JohnEdwa @ JohnEdwa @sopuli.xyz

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Youtube has just one priority, it wants you to watch as much monetised content as possible. If you watch and engage with those types of videos, it'll suggest them to you.

I don't, and I never see them recommended either - here's my youtube homepage right now.
DIY, electronics, cooking, gaming, science, with some weeb stuff sprinkled in - exactly what I'd expect.

They give up to 10 days visa free from some countries you otherwise need a visa to enter in the first place. In guessing that if you can't show proof you are continuing to somewhere else - like a connecting flight - you aren't getting in at all.

But it has only one official language, which is English, so calling it something else would also be a stretch.

They were always going to "kill" Nokia phones, as it was a limited time brand deal that ends in 2026, and iirc the exclusivity part of it already ended in 2024.

Opt-out by default in the EU I'm fairly sure.

You can check here: https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini

It's simply checking if the connection is from an actual browser, as a scraper pretending to be one won't actually refresh the page as instructed. It's going to buy some time, but like the rest of Anubis in general, it will only work until the scrapers get modified to work around it.

It’s not always about being first but about marketing.

And one has a cute catgirl mascot, the other a website that looks like a blockchain techbro startup.
I'm even willing to bet the amount of people that set up Anubis just to get the cute splash screen isn't insignificant.

Even more so when you ask Grok about something Elon did, as it quite often replies back in first person. Fairly certain it has been directly instructed to talk/"think" like Elon.

Also I love that prompt bleed.

Robertson is a square. Rotate it 45 degrees and it has no overhangs at all.

As OP specified in another reply, they were talking about streamers specifically. And with them, big chunk of the income comes from Twitch subscribers, which is a monthly paid subscription. If you are willing to pay someone for it, you'll notice pretty much immediately if they miss their scheduled stream and cancel it.

For many other platforms what you said is true, I'm way more likely to unsubscribe from someone when they post a video and remind me I'm still subbed than when they take a break and fade out of my feed.

Yes they were.

So does apple, coconut, cracker, gin, barbarian, brownie, skinny, spade, spook, teabag and a whole host of different words.
It should never be about the word itself, but how it's being used. Someone being called a genius doesn't usually mean they are being applauded for their intellect either, for example.

Back in my day we just had to use our own imagination.

Though nyko should be on the hook to buy you a new switch if they design a piece of shit that wrecks your switch

Nintendo also tried to lock down the Switch 1 docking, and 3rd party manufacturers had to hack together workarounds. "When Nintendo released the original Switch in 2017, accessory makers similarly had to figure out how to crack Nintendo’s esoteric docking protocols, and some of them (Nyko) allegedly led to damaged handhelds."
I'd more blame that for causing the issues in the first place, if the Switch spoke standard USB-C, then all reputable docks would work with no weird hacks.

It isn't, and many now do.
Autosetting the glyphs correctly is actually one of the requirements for a Steam Deck Verified badge and Steam supplies a library that has them all, so modern games are pretty good at it. And if you implement that, you might as well add a menu option to change "Auto" to "Switch" or "Playstation".

There just was a quite long period where majority of games used Xinput thanks to Microsoft, basically only working with Xbox controllers, and as a response a whole bunch of controllers identify as Xbox controllers when plugged in. Therefore, xbox icons were the only thing they were "designed" to ever work with.

I was basically after that same concept - create that credential, and have the website only verify it's legit and nothing else.
I think my example of how it's currently done for basically everything in Finland just confused people, I wasn't suggesting every country implements adult age checks with their banks.

The Holocene extinction event is just going to be the sixth one so far, and it certainly won't be the last. As the saying goes, "life finds a way".
We just won't be around to see it.

Was an example of the security, not who is running the service. But I mean, guess who knows if you pay for OnlyFans or stuff like that?
Your bank.

And like I said, it's only really secure if the service doesn't keep a database of logs connecting the two.

Depends entirely on how it's implemented, because the website doesn't need to know who you are, only verify that you are over 18. Which can be done reasonably securely - you generate a random ID on a secure service (e.g here in Finland, we use our online banking stuff for official verification purposes), give that ID to the website, and the only communication between the two of them is "Is id 123 valid and an adult? Yes/No".

Now, if that "secure service", most likely a government contract done as cheaply as possible turns out not to be, and they keep logs linking those IDs to the URLs requesting verification, then the entire thing goes belly up.

Self-driving cars are a thing, Weymo is doing pretty fine.

But you might be able to spot a few (dozen) teeny-tiny (huge, bulky and extremely obvious) differences between a Waymo and a Tesla cybercab.