While I like driving. I hate all the shit modern car manufacturers put in modern cars. Sure they're more efficient on fuel than older ones. But we should be able to have that without needing the car to be tracked and data collected, we have in the past.

I feel like all these driver aids are also making people worse at driving. They need to do less, so they pay attention less.

On top of that, can we ban touchscreens in cars? Physical buttons give physical feed back, you can feel for the button you want and press it without taking your eyes off the road. A touchscreen gives you none of that, and means you have to look away. It's somewhat mitigated when they put buttons on the steering wheel, but not all buttons can fit in that spot.

Sure some cars have google assistant, Siri or Alexa. But I actually get so frustrated when trying to tell my phone to navigate somewhere or just simply change the song. And that's just the phone! The amount of times I have to pull over because it glitches out, or just fails to interpret some or all of what I've just said (sure it's better than voice assistants used to be, but it still breaks regularly) is still too high. The amount of times I regularly tell it to do something, only to find it was still processing the activation voice command, and therefore was initialising the VA screen, and not listening to a word I said after the initial activation is infuriating.

I love technology, but the technology has no place in cars if it detracts or distracts from the act and safety of actually driving the car.

/Rant.

I like that it's a critical thinking subject, but it would be much better if you taught generic critical thinking, and used "recognising fake news" as one of the applications for critical thinking.

Mirrors have existed for hundreds of years. And before then, if people wanted to see their reflection, all it took was to look in a still bowl of water under the right lighting.

No what's really changed the way we conceive ourselves is the fashion industry, and their advertising, the use a number of tactis to make you think you need ___ product, Or in some countries ___ procedure. From celebrity sponsored brands to unrealistic Photoshopping. To the underweight models on the catwalk.

It's not just 1 thing that's made vanity a social necessity, and pushing the idea that natural looks are inherently ugly is just rediculous and wrong.

My sister had her makeup done for her engagement party recently. I had to resist the urge to say my true opinion on it, as she never usually wears makeup that thick and her fake eyelashes just looked out of place. I wasn't used to it. The moment she ripped them off (with an audible sigh of relief I might add - why you need to sacrifice your comfort for looks makes no sense to me) she looked 10x better, and more like herself.

Soy sauce

How did you fix it?

"We didn't, but at some point he started spending more time at my house trying to diagnose the problem than he did at his own place. Eventually we just decided to move in together"

Wait! Girls EXIST on the internet ‽‽‽ /s

Our class party's were always "bring a plate" type parties - parents would give the kids a plate of something to contribute

It was the best.

It already is. Fuck SafteyNet. It's DRM for phones.

This is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!

I'm sorry.. but the pun threads are legendary. I actually hope they at the very least, continue.

It always puts a smile on my face.

I mean, it makes sense, DDG already use apple maps for their maps platform.

Peertube is a great platform. And it has its uses. But it will never compete with YouTube - YouTube's business model actively incentivises and pays people to post media to their platform.

Peertube is more likely to be to be the opposite - donation run, and given videos are exponentially more expensive to host, it's highly unlikely that creators will receive any compensation for their work. In fact it's more likely theyl be in the list of people donating to the platform (or they'll own the platform outright)

While this might be fine if a creator makes the majority of its money elsewhere, via patreon or sponsors or whatever, it's not going to work out for any aspiring or up and coming YouTube who has yet to become big enough to start diversifying their income base.

Wow, you know these politicians are fucked when they refuse to make life better for people simply because it would boost the reputation of someone they are against. Talk about skewed priorities.

Politicians aren't good at understanding that they should be there to do the right thing regardless of consequences anymore.

Even in my home country they haven't done a true "screw the consequences, I'm doing what's right" since they introduced gun control in 1996.

What a fucked up world we live in.

Also, we do have some influencers here - namely a few Linux youtubers, and technology connections. Basically it's those that you would somewhat expect to have a presence on a budding social network like mastodon.

I wonder if that means there's a loophole in the bill.

The only thing it's serious about is being a decentralized platform - if you want to access something, then choose an instance who'se admins are serious about being heavily censored.

It's the old adage of "if you don't like something, do something about it"

The fediverse gives you the tools and ability to surf the fediverse how you want, all through decentralization. Don't like the rules on one instance? Move, simple as that.

It's the same context of "vote with your wallet" - only put your accounts and time into instances you want to put your account on and only donate to instances you want to donate to, vote with your time and money, that's how we can make this platform better, for ourselves and for others.

