There's a difference between making your coworkers sword fight and having a nice hologram of a person. In datas case it would be like having a picture of her. And no one would complain about having a pic of someone like that.
I’m pretty sure that’s the joke. After all, it isn’t like Data understands emotions at this point. I can totally see him going to Geordi or Picard and asking if it is wrong of him to still have that holo of Tasha if everyone is freaking out about Barclay’s program.
Google Playstore is also in the shittification phase. The amount of ads and sponsored apps is an eye sore. I use F-Droid as an alternative but most mainstream apps are not there.
If went downhill from the moment Google disallow system-wide ad blockers on Google Play. They still allow 3rd party web browser to include ad blockers as long as the ad blockers only work on that 3rd party web browsers, but how long until they decide to disallow that as well?
Not wrong. If I search for a particular app it gives me an advert based on that search at the top of my screen that looks mostly like the first search result. It’s begining to remind me of schetchy warez websites I use to not use as a teenager.
It’s really insane. The sponsored app even has a big fat “Install” button next to it! I’ve never actually clicked it, but I ALMOST click it every time.
Like you’d see the show anyway. Concerts that big should be like 20 bucks tops. No intimacy, can’t see the performance, dealing with the crowd and traffic. Fuck all that
blocked all big piracy communities, is trying to move to discord for all announcements.
Too add my personal opinion like why the fuck, they gain nothing from the discord thing and the piracy thing has been proven pretty safe from email servers operating similarly
Water, pea protein*, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, rice protein, natural flavors, dried yeast, cocoa butter, methylcellulose, and less than 1% of potato starch, salt, potassium chloride, beet juice color, apple extract, pomegranate concentrate, sunflower lecithin, vinegar, lemon juice concentrate, vitamins and minerals (zinc sulfate, niacinamide [vitamin B3], pyridoxine hydrochloride [vitamin B6], cyanocobalamin [vitamin B12], calcium pantothenate).
Really tame list of ingredients tbph. All the scary sounding ones are vitamins. Burgers on the other hand loaded with cholesterol and saturated fat, and might have all kinds of shit like antibiotics to boot.
Like I said, beyondmeat is one of the less bad options. But let’s not kid ourselves that they’re automatically more healthy. They fall squarely into the ultra processed “foods” category.
Looking at the ingredients of some no meat meatballs from a supermarket and the fourth biggest ingredient is palm oil. They also contain methyl cellulose and dextrose whatever the hell they are!
shit like antibiotics to boot.
This may be true in some parts of the world, but not all.
Due to concerns about the potential risk to humans, the use of hormonal growth promoters for livestock is banned in the UK. Antibiotic growth-promoting feed additives have also been phased out - because of concerns about the potential spread of antibiotic resistance.
Saturated fats have a bad name, but the real issue is excess, a burger now and then is fine, is when you have it as a regular part of your diet rather than a treat that it becomes problematic.
Strikes me here that the word “processed” just gets bent to prove a point about these specific foods. The main issue with it is it’s a pretty high-fat food. That’s a given, since its whole purpose is to emulate a burger. Anyone who’s eating any kind of “burger” that’s not a full blown veggie burger on a regular basis should cut it out. As for burgers in general, you’re probably marginally better off with pea/rice protein + canola/coconut oil than beef, though something like that doesn’t have like a blinking green neon scientific proof behind it.
Maybe more people would be okay with the ads and trackers if they weren’t so ridiculously invasive.
On youtube in particular, most of the time…none of the ad revenue even goes to the creator of the video. They probably got copyright claimed, and even if they didn’t get copyright claimed, they’d still be demonetized if they belong on a platform like youtube.
Did you know a video that’s demonetized for a creator is fully monetized for the one that maliciously claims the revenue from you?
You’re most likely giving money to someone who’s stealing from your favorite creators when you watch youtube’s ads.
According to my kids there’s a few flash game sites like y8 (perhaps not flash, IIRC that got killed off, but you get the idea) where you’re blocked for adblocking. As soon as I have white listed a site they’ll find a new one. So they have ublock origin installed, but permanently switched off.
And for some reason at least one kid actually likes youtube ads smh
just buy the kids minecraft and get them away from that other crap ;P
the yt ads thing is bonkers though. i actually don’t mind occasional ads in like, streaming movies because its a nice pre-planned break point and you don’t have to actually hit pause…but youtube ads are worse than anything i remember from cable and somehow the personalization makes them all repetitive.
usually “I don’t care about <>” whether thats ads or trackers or alexa listening to every word you say. I think the privacy crowd actually sways older, weirdly, as older people have something to lose (or have seen more of the horrors the world has to offer), so that would also explain part of the generational difference.
i believe there was an article a ways back about zoomers not being familiar with folders in a file system due to their main computer experience being iOS or android…not the most tech savvy cohort.
Just because it’s built on Chromium doesn’t mean it has to follow Chromes rules. I know that’s hard for you Firefox fanboys to admit though. Google will die but there’s Edge, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, and more.
No, Chromium is FOSS and every compay or dev is free to modify it to their like. Do you think that Windows with EDGE follow the rules of Google in this Chromium? Or the Chinese Opera? Vivaldi also don’t with its gutted Chromium, But Mozilla does, even with Google devs working on Firefox, because Google is its major sponsor. Sends Data to Alphabet and Google analytics, because Mozilla made the mistake of making a contract with the devil, losing independence by relying on outside investors, above the worst one.
I know that the Firefox fanboys are going to pepper me with downvotes now, because life is hard and so is the truth. The enemy is Google not the engine. Chromium folds to Google only if you use it as-is, without bothering to remove the GoogleAPIs it contains by default.
Edge the last one, in EDGE all telemetries go to MS, Towerdata (the worst one, which use even keyloggers) and other afiliate sites. Firefox need the money from Google, because to maintan its Infrastructure, servers, bread and water for its devs. etc https://file.coffee/u/yuo2BIPt6qIIU2jZX3MrK.png
Now it makes sense. The dream of universal access to knowledge was actually the iphone’s - and it was because the phone was dying, and seeing death visions, like life flashing before it’s eyes.
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