Fwiw they’re just collecting a paycheck. Sure it’s scummy for them to not reject the businesses offering them the money but tbh I really don’t blame them - I’d probably take the cash too.

Depending on the channel size sponsored ad reads can deliver upwards of multiple thousand per video for the creator. If you see multiple channels with the same ads, it’s bc the company advertising got a big budget approved, that’s it.

Imo just skip the ad reads (or get sponsorblock) and forget they exist. Usually the creator doesn’t even give a fuck who’s paying them or why. They are victims of the system too, not maliciously peddling garbage. I do wish they didn’t have to peddle anything, but here we are.

Yeah, I’m with you. The entitlement around media (games movies TV) is insane to me.

Pretty sure folks are referring to streaming sites meaning like Netflix. The person you are responding to said “click and go” referring to services like YouTube and Hulu not sketchy “streaming” sites like what you are describing that require some hoops to go through to make sure.you don’t download a virus.

Read the article, sounds like both parties are just blowing smoke. At the end it tells us current investment into this market was less than 100b last year. So 1tril is a 10x investment of the yearly we see today. It also suggested the entire chip industry is doing about 600b in sales. So Sam is looking to take a 10x investment into the space?

Altman’s fundraising goal of $5 trillion to $7 trillion far exceeds the present valuation of the worldwide semiconductor industry, which recorded sales of $527 billion last year and is anticipated to hit the $1 trillion mark by 2030. Meanwhile, chip manufacturers invested $99.5 billion in chip fabrication equipment in 2022 and are projected to allocate $97 billion for fabrication tools this year.

I mean I believe the numbers they come up with, that they want to 10x the space. But it’s a ludicrous goal that doesn’t really make sense in practice. Every CEO would love to take on 7 trillion dollars of investment to do anything and would scream it from the mountaintops.

I just don’t know that what they are saying is meaningful at all, at least Sam’s 7tril claim

Fastmail supports aliases as well. I’m not sure how they are from a privacy side overall tho

The feline investigation bureau?

This will just push websites to change the orders and names of their query params (maybe regularly).

I don’t think one can safely omit all query params from all sites and expect a decent experience across all websites.

You are fighting a good fight, I salute you, but query params (the part of the url where the identifiers are included) are a valid and core part of Internet addresses. Trying to strip them away universally will only work for so long.

I think that’s why you haven’t found a tool that meets all your needs yet, because many sites have legitimate uses for those params that don’t include tracking. You’ll probably need tools designed specifically for Amazon and other specific websites/services.

I think you are misinterpreting the arrows. Pixel dungeon is the original game with SPD being the preferred fork

The arrows aren’t PD > (greater than) SPD

But rather PD -> (turned into) SPD

That’s kind of hilarious since 20 years ago, western gamers were rejecting games for being “too anime.”

Today too! I’m still not really interested in the anime art style. I’m glad the enjoyers do have lots to choose from though.

Fastmail also offers this.

Curious to know how many others do as well.

Uhh what? There’s no American tax website to login into to “verify” things were handled right. One still has to do a decent amount of work copying data into third party for-profit company web forms.

While it’s easy for some to manage, it’s by no means a simple process compared to what some other countries offer

I think battle.net did this for a long time. I am probably misremembering but gosh whatever service I experienced it with was annoying

only see them half the year is a normal reaction

Being pedantic here, but most custody arrangements are like this anyway.

Obviously, half the parents being overseas makes that significantly harder and probably untenable for most.

Is your intent to refuse to vote in the next election?

Or frankly any online game, live service or not.

This model is not new or unusual and these prices aren’t out of line with industry comps.

I don’t really like it, but it’s barely news that game companies continue to adopt this monetization strategy.

Today I learned! Thanks for the info :)

Yep, it’s got both visits recorded. Idk why my ip on mobile networks was geolocated so far away.

Visited on my mobile this morning while commuting and no VPN and it geo located me 1000 miles away.

Visited again connected to a WiFi network and it got me right. Fun stuff

Progress! I want to surf in cs2 haha.

Community servers and alt play modes