Newly planted rice saplings have been underwater since July after torrential rain battered northern India, with landslides and flash floods sweeping through the region....
You assume that the algorithm works perfectly. It does not. Sometimes, the data points it connects on people is “male person living in Kansas” and just serve you ads with those keywords. Which means one day you see an ad for Cheerios, the next day you see an ad for your local crystal meth store.
edited the heading of the question. I think most of us here are reasoning why more people are not using firefox (because it was the initial question), but none of that explains why it’s actively losing marketshare....
Data points get connected. Ads are served. For some people, that’s enough of a privacy violation. The next step is selling your information to insurance companies.
In what way is Canada a joke? Like, I’m not saying it isn’t, but our online freedom is pretty good. We don’t actually have a state sponsored censorship campaign, VPNs are legal, TOR is legal, all we legislate is that you aren’t inciting violence or calling for the extermination of a protected group of people or doing shady dark web shit. Pretty much everything else is good to go.
Sports is where they know they’ve got everyone by the balls. Tivo-ing games is great, but you’re always just watching old games. You still need some kind of service that provides the games live. Pirate streams are getting chopped.
Surprised lemmy.ml hasn’t defederated that instance, given the massive amount of brigading, racism and blatant misinformation that their users encourage....
Aside from the fact that your favorite shows/movies get deleted whenever licenses expire, or at the whim of Netflix’s profitability algorithm, for a hot minute, streaming was everything people wanted back in the 90s. No commercials, a total MSF of about half of what you might have spent on cable if you have every major streaming service, and a trove of shows and movies to watch. Now, they’re about to raise prices and shit out a bunch of bland mid content for dumb dumbs to watch. Forget the era of cheap streaming, I fear this is the beginning of the era of no more quality TV and movies.
I was invited to a private tracker by a friend who swore by them as having way more stability and more people seeding. Turns out, even after interviewing, I was never able to connect to a single torrent. Went back to public and never looked back.
Hot take: .world and others banning/blocking /c/ is better for the fediverse and for piracy. It means less eyes on piracy discussions and incentivizes users to spread out to other instances instead of just all using .world.
There is fairly public pro-Russian sentiment among Republicans and their supporters. Anything to be contrarian to what the libs are talking about, even if it’s non-partisan.
IA has a TON of old gaming magazines. Will always have a soft spot for Nintendo Power, but also the hype gen 5 magazines of the 90s like Saturn and Official PS magazine
Just like Quake 1, if you already own Quake 2, the enhanced version is available as a free update. Although unlike Quake 1, Quake 2: Enhanced is also available on GOG day 1....
It’s linear in the sense that there’s only 1 correct way to go, but there’s so much back tracking and with no map and very little contextual clues where to go, it’s fair to look up how to progress once or twice if you’ve never played Q2 before.
Climate change has ravaged India’s rice stock. Now its export ban could deepen a global food crisis (www.cnn.com)
Newly planted rice saplings have been underwater since July after torrential rain battered northern India, with landslides and flash floods sweeping through the region....
Most of My Instagram Ads Are for Drugs, Stolen Credit Cards, Hacked Accounts, Counterfeit Money, and Weapons (www.404media.co)
Why is firefox losing market share? Why don't more people use Firefox?
edited the heading of the question. I think most of us here are reasoning why more people are not using firefox (because it was the initial question), but none of that explains why it’s actively losing marketshare....
The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse (US focused) (buttondown.email)
Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act)....
Kids. (lemmy.ml)
Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap. (www.businessinsider.com)
Sooner or later, everything old is new again....
understanding games is a form of systemic analysis (lemmy.ml)
many of the most interesting games started as free mods or student projects
Any other instances like lemmy world, which have blocked deranged instances like hexbear?
Surprised lemmy.ml hasn’t defederated that instance, given the massive amount of brigading, racism and blatant misinformation that their users encourage....
Critical support for the Lemmy world peeps in their fight against pro-intellectual property nerds (hexbear.net)
The era of cheap streaming is officially over (www.cnn.com)
This still baffles me, but I guess it's good for federation? (i.imgflip.com)
Context: sh.itjust.works/comment/2181865
Ron DeSantis Proposes Unprovoked War on Mexico (prospect.org)
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Out of Print Archive - classic video game magazines (www.outofprintarchive.com)
found this account on Mastodon and seems like a cool project trying to preserve some nice video game history...
Nightdive's Quake 2: Enhanced, out now (www.gog.com)
Just like Quake 1, if you already own Quake 2, the enhanced version is available as a free update. Although unlike Quake 1, Quake 2: Enhanced is also available on GOG day 1....