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On a PC, I prefer having local tools; mainly open-source ones. They work without network connectivity, will continue to work in the future, store my data where I have control of it, and don't generally don't spy on me.

I think web apps might make more sense on mobile devices, because I mostly use them for communications and accessing online services, so network connectivity is usually a given. Web apps could also help mitigate the spyware problem brought by mainstream installed apps, because I could block third-party scripts if they were web apps. In practice, though? I de-googled my phone and use open-source apps exclusively, for the best of both worlds.

Indeed. uBlock Origin is a must for applying filter lists, IMHO.

I also use uMatrix to block all scripts and XMLHttpRequests by default, as well as images and everything else from third parties. It makes it easy to see from where a site is trying pull scripts to run on my computer, and to enable them on a per-domain basis when I want to. (uBlock Origin technically has this functionality, but uMatrix has a much better interface for it, and still works despite no longer being developed.)

Google domains are banned at my place.

Reminds me of asbestos.

“The current Early Access version also falls short in terms of content volume.We are deeply disappointed by the former leadership’s conduct, and above all, we feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them by our fans.”

This statement seems manipulative to me. As a Subnautica fan, I have always been interested in quality of content, not how fast it gets created. I can wait for a good game. Krafton is trying to disguise their own profit-driven expectations as if they came from me and others like me, deceptively using us as pawns in guilt-laden psychological warfare against the people who have been developing the game.

Dear publishers,

Please don't be like Krafton.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250714145528/https://www.404media.co/deportation-tok-is-taking-off-2/

Thank you, Internet Archive.

(I hope people who can afford to will send money to 404 Media and the Internet Archive. I think both deserve it.)

I'm surprised you didn't include this one:

Edit: Link to creator:

https://xcancel.com/notshysmith/status/1407072918945812481

There's no paywall when I browse with javascript disabled.

Sure, but I don't see platforms anywhere in that particular game.

Huh... I see swimming through water in this video, but I don't see platforms.

I think in this case it's yet another example of brazen market manipulation.

Released in 1985, about a year and a half after Pitfall II.

Something built with Hyphanet, maybe?

Anybody have one that predates Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (1984)?

Water, sure, but none of those are platformers.

The signal to noise ratio on Stack Overflow has been low for a long time now, even before LLMs showed up. I was once a high-rep contributor there. Nowadays, I usually won't even bother clicking web search results that lead there, let alone share my knowledge with them. (And with Cloudflare, which is now a man-in-the-middle between the site and its users.)

IMHO, the community could use a distributed Q&A network, with no instance able to interfere with anyone's access to our accumulated knowledge.

I hope you do, and show it off when you're done!

Without paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250710141152/https://www.404media.co/trump-mobile-keeps-charging-my-credit-card-and-i-have-no-idea-why/

Knowing this makes life easier for practically nobody, so it doesn't really fit this community.

It is cool, though. I think it would make a good Today I Learned.

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I would be interested in a project like this if it were a distributed network.

It's important to ensure that accumulated community knowledge will survive, and conversations can continue, when an instance dies or becomes intolerable. (Reddit and Stack Exchange have recently brought this into sharp focus.) It's so important that I no longer contribute to sites like this unless they provide those assurances.

So I hope this one develops into something that meets that need.

Inability to learn from your mistakes is nothing to be proud of. Delete this

Someone misinterpreting what I wrote because they only paid attention to part of it does not make it a mistake.

When they follow up by trying to re-frame the topic that I started into a different one, and then criticize me for not having addressed their pet topic, and furthermore tell me I should have used different words so that they can avoid admitting their misunderstanding... well, that's just willful aggression.

Much like your comment to me is aggressive, and rude. You are now blocked.