This is your hourly reminder that Brave is still Chromium and still contributes to Google's influence over internet standards.

Life finds a way

Yarr

Its enough to make me log into Reddit again. Wait a second...

This could be so much longer.

Killing children, class systems, so many programming language names, the ridiculous ways equality and order-of-operations are done sometimes. Plenty of recursion jokes to be made. Big O notation. Any other ideas?

If I understand correctly, there's nothing about Firefox that makes ad blockers any harder to detect. What can Firefox and uBlock do to stop Google from blocking adblock users on the site?

That said, I use Firefox and uBlock myself, and I've yet to see YouTube stop me from using the site.

There's a giant ball of extremely hot plasma in the sky and we aren't supposed to look at it. What is it hiding? Surely if someone managed to look at it long enough, they would see the truth!

Was this a thought you had in the shower, or a thought you had about showers?

Also, the pipe carrying water to the showerhead isn't a wire or cord, and therefore every showerhead is wireless.

I keep 3 forms of payment on me for this reason. Phone, card, cash, in that order.

Edit: Within 30 minutes of making this comment, I was at a Walmart. No NFC payment. The machine didn't like my card. Now I have 2 quarters and a penny in my pocket.

Elon admitted he did this in an interview. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink/index.html

Watch SadlyItsBradley and TylerMcVicker on YouTube, these are the guys who actually datamine SteamVR and SteamOS for themselves. They're both saying Steam Deck 2 is not currently in development. Valve's current thing is more likely a console-like machine running slightly more powerful hardware, plus Valve's upcoming VR headset. A prototype of this console actually showed up in the background of "The Final Hours of Half Life: Alyx".

The thing is that Revanced follows a new distribution model. Rather than distributing a modified app, they instead distribute patches for the normal YouTube APK so that the user modifies the app on their own device. Thus, ReVanced never distributes any of Google's IP. It's kinda like game modding. ReVanced will be a lot harder for Google to kill.

The one downside for ReVanced is that it's harder for ordinary users to install, so that will limit its popularity.

I believe Ublock has patched this now, you can update to the newest version and reset the extension and it should work.

How much you guys wanna bet this goes nowhere but a few fines?

I second.

RCS isn't as open as SMS, it's just as proprietary as iMessage, Google has just expressed a willingness to let other companies use it. They're playing nice because they're the underdog in the US market. If RCS becomes the new standard, Google will exploit that fact.

You do own your own likeness, though. So I think you probably have some right to prevent someone from making deep fakes of you.

That would make sense - the fine should be enough to pay for the satellite's disposal.

Yep. There's also a lot of rules about farming. If you accidentally drop some of the harvest while you're farming, you have to leave it there so that the poor can take it (there's also a command to care for the poor directly). Also, you have to skip farming altogether once every seven years to let the land rest, which seems like a basic form of crop rotation.

Unless you can easily upgrade the RAM, Storage, and replace the OS when it loses support, it's still ewaste.

Yes, installing Linux is possible, but it isn't easy. I put GalliumOS on my old high school Chromebook.

Once, I found out that my place of work was paying some random guy hundreds of dollars to use his Outlook plugin because his forum posts gave them the impression he was a Microsoft employee. It was 3 years before IT caught it and made it stop.

He absolutely would be a great pick. And I suspect he would be interested. What I wonder is: how much would it grow Lemmy and the Fediverse? Impossible to tell, but even if it's only a small gain, I think it would be worth trying.

Aperture Science's legal representatives would like to know your location.

I often feel like my supervisors don't respect my input or my time. I work in IT, our business is solving problems efficiently. Yet when I pitch ways to improve our methods, or when I call out dumb decisions, I get ignored.

On multiple occasions in the past couple years, my immediate supervisor has made bad calls that would lead to unnecessary work for me and my team. I point this out to him, and I am ignored. Last summer, we wasted a couple days fixing computers after an unnecessary BIOS update kept them from loading Windows. We also spent a whole day installing a firmware update on a new shipment of monitors, this update was to fix compatibility with the Mac Studio - we don't use the Mac Studio at my work.

So?

Closed source isn't necessarily evil, neither is DRM. It's all in how you implement it.

Valve's launcher/drm are so much less intrusive than their competitors. They've demonstrated more openness to user customization and modding over the years than just about anyone else. If we didn't have Valve, we would have more EA and Epic Games, do you really want that?

"Do you wish there were more content like this?" Upvote.

"Do you wish there were less content like this?" Downvote.

Epstein didn't kill himself.

9/11 wasn't an inside job, but the American government did cover up their failures to prevent it.

I've heard some speculate that Al Qaeda had placed explosives or fuels inside the buildings in advance, suggesting that they had access to them days or weeks in advance. If true, I can absolutely see a campaign to cover up their failure to prevent it.

I like the implication that someone put the Sega Dreamcast into their contacts list.

Nope, that's not what uBlock is saying. YouTube rolls out new adblock detection several times a day. uBlock can't stop it instantly, it takes time for the devs to adjust their code. So for a few hours, YouTube's detection works. If you haven't been caught yet, then it means you've been lucky to get the rollout after uBlock already had a fix. Some of us aren't that lucky. Last week, I got an early rollout several hours before uBlock had a patch. Turned off all my extensions, used default uBlock settings, all their suggestions, had no effect. A few hours later, uBlock had a fix and I didn't see YouTube's block anymore.

I think it's their profile picture.

Edit: I just got Lemmy Premium.

Nvidia: announces DLSS to enable "4K" gaming

Gaming industry: requires DLSS to get cinematic frame rates on last-gen hardware.

Reddit has long been known for its userbase being capable of surprisingly big things. Getting John Oliver to AMA here might show that Lemmy is capable of the same thing.

The Economist, Reuters, BBC, in no particular order.

I like how even the non-tech communities here on Lemmy are dominated by tech. We're all a bunch of bored IT guys and it shows.

In the time of Plato, only the most educated could read and write. So if you could do both, I think your odds of being remembered had almost as much to do with writing good quality as it did with being lucky enough for your writing to survive centuries.

As for us...it will happen but only very rarely.

Prehistoric: appears in a Usenet forum

Ancient: MySpace

Decomposed: Facebook

Fresh corpse: Instagram

Elderly: Twitter

Midlife: Discord

Teenage: Reddit

Actually fresh: Lemmy

I'd believe COVID was a bioweapon if the main suspect wasn't also the country that was hurt most by COVID.

The most obvious Psyop ever. And it's working. Lovely.

I can't believe I'm saying this but...good guy Apple?

What if they only indifferently throw puppies into a wood chipper?

I'd imagine lots of professions get this. Basically any ofession with lots of repeated text. I've gotten this a couple times while programming.