THIS. IS. SOCIALISM!

As social networking should be.

Side note, If you squint your eyes that picture kinda looks like a pizza.

Fork it on a different platform - GitLab or something like it - we really should diversify our code repos. Microsoft has too much power with GitHub

It's time to chuck unity in the bin. If not Godot, go for unreal.. though I would check their requirements beforehand first.

If there's anything left to buy aside from tacky merch shirts. I'm sure the creditors will pick it clean and auction off the best bits to the highest bidder.

And the internet.

We need your buddy, the Riker maneuver.

OK so the way the API is structured, a single user makes upwards of 100+ API calls a day - there's a single call to do everything - even things that would make more sense being grouped together into a single call.

The API was poorly optimized from the start, and as a result apps had no choice to basically spam calls in order to get the job done. Certain calls are also made over and over - like checking your inbox for new messages, refreshing, loading more comments and so many more - the more often you do it, the faster you get your inbox in, and the more responsive the app feels. if you don't do it often enough,, the app will feel like its clunky, chugging and taking forever to load. Some calls are pre-made when there's a high likelihood of clicking something for faster load time when it is clicked - now this could probably be stopped..

Now some apps also host their own data servers in order to provide more efficient running as well - this server does a number of different things, but one of the things it can do is create a second API for efficiencies' sake- essentially the server makes numerous reddit API calls, so that the app only has to make one. Its also a good way to help stagger calls to get past rate-limiting, which is where the server essentially tells you off for making too many requests to the API too quickly, and stops responding to you for a small amount of time. Another thing it can do is cache data - if its a generic (doesn't require authentication) call to a resource that went viral, it can cache that data so that people can get it without making additional calls - now this doesn't work for things like comments and vote counts.. but post titles and links? you bet that's a great thing to do. The problem: these servers cost money - not any where near as much as what they're asking for with the API changes, which is why most devs only asked for a small one off payment for server costs, which is way less than a large monthly payment.

Once you take all the requests that flow directly from the app and server, and multiply them by your user-base.. you've got a problem on your hands when it comes to the new API pricing - while it is certainly possible to charge a monthly payment (perhaps about $15 a month).. they need more than thirty days to set this app - most app stores don't allow pricing changes and subscription requirements to be set up instantly - they usually have some form of contract that will need to end so a renegotiation can take place. This means some apps might even need an entire year before they can even try to set this up.

The only other option is in the API keys. These monolithic apps use one single API key in order to make requests - the Key securely identifies who is making the request - similar to how stream keys work on streaming sites like Twitch and YouTube. You get the key, you can make a request. To get a key, you need to register with reddit as a developer, and they generate your key and give it to you. I can imagine there's a few hoops to jump through for it. (like verification - twitter had a "why do you need this" questionnaire before they started charging for their API Keys) Its impractical for a Developer to make however many thousand of fake emails and identities in order to get enough keys on the volume needed to keep app like Apollo or RIF free. The only other option would be to ask all their users to register as a developer and get their own keys, and provide a mechanism for the installation of said keys. While this is possible. its impractical and/or impossible for the people who don't understand how this works, and the hoops they may have to jump through to do this - many would likely get frustrated and give up, either going elsewhere, or worse: using the official dumpster fire app.

Also i wouldn't be surprised if reddit tried to close the API key loophole if too many third party apps went that direction, especially if the app's user-base decided to jump on board with it - financially it would be just as bad as having a third party app with a single API key, and they're hemorrhaging money like its going outta style right now, enough that they probably are trying to find ways to downscale, and removing the traffic from third party apps seems like a pretty understandable way to enable down-scaling - processing, data storage and bandwidth costs money after all, and on the huge user-base reddit has, its gotta be costing an arm, a leg and a kidney, probably more. - It doesn't excuse them for being this shitty, but i do understand where they're coming from, most of these large scale corporate social media sites aren't profitable or sustainable anyway, and with the economy going the way it is, the venture capitalists keeping things afloat must be tightening their purse strings, the time is running out and they're starting to want returns on their investments - free money is free no longer, and as a result the corporations get greedy, its almost like the only thing that is actually trickle down in a trickle down economy is greed.

A lot of these large over employed places don't hire for the extra Labor. They hire because it's a way to prevent competition. Why would an employee leave to join a competitor or create a competing start up company if he's being paid well to do next to nothing?

The only problem is that's only financially viable when interest rates are low and investors are willing to give out cash like it's candy.

