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- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 4 days ago:
I thought the changes were to do with manifest v3, and that was part of chromium. I didn’t realise that was added to chrome after the fact.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 days ago:
Viconia is the best party member in BG2, especially if you also recruit… a paladin. I may be biased and my phone SMS notification back when those were a thing was, “trust is for the foolish…”
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 5 days ago:
I did not know that - but surely since it’s based on Chrome, that means they’re going to have to follow suit at some point?
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 week ago:
It’s not very good, but it does have some really good moments, and some really good ideas mixed in with the less-good stuff. It’s worth watching. Just put your fingers in your ears and la-la-la through all the Klingon retconning and inappropriate pathos. There are moments where the emotional storyline are good, but they cry wolf too often.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 1 week ago:
Google know who they’re streaming videos to. They know this from the back-end. They absolutely do not require a script running in the browser to phone home about it in order to count “views”. All the telemetry they need they can get from existing traffic; the additional telemetry supplied by scripts is mostly just for Bad Reasons and it’s morally fine to block it.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 1 week ago:
MS Edge is Chrome, with a slight MS reskin.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
That’s weird and sounds like some kind of software problem. I can’t see how that would happen otherwise. I have a Voyage and don’t have wifi configured on it at all, just add books with calibre and it’s been fine for a decade.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
How exactly does one suck a fuck?
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
safe from the madness and censorship of the fediverse.
Sounds like they explicitly don’t want to federate. Unless it’s a parody site, I guess.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 2 weeks ago:
it’s not like being exposed to other people’s content would change them in any way
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 4 weeks ago:
Episodes 7 and 15 would’ve taken place on the holodeck.
- Comment on No brainer 4 weeks ago:
ANY toaster. If you go to a wedding or any formal event with drinks, you can control whoever’s giving the toast. That could be pretty powerful.
- Comment on No brainer 4 weeks ago:
I worked this out. If you teleport up and slightly forwards each time and can do it more than 10 times per second, you can hover and move forward at nearly an inch per second.
- Comment on No brainer 4 weeks ago:
Even if we decide that the teleport might not get you through doors, if you could spam it faster than (works out maths…) 10 times per second, they you could hover, or really slowly fly (about 0.8 inches per second horizontally)
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 month ago:
Next step would be requiring UK ISPs to block traffic to the VPNs. They’ve already made it so you can’t go to some sites based on DNS lookups, so there’s precedent. Making it by IP address from a continuously-updated list would make it exceedingly difficult for regular users to access a public VPN, and while making one yourself from a VPS is straightforward, it can get expensive very quickly if you want to watch videos or download lots of stuff through it.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I gave up on Stray. It’s good, except for the stupid action parts which are completely different to the other 90% of the gameplay and frustratingly difficult. I got through the first few, but one level just stumped me. Must have tried a hundred times, but I’m just not that kind of player and it ruined it - I can’t progress past that point in the game, and all the internet has to say is “git gud”.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 month ago:
When I’m using sponsorblock, I sometimes just stop watching if I see a long sponsor section, regardless. If the poster has like 20% of their video used to talk about shilling something, then they’re probably not someone I trust.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 1 month ago:
Nothing happens anywhere in that game. It’s a walking simulator without the fun parts.
- Comment on One Angry Man 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 months ago:
Storage and processors don’t last forever. As parts break down, you won’t be able to replace them. Need a new hard drive? Sorry, it’ll only talk to motherboards that shake its hand.
- Comment on Be nice 2 months ago:
I’d buy that for a dollar.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 2 months ago:
As a UKian, this is unfortunately true. No matter how many of us want to just cut off the US completely, the government will always capitulate.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 2 months ago:
Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life.
- Comment on Dik Piks 2 months ago:
Fermented omelet
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 months ago:
Yeah, I just had to search for this because I thought, I missed that too!
- Comment on Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad 3 months ago:
Sure.
But someone offered it $100 for a six pack of Bru and it declined, and they’re taking this as a hilarious failure, because a real human would be a real scumbag and take the cash pretending it was the right amount. So it’s not capitalist-level evil yet.
- Comment on UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25. 3 months ago:
I would imagine they’ve at least talked about trying get people to enter credit card details. I know that’s been pushed before, as early as the 2000s, for age verification on some sites. Obviously it’s terrible for privacy, data breaches and flat-out fake sites just harvesting card numbers or taking all your cash at point of verification.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 3 months ago:
I pay money to ride on the bus and still see ads there.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 3 months ago:
When I was at school, the kids would say, “my dad’s shed is bigger than your dad’s shed”. But that was a long time ago, and we each had a child’s view of the world. Most of us grew up.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 3 months ago:
“Premium lite”? What is this doublespeak?
