JohnEdwa

A payment processor tells that they either remove the porn games, or they will remove the ability to pay for all games for them. The only company that can stand up to them in any way is one large enough to call the bluff and the payment processor wouldn’t be willing to actually lose.

And that list is basically Amazon, Apple, Google and stuff like that, and definitely not a tiny thing like itch.io.

It started as that, but when you have an app designed for hookups and sex, turns out what type of a person you are in bed and what’s between your legs are actually very relevant information, so they just opened it up.

It’s referencing the spikes the app sees whenever there’s a republican event around.

“On the night of July 17—the Sunday that check-in for the [Republican National] convention began—there was a 120 percent increase in users online in the area, more than all previous evenings in July. As of last Wednesday, a representative from Grindr tells Broadly, “more than a thousand guys have used the app near the Quicken Loans Arena.” The total attendance of the RNC is estimated to have been roughly 20,000 people, so this data suggests about five percent of attendees used Grindr during the convention.”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/cleveland-was-bombarded-with-white-dudes-on-grindr-during-the-rnc/

To me the karma system is about quality. Not an “I agree/disagree” button.

That’s how it was meant to be. The original Rediquette from over 15 years ago has:

“Vote. If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it.
[Please don’t] Downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don’t personally like it. Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you’re downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons.”

But 99% of people definitely use them as an Agree/Disagree button.

Lemmy dot marxist-leninist created as a communist safe-space for users leaving reddit has propaganda about communist countries and they don’t moderate it away, I’m shocked.

That’s why Lemmy as a whole was originally created in fact.

And now googling will just result in “I asked AI and it said X”, as the first thing you get is the AI summary shit. A friend of mine does this constantly, we are in a discord call and somebody asks a question, he will google it and repeat the AI slop back as a fact.

Half the time it’s wrong.

It’s マリウス.com but the “internationalized domain name” system pynycodes it to gibberish to prevent spoofing urls using lookalike characters.

Like https://xn--mzon-43db.com/ is аmаzon.com. Those are cyrillic lowercase ‘а’, not ‘a’.

[EDIT] The blog itself actually has a great article explaining it.

If it’s like here in Finland, coverage means there’s a fibre running under the street in front (or close enough nearby) but because it costs quite a lot to connect a building to it, especially if you want higher speeds and have to start retrofitting every apartment, many haven’t done it.

For example our house officially has fibre coverage, but the street-to-house connection costs ~1800€ which is why we still run a VDSL while the apartment building down the street has 10Gbit to every apartment.

they say it’s really 19 fibers in one … It’s not that insane in perspective

The impressive bit being that the bundle of 19 fibres is around the same overall diameter as a single regular one - “diameter of five-thousandths of an inch (0.127 millimeters), which is the same thickness as most existing single-fiber cables already in use” - meaning those individual strands are unbelievably thin.
It’s going to be interesting to see how a cable like that is getting fixed in the field when a backhoe inevitably goes om nom nom on one.

Japan is already pretty damn close to achieving 100% fiber network coverage for every household.

ranked by Speedtest.net data for January 2025

And the average speed of a passenger car is 170km/h, as ranked by speed data from the Nürburgring.

People on shitty slow connections don’t have a need to go test that speed much, they know it’s shit, people who just got their fancy new 1Gbit fiber and want to know exactly how fast it is, do.

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Youtube has just one priority, it wants you to watch as much monetised content as possible. If you watch and engage with those types of videos, it’ll suggest them to you.

I don’t, and I never see them recommended either - here’s my youtube homepage right now.
DIY, electronics, cooking, gaming, science, with some weeb stuff sprinkled in - exactly what I’d expect.

They give up to 10 days visa free from some countries you otherwise need a visa to enter in the first place. In guessing that if you can’t show proof you are continuing to somewhere else - like a connecting flight - you aren’t getting in at all.

But it has only one official language, which is English, so calling it something else would also be a stretch.

They were always going to “kill” Nokia phones, as it was a limited time brand deal that ends in 2026, and iirc the exclusivity part of it already ended in 2024.

Opt-out by default in the EU I’m fairly sure.

You can check here: https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini

It’s not always about being first but about marketing.

And one has a cute catgirl mascot, the other a website that looks like a blockchain techbro startup.
I’m even willing to bet the amount of people that set up Anubis just to get the cute splash screen isn’t insignificant.

Even more so when you ask Grok about something Elon did, as it quite often replies back in first person. Fairly certain it has been directly instructed to talk/“think” like Elon.

Also I love that prompt bleed.

As OP specified in another reply, they were talking about streamers specifically. And with them, big chunk of the income comes from Twitch subscribers, which is a monthly paid subscription. If you are willing to pay someone for it, you’ll notice pretty much immediately if they miss their scheduled stream and cancel it.

For many other platforms what you said is true, I’m way more likely to unsubscribe from someone when they post a video and remind me I’m still subbed than when they take a break and fade out of my feed.