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Re:List of DRM-Free Bookshops on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @05:49AM (#43088187)
Promoting specific piracy sites is not a good look and ,I’ll go further, shouldn’t be allowed in this forum
Re:Google's Chrome Antitrust Paradox on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @03:42PM (#39983381)
You’re seriously blaming company for trying to make their product popular. Even if we assume that current Chrome state violates the anti-trust legislation, that’s still a pretty silly moral condemnation.
Re:Don't Use Discord as a Forum on Thursday September 14, 2023 @05:54PM (#37515353)
Hard disagree. Discord is great place for non-tehnical-project communities

"Normally, rooms are silent, and no one is chatting"

Yeah, cause you went to unactive servers. It would be like coming to Hackernews, opening first link in newly submitted, and complaining that no one is here.

Just go to active servers. Servers I frequent are very active.

"The UI as a whole is a jumbled mess that feels bloated"

Another hard disagree. UI is one of my favourite things about Discord. It feels very well designed and it even works very well on mobile. I'm quite impressed by this aspect

Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @03:24PM (#37227411)
"That is: without ads, people would gravitate towards buying what fits their needs best. They would make generally rational choices given the information available."

Not to sound snarky, būt have you met humans?If sociology and economics have shown anything, itš that human do NO make rational consumption choices

Re:The Long History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:12PM (#36932741)
"If the reward from working is barely enough to cover the necessities, then there is technically no difference between working as a free citizen, and being forced to work as an indentured servant, other than a vague notion of freedom, which in that case is the freedom to decide between working and living on the streets."

What an incredibly privileged perspective. Do you think that actual indentured servants would agree with you on this?

Homie what are you talking about lmao. As an avid podcast listener they're full of ads
>What you gonna do?

I'm gonna use Chrome fork or previous version. Chromium is open source

Re:MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @01:22PM (#36313504)
>But is the time spent on that channel worth it over doing other things?

Now apply same standard to literally any other Youtube channel

peak boomer-posting
Re:Discord, or the Death of Lore on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:35AM (#35054622)
"If you're choosing it as the sole community of your project, you've alienated folks that value their digital privacy"

so basically no one? cause almost nobody actually cares about digital privacy

That's just not true. I've been in many very online leftist communities and they also freely use it.

it's just general internet speak at this point

Re:Twitter API Page on Sunday January 15, 2023 @01:41PM (#34391815)
if your self-control really that bad?
Re:FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client on Monday November 28, 2022 @02:09PM (#33778076)
This is a joke. Youtube has no actual alternatives
Re:How I make a living working on SerenityOS on Sunday October 30, 2022 @06:53AM (#33393275)
I mean, can't you just save up a nest egg so , in case one of the projects get cancelled, you don't end up destitute? Seems like a simple solution
And? Not every service is homeless-friendly. That's fine. There are literally hundreds of free email services.
umm you DO know that Gmail isn't only free email, right? Like, just use another one which doesn't force 2FA. Why is this become an issue? I don't get it
Re:Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta on Thursday October 06, 2022 @08:33AM (#33107437)
Sure, they OWN a bunch of stuff, but (besides Facebook/Instagram/Whatsup) none of it is a massive success.

It's not like Google which has 1)Search 2)YouTube 3)Maps 4)Android 5)Chrome 6)Gmail 7)Analytics just from top of my head

Re:Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta on Thursday October 06, 2022 @08:18AM (#33107293)
>Facebook and Google do too many things.

Google? Definitely. Meta? Not really. All Meta has is two social networks and one messaging service. They haven't really experienced huge success in anything else. They MAY hit big in VR/AR space, but that's yet to be determined.

Re:Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta on Thursday October 06, 2022 @08:12AM (#33107217)
This is why massive companies like Meta and Alphabet needs to be nationalised. They simply have too much power over lives of billions.

This article is just another reminder of this. At scale that Meta operates, this algorithmically decided domain blockings mean nothing to them, but everything to hundred's of non-profits. There need to be legally mandated protections so things like this never happen again.

"everything was terribly broken and half-baked"

What are you talking about? My S22 Ultra works great.

Re:We're improving search results when you use quotes on Friday August 05, 2022 @04:10PM (#32361393)
Wow, Google search sucks but first three tips is horrible advice. Like it would only make it worse
Re:Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021) on Saturday July 30, 2022 @08:53AM (#32286402)
Does it? The servers of average video game don't last very long
Re:Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:22PM (#32243475)
AR will absolutely become mainstream
Re:Why is it so hard to give Google money? on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @04:05PM (#32243268)
We actually did. My gmail get's none
"We're living in Orwellian times."

lol talk about hyperbole. Please actually read 1984 and get back to me

Re:Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions on Thursday June 30, 2022 @02:57PM (#31936941)
That's not how law works
Re:We’re winding down Google Talk on Monday June 13, 2022 @02:44PM (#31729767)
>You gave up your privacy, which is worth a lot more than a few cent

Not to me. So I really didn't give up anything.

Re:Tell HN: Please Stop Using Imgur on Sunday June 05, 2022 @01:55PM (#31633301)
Hmm, I have no idea what you're talking about. I use Imgur every single day and it's great. (and BTW allows direct linking)

I will use it until the day it's shut down.

Re:Work from home and the office real estate apocalypse on Sunday June 05, 2022 @01:07PM (#31632814)
>Not here, either: Folks are still getting it and folks are still dying from it.

If that's how you measure it, then covid will NEVER be over (People are still dying from flu every year)

Pandemic is over. COVID19 is never leaving us.

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