FlumPHP @ flumph @programming.dev

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I use Firefox full time but I'm bummed at the number of sites that break in odd ways when not using Chrome. As an engineer, I understand how appealing it is to only have to test in one browser, but this monopoly is the result.

Ah fair point. I bet the experience is ass on the PlayStation.

The inventory management isn't great, but between sorting by weight and latest, plus the text search, it didn't hinder my ability to play. You basically just have to ignore the visual inventory in favor of those options.

Absolutely. And they push bundles that don't make financial sense but look attractive because we're conditioned to think bundles are good. $30 to check a bag OR $72 to check a bag and board in Group 2 lol.

It shouldn't be OK and Media Matters will surely file for a change of venue. They're located in DC and Twitter in California. Heck, Twitters own TOS says that your use of the service is governed by California law, so any claim that they fraudulently used the service should be handled in California.

But activist judges are also known to deny motions for made up reasons, so Twitter starts in Texas in hopes an activist judge keeps the case there to "stick it to the liberals."

Nope. It's fully a marketing term and always has been. Worked at a firm that used a very, very basic bit of machine learning. But you better believe our marketing and investor pitch decks said "AI" a ton.

The Internet: "If you're not paying, you're the product, not the customer." The Internet: "Ads suck! We're going to block them."

Content Providers: "OK, we're going to charge to pay for our bills then."

The Internet: "HOW DARE YOU?"

YouTube doesn't stop you from using uBO if you're paying.

You could pay for the service with cash instead of ad views. Works on all devices without having to set up an adblocking VPN or Pi-Hole.

Preach. The Act 2 to Act 3 transition is brutal. >!The BBEG is marching on the city. Better stop to catch a circus act and have ASMR sex with three hookers.!<

Even with the time they had, you can tell that Act 3 didn't get nearly the love that Act 1 did. I imagine anything done in a rushed manor won't have the charm.

I think you forgot this: /s

Just pay for the service. Then you can run all the blockers you want.

Yeah, I don't need a bot / feed for any specific service; give me an open standard like RSS any day.

I sold my account and blocked Reddit at the DNS level. I set up a bunch of feeds in Inoreader to stay on top of topics I care about like local news, gaming, tech, etc.

The only downside has been while playing BG3 and Googling things, Reddit results usually come up first and look the most spot on. Other links are either AI generated garbage or articles that are ten paragraphs when two sentences could have been done.

Wikipedia does funnel money into charity causes that aren't related to their mission of bringing knowledge to the world. I personally have a hard time reconciling that with the constant begging for donations. I'd rather they set up an endowment or focus the money on items related to the mission.

That being said, paying people well to get bright people working on their mission is a no brainer.

Dollars to donuts, they're going to put a drop of pasteurized pig blood in the paint and then dye the coolant red.

If you think businesses have sunk this much money and effort into AI and didn’t do a cost-benefit analysis that stretched out decades, you are being naive or disingenuous.

Are you kidding? We literally just watched the same bubble and burst in companies that rushed to get their piece of the Metaverse and NFT cash grab. I worked at a SaaS company that decided to add AI features because it was in the news and Azure offered it as a service. There was zero financial analysis done, just like for every other feature they added

I'm sure Microsoft has a plan since they invested heavily. But even Google is playing catch-up like they did with GCP.

Turnstile was announced over a year ago.

Doesn't the fact that every Windows PC ships with Edge and yet Chrome has 70% market share on desktop make a case against the idea that "defaults are everything"?