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I really don’t get the hate he got for that take.

Circumventing the method of payment could be argued as being a form of piracy. From that point of view, adblock is piracy.

Like them or not, YouTube is not a charity and requires the serving of ads to continue funding the service. You could argue about how they go about it, but it’s a fact they need some sort of income to continue to exist.
Same goes for YouTubers. They get a percentage of that ad revenue. And they also need some form of income.

But just because he said so doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand why adblock is used. He didn’t say “don’t use adblock.” He’s shown how to use adblock before and since. He’s also mentioned that buying something from their webshop gives them a lot more money than turning off adblock.

Saying “watching movies for free is pirating” isn’t the same as saying “you shouldn’t pirate movies”.
Using adblock isn’t engaging with YouTube on YouTube’s terms.

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Its protection.

From your point of view, yeah. Not from the point of view of the creator and the platform.

Linus isn’t clutching his pearls nor is he crying, he’s just pointing out you are circumventing the method of payment to the platform. It is detrimental to both the platform and the creator. That is a fact. Your choice has an impact and you should be aware of that.
But at no point did he say “you’re a bad person if you use adblock”.

What has got you so worried?

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But that doesn’t mean it isn’t piracy?

Downloading old Nintendo ROMs because the company refuses to redistribute them is also piracy, even though I would say it’s morally justified.

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This is " People getting upset when an idiot tries to blame end users, instead of holding the people who created the problem accountable"

Did Linus blame anyone though?
No. He simply stated a fact.

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Not the point I was making.

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Ryan McBeth mentioned in his video (13min) them not disclosing receiving funds from a foreign backed entity was, indeed, the legal issue.

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Magnetic field ≠ electric field

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It does have back buttons, which is why it’s unlikely to launch in the west as Scuf (owned by Corsair) is a major patent troll when it comes to those. That’s also the reason for the original Steam controller no longer being released.

The Hori one is launching at the end of this month, if I recall correctly. I might look into importing it once it does.

Former Aurora cop charged with raping daughter remains free as mom is sent to jail (denvergazette.com)

A retired Aurora police sergeant faces criminal charges for raping his daughter and continually sexually assaulting her and his two adopted daughters, but he remains free from custody while his ex-wife is in jail for objecting to court-ordered reunification therapy meant to repair his relationship with two of his sons.

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The issue often is that, just because it’s outwardly frowned upon, it doesn’t mean it won’t happen behind closed doors.

Which isn’t to say any of your relatives are bad people, but a culture where speaking up is frowned upon encourages victims to hide their abuse.

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It’s the latest anti-sjw boogeyman

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People have caught onto what they really mean by “anti-sjw”, so they’ve moved onto the next buzzword. And then the next, and the next.

Whatever it takes to keep their plausible deniability in front of the media that they aren’t simply racist. Gotta keep that mainstream appeal.

How can Apps constantly Auto Start themselves in the background and what can you do about it? (lemmy.world)

This stuff drives me so mad. I recently have noticed higher than usual over-night drain on my phone and decided to investigate a bit. So I connected my phone to my machine, closed out all the apps waited a few seconds and ran adb shell top with a few parameters to see what is actually running....

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On Samsung I have “deep sleeping apps”, which basically kills any app put on that list when I turn off my phone.

It will also prevent notifications and such, but it is useful for anything I don’t care running in the background.

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This might match your criteria:
An image of a car painted in army camouflage

(Jokes aside, I do agree with your sentiment)

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Does it?

Previous benchmarks have shown the 8 GB models seriously fell behind in performance.

Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 (www.neowin.net)

Let’s put it this way; when Microsoft announced its plans to start adding features to Windows 10 once again, despite the operating system’s inevitable demise in October 2025, everyone expected slightly different things to see ported over from Windows 11. Sadly, the latest addition to Windows 10 is one of the most annoying...

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How to avoid: right click the start icon (or press win + x) and go to “Shut down or sign out” that way.

I try not using the Windows start menu anymore because I hate seeing the little “notification” bubble on my profile, when dismissing it it returns within a few days!
Yes Microsoft, I am aware I cancelled 365. Thanks for reminding me why I did so.

Is Google going to stop supporting android due to lack of profitability?

So at the moment Apple hold the 1st place in mobile OS marketshare, I feel the unfortunate thing that will happen as marketshare drops Google will slowly move to supporting projects other than android, and eventually drop support entirely and focus on making better iOS apps, Device makers will start making their own operating...

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fyi: it’s SKU, not “skew”.

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On top of invalidating the lived experience of a cis-woman because this Olympic boxer with more muscle than most men looks kinda masculine in some pictures.

So much for the “we can always tell”.

It’s a double whammy of bigotry.

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Right? Why do anything. Who needs more than a terminal interface anyway.

Edit: I really don’t understand what the sentiment here is. Any UI changes are somewhat arbitrary. I don’t get why that’s an issue.

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What browser do you use, or do you have some reading plug-ins?

For me it looks fine on the Firefox android app

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What browser do you use?

