They have an easy tap on what sells, by virtue of running the marketplace.

Find a popular product, make an Amazon Basics version of it, undercut their best vendors, bam! Easy money. And leave the vendors swinging in the breeze with backstock they can’t move any more.

And they own the warehouses. Why not stock them with their own product in preference of vendors?

…are you seriously complaining like this about the use of the word ‘apopleptic’? It was one word, dude, let it go.

EA and Ubisoft are really duking it out for the first prize in the worst game company competition.

I bailed when they started banning people for upvoting Luigi content. I’d already drastically reduced my usage when the appocalypse happened and RIF no longer worked, but that level of panopticon shit was too much.

There’s an easy solution to that.

Seed something yourself.

Go buy a garage sale DVD of something that is semi-popular and doesn’t already exist on the private tracker, rip it, and post the torrent yourself.

'S what I did back when Underground Gamer still existed; I had a version of Mechwarrior 2 that didn’t already have a torrent, so I spent some time making a nice summary and uploaded it myself. Worked a treat; I had enough ratio to get me through my rough early weeks and never looked back. Until the site shut down, of course.

with no ads

For now.

Eventually it becomes a search engine that replaces the ads on the source material with its own ads, thus choking out the source’s funding and taking it for itself.

It’s the House Rules Committee, and actually one Republican voted in favor.

It’s a charm against boredom.

If you don’t bring the book, you’ll be sitting around bored wishing you’d brought it with you.

If you do bring it, you’ll never have time to read it.

Currently my Steam Deck is fulfilling that purpose.

I read recently of a variation of this. You play the game by intending to play it; you win when you forget you’re playing the game.

Thus, when you remember the game exists, you realize that you won!

There’s often a lot of fun cheats you can use - bitwise operators, etc - if your numbers are small powers of two.

Also it’s easier to organize memory, if you’re doing funky memory management tricks, if the memory you’re allocating fits nicely into the blocks available to you which are always in powers of two.

They’re not necessarily great reasons if you’re using a language with sufficient abstraction, but it’s still easier in most instances to use powers of two anyways if you’re getting into the guts of things.

Isn’t Chuck E. Cheese the company that nearly turned Moppet Video arcade machines into lost media, by destroying the cabinets for a tax writeoff?

Store it in an airtight container and you won’t have that problem.

Very few things refuse to work on Firefox mobile. The one exception I’ve run across is trying to log into Google, which insists that I should use a ‘compatible’ browser. Like Chrome.

If I switch what user agent Firefox is reporting so that it LOOKS like I’m using Chrome, it works perfectly, surprise, surprise. I hate Google.

It’s a very specialized program intended to get a computer to do something that computers are generally very, very bad at - write sensible language about a wide variety of topics. Trying to then get that one specialized program to turn around and do things that computers are good at, and expect to do it well, is very silly.

It would be fine if it had more ways to differentiate elements from each other - darkening around the edges of windows, buttons that actually look raised so they aren’t identical to a text box, scroll bars that aren’t SO FUCKING TINY that it’s clear MS is embarrassed that they exist in the first place, etc. etc.

but but but how are the corporations supposed to make money off of our data if they can’t harvest it? Think of the poor corporations!!

The problem is that before LLMs, they had to actually put forward some effort to produce content on the internet, which at least kept the amount of thoughtless content down somewhat. Now the barrier to entry is practically zero, all while thieving people’s hard work without compensation and burning ridiculous amounts of resources to do so.

It is super interesting tech though.

It has nothing to do with that, and much more to do with people on 4chan being willing to call each other out. Without toxic behavior you can’t have examples on how to deal with toxic behavior.

“Here’s how movements get derailed by trolls”

does exactly that

And you have the audacity to claim you’re not our enemy? Ballsy.

No, it’s still accurate - the straight line goes through the center of the Earth. Only in coordinate systems where ‘straight’ is defined as following the curvature of a surface are there infinite lines between the North and South Poles… and that would be non-Euclidean geometry.