Kissaki @ Kissaki @beehaw.org

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Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today. Discovery also continues to evolve; Pocket helped shape the curated content recommendations you already see in Firefox, and that experience will keep getting better. Meanwhile, new features like Tab Groups and enhanced bookmarks now provide built-in ways to manage reading lists easily.

What's the discovery replacement they are referring to here?

You title them ports or remakes - do these all require the original game asset files?

When I read remake, I thought they'd be independent games, inspired by or replicating the originals.

Is it mixed? That info would be helpful for a list and an overview. For most, I wouldn't have any assets.

The headline is a bit misleading. The authors give a range from 30-44%.

Their abstract mentions only 30%. That would mean the authors themselves are misleading in the abstract.

Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use

My local game store had Starflight for Sega Genesis for $80 in 1991 when I was just out of high school working minimum wage at an ice cream parlor in Pismo Beach and I found a way to make it happen.

What is 80$ in 1991 worth today? calculateme says 190$ adjusted for inflation (in 2025).

What about the minimum wage? dol.gov says $4.25, or $10.08 adjusted for inflation. Since 2009 it's $7.25.

7.25/10.08 = 0,72 or 10.08/7.25 = ~1,40

80/60 = 1.33

So we have a decrease in minimum wage by 30%, but an increase of product price by 30%.

Is this correct? Does that make it 60% more expensive than his personal analogy from 1991?

Man, the two-sided percent reference point is confusing.

a user pretending to espouse paranoid delusions received reinforcement from GPT-4o, which praised their supposed clarity and self-trust

This may be the next big sabotage of society.

Algo-driven unregulated social media pushed negative views, division, misinformation, while opening the platforms to manipulative content producers and connecting positive as well as negative influences (like finding communities of extremism).

If unregulated AI interfaces get pushed to people, they will not critically verify, but be confirmed in their own and the AIs biases, without any obvious indicators that this is happening.

Good thing we see some kinds of positive regulation. Like them pulling this model, interfaces adding disclosures of AI and uncertainty, and regulation by law.

Both are valid considerations, but I find the large shift to time spent on social media apps a much more compelling argument.

Indie games are part of the industry too, so I don't think they'd be losses in accumulated industry revenue. The small and niche indies probably don't have much of an impact on the market as a whole.

I also think the big titles largely marketed towards the general people and casual gamer. And I have to assume that still works the same way. They buy the popular marketed title, or on their console digital store. They don't care as much about classics or indies [outside of the store's popular titles].

You could say "batteries included… in the article"

I don't see how that defies Trump. Trump is and was not part of negotiations or deals between these parties.

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In the new study, the vast majority of the microplastics were concentrated on the root caps of the plants, a protective structure on the tip of the plant’s roots. A smaller amount was observed in the roots themselves, and even less was found in the stem. No plastic was detected in the leaves.

Notably, removal by binding them, not dissolving them.

I don't get why you would then suggest farming the leaves only. The microplastics are still in the environment then.

Especially the burning example, wouldn't collecting the whole plant and burning the roots too remove the microplastics from the environment instead of only binding them?

uBlock Origin still functions the same. I doubt it'll die in the foreseeable future because there's interest in it, and moreso than in NoScript (my assumption anyway).

The uBlock Origin introduced https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home to cover the manifest v3. It's a separate software. The original uBlock Origin remains functional like before.

Regarding the earlier point, this lite FAQ entry sounds to me like the main author is more committed to origin than lite.

Username checks out.

Sometimes a different approach or technology changes extrapolation limitations.

I was interested but a quick search did not reveal how they implement it.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/17/byd-confirms-1000v-super-e-platform-fast-charging-400km-5-minutes/ at least has a little more technical information; "unveiled its new 1,000V Super E-Platform, capable of charging 1MW+ (1,000 kW) rates"

The first kid test they did with both auto-pilot and self-driving (or whatever you call that). Was that different for the later tests?

and even with that he apparently manually disengaged it before impact

Source?

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Update at 10:20 pm ET: Mozilla has since announced a change to the license language to address user complaints. It now says, "You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content."

Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for "Boston") and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this occurs, Mozilla cannot associate the keyword search with an individual user once the search suggestion has been served and partners are never able to associate search suggestions with an individual user. You can remove this functionality at any time by turning off Sponsored Suggestions—more information on how to do this is available in the relevant Firefox Support page.

So, turn off Sponsored Suggestions and you're (probably) good to go.

poly means many

so if both mono and poly are in monopoly, why do you only pick mono, or why does only mono matter here?

The announcement blog post linked on the bottom of the linked Turnstile page has some info on that

For Turnstile, the actual act of checking a box isn’t important, it’s the background data we’re analyzing while the box is checked that matters. We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser. The current deployment of Turnstile checks billions of visitors every day, and we are able to identify browser abnormalities that bots exhibit while attempting to pass those tests.