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- Comment on FCC and the broadband industry argue net neutrality’s future 2 weeks ago:
Just a reminder, the “majors questions doctrine” is bullshit, used by the partisan conservatives to ignore the plain text of a statute whenever they want to engineer an outcome. Don’t pretend that this is anything less than make-believe judicial bullshit.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 2 weeks ago:
I just want to tip my hat to Elizabeth Lopatto’s writing in this piece. I miss following her on twitter and had forgotten how spicy and on-target she can be. Good stuff.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 2 weeks ago:
The current Indian government has prosecuted or detained employees of foreign companies in the past for actions taken by the company. There is a real risk here.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 2 weeks ago:
I do think the Indian government has a point if you read the lawsuit. This is a ongoing lawsuit and the page taken down had info on it and a discussion page where people were talking about the ongoing lawsuit. The lawsuit says that this “…Complicates and compounds the issue at hand.”
Hard disagree. Ongoing lawsuits often have complicated issues, but are nonetheless topics of public concern. It’s sometimes inconvenient for governments and large corporations to have the public aware of the lawsuit and the underlying facts and issues, but that’s no reason to impose a gag order.
Frankly, whenever I hear a court give vague rationales like “complicates the issues,” I assume they judge just doesn’t like the criticism. That’s what it sounds like here.
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- Comment on Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? 2 months ago:
But really it’s just stealing with extra steps.
Accurate.
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- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 months ago:
yahoo
Nowadays, I don’t know that they could, but more than a decade ago they still had enough mail and search users to be somewhat relevant, and Marissa Meyer had just taken over after she left Google. There was a real thought that Yahoo! could so something new. It obviously didn’t pan out, but for a hot minute, people really talked about Yahoo!
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
What sort of stuff do you like? Maybe some folks can make some good recommendations to jump-start a more interesting experience.
Recommendations and boosts from other users are how I’ve discovered interesting people there, and at this point, my feed feels just as full as my old twitter feed.
If you like news, a lot of breaking news is happening on Mastodon much more accurately and faster than on Twitter. There are a LOT of publications on there now, here are a few off the top of my head:
- Polygon (@polygon@mastodon.social)
- The Conversation (@TheConversation@newsie.social)
- The Intercept (@theintercept@jouna.host)
- Voice of America (@VOANews@mastodon.social)
- Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)
- Semafor (@Semafor@flipboard.com)
- Kotaku (@Kotaku@flipboard.com)
- The Christian Science Monitor (@csmonitor@flipboard.com)
- Fast Company (@FastCompany@flipboard.com)
- The 19th (@19thnews@flipboard.com)
- Vox (@Vox@flipboard.com)
There are a lot more local news sources too, so depending on where you live, you can probably follow news for your specific area. The account @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services regularly bundles up follow suggestions for different regions, interests, and topics. If you go that account and search for a hashtag (i.e., #texas) you’ll get a lot of active and high-quality local accounts to follow.
- Comment on Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress 2 months ago:
Like, two owners ago. Wordpress took Tumblr off Verizon’s hands for $3 million USD, ~six years after Yahoo! bought it for $1.1 billion.
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
This is even more impressive when you realize that in some regions of the country, power companies are adding zero renewables. TVA, the biggest power provider in the country, is all-in on natural gas, allegedly because its board members get incentives from natural gas providers and refuse to expand predicted demand with solar, wind, or forced geothermal.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 2 months ago:
Torchlight 2 and 3 are fun looting co-op experiences.
- Comment on Any “small-web” search engines? 2 months ago:
Mojeek
Thanks for the rec, I’ll give Mojeek a try for a while. So far the results seem better than Brave (which I didn’t seriously consider using regularly anyway) but I miss the bang options (!w, !yt, etc.) that DDG has.
- Comment on X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum 2 months ago:
Extremely hardcore.
- Comment on Venezuela opens investigation into opposition figures 3 months ago:
Better title:
Maduro regime begins standard dictator practice of building false charges against opponents who won democratic vote
- Comment on I know this is PatientGamers, but can we discuss how even the current generation of consoles seems to ask for patience as they aren't that many games 4 years after their release? 3 months ago:
Agreed, I’m fairly impressed how many games Nintendo is still releasing for Switch very late in its lifetime.
- Comment on Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit 3 months ago:
Gotcha, thanks!
- Comment on Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit 3 months ago:
This has historically worked because Bing (from which DDG draws results) previously indexed Reddit. What indications do we have that it will work after this change? As I read the articles, I thought it wouldn’t work going forward.
- Comment on Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit 3 months ago:
Also, I will say because Brave search has such a small market share that’s probably not going to help Google’s case much.
I’d venture a guess that Brave is still allowed to search Reddit just as a legal fig leaf for Google’s arguments with regulators.
- Comment on Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes 3 months ago:
This bears repeating more: VW already knew how to make good driver controls. Their buttons and switches were carefully and thoughtfully designed for many years. The decision to throw in touch-screen buttons is either chasing a fad or outright dangerous cost-cutting. Companies like VW deserve the flak because they knew better, and did it anyway.
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
(Dark was so good, I do appreciate the risks the old Netflix took on some programming, even if the company is busy burning that goodwill now.)
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 4 months ago:
the original match 3
SameGame and Bejeweled would like a word.
- Comment on EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software 4 months ago:
Pure poetry from AndyJHawk:
Like the Honda e before it, it’s a vehicle too tiny for America’s truck-shaped digestive system.
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 4 months ago:
I really liked Lara Croft GO. It’s better than Hitman GO or other GO games.
- Comment on Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales? 4 months ago:
I don’t play Stardew Valley that often or that much, but what I do play is delightful. It’s a pretty versatile game.
- Comment on MultiVersus - Launch Trailer 5 months ago:
I appreciate when ads say “Free to Play” up front so I know not to play it. (There may be a few exceptions here and there, but as a general rule, that has served me pretty well.)
- Comment on Twitter is officially X.com now 5 months ago:
I think anyone who thinks otherwise either curated it to be awful or didn’t really use it at all.
. . . or was targeted by harassment campaigns that the company did a poor job of protecting against. Plenty of celebrities and political actors realized they could weaponize their fanbases to go after critics, and Twitter never did much to stop it. For public officials or organizations, twitter too often was a cesspool of abuse that they couldn’t afford to leave, and that was messed up. (I think the balance has shifted now, that they can afford to leave and have a moral obligation to do so, but many haven’t.)
I always enjoyed my twitter experiences, because like you, I curated a nice feed to follow (and used a browser to keep on chronological timeline). But I was just a follower, mostly, and was never targeted by the really nasty stuff. But I’m not so myopic as to declare that what worked for me wasn’t awful for many other folks.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 5 months ago:
Yep. sigh I guess I’ll go replay Portal 2 again. It really is fantastic, I should be happy that we got it when we did.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 5 months ago:
Finally got around to Talos Principle (the first one) and it’s as good as people said.
I also started playing some space battles in Empire at War on “Star Wars Day” (May the Fourth) and find that level of not-very-challenging RTS kind of soothing, so I’m back to playing that for a bit.
- Comment on Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023 5 months ago:
UK hosted Eurovision in 2023, it would be very hard to top those numbers this year.