It's so nice to live in the EU, where my right to block ads is protected by law.

As a European, this looks insane to me.

Capitalism working as intended though, undercutting the competition and all that.

What a useless gesture. It's git code. So long as it remains on one machine, you can upload it to any git instance.

No one should be surprised though that GitLab is protecting their business.

No. You don't want people's first exposure to the fediverse to be something annoying.

Also, anyone with a modicum of understanding is already blocking ads. Do we really want the dregs of the internet that don't do so?

Yes to all of this, except for paying the CEO more. The CEO should get nothing. Running the company should be its own reward.

Buncha stinky tankies is what they are. Yes sir!

This will be the death knell of any instance that does no defederate/blacklist them.

Is this country specific? The EU has existing law in many countries that allows users to filter out ads.

Shit-ass politics though.

It is really funny (read: not funny but sad) that you think our current system is working. This post has such big "I have not thought about this at all and am out of ideas" energy that I can't engage with it seriously.

Do you own a summer cottage right now? What percentage of people do? Will not owning that cottage impact anyone's life in a meaningful way?

But yea, sure, let's have a few hundred people own more wealth and thus influence than the rest of the world as a whole! It's the best way to make sure the people a step or two below those few hundred get to have a summer cottage! This really makes society the best it can be!

If youtube does that, I will stop using the site and wait for a workaround to be written. You could preload the videos and cut out the ads, for example.

I die because I get teleported into the earth's air which mixes into all my muscles and bones and organs, destroying most of my cells, stopping my heart due to blood bubbles in my heart if I don't instantly die from that, while a vacuum 2ft next to me implodes.

Like I said, it's an empty gesture. Unless Nintendo seizes the computers of all the devs, the code will live on and uploading it somewhere is very very easy.

No app should be a subscription

D&D might be a soulless product of middling quality because it is so corporatized now that they refuse to take risks or even release an actually new edition for their big anniversary, but they changed a word so we need to celebrate them.

All the while games like Fabula Ultima don't even have the concept of race or species and you can define it via a quirk if you feel there is something important to distinguish your character. Lancer doesn't even ask the question and just wants you to define what your character is good at. And yea the default setting of lancer only has humans, but it's also a post-scarcity hyper future where people can change their genes and looks with great ease.

But we didn't read those games and in the TTRPG space, only talking about D&D gets clicks, so this had to be about D&D.

Oooh noooo...anyway.

LOL

The last word on this whole thing is this series of videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVYNbe1fsUk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLA_ZK8HX6o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6-HbM0Rezg

Sort by date is really newsworthy in 2024 I guess.

The Bocchi the Rock anime vs the Manga. The Manga is by no menas bad, but it is a 4 panel gag affair which has very little of the dynamism and weird jokes of the anime. I really want them to make more of it.

Yes. German. When I learned to drive, it was mandatory to do so on a stick.

Okay fine, academia can dig ditches too or they make it into a system that actually helps people, their choice

Set aside a day of the week to do your job searching and application sending on. Teat it like your job on that day, but then don't worry about doing it for the rest of the week.

Lie on your resumes. The corpos you will work for will lie to you, so don't put yourself at a disadvantage by being truthful. You owe them nothing when you show up for an interview.

If you think you can learn how to do some BS thing the job wants you to be able to do, learn what it is enough to answer questions about it during the interview. If they hire you, learn enough to start working on it before you start.

What happened with gog?

I don't care

Burn it to the ground and force the tech bros who made it to dig ditches for 20 years.