I don't think it would really benefit or harm the lithium miners and battery manufacturers - in fact it might benefit them more if they could sell their batteries directly to consumers and skip the middleman, keeping those profits for themselves.

Can't star trek across the fediverse without multiple space docks.

Just watch for the Klingons on the starboard bow.

Why do you need a girl to go with for Barbie? If you want to watch it, just fucking watch it. Who cares what people think.

Man your daughter is lucky, I don't even have a dishwasher. I am the dishwasher. I used to have one, but then we moved house.

In the end it doesn't matter how it's stacked so long as they come out clean - don't forget to fill the prewash section with powder, it helps immensely.

Bruh, if you're going to insist on someone installing arch, at least sit by their side and walk them through it.

Having installed arch multiple times before, I can get a base system with networking and desktop environment up in half a day to a day depending on which DE.

It's always the ones who are willing to experiment a little who are the first adopters. We're always looking for something better, and as a result we often are the first to arrive, and the first to leave, we browse for different reasons than just "going with the crowd"

I swear this ruins the coffee

Instead of reheating it, put a little ice in it and call it an iced coffee.

Or just windows store exclusives..

I'll eat my fine leather hat before I use that dog shit store again.

Keep in mind that that's extra special because I don't own a fine leather hat, so I gotta buy one first.

Oh there will be forks across the git-verse. There's no way there wouldn't be.

Also does this create precedent? - they settled, its not like it actually went to court.

It may have also been the fact that they linked to instruction on how to rip prod.keys and system firmwares. Also their instructions on enabling running copyrighted ROMs - despite the fact that Ripping game ROMs and firmware is not (unfortunately arguably, due to licencing models and jurisdiction - you will own nothing and like it.) illegal so long as it's for personal use.

They should've advertised it primarily as a testing and homebrew platform, and made sure not to make too much mention of the fact it can be used to play backups. Then they can at least play the ignorance card with more confidence.

Even then though, multi-billion yen company Nintendo probably would still pull this shit and drag, drag, drag the lawsuit out for forever and a day- draining lawyers fees of money. That being the case, settling is unfortunately the only option.

We should probably change it to "American style capitalism" as the behaviour seems to have either originated or mainlined in America first. But it's seen in most global and domestic software companies around the globe today.

reading this almost feels like it was merely an effort to perform the most expensive suicide ever.

But then again, it could also seems to have been stupidity and a failure to listen to experts.

Man seems to have been unable to get his head out his own ass and was basically hearing every issue and going "this is fine"

Seems like in any case, he deserves a Darwin award, just sucks that other people went down with him.

Netflix should've realised this would be the end result. The moment you needed 5-6 different streaming platforms to watch all the movies and tv shows you want, was the moment it became easier and significantly cheaper to pirate the content.

None of the big companies that decided to cash in ever stood a chance.

Technically its there, but most apps don't show it.. which is good, because they shouldn't show it

Honestly, I never liked all the additional rewards they added to the system anyway, seemed really superfluous.

I actually preferred it when it was gold only. No silver, bronze or any of the other 10+ "coins" they had.

You paid for gold to support their server time, you could also give others a month of gold as well - it had a similar feeling to subs and gift subs on a twitch channel. You gave others gold not only to support the servers, but to say, "I want to give you more than an upvote for what you said" it was a way of going above and beyond.

Sure the lounge was crap, but that wasn't the point, that was an intended reward for donating.

I honestly don't know why they're killing it, as it's a known fact that having a subscription system with the ability for people to pay monthly is a far better, more consistent source of revenue than ads, and it's less invasive. It's why musk is pushing twitter blue so hard.

Unless they're only killing the awards part of it and still allowing people to subscribe to premium, I can kinda see some of the logic in that - by making it impossible to access premium features through gold gifts, you make it so everyone has to access those features by subscribing - the hope is more become willing people sign up to it after losing their free gold. Honestly I think they're misjudging how much value Reddit premium actually has, especially given the recent alienation by Reddit staff, and therefore removing the ability to give awards is misleading. Sure if premium had more value than it does, it might actually have the intended effect, but I think it's just gonna result in a precipitous drop in revenue.

Honestly Lemmy kinda does donations better, as it doesn't turn donations into a fake award you can give other people. Instead it's just that, you donate, the server stays running and we get to continue having this space. And the admins are actually careful enough to turn off registrations when growth starts to increase too quickly.