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Goodie ,

I’m really curious if they can make video injection of ads cost effective.

It feels like mangeling video streams into one, potentially re-encoding the video as they go… sounds expensive

Goodie ,

Partner has a phd. Can confirm she recommends no one ever do it.

She only finished it out of spite, so her paper work no longer has miss/Mrs and no relation to her marriage status.

Goodie ,

Oceania tends to refer to the region, including both Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the many small island nations.

Sometimes, we are “collectivly” treated as a continent, despite being almost all island nations with no land boarders.

Goodie ,

Expanse tight beams are on their way

Goodie ,

I’ve had… thoughts on this lately.

I do social dance (wcs) as one of my several hobbies. And I kind of compare ot to church now. We go once a week, we do the thing, and we have a community around it, with community leaders.

The world might be slowly leaving religion behind, but I have to wonder of we’re losing something else in the process.

(Find some WCA classes in your area, we’re all weird as fuck, it’s a often a community of introverts with a niche interest in common, and set rules of interaction (would you like a dance?))

Goodie ,

is it decades of hacky code, or decades of battle tested code?

I haven’t touched wordpress in… many years, but I’ve seen far too many developers look at old code and call it junk… only to break things horrifically when they attempt a rewrite.

Goodie ,

Gotta ask yourself how Israel has hostages to exchange on “day 1” of “this” conflict

Goodie ,

A port of a browser is relatively minimal effort. Typically, the changes are largely cosmetic, and occasionally skin deep.

There’s a reason none of the ports of Chrome caught the recent snafu with Google having its own special addon that fucks your privacy.

Developing a browser, Firefox or Chrome, takes a huge amount of effort, and are on a similar scale to both Windows and Linux. It’s a lot. There are a lot of places to hide things. Taking all of that, and making V2 continue to work… well it’ll be alright to start with. It’s probably a flag somewhere currently. But in 2 years time? 5 years time? It will take a lot to keep V2 working, let alone back porting V3 features that people may actually want.

Just use Firefox instead.

Goodie ,

The trick is to choose what to not give a fuck about.

Jack black doesn’t give a fuck about others opinions of his appearance.

He does give a fuck about death threats.

Seems pretty sensible and reasonable to me.

Goodie ,

Ok idealist.

What is your alternative funding stream for Mozilla?

It’s bad.

Is it worse than the advertising owned browser that gives your information directly to said advertiser?

Goodie ,

I mean, that argument starts to wade in to the Mozilla foundation as a whole, and what their purpose is, and that’s a giant kettle of fish.

Theoretical game. They lowball Google on how much Google pays them. How do people react? I don’t see them doing that and say, “Man, I’m glad Firefox is reducing Google’s influence over them”. I see them making a thread about how Firefox is giving Google a discounted rate because they’re all corrupt technofacists.

The core problem there still exists IMO. Funding.

What we really need is a reasonable way for open source, free, software, that exists for the good of the whole, to get money. But that has it’s own kettle of fish, where does it come from, how big is big enough to get some, what if they charge for support, how open is open enough.

Something something, seize the means of production, communism, etc.

Goodie ,

If they had library management even close to what lightroom offers, I’d be there.

I may yet jump ship for photoshop.

Goodie ,

DAM DAM?

ACDSee even shows thumbnails for Affinity Photo project files

You’re telling me there’s an image managing program out there, that works with Affinity, and for some reason people aren’t talking about it???

Goodie ,

The same as what happened when vine shut down.

Take their follows as best as they can to another platform. Continue on.

Goodie ,

I kind of hope gaben has set up something smart for his death. Eg Valve is owned by a trust.

Goodie ,

Imho

Ipv4 and peak oil are similar.

We’re constantly running out; but every fes years, we figure out a new way to extract more oil/make do with the addresses we currently have.

Someone sells of their underused block, or more people move to the services with excess IP addresses if they need one.

Goodie ,

critical difference here was also the consumption of oil. It’s gone down significantly since then as processes have moved to other materials and more efficient methods of manufacturing,

Do you have a source for that? Because this seems to suggest fossil fuel and oil demand might of roughly plateaued the last few years, the dip looks pretty welly correlated to Covid.

