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- Comment on Yelp is making me get their app to confirm my restaurant reservation 2 months ago:
I have to download an app to confirm the reservation?
<three sentences not containing the answer to the question>
- Comment on FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist 2 months ago:
yes, calling it a heist specifically is extremely colourful in the wrong way
- Comment on Has anyone tried Proton VPN? 2 months ago:
I switched to Proton from Express when the latter was bought out by Kape.
Proton works perfectly so far for me. Their desktop software was a bit meh, but they’ve since improved it. Otherwise I have no notes.
- Comment on Supein sama 2 months ago:
They call Japan itself “Nihon”, so what do they know… /s
- Comment on Supein sama 2 months ago:
Surobakia (right next to Cheko)
- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 2 months ago:
Citizen Sleeper, Chants of Sennaar, Papers Please, The Curse of the Golden Idol.
- Comment on Why was Tommy Angelo killed in mafia 2? 3 months ago:
Because he testified against the entire city’s worth of mafia?
- Comment on We need more games like The Stanley Parable, so I'm making one! Please share ideas and suggestions about what you want to see in this type of game! 3 months ago:
Awesome! Will definitely check it out. In case you haven’t seen it, here’s a nice collection of tips for indie game devs: develop.games
(I realize this reads as a bot comment, lol, but that’s a genuine tip, and that website isn’t even monetised as far as I know).
- Comment on What are some good games worth buying on play store? 3 months ago:
Slice and Dice: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.com.tan…
- Comment on 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? 4 months ago:
The bot account itself. It appears to have been merely trolling, and the article seems to think it’s actually a bot.
- Comment on 'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? 5 months ago:
This is obviously fake, but I wouldn’t doubt thousands of such bots actually exist.
- Comment on This will be YouTube in 2025 5 months ago:
They can always buy Premium for 299.95 per month.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 6 months ago:
I’m not necessarily disagreeing with you, but that estimate could have been wrong by a factor of 10 easily. The idea of an “average video” being 50MB, for example, is questionable: at typical bitrates of 1080p videos this would amount to about a minute-long video. I don’t think that’s an average video at all. It also doesn’t account for many things, for example the cost of replicating new videos to the CDN.
I also don’t find the idea of YouTube not being profitable ridiculous or hilarious. YouTube definitely wasn’t profitable before monetisation, and Google used to run it for prestige and data collection purposes at a financial loss. They clearly have been trying to make it more profitable, but whether or not they have crossed the break-even point in the past or are still hoping to cross it in the future is not as clear to me as it is to you.
- Comment on We have a new lemm.ee status page, including federation status, at status.lemm.ee! 10 months ago:
Fantastic, thanks!
- Comment on We have a new lemm.ee status page, including federation status, at status.lemm.ee! 10 months ago:
Very nice! Could you tweak the colours a bit so they work in dark mode?