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- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
At least
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Here you were saying the average user isn’t going to use Wake on LAN, but you expect them to disable USB devices waking their computer?
I have my USB’s disabled as well, but I was talking averages here.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
Why need Wake on LAN when basically any USB input device can take your computer out of sleep?
- Comment on Cities: Skylines latest DLC came out this week, 18 months after its "final" DLC came out last year 3 weeks ago:
This is for the original release, not the sequel.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to Netscape? 3 weeks ago:
That’s a bit reductive
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says. 3 weeks ago:
They do want people in their game, they just don’t want them to have any influence.
- Comment on WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use 3 weeks ago:
Compared to something like VSC, yeah JetBrains IDE’s take a while to boot up. But if the alternative is Visual Studio, they’re amazingly smooth.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 weeks ago:
Does it also have coloured usernames?
Back when I was still on Reddit I used Joey which, if a user commented more than once in a thread, their username would get the colour of the first “level” on subsequent replies. Any other username, including first comment, would be white/black (depending on night mode).
- (red) | User1 > Comment
- (orange) | User2 > reply
- (yellow) | User3 > Another reply
- (green) | (orange) User2 > another reply
- (yellow) | User3 > Another reply
- (orange) | User2 > reply
I’ve missed that feature on all alternative Reddit, and now Lemmy, clients I’ve tried.
- (red) | User1 > Comment
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 weeks ago:
I assume the numbers never made business sense for them to continue development.
I guess so.
I was sorta waiting for Sync to become more fully featured before committing to an ad-free purchase, but I guess I should start looking for other clients again. - Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 weeks ago:
Sync still uses Reddit’s markdown rules, Lemmy is a little different.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
Sorry, I phrased that poorly. It is the default alternative, most users don’t bother to look for anything else.
And Chrome also does pop-ups not unlike it when you visit Google websites on a non-Google browser.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
If users had a pop-up which allowed them to select more than just Edge or Chrome, other browsers may see an increase in users. Chrome is as much a default as Edge is in that way.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Apple Removes ‘Parasitic’ Streaming App 'Musi' Following Persistent Complaints. 1 month ago:
When will ChatGPT and its ilk be banned
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 month ago:
Epic paid for (part of) Alan Wake 2’s development. Without them we may not have had the game in the first place, and certainly not in the state it released in.
- Comment on Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit" 1 month ago:
The general tone in this thread seems so very different from when “Mozilla is working on AI” was first announced
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
Not the point I was making.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
This is " People getting upset when an idiot tries to blame end users, instead of holding the people who created the problem accountable"
Did Linus blame anyone though?
No. He simply stated a fact. - Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t piracy?
Downloading old Nintendo ROMs because the company refuses to redistribute them is also piracy, even though I would say it’s morally justified.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
Its protection.
From your point of view, yeah. Not from the point of view of the creator and the platform.
Linus isn’t clutching his pearls nor is he crying, he’s just pointing out you are circumventing the method of payment to the platform. It is detrimental to both the platform and the creator. That is a fact. Your choice has an impact and you should be aware of that.
But at no point did he say “you’re a bad person if you use adblock”.What has got you so worried?
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
I really don’t get the hate he got for that take.
Circumventing the method of payment could be argued as being a form of piracy. From that point of view, adblock is piracy.
Like them or not, YouTube is not a charity and requires the serving of ads to continue funding the service. You could argue about how they go about it, but it’s a fact they need some sort of income to continue to exist.
Same goes for YouTubers. They get a percentage of that ad revenue. And they also need some form of income.But just because he said so doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand why adblock is used. He didn’t say “don’t use adblock.” He’s shown how to use adblock before and since. He’s also mentioned that buying something from their webshop gives them a lot more money than turning off adblock.
Saying “watching movies for free is pirating” isn’t the same as saying “you shouldn’t pirate movies”.
Using adblock isn’t engaging with YouTube on YouTube’s terms. - Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 2 months ago:
This might match your criteria:
An image of a car painted in army camouflage(Jokes aside, I do agree with your sentiment)
- Comment on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs 2 months ago:
Does it?
Previous benchmarks have shown the 8 GB models seriously fell behind in performance.
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 2 months ago:
How to avoid: right click the start icon (or press win + x) and go to “Shut down or sign out” that way.
I try not using the Windows start menu anymore because I hate seeing the little “notification” bubble on my profile, when dismissing it it returns within a few days!
Yes Microsoft, I am aware I cancelled 365. Thanks for reminding me why I did so. - Comment on New Darksiders game teased by THQ Nordic 3 months ago:
Nordic Games bought what remained of THQ back in the day when the latter went bankrupt. (THQ used to be comparable to the likes of EA and Ubisoft before they made some poor decisions)
The holdings company behind THQ Nordic rebranded into Embracer some years ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Fortunately, the remake is being made by THQ Nordic.
How is that fortunate though?
THQ Nordic, the company which became Embracer, bought Piranha Bytes, shuttered the studio when they fucked up, and is now using their IP for a remake?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Piranha Bytes GmbH was a German video game developer based in Essen. It was best known for their Gothic and Risen series of role-playing video games.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_Bytes
Embracer has reportedly closed Elex developer Piranha Bytes
- Comment on Bungie Lays Off Over 200 Employees, Announces Plans For Deeper Integration With Sony 3 months ago:
So much for the “get to keep your own identity”
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 3 months ago:
You shouldn’t be getting any new results if you do that, older posts will/may remain indexed.
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 3 months ago:
This is where you get into the whole webscraping debate you also have with LLM “datasets”.
If you, as a website host, are detecting a ton of requests coming from a singular IP you can block said address. There are ways around that by making the requests from different IP addresses, but there are other ways to detect that too!
I’m not sure if Reddit would try to sue Microsoft or DDG if they started serving results anyway through such methods. I don’t believe it is explicitly disallowed.
But if you were hoping to deal in any way with Reddit in the future I doubt a move like this would get you in their good graces.All that is to say; I won’t visit Reddit at all anymore now that their results won’t even show up when I search for something. This is a terrible move and will likely fracture the internet even more as other websites may look to replicate this additional source of revenue.
