“But if you offer all these old games to play, why would anyone bother buying the new stuff?” - some corpo director

Mobile gacha shit

One of the best cautionary tales for developers

So, re-release Tay as a sex chatbot, got it, on it!

That’d still be better than Xbox S, Xbox Series X, Xbox One S

Last week, as this discussion was getting media attention, Meta said that “most of those posts only stay up for 4-8 hours before the (uploader) deletes it, before we’ve had time to review”

Dunno how truthful that statement is, but that really shows how easy it is to game their system

Right now at least, AI is being more of a headache than anything in coding. Microsoft itself was responsible for one such gaffe in May, as an actual coder had to tell the AI to fix an error, again and again, as each time it’d make a different mistake

The main problem is that the platforms have a money incentive to keep spam and scam posts online. They pay meta and TikTok for boosts, the scam gets boosted, all done.

Frankly, it seems like the problem could be solved by forcing the platforms to get a Know Your Customer level of information and putting that info on every boosted post, so people know who’s paying for that.

Buuuut, it’s Brazil. Justice and fairness only ever happen as side effects from judges’ decisions

Any influencer that relies on YouTube ad money won’t make the full jump.

Other than that, they’ll very quickly find out that keeping a video focused service running and serving 10k views daily (300k/mon) is very expensive both in storage and bandwidth.

LineageOS works on a bunch of non google phones

Gonna play it out this weekend, hopefully. Looks like an interesting load of new content

Unless Dawn is planning on making sites like this, she deserves more oranges

The OwO omg should be banned, too

The main downside is that you need a specific browser, or an extension for your average browser, to load gemini sites.

Wouldn’t you have to have some sort of MITM to be able to inspect that traffic?

That, or a court order telling your ISP or mobile operator to allow the sniffing. Or just the police wanting to snoop your stuff because they can. Not every country cares about individual or human rights, you know

TOR is what their already-existing tip tool uses.

Yes, but tor can be blocked at a firewall level, its packets are easy to identify. “Nations like China, Iran, Belarus, North Korea, and Russia have implemented measures to block or penalize Tor usage”

The solution is legislation, as without that, we can’t expect companies to decide to release either the executables or source code for running the servers, other than a handful looking to get some attention and goodwill.

Lots and lots of games, either boardgames or digital. Or a better computer.

Packet data has headers that can identify where it’s coming from and where it’s going to. The contents of the packet can be securely encrypted, but destination is not. So long as you know which IPs Signal’s servers use (which is public information), it’s trivial to know when a device is sending/receiving messages with Signal.

This is also why something like Tor manages to circumvent packet sniffing, it’s impossible to know the actual destination because that’s part of the encrypted payload that a different node will decrypt and forward.

The funny thing is that there are non rich people that will go out of their way to look rich. Pure ostentation

Both newpipe and pipepipe fail from time to time due to “being caught”. You can go days or weeks with them failing to load videos, then they update and things work again, until google fucks them again, rinse and repeat

Add Real Life Lore to the Nebula list, great for understanding current geopolitics and conflicts