IPv4 addresses are a static pool, yes. But we’re continually using them more efficiently, the same as Oil. The difference being that Oil has a limit on the amount of energy contained in its chemical bonds, but you could quite happily host 1,000 or 10,000 websites on a single server.

Goodie ,

And we’re also talking on a more local scale here, so this would be more centric around a single country, or north america specifically.

North America is an interesting example here, because North America HIT peak oil once, way back in the 80’s, and it was only with the invention of Fracking that it came back.

Yeah but idk about this one. Perhaps at the scale of CDNs and proxy distribution,

Once upon a time people debated if virtual hosts were best practice or if that would affect their SEO. We’ve definitely progressed since then, both to conserve IP addresses, but mainly because DDOS prevention is best done centralised (Looking at you Cloudflare).

Goodie ,

I wanted to leave snarky comments about the only news worthy symptom would be the ability to pass it on to other humans.

I stand corrected.

Goodie ,

Whatever is more useful goes first.

For example, if this we’re a list of UI text strings, finding all of the dialogue options together might be useful.

If, instead, this is a series of variables already around one dialogue, then finding the open or close bits together would be useful.

Goodie ,

I think it’s far more likely there’s some sales goal and or performance indicator at play here.

Goodie ,

The CDC told reporters on a call that it has not seen evidence of human to human transmission of bird flu and that it has tested close to 40 people since March, including the Michigan worker.

If, and only if, we see human to human transmission, then we sorry. Not before.

Goodie ,

I’m really hoping for thermite. A lot of thermite.

Goodie ,

It depends on how bright it is where you are.

When it’s very very dim your color sensing part of your eyes, which are less sensitive to light, don’t work. Only the black and white parts of your vision work.

Kind of.

Goodie ,

Honestly, I think almost everything else is worse than Google.

I set my default to duck duck go, and it’s getting better, but I still fall back on google with some regularity

Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech?

I went to some palestine protests a while back, and was talking to my brother about the organizing, when revealed something I found pretty shocking, we (the protesters) had acquired a permit to hold the protest. Apparently this is standard policy across the US....

Goodie ,

This is pretty much it.

The city knows about your protest so they can plan accordingly.

They may also make requests of your protest, eg, could you self organise your own traffic wardens to ensure the safety of everyone involved.

Goodie ,

It’s just that in America they realized if they complain enough, they get to rub they’re hands gleefully at the thought of all that electricity they’re going to sell, AND all the public money they’re going to get to upgrade the grid!

Goodie ,

Assumedly, to deal with a race condition.

Goodie ,

Or regulation.

Driving prices down would require meaningful competition, or a feasible alternative, or regulation.

(Feasible alternatives do exist, eg trades, but are not treated as viable alternatives by society)

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As a general rule, the amount of exploitation and fraud it takes to “become” a billionaire should probably be illegal.

Lying about what you do with peoples data and who you share it with.

Sentencing and punishment are affected by “caste”

Goodie ,

It muddies the water around, supporting the various states, and the public image of that.

The same thing for the Palestine genocide ongoing now, the US has a second war to supply.

Goodie ,

I think people love to hate Steve. The one thing people love more than a great figurehead, is hating one. I think that Steve had a great internal model of how to combine form/function.

iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone, but it may as well have been. It brought the smartphone to the mass market.

Part of it was a great advertising campaign, which unlike the smartphones at the time, pitched it as a luxury good as opposed to an executive enterprise one. You owned a blackberry to answer emails wherever and whenever you were, you owned an iphone so you can check Google Maps. A large part of it was redefining both the form factor, and use case of a smartphone.

Goodie ,

Oh, he was an absolute asshole. Seems I deleted that sentence. RIP me.

“I have enabled and ushered in a new age of knowledge access like no other, here’s a cool way to eat that goes against all reasonable nutritionists’ advice. Sounds good to me!” - Really seems like a fitting way to kick off this century IMO.

Goodie ,

An ipod with a much larger screen (320×240 vs 480x320), a camera, and could take phone calls, browse the internet, and do email.

Warner Bros. is now erasing games as it plans to delist Adult Swim-published titles (www.polygon.com)

Warner Bros. Discovery is telling developers it plans to start “retiring” games published by its Adult Swim Games label, game makers who worked with the publisher tell Polygon. At least three games are under threat of being removed from Steam and other digital stores, with the fate of other games published by Adult Swim...

