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- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 6 days ago:
Time to bring back the webring and every site having a “links” section.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
They haven’t really been a thing in either Metroid or Castlevania for a long time, interestingly.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
The views halved, the lines stayed the same. So the ratio of likes to views is now higher.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
This makes no sense at all. Were you drunk when you posted this?
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 3 weeks ago:
They could require age verification or even special licensing to use any sort of internet server architecture. That’s what I would do if that was my goal.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 weeks ago:
They can also be a usable outdoor space just to hang out on.
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 weeks ago:
Snow itself can get pretty heavy, but more risky I think is repeated melting and refreezing. You can wind up with a large mass of ice that can really fuck up a roof or overhang.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 3 weeks ago:
I’m really more concerned about what the US will do with it than what Russia might do with it.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 3 weeks ago:
I have to wonder if the DMCA was due to the news clips. While they may be fair use for contextualized reporting, I didn’t find them particularly valuable, and DMCA issues could have been avoided without them or without using so many of them.
They have said that Bloomburg footage of trump talking about GPUs was the claim. They probably did play a little too fast and loose with copyrighted footage.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 weeks ago:
Well, Office365 works fine. You can even run it in MS Edge if you want.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if being made aware of the extensive NSA spying actually had a suppressing effect on taking action itself. It was kinda scary. Overwhelming. “Best not to think about it” kind of stuff.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if Piefed users have pie days
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 weeks ago:
Fair enough! I do with that invidious had the “full window” option.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 weeks ago:
Why not just use the invidious instance directly?
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 weeks ago:
I wonder what percentage of views are done with a general purpose web browser vs. YouTube apps on phones and TVs.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 4 weeks ago:
Good point. Guess it’s hopeless?
To be honest I haven’t thought about this much because playing online games with strangers is not something I enjoy in the first place. I’m sure others have good ideas, though.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 4 weeks ago:
I feel I would rather just opt out of playing these games. It ain’t worth it.
I feel like they should just host the entire game and stream it to players if they want to eliminate cheating, but that’s probably the most anti-SKG way to publish a game possible. Oh well.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 5 weeks ago:
They both put staples into things but they aren’t really interchangeable functionally. It makes sense to distinguish them depending on the context.
- Comment on The 2025 version of "Please consider this environment before printing this email" should be "Please consider this environment before using A.I. to respond to this email" 5 weeks ago:
I wonder how the power usage of running an LLM locally compares to playing a modern game at high settings. Can they be very different?
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 5 weeks ago:
I just ordered a shitload of little soldering projects for $1-4 to practice soldering and have been quite satisfied. The instructions are only in Chinese and minimal, but easy enough to translate with a phone camera and the lack of hand holding sorta encourages learning.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 5 weeks ago:
Right, I’m imagining it as a service set up to be used if wanted/needed with no broad mandate. There are people running NSFW sites and channels that genuinely do not want minors interacting or accessing, and many would integrate this type of verification voluntarily if there was trust that it worked correctly and did not collect and distribute data about individuals. But I agree, that’s not what is on offer. So far from the UK it seems like they are letting private businesses figure it out.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 5 weeks ago:
And that kinda sucks, because that could actually be useful. For instance, you could set up a forum for people above the age of 40 or whatever while still letting everyone post pseudonymousy. A third party public service that can blindly attest that a person is over a certain age could be a great and convenient thing. It’s difficult to imagine such a thing happening, though.
- Comment on Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs 1 month ago:
Illegal content is already illegal.
I think it actually is more complicated. There are anti obscenity laws in the United States where these companies (Steam and Itch.io, but also Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Paypal) are based. The way those laws have been applied have been mostly permissive in the recent past, but I think there’s reason to believe that this could change quickly. We may find ourselves in a situation where the highest court decides that this has all been illegal this whole time. Procedural and legal norms are feeling a bit shaky these days. People, including myself, wonder why payment processors would bend over backwards on behalf of some group of weirdos, but maybe being on their good side isn’t the concern at all.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 month ago:
Aircraft carriers don’t let me travel to my destinations
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 months ago:
Not develop their own hardware, but contract an established manufacturer to do it for them. Which is good, they have no business doing hardware!
- Comment on NVIDIA is full of shit 2 months ago:
And/or Intel. (I can dream, right?)
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 2 months ago:
Ross is not my dad
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 2 months ago:
That’s about 1 standard stint in rehab where I’m from
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 2 months ago:
Its a vexingly pedantic point.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 2 months ago:
Its what made me buy a pixel phone.