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Right?! When they could be playing Doom on it.

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Well, once again a tech company gives a service I don’t care for an overhaul I don’t want and tries to charge a fee I won’t pay.

I suspect when this doesn’t do the numbers they want they’ll try adding a user fee to oxygen as a retaliation.

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If only she was ever in a situation where her voice was professionally recorded.

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Spent some time there this year. A lot of ant-renewable sentiment.

But then every kid gets access to a musical instrument and lessons.

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Best Norway fact I have is that their wine (and spirits) is nationalised. Anything over 4.75%.

You can only buy it from the government in places called Vinmonopolet (English: The Wine Monopoly), and it is directly taxed.

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Here’s a thing. Yes. What you say is true… But when you have legitimate paying jobs that demand recent experience in retail, then this sort of thing becomes attractive to people that just want a fucking job.

Don’t blame people for doing this, blame the system for making them feel like they have to.

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Web in the search, AI in the search, personal assistant in your files, things in your things that you don’t want, didn’t ask for and are struggling to extract.

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(Idiots)… Way to roast normal people. Don’t know if they will ever recover. The best bit was putting it in brackets.

You are normal people.

Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says (www.cbsnews.com)

Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....

adam_y ,
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You are framing this as an access issue rather than one of predation.

Fast food chains don’t make a cheap menu to help poor people experience their food, they do it to milk every bit of money from a populace.

Don’t expect social justice from corporate entities.

adam_y ,
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That’s a bit harsh. No aggression intended, or apparent.

Are you OK?

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Absolutely loving the replies to this.

This is how the extended Linux community wins for me.

Sure we talk shit for fun. The Arch BTW stuff, the Gentoo shade and Slackware side-eye. But its all in jest, ultimately.

Well done.

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I mean they sent someone called “Eden Golan”.

That would be like the English fielding a contestant called, “Paradise Belfast”.

UN votes to back Palestinian membership, prompting Israeli envoy to shred charter (www.theguardian.com)

The UN general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to back the Palestinian bid for full UN membership, in a move that signalled Israel’s growing isolation on the world stage amid global alarm over the war in Gaza and the extent of the humanitarian crisis in the strip. The move drew an immediate rebuke from Israel. Its envoy to...

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What is this? A shredder for ants?!

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adam_y ,
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Just like Marvin, my mind is blown.

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“There are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user’s VPN runs on Linux or Android.”

So there are ways.

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Wow, he must have really learned his lesson from the last 9 telling offs.

adam_y ,
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Sort of my point.

Which RSS aggregator do you use? I cannot seem to find one that works for me.

I cannot stand google news any more, too much spam, clickbait and advertisement. So I decided to try to selfhost an RSS aggregator to make myself a news feed that I would be comfortable with. Being RSS such an “ancient” thing I thought there will be many mature systems, but I’m not sure that’s the case…...

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Seconded. I keep trying others. I tried feedly for a while. I also tried readyou (which I still keep on my phone)… But nothing comes as close to inoreader for doing what I want.

Also, I’ve learnt how to aggregate other feeds into a single feed to pass them into it to get around the 150 limit. Not ideal, but I’m cheap.

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I see you getting downvoted for a correct answer.

IP addresses are like street addresses. I can live at 10 High Street in London, you can live at 10 High Street in Ohio. Those are not the same address right? Folk confusing public and private ip addresses.

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Hypetrain game + publisher shenanigans… Pretty sure I’ve heard this one before.

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Was it though? It was full steam ahead even in the early days when the servers were overwhelmed in what seemed like a classic case of the dishoom effect.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a fine game, but I think folk got carried away.

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We will return the bicycle when you hand over the fekkin potatoes.

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Bark Air, a new luxury airline for dogs, launching flights in May (www.scrippsnews.com)

Why I think this is dystopian: the rich are spending their money to fly their pets on private jets instead of, I don’t know, giving a shit about anyone but themselves. And the government lets them. So, while we gasp at grocery prices, Ivanka Trump’s dog will be flying first class.

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Just takes one owner with an aggressive dog and we have canine terror at 1000 feet.

Actually sounds like a fun ride.

adam_y ,
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Superb work.

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Hey, please respect the post! He literally says it right there.

What if the only reason countries, like the U.S., agree to arm other countries when they are in conflict, is because international billionaires have placed bets on which country will win?

I mean, if the super wealthy are sitting back, in their mansions, when each of these conflicts erupts, and they start placing bets on which side wins, it might play a role in which side our government leaders choose to arm/support.