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Ah, I didn’t know NoScript was exclusive to Firefox.

That’s strange though. Here you can see NoScript breaks the mini js html editor embedded on the page, yet the colours work fine for me.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/82fed031-4cfd-4ff3-8dc6-9a51898097e3.png

I wasn’t able to make the highlighting work on a very quick and dirty html page of my own though. Not sure if I missed anything.

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Hmm, you’re right. A ctrl + f5 reload with NoScript enabled does clear the colours, and won’t have them come back until I disable NoScript again. Not sure what exactly it is then.

Apple vs the “free market” (pluralistic.net)

Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue, which will be diverted to Apple, the most valuable company on the planet. Apple contributes nothing to their work, but it will get to steal a third of their wages. How is this possible? Enshittification.

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Which is contradictory to the first line of the linked essay.

Is it though?
Current sign-ups are likely through Patreons own payment system, which will stay as it is. It would be like signing up in the web version, then going on to use the iOS app. That wouldn’t suddenly subtract 30% from a payment Apple has no control over.

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Ah, like so. I thought you were referring to the article on the Patreon website with your initial comment, rather than the article in the post itself.

You’re right, the article is wrong. “Gross revenue” makes no sense.

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Yeah but my short term gains!

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Was clicking on the article to check really too much of an effort to you?

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It certainly went over my head

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Figure skating is also an olympic competition, is it not?

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Holiday

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I really like Niagara, though it is quite a bit different from Nova.

Lawnchair V2 is also a thing outside of the Playstore.

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I think the Halo show could’ve been much more interesting too if they focused on someone not the main character of the games.

But no, gotta keep the most recognizable character

Operating theatres, bowling alleys and home cinemas: Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses (www.ctvnews.ca)

“We’ve seen a lot more of a focus on entertainment,” said Al Corbi, who has been at the forefront of secure luxury for 50 years as the president and founder of SAFE (Strategically Armored & Fortified Environments), based in Virginia, in the US. “If you’re going to be able to survive underground, we want you to be...

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But to do that they’d have to be not-inept though

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Which surely couldn’t have anything to do with underfunded schools, book bannings, and sensationalised news.

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Nordic Games bought what remained of THQ back in the day when the latter went bankrupt. (THQ used to be comparable to the likes of EA and Ubisoft before they made some poor decisions)

The holdings company behind THQ Nordic rebranded into Embracer some years ago.

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Piranha Bytes GmbH was a German video game developer based in Essen. It was best known for their Gothic and Risen series of role-playing video games.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_Bytes

Embracer has reportedly closed Elex developer Piranha Bytes

pcgamer.com/…/embracer-has-reportedly-closed-elex…

:/

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Fortunately, the remake is being made by THQ Nordic.

How is that fortunate though?

THQ Nordic, the company which became Embracer, bought Piranha Bytes, shuttered the studio when they fucked up, and is now using their IP for a remake?

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Especially considering buybacks used to be illegal.

No points for guessing which president legalised the practice.

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Have an ad instead

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A Google Ad for Google Ads

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This is where you get into the whole webscraping debate you also have with LLM “datasets”.

If you, as a website host, are detecting a ton of requests coming from a singular IP you can block said address. There are ways around that by making the requests from different IP addresses, but there are other ways to detect that too!

I’m not sure if Reddit would try to sue Microsoft or DDG if they started serving results anyway through such methods. I don’t believe it is explicitly disallowed.
But if you were hoping to deal in any way with Reddit in the future I doubt a move like this would get you in their good graces.

All that is to say; I won’t visit Reddit at all anymore now that their results won’t even show up when I search for something. This is a terrible move and will likely fracture the internet even more as other websites may look to replicate this additional source of revenue.

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You shouldn’t be getting any new results if you do that, older posts will/may remain indexed.

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404 notes that Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and Qwant are all affected, with results either not showing anything recent, or not showing the full site result. Kagi, a paid search engine, is apparently still showing data, but only because it buys some of its search index from Google, which continues to have access to Reddit data through the aforementioned deal.

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So do most “alternative” search engines, often with some of their own spice on top.

I know Startpage happens to use Google in their back-end, but Google’s policy is a lot more restrictive than Microsoft’s given their market position.

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I thought captcha’s worked in a way where they provided some known good examples, some known bad examples, and a few examples which aren’t certain yet. Then the model is trained depending on whether the user selects the uncertain examples.

Also it’s very evident what’s being trained. First it was obscured words for OCR, then Google Maps screenshots for detecting things, now you see them with clearly machine-generated images.

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In the US it tends to be the other way around 🥁

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It may not reduce the delta, but we gotta cover the base load somehow. Nuclear is ideal for that job.

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I don’t think 100% renewable is the way to go, given that energy output can vary.

And as long as any amount of fossil fuels are left in the energy supply chain, I’d rather they be replaced with nuclear. Even if it’s more expensive.

I’m not making the decision so it doesn’t matter.

Perhaps not directly, but assuming you live in a democracy your vote does matter.

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I’unno, read the article.

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