EFF over censorship concerns]” would be a better way to handle adding context.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 9 months ago:
I saved your post to try out the game. Sadly, it appears that it’s being erased from the Internet.
“Spec Ops: The Line … has been delisted from Steam, with other online stores to follow.”
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 10 months ago:
You made choices and got the results of those choices. The alternative results are different.
! There are multiple endings where Karlach survives in different ways. Shadowheart’s story has at least three possible outcomes, maybe more that I haven’t seen. This goes on and on for each origin character. Even NPCs you encounter in Act 3 are shaped by your choices earlier in the game. !<
- Comment on Authy authenticator apps for desktop are being discontinued in August 2024 (Apple Silicon not included) 10 months ago:
I can’t tell from their page – is it syncing via a SaaS service or just out to a file store like Google Drive?
- Comment on Kagi Reacts to Backlash 10 months ago:
They already said that the Brave API is cheaper for them. That’s the motive. They keep charging the same but pay less.
- WB’s ‘Ready Player One’ Blockchain, VR, AR, AI ‘Readyverse’ Will Of Course Be A Disasterwww.forbes.com ↗Submitted 10 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 60 comments
- Comment on Kagi is now partnering with Brave 10 months ago:
Right. They flat out said the Brave API is cheaper.
- Comment on Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives 10 months ago:
You mean you don’t see the synergy between Firefox and an AI landing page generator? /s
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
There is a very good chance that the PC platform will be a really horrible place because of the lack of consumer choice in which they can purchase and play games.
I agree with the sentiment that Steam will eventually have a shitification, but I remain optimistic because the PC platform is more open than mobile platforms.
GOG and Humble are existing, smaller stores. Microsoft had three stores they use to sell and install games. Half of the FAANG companies would love to get in on this space if an opportunity showed itself. If we get past high interest rates, I can see VCs getting in on this space.
It won’t be pretty and we can support smaller options now. But I don’t think it’ll be horrible.
- Submitted 10 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
Yeah. I use DNS-level blocking too, but it’s not something I can roll out to my non-technical family members. They understand turning off the browser extension if things don’t work, but not adding a DNS whitelist and then waiting / clearing DNS.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
Reddit expects to finish this year with ad revenue … slightly over $800 million… Reddit had said two years ago it aimed to exceed $1 billion in ad revenue by 2023…
So they missed their two year goal by 20%. They had forecasted a 2.9x growth and achieved 2.3x
When it comes time to IPO, they’ll just blame the economy and ad blockers, while showing how many users they forced into their app where ad blocking is harder.