Suppose it just formalized the situation already effectively in place. Bungie giving a thumbs down + major staff loss on a live service is essentially game over.
Glad they didn't double down.
I haven’t used TurboTax recently, but I just received a check from my state’s government saying that they’ve settled with Intuit over charging customers tax return services that should have been free....
I feel that it is important for you substantiate your claims or credibility to some extent before making potentially inflammatory moves - if you want the community to question the lemmy.world team, that is.
The funny thing is that I can't be bothered to install adblockers for mobile YouTube, despite that being 99% of my phone and YouTube usage. Video platforms are expensive AF, and I get it.
But man, that ad experience just keeps degrading. It really wears on me some days, making me seriously consider Premium.
But now that they are going to block adblockers outright? And especially now that they're paywalling the ability to queue videos in a dynamic playlist?? Something built into TV casting and the desktop app for free? Nah, Google can get fucked. It's ReVanced time.
My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
It really sucks that we're facing the digital equivalent of climate change with regards to the internet and the content economy on top of the decline of the actual economy and actual climate change. It's all so much.
I just set up all the subreddits I still want to following in Reeder, an RSS app. I'm able scroll through the posts ad free. It the occurred to me that this is a loss of revenue to Reddit. Could RSS be the new target for onerous fees?...
TIL reddit has RSS feeds. Welp, I'll see if I can use it to plug in my favorites until they cut it for 'profit-seeking measures' and 'loosing 200 billion dollars a year'
Fingers crossed that this will be implemented well, im tired of having sleek electronics be irrelevant in 2 years when the silicon could go for 5 or six
'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs (www.pcgamer.com)
Suffering and success.
The Last of Us Online is officially cancelled. (www.naughtydog.com)
Putin’s adviser says U.S. is using brainwashing to make gay Ukrainian super-soldiers (www.lgbtqnation.com)
You can change the spelling of one word in the English language to match how they are pronounced. What word do you pick?
I’m picking “Colonel” needs to be respelled to match how it’s pronounced....
For all that is holy, DO NOT use TurboTax!!
I haven’t used TurboTax recently, but I just received a check from my state’s government saying that they’ve settled with Intuit over charging customers tax return services that should have been free....
Sci-fantasy roguelike Caves Of Qud is getting a full release in 2024, after 15 years of development (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Twitter’s rebrand to X may actually be happening soon (www.theverge.com)
Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.blackeco.com/post/25574...
muh nfts
Can spez really be that stupid? (www.theverge.com)
Yes. Yes he can.
Is there a way to derank certain magazines on user side? Something between full blocking and full allowing a magazine?
Some instances and groups are very chatty (*gestures to /lemmyshitposts), so much so that they dominate the All page....
at least one lemmy.world admin accepted an off the record meeting with meta, and they won't tell you about it.
Don’t belive me? Ask them....
Ironic (midwest.social)
Introducing Crackpipe - your decentralized, self-hosted gaming solution! (crackpipe.de)
Hey folks,...
Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down (www.ghacks.net)
YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers (www.theverge.com)
It’s bots all the way down at kindle unlimited (www.vice.com)
My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
Goodbye RIF - Talklittle's Goodbye to Reddit is Fun users (www.talklittle.com)
From the site:...
Will Reddit Kill RSS Feeds
I just set up all the subreddits I still want to following in Reeder, an RSS app. I'm able scroll through the posts ad free. It the occurred to me that this is a loss of revenue to Reddit. Could RSS be the new target for onerous fees?...
BattleBit Remastered is dominating Steam because there's no catch: it's just a lot of game for $15 (www.pcgamer.com)
Reddit activated a word filter that whenever you say "fuck spez", your comment won't show up for anyone else. I just tested it on ModCoord. they're also deleting spez memes from the subs they nuked lol
r/ModCoord: The admins in charge of demodded subreddits are mass-removing images of Huffman previously shared on them...
EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk! (www.youtube.com)
Reddit mods discuss forming a union and suing for back pay (old.reddit.com)
r/Piracy has entered restricted mode and will open in two days
https://old.reddit.com/r/piracy...