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- Comment on EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo 1 week ago:
I hadn’t used my twitter account in over a year, but today finally deleted all my posts and disabling the account.
I had it for 16 years and thought it’d feel different, but I’ve been so far away from it now I really had no emotions to shutting it down. It was easy, and now I have no ties to that garbage any more.
- Comment on First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed 2 weeks ago:
So did the Pixelfed app just never materialize? It seems like all work shifted over to this Loops app.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 2 weeks ago:
You can’t say anything bad or joke about him. He’s god around these parts.
A lot of these people will probably also say “billionaires shouldn’t exist” but for Gabe he’s “our” billionaire so it’s fine.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 2 weeks ago:
“I was just stumped,” Newell said, sipping a drink on one of his many yachts. “Maybe I’ll get unstumped with my next yacht purchase.”
- Comment on Threads is testing custom feeds for your favorite topics 2 weeks ago:
They are big scared of Bluesky and their custom feeds feature.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but what percentage of users are bots on twitter at this point?
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 weeks ago:
The CEO of Bluesky just posted they hit 17M users today after hitting 16M in the last 24 hours.
The juice is juicin’.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 weeks ago:
Coincidentally, the CEO of bluesky posted this infographic today. Maybe some of these things will not hold up in the long run, but we’ll see.
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They have recently said that they are going to have a subscription model for some extra features to curb the need to throw in ads and whatnot. We’ll definitely see how that all works. But I do feel like they might be at least trying to set up a business model that doesn’t totally suck. All to be determined at this point.
- Comment on Castlevania Anniversary Collection & Snakebird Complete are free to claim on the Epic Store 2 weeks ago:
This continues my streak of buying zero (0) games from Epic but still having a sizeable library there.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 weeks ago:
All I’m saying is that the moderation tools are NOT the same.
Manually blocking hundreds of people (where those people can still see your posts [on twitter]) instead of subscribing to one list isn’t the same, and being able to remove your quoted posts from some troll is not the same.
There is an argument to be had about who funding the app and what that means, but there’s no denying that Bluesky’s moderation tools from the user level are streets ahead of anything twitter has ever done.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 weeks ago:
Here is one. I’m sure there are several.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 weeks ago:
Twitter didn’t have block lists. You could block people individually, but not as a group.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if hate speech will be able to flourish on Bluesky like on twitter simply because of the moderation tools.
There’s already a giant blocklist of maga idiots who have tried to move over, and if you follow that list you’ll never see their posts. And the unwritten rule of the place is to block anyone who is trying to start stuff or that you simply don’t like. On twitter that felt taboo for some reason, but on Bluesky that’s normal - as it should be, really.
- Comment on Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'very short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama. 4 weeks ago:
True. And that is a lot of people. But I was assuming way more than that based on the headline.
- Comment on Matt Mullenweg says Automattic is 'very short-staffed' amid WordPress vs. WP Engine drama. 4 weeks ago:
kidRidingBikeAndPuttingStickIntoSpokes.meme
- Comment on X blocks access to more than 100 journalist, activist accounts in Turkey 4 weeks ago:
fReE sPeEcH AbSoLuTiOnIsT
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 5 weeks ago:
Bezos is also using his ownership of the Washington Post to silence the journalists there. So that’s fun.
- Comment on Apple teases “week of announcements” about the Mac starting on Monday 5 weeks ago:
Barring an insane price jump, I may very well have a new little Mac Mini in a couple of weeks.
I’m very much due for an upgrade. But this one I’m using now has been really reliable for being 10 years old.
- Comment on Marvel's Midnight Suns is criminally underrated 5 weeks ago:
I happen to have a friend who works at Firaxis and worked on Midnight Suns. I am really happy for him/them that game came out as well as it did.
The overworld running could certainly be better, but overall that game is super good. I really like the turn from Xcom of a somewhat fake 97% to hit (where your character right next to an alien will still miss) to simply having everything hit but it’s restricted by the skills you have at hand in that moment. I’d be more excited about a Midnight Suns 2 than Civ VII, honestly.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 5 weeks ago:
Excellent!
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 5 weeks ago:
Kobo can connect to libraries via apps like Libby (or others), right?
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 5 weeks ago:
I totally get that. And I have had that same experience once or twice. I break my own rule on those rare occasions where somehow the thing is only there.
The last time I bought from Amazon that I remember was in 2021 when I was putting together a new keyboard. Somehow they were the only ones that had the key caps I wanted. The only other place I could find them was Alibaba, and the shipping there was going to be literally 2 months according to the site.
But for normal items, I go to the seller as much as possible.*
(*And I know for some sellers it’s actually cheaper for them to use Amazon for shipping. I get it. But also, still, I don’t want to give Bezos money so I avoid it if possible.)
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 5 weeks ago:
Reminder: don’t buy things from Amazon.
Like, anything.
“But fast shipping!” No. Stop. Most places now have pretty good shipping, often for free if you happen to buy a certain amount. It’s OK if the thing comes in 3-5 days and not tomorrow. You will survive.*
*I know there’s a couple of niche cases where some people do need things quick and Amazon serves that purpose. But 99.999% of things are not that.
- Comment on Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Quits YouTube With Final Video Teasing Mystery New Game 5 weeks ago:
“Bro I can’t wavedash in Ultimate.”
- Comment on Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Quits YouTube With Final Video Teasing Mystery New Game 1 month ago:
Switch 2 on the horizon, eh?
So…Smash Bros. Ultimate + to come out holiday 2026 or spring 2027?
- Comment on ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews 1 month ago:
What does “focuses on DEI” even mean? That it has non-white people?
Some stories don’t have straight, white people. That doesn’t mean there’s some agenda going on.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 1 month ago:
Wait, so the monitor has some sort of network capability?
I assume it’s full of streaming apps or something and they just also added this fun ad junk to it.
- Comment on ‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews 1 month ago:
Besides the actual quality of the game, it seems like (stupid) people are complaining about DEI in this game? Why?
People are the worst.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If the 100 hours is all good content, then great!
But if a lot of that is padding, then not great.
I think I hit hour 37 or so of Metaphor today - I’ve been absolutely devouring it this week. And none of those hours have felt bad. I fully expect to get up towards 100 hours in this game (since I have 120 hours in Persona 5 Royal), but I also am pretty confident there’s not going to be much bullshit along the way. And I’m down for that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
*better content