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Yeah. We call it the stock market.

adam_y ,
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Bad AIDS?

adam_y ,
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West bank.

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I say that, but I, in no way, want that to happen.

But yeah, Boston Dynamic have long said that they don’t want their robots weaponised, but here we are seeing it happen.

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And if you don’t have a subscription/like leaping over paywalls.

archive.is link

adam_y ,
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Read mostly hardback books like a king.

adam_y ,
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I’m second hand books all the way.

Great collection you have, I’m pretty sure you’d be seriously good chat down the pub.

adam_y ,
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Its a really lovely mix of science and literature. Signals a broad and interested mind. Besides, Once and future king is an absolute banger.

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If you’ve got wood, you’ve got something to drink.

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I’m betting they weren’t around in the early 90s. I mean… If we are talking any real sort of publicly available machinima, we must be talking about the start of YouTube.

Unless watching your mate, Gary, do that thing where he voiced over Zangief as if we was a WWF wrester counts.

adam_y ,
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Right you are. They started in 2003 a full two years before YouTube and a solid four years after the 90s.

adam_y ,
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It is a great step forward, but the barrier to entry is relatively high. You can sign up to substack for free and they take a cut of your profits (that most writers don’t draw enough attention to earn.

Meanwhile ghost charges $9 a month, billed annually.

That’s a significant barrier to anyone that can’t afford to see if their writing will be popular and as long as that remains it will struggle to gain traction in the same way.

And yeah, I know you could host your own too, but again a price point and a technical barrier.

I like ghost, the interface and the ecology, but the truth is that it isn’t going to attract the sort of vibrant, young community it needs if you have to stump up $108 just to see.

I think one of the great things about 2000s/early 2010s internet was the proliferation of free to use platforms like livejournal, blogger and WordPress. Sure there was a lot or jank, but I found some of my favourite writers back when they were scratching their name into the internet.

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Burns night 2018. A wonderful horrible terrifying brilliant life affirming night out in Newcastle.

They’re good people, but good grief can they drink and talk shite whilst being utterly charming and threatening.

TIL the dev of Iron Lung, an acclaimed indie horror game, faced significant backlash over increasing the price from $6 to $8 (www.ign.com)

Then, responding to those who have said he’s “only doing this for the money", Szymanski tweeted: “Yes, no fucking shit. I make games for a living. If I didn't want to earn money from them I wouldn't charge money for them.”...

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No mate, I’m doing you a favour playing your game. You should pay me. It would be great exposure. I’ve got literally some followers.

And yeah, I’ll bang on about minimum wage being too low and I’ll post about AAA Devs ripping off their workers, but a lone developer asking $10 for something that probably took them months, too much. Too much.

What a sell out.

(/S just in case)

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And what’s worse, half of those complaining bought Elon’s blue tick!

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Radical.

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Yeah. Vacations. Sure.

I see them blowing all their money on things like healthcare and rent.

Not exactly hedonism at its greatest.

Every time we pay them more, the expenses go up by double that.

Who is doing the most good in the world, and how? (kbin.social)

My feed is filled with bad news, which is my fault for using the fediverse as a news feed, but it made me wonder: Which organisations, groups or individual people in the world are doing the most good for our world? I'm particularly interested in those who manage to do good on a larger impact scale (quantity or quality), but if...

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Get a point for being bold enough to nominate yourself too.

I mean it, that was a cool thing to do and I’m glad you recognise it.

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I was so glad when we slipped out of the bulbous silver aesthetic.

Everything looking like a Tonka toy Geiger.

And now I look at it and it seems like home.

Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)

Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...

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I don’t look down on any of that art. I’ve read transformation novels written in the last couple of years. I’ve heard the most amazing original and articulate music. I’ve played games that have pushed storytelling and visceral experience.

I consider it art too. It’s the product of human endeavour, often driving to make something wonderful through effort and skill. It’s often an attempt with communicating at an audience.

To denounce it all as “derivative” misunderstands creativity.

That’s like saying that language is derivative because someone has already said all of the words… It’s not the words that matter but the context in which they are used. This is true of all art. The context of work provides the newness that stops it being derivative.

Sorry, I’ve got to ask though, can you give me an example of “bougie shit”?

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I call this, “Derivative is not bad, it’s simply a matter of fact. Our creations and ideas are based off that which inspires us. Things don’t need to be unique or revolutionary to be enjoyable and that’s the most important quality, that we enjoy what we consume.”

I’m enjoying our collaboration.

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Bet you are into NFTs too, huh?

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