sanglyon

@sanglyon@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Creators, afaik, make money mostly from merchandises, patreons, memberships, superchats,… not ads.

  Ads are how Google makes money, which is fine in principle, except that Youtube is supposedly a “hosting platform” with all privileges associated, eg not being subjected to broadcast regulations, but acts like a broadcaster by promoting some content over another according to what’ll make them more money. If the internet worked like Youtube, you’d type wikipedia’s url in your browser, and instead it’ll redirect to some ad-ridden clone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old freeware PC games you've kept playing over the years?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Einstein puzzle” by Flowix games, copyright 2004-2005

  I play it from time to time, to see if I can still complete it in under 4 minutes and my brain isn’t slowing down too much with age.

  Technically, Dwarf fortress is the oldest game I still play, but I only got fully into it thanks to the non-free Steam version.