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This article spent more time explaining the logistics on building pager-bombs than it did actually explaining why building pager-bombs are a bad idea.

I feel like there’s too many things named Proton right now.

Spamming links in the replies of trending tweets has been an advertising strategy for years now. You can’t open the replies to any popular tweet without immediately seeing titties and OF links. Blocking links in replies is an easy fix that they could’ve implemented ages ago if they actually cared about preventing spam.

But this isn’t about spam. This is about kneecapping fact-checkers before an upcoming election, on a platform where the owner has expressed endorsement for a candidate. Elon doesn’t want people correcting misinformation, he wants the lies to grow and fester and spread like cancer. He’s already pushed Trump-tagged tweets to users who have the term blocked; he’s not hiding it anymore.

The only socially acceptable use of a Twitter account these days is for encouraging others to get the fuck off of Twitter. Using a Twitter account for any other purpose is reprehensible, and cringe. Stop drinking at the nazi bar.

Maybe it’s time to stop drinking at the nazi bar.

Finally, a SIM card that can run Doom.

I dunno, but preferably some method which doesn’t involve a bunch of children committing suicide in the meantime.

While I think removing the stigma associated with having deepfakes made of you is important, I don’t think that desensitization through exposure is the way to go about it. That will cause a lot of damage leading up to the point you’re trying to reach.

Free Speech, now only $8/month!

I wish there was an option without YT Music. I already use Spotify and don’t plan on changing that, so the Music part of my YTP subscription is an unused redundancy, which is really unfortunate.

The majority of people don’t care about these things. This shouldn’t be surprising anymore.

I’m not sure what exactly is going on here. This is regarding their live TV service and FAST streams, which both already have ads by default. Is this just that they’re replacing the existing ads from the original stream with new ads?

It’s also the hosting. YouTube has hundreds of hours of high-res video uploaded to it every single minute, and then has to process and mirror that content across its global distribution network. Just the hardware required to make that function, alone, is prohibitively expensive for any other contenders to enter this space.

Teratoema.

This looks surprisingly good. I’d love to see what these would eventually look like with color.

I hate this change. While these features are neat if I just want a quick answer for something like if I wanna know some random fact about a person, it makes it so much harder to do any level of actual research on something anymore because you have to dig through so much garbage to find the real content.

And Google isn’t alone in this. Bing and pretty much all of the big search engines are doing the same thing now. And while there are definitely alternative search engines out there, they lack the reach and rank sorting that Google and the other big players have already perfected.

So my options are either spend extra time with every search I perform by switching to various tabs and scrolling past auto-generated nonsense and sponsored results to find the answers I need, or use an objectively inferior product which may not even be able to point me to what I need within the first few pages of results. Neither option is a particularly great experience these days. The internet sucks so much lately.

Money. It’s a lot cheaper to let somebody else maintain your systems than to pay somebody to create and maintain your own, directly.

it was described at the time as toxically non-toxic as in very much anti-hate speech, though I don’t know how it’s fared recently.

Well, the dev ended up going the “free speech” route and started allowing hateful content to be posted and the community kinda imploded on itself. Haven’t looked back at that site in probably 6 months or so now.

Lemmy is still very much in its infancy. It’s not even reached version 1.0 yet. While we’ve all been on here for a while now, its future is still very much uncertain and hasn’t seen anywhere near the adoption that Mastodon and other microblog Fedi platforms have.

I use it because it comes free with a service I already pay for.

I don’t think the president is using DMs.