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Yeah, they're trying new things again. Gotta squeeze that stone for all the blood that's in it.
One of my accounts has been getting a long delay before the video starts. Pre-roll ads are trying to load and play but the add-ons I have installed are still stopping them from completely succeeding. For now.
I also have auto-play turned off, and I wonder if that has anything to do with it.
Pretty sure the systems at their side think that I'm seeing the ads because I've had pop-ups during the delay offering free Premium.
Been there done that.
A few years back I went back to an old Internet haunt that I hadn't been to in more years still.
People were there, chatting, including at least one person I knew who'd been there previously. I should have taken the hint when he joked that he "didn't spend a lot of time there, honest" (paraphrase), but I basically picked up where I'd left off years before rather than feel out the new vibe. There were about twenty or so people there at first, and I only really noticed when there were ten or so left and they weren't saying much.
I left. Haven't had the nerve to go back. If I do, I'll try to feel out the vibe first.
In the meantime, I've found other places to hang out and different people. But I still try to reel myself in occasionally, just in case.
Journalists for RFA aren't being sentenced to 3 generations of there family being out into concentration camps for disagreeing with the US govt.
Careful. If Trump could read, he'd think that was a brilliant idea.
My brain makes some dumb connections. This is basically Dom Joly with his enormous mobile phone, shouting INCREDIBLY LOUDLY into it.
So, has Musk straight up admitted to being a white supremacist or has he only dropped anvil-sized hints so far?
I can only speak to the topics I followed on another account, but it provided plenty of reading for those topics. Whether it covered all possible posts and whether it works well for all topics, I couldn't say.
It does kind of rely on people tagging things properly, which people might not do if they're on a Mastodon instance specific to that topic. But then, they ought to know that those posts wouldn't Federate well, and indeed, might not want them to.
Mastodon is microblogging. As others have said, it's similar to Twitter. Lemmy is a link aggregator with a comments/conversation section per link, like Slashdot, Digg or Reddit.
I think the thing that people forget to do with Mastodon is to follow hashtags. The feature wasn't there early on but it's been there for probably a year or more now. Then you block or mute the accounts you don't want to see that post under those tags.
It's a useful substitute for following accounts when you have no idea which accounts to follow. You can then curate and actually follow accounts whose content outside those hashtags also catches your eye.
On the link aggregators there are the groups which don't exist on Mastodon, but that's what hashtags are for, right? Marking the topic.
The only hard part about it for me is feeling bad about blocking innocent accounts.
Also worth mentioning is that Mbin instances exist, and that software is basically both Lemmy and Mastodon rolled into one site. The posts aren't fully integrated though. You have to click something to view the microblog side of things and click something to go back.
And now you join the thousands of us who have heard of it but never have any use for it.
Had you heard of cpio? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have heard of that either if it hadn't been mentioned in a Unix book I bought in the 90s.
I've seen that picture online before, and pointed out (in whatever forum I was on) that it looks a lot like a cricket sweater, which doesn't fit with his image at all, and I doubt he's ever worn, let alone owned one.
At the time, someone suggested that it might have been a "portrait in search of a head" (my paraphrase) and Trump commissioned the artist to put his face on it. I reckon the artist might have been hoping to sell to someone like Shane Warne, but Donny bought it instead.
It is if you count your profit in terms of percentage of global profit, and then, should that break down, in terms of global wealth.
Similar to how it's impossible to reach the speed of light, it's not possible to reach 100% of global wealth unless you're the only sentient being left alive, but you can get arbitrarily close. And getting closer requires more and more human suffering, as reaching light speed requires more and more energy.
Only time will tell whether the rich will (publicly) switch to this metric because so far, "Newtonian" measurements of profit have been sufficient, and fractions of global wealth generation look piddly by comparison.
There's a famous quote attributed to Charles Babbage with regard to his difference engine (or some other calculation machine of his invention) which goes: "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Apprehension is right, Mr. Babbage. You were lucky to find yourself talking to those who, in some unconscious way, suspected that something might be wrong in their thinking, leading them to at least enquire. There are those whose ideas are so confused, or even so completely lacking, that they will assume that no matter what is put into the machine, the right answers will come out.
