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Yeah, I fell out of love with Bethesda with Skyrim, and I've never been big on scifi, so I knew it wasn't going to be for me, but even with my lowered expectations, it just looked so incredibly generic.

I guess, I forgot to factor in that it's also a AAA title. Those are, of course, prohibited by law from containing any resemblance of fun. But yeah, I don't know, it just looked like generic space game + generic shooter + generic Bethesda game. And then, as you've said, we've seen plenty games in each of those categories. Merely combining the categories, doesn't yet make for a good game.

Most of my comments get one singular downvote, even if they're completely innocous. I cannot imagine a person being petty enough to manually do it, so yeah, I imagine, some bot or rogue instance is involved.

"Open-source" is not up for interpretation. The word was coined by this definition being made public: https://opensource.org/osd/

Interesting, I didn't know that, but it doesn't really change anything about my comment. Mozilla can offer APIs in addition to what Manifest v3 offers, allowing extensions that want to do these things to do them. It's already the case today, for example, that uBlock Origin makes use of additional APIs for more effective ad blocking on Firefox.

Well, reading that back, the above comment is maybe a bit harsh, because I hardly know anything about Grayjay specifically. They do seem to have a grander vision where they combine all kinds of services, not just YouTube, and maybe they really are hoping that Google won't ToS them.

But yeah, the way I imagine this will go down, is that Grayjay will grow for a bit, until Google notices losses from this new competitor. Then Grayjay will receive a letter that they're in violation of the YouTube ToS. Grayjay will try to get that resolved, but no one at Google responds. Eventually they'll be forced to take out the YouTube integration, making the app significantly less useful, which is its death sentence.

I don't quite understand how their monetization model works, so I don't know who will lose money here, but I imagine someone will.

Ultimately, they're building a business reliant on Google, which has never been a good idea.

Yeah, I do imagine, it won't be just AIs either. And then, it will obviously be possible to take it to an excellent song, given enough human hours invested.

I do wonder, how useful it will actually be for that, though. Often times, it really fucks you up to try to go from good to excellent and it can be freeing to start fresh instead. In particular, 'excellent' does require creative ideas, which are easier for humans to generate with a fresh start.
But AI may allow us to start over fresh more readily, if it can just give us a full song when needed. Maybe it will even be possible to give it some of those creative snippets and ask it to flesh it all out. We'll have to see...

More profitable for fossil fuel companies, sure. And they will lobby to stay in business.

But no one needs fossil fuel companies. If you can sell 1 MWh power, that's a fixed amount of income. If you have less costs to cover (what the graphic shows), then that's more profit for you.

It does use the GTK file-open dialog by default (although distributions can swap that out).

It also takes inspiration from the GTK theme for drawing buttons and whatnot, so they fit into the OS. KDE generates a GTK theme, though, so that's rarely a problem.

It's also a bad argument, because the concept of things being 'created' is an entirely human one. It's us who decided that if a pile of pre-existing atoms are moved into the shape of a chair, we'll say that chair was 'created'.

Aside from this conceptual creation, nothing is ever created in the universe, as far as we know. Atoms don't ever just pop into existence out of thin air.

I have heard the argument that the universe was just as well 'created' in the conceptual sense, so everything existed beforehand, it was just moved into a shape that we recognize as 'universe' today.
But that would still mean there's no argument for a creator and of course, this is simply not what most people mean when they talk about the creation of the universe.

Mozilla will want to be API-compatible, but there's nothing inherent to the API that requires the arbitrary content-blocking limitation that Google put in. So, Mozilla will be API-compatible without adopting this shitty limitation.

Firefox is not a GTK application by the way. They use their own XUL/XPCOM framework and are in the long-running process of porting everything to HTML/JS/CSS.

Nah, Mozilla just won't implement the arbitrary restriction that Google set for content/ad blocking. They'll be 100% API compatible, without limiting how many blocking rules there can be, which is the only bad part about v3 (or really the deprecation of the unrestricted v2), as far as I'm aware.

Mozilla can also continue supporting v2 for as long as they like. And they can provide additional APIs, which they already do, which is why uBlock Origin is, in fact, already better on Firefox today: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-best-on-Firefox

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I'm guessing, the rainbow colours are there because prisms are triangular. And to make it look more ridiculous, of course.

The ☤ symbol is a caduceus, which got mixed up here with the Rod of Asclepius, which is a symbol for medicine.
So, it's related to Hippocrates, who was a physician, perhaps most prominently known for the Hippocratic Oath.

You need to tap 7 times on a random UI element, deep down in a settings menu. There is no way any instructions could direct a non-techy to do that, even if the non-techy wanted to.

Google killed off most YouTube apps some years ago, in favor of YouTube Red. Google stated those apps being in violation of the YouTube ToS, but even when those apps removed the violating features, Google would find new reasons for keeping them off the Play Store. Well, and then they would sell those supposedly ToS-violating features themselves, as part of YouTube Red, like for example background playback.

Since then, most YouTube apps are knowingly in violation of the ToS or at least not holding their breath that Google might decide so.
So, either they don't use the official YouTube API, like NewPipe and LibreTube, meaning you can't log in with those. Or they don't put in too much effort, like ReVanced just being a mod of the official app, so that won't have the features you want. Or I guess, they just risk it for quick profit, like Grayjay, but that will probably get shut down before they have such features developed.
Theoretically, a non-ToS-violating app can exist and could be distributed via the Play Store, but it would basically not be able to integrate any unique feature.

So, yeah, as others said, I don't think this exists.
You could try some alternative methods like:

• Use two different apps, logged into two different YouTube accounts.
• Utilize an Android work profile to be logged into different accounts with different installations of the same app.
• If you just care about having different subscription feeds, use RSS feeds instead.
• See if a non-Google operating system is less shit at this.

I think, it will eventually become obsolete, because we keep changing what 'AI' means, but current AI largely just regurgitates patterns, it doesn't yet have a way of 'listening' to a song and actually judging whether it's good or bad.

So, it may expertly regurgitate the pattern that makes up a good song, but humans spend a lot of time listening to perfect every little aspect before something becomes an excellent song, and I feel like that will be lost on the pattern regurgitating machine, if it's forced to deviate from what a human composed.

Alright, yeah, good point with the batteries. I'm hoping the batteries in electric cars will double up as storage for the grid (already happening today), but also that there's just enough redundancy with other renewables.

Possible. But well, whether these regulations actually are bullshit or not, kind of doesn't matter. A dumb solar panel won't ever need to be regulated as much. If that's what makes it cheaper, it still is cheaper.

My favorite is when the top-voted, accepted answer looks correct, but misses various edge-cases. And then there's a second-most-voted answer which corrects the first.

Most questions about JavaScript are like that, for example, which was rather horrifying to realize. If you just leave a junior to their devices with that, they will absolutely copy all these correct-looking answers into your code base.

Many years ago, my mum took me to some scammer who was larping as a miracle healer. He just swung around a pendulum for half a minute, offered some life advice which was obviously horse shit and then cashed in.
That certainly felt like he had just 'seen' me, too. None of what he said, had anything to do with me. Literally could have been a video, it would have been just as unhelpful.