interolivary
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- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 7 months ago:
Huh, interesting. I didn’t expect to learn about volcanoes today but here I am! Thank you for the explanation
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 7 months ago:
Ohhh, I had no idea there were different kinds of volcanoes but it does make sense in hindsight.
Well, I guess this might have been covered in primary or secondary education at some point but it’s been about 3000 years since my last geography class
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 7 months ago:
Definitely! I find that most problems in life can be solved with cement; if it didn’t solve your problem, you just didn’t use enough of it.
- Comment on It’s the End of the Web as We Know It 7 months ago:
How do you propose these “open source journalists” make a living? Corporate grants or straight-up corporate jobs just like a huge chunk of Linux development, landing us right back at square one, if not even somewhat behind it. At least independent media exists nowadays, but if the assumption is that all news has to be freely available, like acastcandream said that’d just lead to journalism being very effectively locked out as a career path for anyone who’s not independently wealthy or somehow able to make people actually donate or pay for a subscription despite the content being available for free – and that hasn’t worked out too well for most publishers so far.
- Comment on It’s the End of the Web as We Know It 7 months ago:
no one ever tactfully includes ads
This is pretty patently hyperbole; I’ve run into many sites, including news, with non-intrusive ads.
Whether it’s class-based gatekeeping is another matter entirely. For-profit media employees have to eat too, and in the current economic system most can’t just give people access to content for free without any sort of monetization mechanism and with a voluntary subscription, because that’ll very often lead to income dropping off a cliff. Unfortunately people are very loath to pay for online services except for some more niche cases like the Fediverse where instances run on voluntary donations – although I’ve seen a couple of moderately popular instances struggling with upkeep being higher than what people are willing to donate (and it’s not just services either; open source developers face similar issues.) In some countries we at least have public broadcasting companies, although eg. here in Finland the current extremist right-wing government is looking to reduce its funding by quite a bit and possibly even entirely dismantle it if they get their way.
While I definitely agree that news should be available for free, railing against a for-profit publisher’s paywall is, frankly, myopic; like it or not, in the current system even content producers have to make a living. None of us really has a choice in whether we want to live in this system or not
- Comment on It’s the End of the Web as We Know It 7 months ago:
Well, whatever the solution to this problem is, I’m fairly sure “put a blockchain on it” isn’t going to be it. Distributed ledgers do potentially have some uses, but using them to carry “proof of humanity” information doesn’t make much sense
- Comment on It’s the End of the Web as We Know It 7 months ago:
Well, for many publishers the choice is either ads or paywalls. The fact that people feel entitled to get everything for free is a part of why things are going to shit, because ads bring with them a whole slew of perverse incentives (ie. optimizing for ad views instead of content quality)
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Oh yeah it absolutely is bullshit, I’m not saying that. Or, well, it is true they’re likely collecting tons of data but it’s not like US companies don’t do it too and for reasons that are probably just as bad. This is why I tend to think that if you’re going to ban TikTok for collecting data, you can’t ignore Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple et al
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Well, they’re totally different platforms . The rationale behind the TikTok ban (and I’m not saying I’m in favor of it or opposed to it) is that they can do spooky spooky things with your personal data and your attention – your opinions can be nudged once there’s enough data on you and your eyeballs are on the app half the day.
Temu and AliExpress have their own problems (like the absolutely mind boggling waste of finite resources) but nobody’s worried Temu is radicalizing boys or collecting tons of your personal data. And yes even Temu does collect data just like everyone else nowadays, but it’s a shopping site; compared to a social network there’s not all that much you can get out of your users or too many ways to really influence them outside of making them spend more money
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 8 months ago:
You’re just throwing a tantrum at this point
- Comment on What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations? 11 months ago:
The v2.0 changes were actually pretty good, made me want to start another playthrough. I really like the new metro system even though it’s such a small thing considering everything else they changed, but it’s fun to be able to hop onto a metro to get somewhere. The game is already pretty immersive and that small detail just adds to it
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 11 months ago:
Doesn’t seem too likely that’d be more than a few percentage points. Which non-Chromium browsers even do this?
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 11 months ago:
users can modify their useragent string, and sometimes they have to because some webdevs are morons.
The minority of users does this or even knows about UA strings.
some browsers actually default to using chrome instead of its own.
Sure, but Firefox isn’t one of them
- Comment on So You are not my mom???? 11 months ago:
I don’t know why but people who call themselves the “mom” or “dad” of their pets somehow creep me out. It’s just so… weird.
- Comment on Boris Johnson asked experts if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose 1 year ago:
No no, that’s ketamine, you’re thinking of the horse dewormer ivermectin.
And yes yes I know it’s used for humans as well, but the reich-wingers were getting it from veterinary suppliers since you can’t get the human version without a prescription. The idiots didn’t come to think that the dose used for horses is much bigger than what’s used for humans so they took ridiculously high doses, shat out their gut lining and thought that was a sign it was helping.
- Comment on Boris Johnson asked experts if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose 1 year ago:
I’d withhold judgement before we see whether they vote their idiot back in next year, and there’s a scarily high probability of that happening.
- Comment on Did the take Star Trek the next generation off of paramount+? 1 year ago:
I’d wager it was just some sort of bug or glitch, I’ve seen similar things happen on other streaming services
- Comment on Next week is the musical episode. Are you looking forward to it? 1 year ago:
I could definitely see tribbles as a commentary on the nature of humanity
- Comment on A comic from Lunarbaboon 1 year ago:
Wew ok, that was certainly a… thing
- Comment on A comic from Lunarbaboon 1 year ago:
w-what?