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They took a network that reliably turned out TV I watched for 20 years and have turned it into something with nothing I'll watch.

White House cautiously opens the door to study blocking sun's rays to slow global warming (www.eenews.net)

The White House cautiously endorsed the idea of studying how to block sunlight from hitting Earth’s surface as a way to limit global warming in a congressionally mandated report that could help bring efforts once confined to science fiction into the realm of legitimate debate.

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A giant space umbrella!
So much easier than regulating like 6 companies.

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I think @dansup has a portfolio feature for Pixelfed, or maybe a special server that was for artists?

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I've been trying one that was bubbling well on day 2 and now day 5 looks dead. People suggested there may be too much sugar and it killed the yeast.

I'm going to not feed it for a couple days to see if it recovers.

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I think I liked Arkham Knight the best. The way the Joker was integrated into your travels around the city was really well done.

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There's also a bug filed about federated lemmy NSFW communities not being filtered even when the setting is on.

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Yeah, Bookwyrm is fun. It's pretty basic in terms of tracking compared to GR but works and I like that I can follow my friends from masto.

Thoughts on ads for kbin?

Hear me out, I know no one likes ads, probably one of the main reasons why people used 3rd party apps for reddit. I can't exactly donate to help kbin, however if there was a setting I could toggle to opt in viewing ads to support kbin and things like server costs, I'd do it, in hopes for improvement of the website....

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The problem is the incentives it creates. If [some portion] of revenue comes from ads, then you have to abide by what advertisers want. Or more precisely don't want, or else you lose that money. Is that NSFW content? Queer content? You've introduced a party into the ecosystem that gets to set their own rules, which may be at odds with the interests of the admin and the users.

Also, ads are only worth something if they're targeted. That means data mining and capturing as much information about you as possible, and kbin would be the ones having to do that mining.

Ads are how we got here. Paying for services we use is the only real alternative.

Cyberpunk’s expansion totally overhauls the original game (www.videogameschronicle.com)

So I think this is a good one for the patient gamers… I actually already played this soon after it came out and still really enjoyed it, although the world felt like it didn’t have any real people in it the city is just fantastic and visually appealing. I imagine this update will transform the game entirely, I’m looking...

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Well that makes me more interested in trying it. I bought Cyberpunk sight unseen because it was CDPR and then everyone complained about it so I never played it.

OC The branding for kbin is perfect

The branding for kbin is perfect for capturing the reddit migrators. The biggest friction point for the Fediverse is choosing an instance. If I want to join Lemmy, googling Lemmy takes me to a landing page with no join button, telling me to go to these other sites. Some of these sites even actively discourage signups, creating...

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Indeed. One of the reason people liked Toot on Masto is because it was unserious. Like, take it down a notch. I think Bins has that same air.

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So what is "boost" going to do on a post, if I use that?

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So it puts it on my personal profile, and if people were following me personally they'd see it.

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That's weird.

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There's also a gardenstate.social mastodon server if people are interested in that.

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