Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Why would anybody want this?

Hakita (Creator of ULTRAKILL) on Piracy in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ultrakill is one of those rare examples of media where I genuinely feel a large amount of guilt if I pirate. Great community, super responsive (and largely queer) development team, incredible game...

First time in forever that I've actually bothered to buy a game without pirating it first. So here's a hot take that goes against everything I usually stand for: pirating indie games is kinda bad.

With all the recent studio shutdowns and a largely saturated market, it's becoming harder and harder for indie game developers to make a living. I hope everyone remembers to support independent projects they truly enjoy - be it music, games, or any other piece of media - because otherwise we're going to end up with only 3 game studios that pump out the same homogeneous bullshit every year.

Google AI making up recalls that didn’t happen in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

There's a big difference between my phone changing caulk to cock and my phone telling me to make pizza with Elmer's glue

Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean” in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago

Describing a high intensity DDOS attack on one of the world's most important resources as simply "mean" is unironically one of the funniest things I've read this year.

Hope they get some support soon.

PayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase history in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I completely forgot about that site. Thanks for reminding me.

PayPal plans an ad network built off your purchase history in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Well, this sucks. PayPal was great for only having your credit card information in one place - now it looks like I'll have to risk it with every website.

YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't have exact numbers, (just anecdotals) but SponsorBlock has some basic stats, and so far they've saved people over 3962 years worth of time. By dividing that by how many skips there are, (3,608,826,265) you get roughly 34.6452092 seconds. Per skipped segment, which videos often have multiple of.

This doesn't include videos that are purely promotional sponsored videos disguised as content, (see modern LTT or RyanToyReviews) video content that would break the coherency of the video if skipped or actual non-video ads that are becoming more and more frequent.