Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
I started blocking ads on various websites when they got so numerous that it would actually lag my computer and make things hard to use. That was also around the time YouTube started pushing more unskippable ads. I was only ever mildly annoyed by the occasional sidebar ad and waiting 5 seconds at the start of a video, but when ads started covering websites and interrupting videos, I sought and found the ad blocking community. They did it to themselves.
I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever....
I’d outlaw sauce bottles which make getting it all out harder, especially the ones which don’t have the opening at the bottom and make it impossible to put the bottle with the opening facing downwards.
The issue with boycotting a huge company like Nestlé is that you put in a ton of time and effort while denying yourself lots of useful products and on Nestlé’s end, they lose out on less profit than they bring in in a single minute.
They made $9.7 billion Net income in 2022. That’s over $18,000 EVERY MINUTE. You can’t make a difference and they don’t care. The only ways to enact change are either through the legislative/regulatory route or through the extralegal route.
I mean, you can just install ClearURLs on Firefox for both desktop and Android and it will cover 99% of cases completely automatically without any technical knowledge.
Scalping should be illegal. You shouldn’t be able to buy something and resell it for more money than you bought it for unless you’re part of a distribution network like a store or you made significant improvements to the thing so it’s not really the same item.
There are a lot of game engines out there. Godot is a good engine if you’re jumping from Unity because it’s a lot more similar to Unity than some other engines and they both can use C#.
Yeah, at least if they’re not free-to-play. Publishers have shown time and time again that you can NOT trust them with your money. Only pay for something if you know exactly what you’re getting.
It’s impossible to even reason about what something entirely unaffected by gravity might or might not do because everything, including gravity, is relative. Something not affected by Earth’s gravity would probably get carried away by the wind, but something not affected by the Sun’s gravity would float away from the sun (relative to the Earth) and appear to have some sort of mysterious acceleration from our perspective. If the object isn’t affected by the Milky Way’s gravity, even more shenanigans.
No, it’s what you paid for one specific digital item that was valuable enough to you to be worth paying for. That doesn’t mean that anything else they have to offer would have enough value to cover the value of the item you’ve been deprived of.
Not really. The subjective monetary value of whatever you might spend that money on is most likely going to be less than the store’s listed price. To give a more obvious (extreme) example, imagine if you got a $30 gift card to a store that sells individual grapes for $2 each. You can buy $30 worth of grapes from them, but 15 grapes are not worth $30 to any sane person. Hell, maybe you don’t even like grapes and they’re completely worthless!
It’s true that this exchange in this particular instance is a net gain for like 99.9% of the victims. Hell, most people were probably never even gonna watch the movie again anyway. However, using that to justify this practice opens the door for abuse down the line. Store credit is not an acceptable form of compensation. Imagine if you totaled someone’s car and then offered them $10k credit at a junkyard you own. It would be unacceptable! Why give large corporations an exception?
Right, either you have the file on your computer, or you don’t. You still can’t legally resell the file because that’s piracy. Computer files can be copied pretty much endlessly.
Publicly or corporately owned cars are not the solution. A more robust public transportation system is the solution. Busses and trains are so much more efficient than cars.
Yup, sounds reasonable to me. All we need for that is to make sure that greedy capitalists don’t end up using people’s lack of cars to exploit them with absurd prices and privacy violations.
Cars all serve the same purpose. They get you where you want to go. Some are worse than others, but they’re all kind of the same thing. Movies are all individual and unique. You can’t just take one, drop in a replacement, and call it a day. Movies are a form of artwork. I think a better analogy would be if you trashed some art that someone bought and then offered them some other art from different artist(s).
I get what you’re saying and I already said that 99% of people would be happy with it, but my other comment details how that form of compensation fails to cover everyone.
I believe that the addition of an edit history would be a massive boon to the usefulness of Lemmy on the whole. A common problem with forums is the relatively low level of trust that users can have in another’s content. When one has the ability to edit their posts, and comments this invites the possibility of misleading the...
I deleted an old account and it removed everything from the instance I used, but not other instances. I did give it a fair while in case there was just a delay.
A nationwide test of the emergency and wireless alert systems will be conducted Wednesday at 2:20 p.m. ET, when a message will be sent to all cellphones, TVs and radios....
Sometimes, I don’t know what’s wrong, I just know that something in a specific area or small set of variables isn’t working right. It’s a lot easier to notice anomalies by looking through a giant wall of print statements than by stepping through the program. “Oh, that value is supposed to be in the range [0,1), why is it 3.6857e74?”
Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)
Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....
Please, do not use Brave.
I have seen many people in this community either talking about switching to Brave, or people who are actively using Brave. I would like to remind people that Brave browser (and by extension their search engine) is not privacy-centric whatsoever....
What silly inconvinient stuff would you outlaw if you could?
I’d outlaw sauce bottles which make getting it all out harder, especially the ones which don’t have the opening at the bottom and make it impossible to put the bottle with the opening facing downwards.
Try not to use slave labor challenge (Impossible!) (lemmy.ml)
I wish more people clean URLs before sharing it to others.
I see a lot of people, including friends and family, sharing URLs rife with tracking parameters....
Time is a flat circle (lemmy.ml)
EU moves to outlaw fees on hand luggage, seat allocation (www.ch-aviation.com)
Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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Ubisoft just added Denuvo to Assassins Creed Mirage via a day-1 patch a few minutes ago. AFTER all the major reviews went online. (meta.masto.host)
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Anon develops free, worldwide public transit (sh.itjust.works)
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$25 to rent the movie, one watch within max 24 hours after you start watching it… Or $5 more to own it. Scammers.
What UI design trend do you hate the most?
I personally hate rounded corners and shadows added everywhere. Makes most things look crappy and smudged.
Looking for an alternative Keyboard app
Hi friends. My quest to remove Google products from my life continues....
Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. (lemmy.world)
We are contacting you regarding a past Prime Video purchase(s). The below content is no longer playable on Prime Video....
[Serious] The revolution was successful! The old government is gone. You get to help write the new Constitution. What do you put into it?
Netflix is planning to raise prices… again (www.theverge.com)
What are your thoughts on the idea of adding an edit history feature to posts, and comments in Lemmy?
I believe that the addition of an edit history would be a massive boon to the usefulness of Lemmy on the whole. A common problem with forums is the relatively low level of trust that users can have in another’s content. When one has the ability to edit their posts, and comments this invites the possibility of misleading the...
[US] A nationwide emergency alert will be sent to all U.S. cellphones Wednesday (www.nbcnews.com)
A nationwide test of the emergency and wireless alert systems will be conducted Wednesday at 2:20 p.m. ET, when a message will be sent to all cellphones, TVs and radios....
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!) (tonsky.me)
Not today, sorry. (startrek.website)
Let the debugger do its job. (suppo.fi)
Extreme Misogyny in Incels Probably Not Caused by Sexual Frustration (researchinenglish.com)