paintman252

Promoting specific piracy sites is not a good look and ,I’ll go further, shouldn’t be allowed in this forum

You’re seriously blaming company for trying to make their product popular. Even if we assume that current Chrome state violates the anti-trust legislation, that’s still a pretty silly moral condemnation.

Hard disagree. Discord is great place for non-tehnical-project communities

"Normally, rooms are silent, and no one is chatting"

Yeah, cause you went to unactive servers. It would be like coming to Hackernews, opening first link in newly submitted, and complaining that no one is here.

Just go to active servers. Servers I frequent are very active.

"The UI as a whole is a jumbled mess that feels bloated"

Another hard disagree. UI is one of my favourite things about Discord. It feels very well designed and it even works very well on mobile. I'm quite impressed by this aspect

"That is: without ads, people would gravitate towards buying what fits their needs best. They would make generally rational choices given the information available."

Not to sound snarky, būt have you met humans?If sociology and economics have shown anything, itš that human do NO make rational consumption choices

"If the reward from working is barely enough to cover the necessities, then there is technically no difference between working as a free citizen, and being forced to work as an indentured servant, other than a vague notion of freedom, which in that case is the freedom to decide between working and living on the streets."

What an incredibly privileged perspective. Do you think that actual indentured servants would agree with you on this?

Homie what are you talking about lmao. As an avid podcast listener they're full of ads

What you gonna do?

I'm gonna use Chrome fork or previous version. Chromium is open source

But is the time spent on that channel worth it over doing other things?

Now apply same standard to literally any other Youtube channel

peak boomer-posting

"If you're choosing it as the sole community of your project, you've alienated folks that value their digital privacy"

so basically no one? cause almost nobody actually cares about digital privacy

That's just not true. I've been in many very online leftist communities and they also freely use it.

it's just general internet speak at this point

if your self-control really that bad?

This is a joke. Youtube has no actual alternatives

I mean, can't you just save up a nest egg so , in case one of the projects get cancelled, you don't end up destitute? Seems like a simple solution

And? Not every service is homeless-friendly. That's fine. There are literally hundreds of free email services.

umm you DO know that Gmail isn't only free email, right? Like, just use another one which doesn't force 2FA. Why is this become an issue? I don't get it

Sure, they OWN a bunch of stuff, but (besides Facebook/Instagram/Whatsup) none of it is a massive success.

It's not like Google which has 1)Search 2)YouTube 3)Maps 4)Android 5)Chrome 6)Gmail 7)Analytics just from top of my head

Facebook and Google do too many things.

Google? Definitely. Meta? Not really. All Meta has is two social networks and one messaging service. They haven't really experienced huge success in anything else. They MAY hit big in VR/AR space, but that's yet to be determined.

This is why massive companies like Meta and Alphabet needs to be nationalised. They simply have too much power over lives of billions.

This article is just another reminder of this. At scale that Meta operates, this algorithmically decided domain blockings mean nothing to them, but everything to hundred's of non-profits. There need to be legally mandated protections so things like this never happen again.

"everything was terribly broken and half-baked"

What are you talking about? My S22 Ultra works great.

Wow, Google search sucks but first three tips is horrible advice. Like it would only make it worse

Does it? The servers of average video game don't last very long

AR will absolutely become mainstream

We actually did. My gmail get's none

"We're living in Orwellian times."

lol talk about hyperbole. Please actually read 1984 and get back to me

That's not how law works

You gave up your privacy, which is worth a lot more than a few cent

Not to me. So I really didn't give up anything.

Hmm, I have no idea what you're talking about. I use Imgur every single day and it's great. (and BTW allows direct linking)

I will use it until the day it's shut down.

Not here, either: Folks are still getting it and folks are still dying from it.

If that's how you measure it, then covid will NEVER be over (People are still dying from flu every year)

Pandemic is over. COVID19 is never leaving us.

"And those benefits to dieting are very much "potential". Study after study has shown that diets don't work in the long term; people usually gain the weight back."

I'm sorry, but this is misleading BS. Studies have found that diets don't work for most people cause most people just suck at sticking to diets, not because CICO is somehow fundamentally flawed. To imply the second is dishonest.

It would be like saying that suggesting people to work out to get in shape is useless cause studies have found that most people don't stick to exercise plans.

"Leave fat people the fuck alone about their diets."

Unfortunately we can't. Cause obesity is a real public health crisis and diets is why. That's not to say that we should encourage fat shaming. But we need to be honest and not coddle people