It might be relevant to point out that what constitutes a Mars bar differs depending on country. The US and UK are different, for example: Simple picture demonstration
The picture doesn't show what's in a US Mars bar, but apparently it has almonds in it, as though it's a Snickers just with a different kind of nut(?).
I'd never heard of it either, but a web search finds a Wikipedia article, a few pictures and the implication that it's not sold in the UK.
Also, calling Cadbury "British" these days is a bit of a stretch. Yes, they were founded here and are still headquartered here, but they're now a multinational corporation owned by an American corporation.
And despite that American corporation being run by a Belgian, the quality has definitely gone in the American direction.
This would undoubtedly backfire just like that TikTok "hack" that happened a while ago. (If you're out of the loop, it boiled down to writing yourself a bad cheque for a ridiculous amount, and then spending the money that appeared in your account before it bounced. Presto! Cheque fraud! Bad things are coming to you soon!)
"We're sorry to inform you that you have spent money wrongly credited to your account. You now owe us all that money back and we've slapped on a 100% interest rate for good measure. You could fight this in court, but we have more money than Croesus, so you'll lose. Sincerely YourBank Inc."
Unfortunately, modern Labour are centrist, much like the US Democrats, so we see rather a lot of surprisingly right-leaning decisions from what ought to be a left-leaning party. "Liberal" isn't a completely accurate term for them these days.
We also have a third party called "Liberal Democrats" who were positioned in that centrist position until Labour moved right and stole it from them. Now they still try to sit between, pleasing hardly anyone.
When there was a left-leaning leader running the Labour party a few years ago, much panic ensued among the rich and powerful, and dirty tricks and smear campaigns were undertaken to get him as far out of the way as possible.
It probably didn't help that he didn't particularly want to be PM, but he was the only man who would do it.
Edit: Reworded for accuracy.
"Of course, I know this through third parties, and not because I ever had dinner with any foreign operatives myself.", he added, making a poor attempt at hiding several glaring nervous tics.
(This is a joke, but it's probably not far from the truth.)
North Korea believes that the south was stolen by Western/US imperialism, and that it is Western influence that keeps it separate from unification under the Kim family. A whole "We're not the separatists. They are." kind of deal.
With the West currently being on the side of Ukraine's independence, the North Korean troops are probably being told that this is a fight against that imperialism, especially with Russia being former and now current enemy of the West.
One side-effect of Trump's pending plan to end that war will undoubtedly be sending some disillusioned, surviving Koreans back home, waiting any day for the reunification with their southern brothers.
I mean, there is an element of truth to all this. If we take our eye off that particular ball, so to speak, South Korea ends up reunifying with the North in a way they very much won't like.
Minecraft Bedrock is written in and compiled from C++ and is completely closed-source.
The original Java version is technically also closed-source, but Java bytecode is relatively easy to decompile to a high level and Mojang (and surprisingly, even Microsoft) tend to look the other way when people do that.
It seems like this was written for the Java version, but I'm not completely sure whether it's simply a protocol conversion, in which case, the protocols are already well known, and converting it to work with Bedrock might not be too difficult.
Yes, there are open-source alternatives, but nowhere near as many people play those as play Minecraft, which is probably why that was the target platform and not one of the others.
For now.
Not yet you haven't. Oliver and Olivia are, as of last year, both in the top three in England and Wales as well as the US, Canada and Australia and, at least in Britain, have been there or close for the last decade or so.
Basically, they haven't quite grown up yet, but expect an increase of them making their own way in the world in 10-20 years.
Source: behindthename.com (who cite their sources)
Well, horses (and most other herbivores) are actually opportunistic carnivores, so they're only a few generations away from switching from opportunistic to actively hunting some of their food.
And by opportunistic carnivore, I mean they'll chomp an unsuspecting small mammal or bird if the mood takes them.