Goodie ,

The US won’t. The EU probably will.

Goodie ,

Read up on the civil rights movements or how women got the right to vote.

Protests 100% work

Goodie ,

I could… survive this layout.

But when selling a house, you want to appeal to as many as possible. And this kitchen does not have wide appeal.

Goodie ,

You can, but it requires more skill and more effort.

Skill and effort are often in high demand and low supply.

Goodie ,

Oh, they care.

They got your money one way, and now their getting it another way!

Goodie ,

You need more upvotes.

High interest rates are here, and it’s likely to be some time before we get back down to the 1% interest rates we saw during covid (or even before).

Companies are shifting either to real or imagined pressures of the stick market. And those pressures are less about chasing unlimited growth and want to see some return.

Ergo. Layoffs. Meta producing dividends.

If interest rates stay high, I’d expect to see large megacorps shift more and more to profitability over growth.

Goodie ,

Congratulations on being old e ough to buy property when it was cheap.

For the rest of us, we all adapted to the low interest post-08 world. Now, we need to adapt to the higher interest post-21 world.

Goodie ,

Time to donate to the internet archibe.

YouTube’s climate deniers turn into climate doomers — A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won’t work (grist.org)

YouTube’s climate deniers turn into climate doomers — A new report documents a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won’t work::A new report documents a shift away from climate denial and a sharp rise in arguments that clean energy and climate policies won’t work.

Goodie ,

so, we’ve moved from “ots not real” through past “maybe its real, but its not.human caused” all the way to “its real and we can’t do anything about it”/“its too late to do anything about ot”

Why has the world gone to shit?

In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product’s and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in...

Goodie ,

I’ll do my best to explain what I can. But it’s hard, and many PHD dissertations will be written on this. It’s not exactly something that can just be explained.

But yes, Covid was probably the most easily identifiable source. In addition, you could make a claim that Putins’ moves, the support from Russia to for various “alt-right” groups, and their eventual war in Ukraine (assumedly, aiming for culmination in reuniting the Soviet Union) have an impact. Lastly, we have various AI projects reading “maturity” (or at least public notoriety), and various services realizing they were missing out on a piece of the “AI pie”.

Covid was… bad. It’s a new, deadly disease that potentially leaves people with life altering side effecs (long covid). The Vaccines are good, if not great even for having been developed so quickly and drastically change your likely outcomes, but they aren’t full immunity (like we have for Polio). This left governments in a dammed now if you don’t support people, or damned later if you do. They all chose various levels of later. Some governments supported businesses directly and left people alone to suffer, others supported people and left businesses mostly alone. Either way: Cash injections into an economy produces inflation.

Fighting inflation… the most commonly accepted method in the western world is to raise interest rates* and then let it play out. With the loss of cheap money from low interest rates, many businesses are now being pushed by their owners and shareholders from focusing on growth to make profits (eg: Raise prices, crack downs on password sharing, API use).

There are other claims you could make, and construct narratives with. For a few years now companies have been growing by expanding into growing countries, but now the number of countries left is short, and companies are running out of places to expand into to grow. Once again, as growth becomes impossible or undesirable, the focus shifts to extracting profit from your existing base. We are reaching maximum saturation.

*Alternatives: If you would like to slash government spending… see Argentina’s inflation (it’s bad), for windfall taxes see Spain (it’s good).

Goodie ,

If he thought $300,000 was a lot, wait until tech workers start avoiding his company (aka the Meta tax).

Or maybe workers wont give a fuck and will just take whatever job is in front of them.

Goodie ,

This is ridiculous. It is truly ridiculous. How can something that enables the user to efficiently control their AC cause “significant economic harm”???

I assume they have their own app and run ads/user analytics through it that make them money.

I have to wonder if you bought their products on the basis that they worked with HA, if you could have some sort of claim here.

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But they want you to use their app.

And they’ve decided if you have a HA plugin, you won’t.

So we do our research, and avoid scumbag companies when making purchasing decisions, or more likely, pick the lesser of a several evils.

Goodie ,

If Facebook hasn’t had a mas exodus, neither will Reddit.

Facebooks death is slow and ongoing, and I’m pretty sure Reddit’s will be too.

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