Reading only the post’s title, my first thought was “hey, I have a truckload of anti-trump thought, where do I get my reward?”

I wonder how easy it would be for them to come back after trashing their brand, probably changing their production lines (server and dedicated RAM isn’t exactly the same), and after investing what’s supposed to be earning that might or might not materialize if their customer just won’t pay the bills.

Less wastes, same cost. Or, just make some food and skip the gift part for most people, and give cash to those who deserves/needs it. There’s no point in swapping gift card of roughly similar values except making more waste and forcing buying stuff at specific places.

DDR5 is the latest tech, but it affects everything. Even SO-DIMM DDR4 have had a price hike.

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I smell a promotion in your near future!

Easy: 2/3 of the planet is now devoid of life.

Well, I can see some use cases. But they’re usually not pointed down in the bowl.

Lot’s of assumption here. And having lived long enough to see “that’s definitely the best language ever” happens multiple times, I’m not too worried.

Until we get something different than LLM that is able to actually understand what’s happening and combine things in different ways, the only thing that might dwindle in the future is the cost of rewriting the same app every six months, since an LLM might (still lots of assumption) be able to regurgitate it. People writing new things will still be required for a long time. And these people will want new, shiny languages for all the same reasons we keep making new languages to this day.

It’s also illegal. The “no fuck you” button should be as visible and accessible as the “accept all”.

Make it as easy for users to withdraw their consent as it was for them to give their consent in the first place.

Obviously, no one cares. There’s no real consequences, cookies are still dropped on your system regardless of consent, and cookies weren’t even the real problem to begin with, user profiling had already moved to include other invasive techniques.

As far as making something complex and useless go, it’d have been way easier to work with the w3c to add attributes to cookies to identify their purpose (essential, preferences, etc.) so the browser could filter them out based on that attributes and the matching of the current website. It would have meant way less work on the website owners, provide ways for end-user to set their preferences universally and be done with it, enforced said preferences, and so on. And people that would lie on the purpose of their cookie would still lie, but could be caught red-handed (assuming anyone actually cared).

Instead we got this mess.

For an online service to get popular, it has to be either a new, really interesting thing with a lot of advertisement, have the support of some big celebrities (usually through advertisement too), or literally pay people to come en masse to artificially make it popular, so that more people comes organically (so, basically, a large advertisement budget). It also have to be easy because most people can’t read more than a few lines of explanations on why things are different.

No lemmy instance have none of the pre-requisites, and the accessibility is not really there for the general public, due to various things. My main gripe is that federation and local moderation means you’ll have to create multiple account to access content from certain groups of servers, which is a lot to ask to people that can’t be asked to make even one account, but there are other minor things too. The sheer choice of instances and client, seen as an advantage by some, is simply a bothersome annoyance to people used to large platforms doing all the work of deciding what’s good and bad for them.

for a family of 4 it would cost almost $700 to get passports

You lost me there for a moment. In France, a biometric passport costs 86 € (~$100) for 18+ people, 42 € (~$49) for kids between 15-17, and 17 € (~$20) for people younger than 15. It lasts 10 years for adults, and if you renew your national ID card and passport at the same time, you only pay for one (ID card alone is 25 €, ~$29).

$700 for a family of 4 sounds insane. But if there’s no incentive, I guess I get it. I basically kept using my passport for a few decades instead of having an ID card, so it feels more natural to me.

Compare that to a European who could travel 100 km on the train and be in another country.

We don’t need a passport to go to most other European countries, fortunately.

It’s not “all out there”, unless you let it go out there.

Most interaction with people on privacy-hostile services are out there, yes. But that’s far from “all”.

Is it that uncommon to have a passport in the US? That’s basically part of the common ID paper you’d have here.

Storage space, ensuring quality settings, supporting more device than “your tv”, smaller bandwidth requirements.

Great. Now they’ll have to do more work to remove the flowers.

What, you think parents should watch over their kid and provide them interaction? What is this, year 1200?

Either prayers don’t work, or they make god super duper angry.

One of them couldn’t digest cheese, so they had to go.

I sense a secret underlying passion for dairy product, barely hidden beind the gamer introduction.

Yeah, I’m not watching a video with no description nor informative title, about an unknown topic, linked from a social media post that also says absolutely nothing about whatever is in there.

Three level clickbait/dark pattern engagement tactics are so 2020.