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- Comment on Intuit possibly succumbs to the Streisand effect 3 weeks ago:
You are mixing up unrelated things. Politics is a circus but that doesn’t mean the Government can’t do certain things well.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 3 weeks ago:
That’s not gaming anymore than people buying toys, leaving them in their boxes as an “investment” are into playing with toys.
Meanwhile the rest of us are buying games, playing them, enjoying them, moving on to other games and so on.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 weeks ago:
Something thankfully not all French-speaking countries agree. But the ground apple is pretty much universal. The alternative “patate” is also widely used,
Stuff from the “new world” (Americas) often got some weird names. Like the “Indian chickens” (turkeys).
- Comment on Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Getting a AAA RPG With Saber Interactive and Paramount Game Studios - EXCLUSIVE 1 month ago:
Or Ubisoft with a AAAA.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
I don’t know, the first one was cobbled up together from early access by programmers at a marketing firm and while janky (part of the charm some would say), it was quite an achievement.
The approach which should have delivered better results was wrecked with takeovers and company drama then dumped to the public in a bad state.
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
Switzerland doesn’t have the same sheet weight Brazil has.
And it probably doesn’t wants to ruffle big US tech companies with so many having their big European HQs in Zurich.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
Such a tragedy. And that was a game that just needed a tech upgrade, expand a bit, more of the same, nothing crazy.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
to head-scratchers like “Calorie Event,” “Calms Scorching,” and “Calypso Xored.”
As a fan of the Osees, those sound perfectly normal.
- 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:
Yeah Luke’s look of “oh no bro, stop” is pretty much a staple of the WAN show.
- 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:
Especially with some channels being financially successful labors of love like Red Letter Media.
- 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:
Dearrow does both.
- 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:
And that’s why I have Dearrow. Bye bye bait thumbnails and titles.
- 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 initially. Linus mouthed off as he likes to do on his own podcast before eating crow after GN reinforced their claims.
- 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:
Yeah, I got tired of his videos half-assing the work and the failed reviews hurting small manufacturers while Linus doubled down after GN documented their failures.
But this I can get behind.
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 2 months ago:
Typical Elon, vaunting libertarianism while paying himself with Government payouts.
- Comment on US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps 2 months ago:
Likely, data may have been encrypted but he may have leaked compromising metadata. Even more likely it was bad operation security linking a personal identity to his anonymous persona.
I’m always thankful for incompetent criminals.
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
How terrible to offer client-side translation or webpage description for differently abled people!
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
As long as it’s not Chromium, I’m happy people aren’t just handing over the keys to the Internet to Google.
- Comment on NASA says astronauts stuck in space will not return on Boeing capsule, will wait for SpaceX craft 2 months ago:
Russia wasn’t necessarily going to be an autocratic nightmare after the end of the Cold War. But right now they are stuck with Putin & Co.
- Comment on NASA says astronauts stuck in space will not return on Boeing capsule, will wait for SpaceX craft 2 months ago:
Depending on Russia isn’t fantastic.
- Comment on Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones' 2 months ago:
After Trump’s NFT and silly sneakers, this just seems par for the course.
- Comment on Elon Musk loses fight with ex-Twitter staffer, must pay $600K 2 months ago:
Oh and he overpaid because he wanted the per-stock purchase stock to have the “420” gag. So instead of paying $53 per stock, he paid $54.20. That’s a total of $150 million more for a stupid joke.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
I’ll stick to my Nvida Shield thank you very much. They are slow as hell with updates but when they do they even update the old 2017 devices.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
Gone the Google way. One more for the Google Graveyard.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
That’s correct. uBlock Plus’ Github says he won’t accept donations but give instead to the unsung heroes maintaining the lists on which his software depends.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
Chad uBlock Plus dev doesn’t even want our money.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
The challenge is that videos will have a varying amount or type of ads based on the client’s country/demographic and simply on the timing of ad campaigns.
Not baking-in ads was the advantage of Youtube and other streaming platforms over the likes of traditional TV. That’s why they were client-side in the first place. I wonder how much the extra effort, bandwidth, and processing will cost Youtube to achieve server-side ads. Would be funny if it simply ended up being too expensive for them.
- Comment on Centrifuges answer the age old scientific question: "what'd happen if we spin this really fast?" 3 months ago:
So what you’re saying is that the show has a built-in potential for extra drama/explosions and amazing destruction footage that could be greatly monetized?
Sold.
“We’re the Spin Doctor, we spin things real fast so you don’t have time. Stuff may explode and our only garantee is that we’ll capture the footage and show it to you.”
- Comment on Centrifuges answer the age old scientific question: "what'd happen if we spin this really fast?" 3 months ago:
Built a large centrifuge, buy a high speed camera, lights and random junk and watch that Youtube money rain.
- Comment on Tesla Steers Onto Train Tracks It Apparently Mistook for a Road, Police Warn 3 months ago:
Subways not trains/trams, which makes sense since they are in a mostly closed system. The French one is closed off and doors slide open on the dock so that passengers can board the cars. This particular system also runs on pneumatic wheels on a rail. I guess for easier accuracy with braking/acceleration?