lol

Is there really any other reaction?

I read that to mean it’s a digital download only and not a physical copy in stores, but didn’t put much thought into it.

This only sorta works for today and if your friends never share images or videos online. The ever-increasing amount of people taking pictures and filming and posting them online means the day is quickly approaching where you could be identified and tracked through other people’s content, security & surveillance cameras, etc.

If stores start adopting the tracking used at Walmart and the Amazon biometric data, social media will be the last of your worries.

Supposedly it’ll be free, they just have to work out their shit?

JOE IS TAKING AWAY MY 4 HOUR HOT SHOWERS EVERY DAY??? This is some WOKE fucking nonsense.

Tire spikes are the only option.

Oh yeah, they’re probably not waiting months for something to come back. Companies know what’s popular, so they tend to stagger those. So people will not cancel if they know next month or the month after is going to be something they want to play.

If you’re only interested in one or two games, you’ll just buy those (until they stop letting us buy games and force us to rent them).

You should care, but it’s maybe more of a question about how much and about what specific things. There are some easy-to-do things, and then there’s others that get exhausting

Some of this depends on why you care about privacy and where you live. It’s a lot of work, and in some places, like the US, there’s a lot of data being sold anyway (credit/debit cards, tvs, streaming services, and stores can almost all sell some of your data and it can be difficult to stop them). Keeping Bluetooth on also enables you to be tracked going in and out of stores and other various locations.

It can be a lot of work, but some things are more worthwhile than others. There are likely some things you’re just going to have to live with.

Many folks running instances take donations. Folks are happy to toss up a few bucks to help cover costs. Similar to how people are happy to hop on patreon and support whatever creators on a monthly basis. That’s where a lot of the core mastodon money comes from. There’s also grants from orgs and governments too to contribute.

This isn’t a new concept, and the internet has always had services that worked like this. Usenet, mirrored file repositories, etc. It wasn’t until the early 2000s that many things started to become centralized, and we see how well that’s worked out.

Yeah, people definitely wait. Don’t have any stats, but I hear people talking about it all the time with regards to streaming services.

THe service does pay for on-loan games, but that’s not a reason to rotate. They’re paying regardless. THey rotate to try and keep things fresh so people don’t cancel.

No one knows what the word woke means. Even people who use it can’t define it. It’s just a boogeyman word for things people don’t like or want, and even they can’t agree on it.

THere were a few but they got bought (eg. tweetdeck).

There are also 3rd party apps for mastodon that a lot of people like, and they try. But for many people, mimicking the parts of Twitter they value is difficult to do without proper backend support for supporting algorithms, and even then the way activitypub works it still makes it difficult to support for most developers.

Two of the key features are discovering new or related content, which is hard to do in mastodon as it needs to calculate similarity across all of the profiles and their content in order to make recommendations – or collect data like your cell contacts to help you connect with people you already know. Most people don’t want contact sharing, and indexing all of the recommended profiles, especially across federated servers is challenging.

The second is engagement based recommendations. Many social media users aren’t incredibly active. They want to open the app in specific moments to quickly catch up with everything since they last opened the app. To do this well, you need to know what they’ve engaged with and look back at content since they last logged on and rank it based on that. People may follow 1000 people, but really care about maybe 30-40 accounts the most. Friends, family, specific journalists or famous people. Mastodon just gives you like a sample of the last 50 or so items. If you follow anyone super active, you may just get a lot of noise in those updates.

Obviously, there are times when everyone wants a linear timeline, but it depends upon their daily use.

That’s definitely true. It’s also a concern for a lot of infrastructure like parking garages and bridges.

I suspect it’s left out because the site focuses on tech, but I’ve seen a few articles looking at that this year. I think some states already do licenses based on weight, though arguably it’s not enough.

Apparently, there’s some loopholes that manufacturer’s are using to justify increasing weights (eg. this ), and a similar taxbreak from some recent legislation for cars over 6k lbs.

I don’t think this benefits anyone but Ubisoft.

I think the CMA was concerned about microsoft cornering the cloud gaming market with the acquisition, so granting Ubisoft rights to stream these games alleviated their concerns.

I’m not sure why this was their concern though

that’s part of every subscription business plan, sadly. The rotation helps keep subscriptions up longer as people have to wait for things to cycle back around.

who tf subscribes to this?

Yeah the article i posted the other day also suggest solar flares for the increase, but many people chimed in suggesting that this was normal and expected because they have short lifespans. Over 200 in 3 months sounds like a lot to me, which is roughly 4% of their total satellites and the earliest production satellites were from 2019 and it wasn’t even 200.

Too many college graduates are leaving Mississippi, and aligning degree programs with labor market demand might stem the tide, White said.

It doesn’t even take a full brain cell to figure this one out. Tying budgets to the job market in mississippi isn’t going to help if they aren’t creating reasonable jobs there.

Thank you! Super glad that your daughter is doing great and this is working for her!

That’s all fascinating. I’d seen a few videos of people who had pumps talking about how it effectively revolutionized their lives, but I didn’t know exactly how. I didn’t know the finger pricks were still common. I just assumed there was some intermediate device between pricks and phones, but boy was I wrong.

It’s also easier to find and fix bugs with smaller numbers of people, especially performance bugs which can be amplified at scale. So it gives them a lot of time to work through issues over the beta. It also gives them time to build teams around the expanding infrastructure and build processes for monitoring and handling issues as a larger team.

Plus, these invite only periods start with more tech savy early adopters who more willing to put up with issues, and willing to provide decent bug reports to fix them.