I think what will happen is that a lot of the subs are eventually going to end up in the hands of the few mods who love sucking up to the admins and the mods who are in it for the dopamine they gain power-tripping instead of the mods who are in it to make the subreddit the best version of itself.
This will only further the "5 Mods Control 92 Of The Top 500 Subs" issue and lead to overall less happy, less engaged users.
The difference between "pure infrastructure costs" and total costs of third party apps are the opportunity cost in ads and other potential money making schemes (NFT avatars etc.) that they cannot shove down people's throats on third party apps.
They even specifically admitted to this in one of the calls with the Apollo dev so it's not just conjecture on my part.
Me [Apollo Dev]: "Because I assume the majority of it isn't server costs. I assume the majority is the opportunity cost per user."
Reddit: "Exactly."
Edit: Of course that doesn't mean that Reddit's decision is a good thing. They'll have even more opportunity cost if many of their power users just leave, which seems to be the logical result to their actions.
Have you heard of The Longing? It doesn't tick all your boxes but it is definitely a long term game that has you make slow, real-time progress while the real time clock of 400 days is ticking down. Not really management sim progress though.
On the more managy side, I've had some fun with Factory Idle. Essentially mini-Factorio as an idle game.
One in five is quite a bit. To make an extreme example: If one in five people on the street were looking to stab you, you'd be thinking there's a lot of people wanting you dead.
Also it's ca. one in three among the young men, which is terrifying. And if the "more favorable among heterosexual" holds true for only the male half (I see no reason why it wouldn't), that's even higher among that demographic.
Fuck that's scary.
After a quick Google search I learned that the answer is "kinda".
Just like us they do produces gases as part of their metabolism. That gas has to go somewhere. Some of it is absorbed into their hemolyph (blood) and expelled into the air through openings in their exoskeleton. But it's very unlikely that none of that gas exits through their anus.
Also, people have spotted "bubbles" on insects trapped in amber right where their anus is, it's likely that those are encased fart-bubbles.
In addition to what the other user said: some subs were hiding the downvote buttons through their custom subreddit styles. You'd only see this if you used old.reddit though and if you disabled the css (or used an app like RiF) you could downvote as normal.
Maybe that's where your confusion started.
Obviously a good thing to keep the "allegedly", but that statement doesn't refute what the other person claimed. They said Meta hired them, not Meta put them in the Threads team.
Also I obviously don't know how Meta is structured, but where I'm at, it wouldn't be unusual for someone not part of a team to still talk to members of a team, give advice, etc.
I mean ChatGPT was already very easily influenced by just stating a username of a heavy user of r/counting.
It's been patched out by now, but it was very funny.
I'm not really a believer of the whole simulated universe theory, but I find your arguments against it weak.
You're basing what is and isn't easily calculatable off of our experiences. Same with "complexities of the universes". However, if our world is indeed simulated, there's no telling what the host universe is like. It might have crazy different math and be far far more complex than ours. Us trying to understand it would essentially be an excercise in futility.
they have nothing to hide from those with access to their data (governments/corporations).
That is only a good point until you remind them that the government/corporations aren't just entities but also consist of people, any of which could end up being their neighbor tomorrow, hold their next job interview, be their next potential tinder match, etc.
Of course the rest of what you wrote is true too, but I really felt the need to point this out.
To give an example: I'm in data science. As part of a contract work I had access to a csv dump of a database of addresses of all people who ordered campaign material for a specific political campaign. I could have easily sated my own curiosity and checked who in my near vacinity is in that list, as well as the exact amounts that they ordered and some other notes about them. Suddenly it wouldn't just be some corporation anymore but their neighbor.
That's gotta be it. You can tell images to be displayed rotated instead of actually rotating them through metadata (EXIF flags). That's for example also how Windows does (or at least did) rotate images when you clicked on the 90° rotation button.
I remember having issues with this before when later loading those images through some code.
I'm glad there's even a single soul out there who knows the CW games.
I'm very excited for this.
It's gotta be Outer Wilds for me for sure.
There's a user over on lemmy.fhmy.ml who made a lot of "Imaginary x" communities and is posting to them regularly. You should probably go and hit them up, they do seem very eager.
Also from I personally experienced and what others said too, it seems to be purely visual and those communities still show up in your subscribed feed as if it went through normally.
Tbf, if they lie to their people about the "special military operation" being a success and fuck off out of Ukraine, that would already be a massive improvement over the status quo.
My favorite comment regarding Noita is still the top comment on YouTube to the launch trailer (the first trailer on the Steam store page.)
Basically the secret to becoming a master of this game is to learn how to resist the urge to do 90% of the things you see in this trailer.
Which has been at the top of the YouTube comments for a long time for good reason. I fucking love this game though.
When moving to another mail provider, I can forward mails going to the old address to the new one.
You're assuming that the reason for the move is not the old mail provider shutting down. If the old provider shuts down and you cannot somehow get their domain name, all mails sent to your old address will just vanish in the void (or even worse, be gobbled up by whoever owns the domain now, better hope there's no personal info in there that you wouldn't want in their hands).
Very much depends on the country you're in too though. I live in a 1000 people village and "bus to nearest train station -> train(s) -> bus to destination" beats car in terms of speed as soon as my destination is more than ca 30km away.
Reaching the nearest grocery stores takes about 10 minutes by car (incl. finding a parking spot) and 15 by bus, so it's not a huge difference either.
It is a huge decrease in flexibility though. The busses will only drive every 30 minutes or 1 hour, depending on the time of day.
With the Lemmy Koopa being named after the Motörhead singer, that makes him 2/4 on the listed reasons.
There's a new one on feddit.ch
!buenzli@feddit.ch should get you there in your own instance if your instance already knows it.
Or just play some games on your laptop.
Do we have a AI with a theory of mind or just a AI that answers the questions in the test correctly?
Now whether or not there is a difference between those two things is more of a philosophical debate. But assuming there is a difference, I would argue it's the latter. It has likely seen many similar examples during training (the prompts are in the article you linked, it's not unlikely to have similar texts in a web-scraped training set) and even if not, it's not that difficult to extrapolate those answers from the many texts it must've read where a character was surprised at an item missing that that character didn't see being stolen.
But by donating you'd increase the supply and they'd make less money, so that doesn't quite check out.
I wanna add to this that "all" isn't really from all Lemmy instances, but instead only from communities your instance knows about.
I'm not sure if anyone on your instance has to be subbed to that community or if it's enough if that instance was searched for once on your instance.
Never thought I'd see a Trackmania meme in the wild.
I found it interesting that after such a depressing bullet-point summary of their meeting, the last paragraph was still mixed and not more negative. I wonder if they actively try to stay on Reddit's good side to not end up in Reddit's crosshairs or if that's truly how they feel.