There's probably an internal concept of turns, but it's not directly exposed to the user. You place a pixel, you wait 15 minutes, you can place another.
As far as larger works of art, it's a lot of people coordinating together and carefully crafting something.
I like how there was an article about it losing players and now they're suddenly interested in going to steam after all these years of doing their own thing.
Real trash tube is loading the YouTube homepage in a private browser and scrolling without signing in. Most of the stuff on it I wouldn't watch while piss drunk.
As mentioned, war is a billion dollar industry. But also, international law is complicated to enforce. Countries aren't so easy to control that you can just fine them unless there is a greater consequence for not doing so. That greater consequence is often war, or some form of sanction.
But you also have nuclear powers in the mix, making war an ineffective method of enforcement, because the risks of war between two nuclear powers is greater than can justify whatever enforcement caused it. Leaving the next best tool to be sanctions. But not every country will honor those sanctions, and you create these crazy little countries like Iran or North Korea, who build nuclear weapons and cozy up to your enemies instead of you.
I hate that people consider that to be the usual use case when referring to a deceased person. I'd say that says more about the people roasting than the poster.
Sony also didn't like it that companies bought PS3s in bulk and used them as cheap compute power. They sell the consoles at a loss but make that up on game sales and licensing. Someone buying them and not gaming is cutting into their profit.
My bank's app is incredibly detailed about customizing locks on your card. You can go by retailer, type of charge, set geo fences, or even have it only allow purchases where you're physically located if you let the app have background location.
I have the same experience, but I consider it to be a positive. Lemmy isn't trying to force an algorithm on me and retain my eyeballs. I subscribed to what I want to see, I scroll through new a bit, top day a bit, leave a comment here and there, and I do other things.
Before, I found myself bouncing between Reddit and YouTube, doing usually nothing else fun or productive. Since then, I've been doing more varied things, playing different games, working on programming projects. I find that I'm much more satisfied with how I spend my time.
I do still have a YouTube problem, but a lot of the stuff I watch is related to my interests and good background listening material anyway, so it's not really stopping me from doing other things.
I pair it with AdNauseum and have my browser "click" on every ad it sees. I don't know if those are being filtered on the other end or not, but I like to think that I'm making the advertisers pay for clicks they aren't really getting and messing with their metrics.
You'd be surprised how many sites are still functional enough without JS. Even then, you can often keep a lot of the tracking sites blocked and only whitelist the essentials.
The software is as safe as it's maintainers. The Linux kernel runs the majority of the world's devices, open source software makes up just about every industry standard piece of software that runs the web. Linux tends to see a lot less major vulnerabilities than Windows, and fixes for those are released much faster because anyone can submit the fix, maybe even the person who found it in the first place.
I search for things I need right before I clock out on our app we use to stock the shelves because it tells you very precisely exactly where the tag for the item is located on the sales floor. The public app only gives you an aisle number.
I think humans are too specifically hardwired for actual human interaction for it to work. Like, it's so specific that even online communication with real humans doesn't fill the void. I can talk to friends on Discord for ages, but it's not the same as meeting up and going to do something.
I really don't think an AI, even a convincing one, is going to make a large dent on loneliness in the majority of cases.
I think this is probably being caused by the larger instances aggressively caching pages to reduce load. That hasn't happened on my personal instance at all.
If that's the case, then the only way to really correct it is to change the caching.
My Canadian buddy has been talking a lot about how ridiculous dental is up there. Said his dad spent 900 Canuck bucks to get his teeth cleaned for 30 minutes.
Looked it up, apparently someone datamined something out of the app that said you could earn money for getting karma/gold on posts.
Fake internet points are finally worth something!
Now redditors can earn real money for their contributions to the Reddit community, based on the karma and gold they've been given.
How it works:
* Redditors give gold to posts, comments, or other contributions they think are really worth something.
* Eligible contributors that earn enough karma and gold can cash out their earnings for real money.
* Contributors apply to the program to see if they're eligible.
* Top contributors make top dollar. The more karma and gold contributors earn, the more money they can receive.
This is absolutely going to get gamed to hell if it really happens. It also reeks of desperation.
"Quackion, the Aspect of Ducks" sounds like a title Dwarf Fortress would generate.