cageythree

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Straight up spiritual⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea exactly. Both variants are funny in their own way. And I don’t think anybody thinks that someone who’s doing a big/small dick joke is seriously referring to their actual size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't my shit and urine stink while they're inside me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Otherwise we’d all constantly smell like fart. Cause a fart is just opening that hole and pushing air out.
  (… or maybe we do smell like fart constantly and just don’t know cause we don’t smell smells that constantly hit our nose)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, having to have the user type “I agree that I have verified the application i am trying to install is genuine and not a fraudulent app”

  Yeah, this would be the most promising approach IMO. Whenever I was forced to write something, I did pay more attention to what that said than if I ticked a box next to it.

  Maybe even have them write “I am not instructed to install this app by someone else. I am aware that following instructions to install an app this way often have fraudulent intentions”.

  (Also if the language was changed recently, it should ask to write it in all languages that were set within the last 14 days or so. Otherwise the scammer will have them switch the language so they don’t understand what they’re writing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like a Soulslike bonfire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Must’ve been the wind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I get that but the way I experienced it is that ads can appear in a podcast in any of the following three instances:

  • Podcaster themselves record the podcast, may or may not add advertisement (self-spoken in their language)
  • Podcast network which the podcaster is a member of adds ad break time codes, in which later ads are inserted, dynamically based on the listener’s location (pre-spoken, usually in the local language of the listener’s location, sometimes personalized)
  • The podcast player/platform (Spotify, Pocket casts, antennapod etc) adds advertisements (also pre-spoken and in local or app language, more often personalized)

  The podcast player’s ads can not be distinguished from the podcast network’s ads, except that they have a higher tendency for personalized ads (given that personalization is enabled in the privacy settings) or if the player declares it as an advertisement in a place where the podcast can’t. Or if you know that a podcast is on an ad free network. Other than that, you don’t really know if it’s an ad by Spotify or the podcast’s network.

  My point is that, unless your player is explicitly declaring an ad as such, you cannot diatinguish a podcast network’s ad from a player ad. The only proof I have to know it’s a network’s ad in my case is that my player is open source and ad free. If I used a closed source commercial player, I wouldn’t know from who the ad is coming when it’s in my local language.
  I’m German too and got German ads on english podcasts, but I know that the player didn’t insert it, so you can never be too sure if it’s Spotify adding them either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  TLDR: I know it because the ads were German but the podcast is in English.

  That can still happen and happens to me too, despite using a no-ad FOSS player, so the ads are definitely from the podcast, not the player.
  Dynamic ad insertion is absolutely a thing in podcasts. If you access/download the MP3 file on the server from a German IP address, a German ad will be put in at the specified ad break before you/your player downloads the file.

  So a different language ad doesn’t mean it’s from Spotify.

  (PS: By the way, using a VPN connected to a country where not many companies make podcast ads works basically like a podcast ad blocker. I route my podcast player through an Albania VPN and have like 80% less ads than before. The remainder is “classic” podcast ads that are inserted as a static part of the MP3 file, no way to get rid of those.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone’s saying the need to sleep. That goes a bit too far IMO. Who knows it would work out as we think it to be? Maybe the 33% we sleep will just be reduced off our lifespan with nothing won.
  Also, honestly, even if that wouldn’t be the case - I wouldn’t want to not sleep at all. It’s like a regular break from life. Even if employers wouldn’t exploit this, I don’t want to be awake forever.

  Now, here’s my proposal: We still need to sleep, but we can control falling asleep and waking up like it’s a muscle. Lay in bed and fall asleep anytime. No more falling-asleep issues for anyone, no more sleepless nights.
  And also, we’d have a perfect inner clock and the ability to choose when we wake up. Fall asleep at 11 PM, have to get up at 7? Great, you know exactly when 8hrs are over and are able to just wake up, no alarm needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use it because otherwise I’d use ublock anyways. So it either does it thing and if not, it’s the same result as ublock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like reverse psychology on a little kid.

  “That’s it, I’m not tracking you anymore! >:(”
  “Oooh nooo, what have I done! Oh how much I would wish to be tracked :(”
  “No, you won’t convince me to change my mind >:(”
  “Oh well, guess I’ll have to live without being tracked, what a shame that is.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the short term, I would think so.

  In the long run, it makes it less appealing for companies to advertise, because they would have larger costs while having less sales. That, in return, hurts Google as advertisers don’t want to pay as much anymore.

  Or in short, it’s designed to hurt the system as a whole, not specific companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I give donations, but way less than I’d like (less in terms of quantity of recipients, not the total financial quantity).

  What I’d love (not only for FOSS, but also stuff like podcasts and other things I’m donating to regularly) would be a service where I can set a budget and select the software and tools I use and it splits it up automatically.

  I don’t mind donating, but I hate managing it, having dozens of small transactions for it, and I feel like I’m forgetting to donate to like 90+% of the stuff I’m using. Also, with payment provider’s fees it’s often not worth it to donate <1€ a month, so bundling transactions would be way more effective - for me as the user as well as the recipients who’d get one transaction once a month from said service rather than hundreds of small ones.

  I never really understood why e.g. Patreon doesn’t offer this. You can’t expect perks with this because the perks probably will start higher than what’s the breakdown of each recipient woild be at a reasonable budget, but the advantage would be that (mostly) everyone would get a piece of your cake, rather than like 5 of the 500 different creators/developers/… you’re using content/software of.