Who is PG? Pelon Gusk?

That’s depressing

Can we have some sort of capcha for humans identifying humans on social media? This is terribly required.

Cars go heavier but carrying the same number of passengers. Something ain’t right.

What happened to HN? I have now heard HN silencing cetain posts multiple times. Is this enshittification?

I don’t want to believe that coders like these exist and are this confident in an AI’s ability to code.

Shareholders: 80% fired? Yay efficiency!

“The Time I Was Forced By The Government Into A Relationship With My Tsundere High-School Sweetheart”

I have a very sinking feeling that websites will be streamed in the future (SHTTPS) and it will be pioneered by Google :'(

Using a VPN to get a lower price on the subscription is not a service issue, that’s abuse of regional pricing, and no company would accept that.

The internet’s most beloved company, Steam, also bans people for abusing the store using VPNs. So as much as I hate Google, i find nothing wrong with this.

It’s not a pure monopoly by choice. While it’s true Youtube has a monopoly in terms of number of creators, viewers and content, it’s still not a profitable venture. I heard it was burning through money to keep up with the sheer amount of content they have to deal with. Youtube is doing all this monetization now because they have ran out of VC money and upper management decided that it needs to be self-sustaining. Even the obscene amount of data Alphabet is gathering from Youtube does not create enough revenue to generate profit. But it’s a “too-big-to-fail” product now so Alphabet will continue to invest. Competitors saw all of this and just noped out.

Other commercial video services, like Nebula, have popped up but they are subscription-oriented right from the get-go, like Netflix. This means they have a very small audience and it will take years to build up an audience like Youtube. So I don’t see them growing, at least in the near future.

The SteamDeck itself is in loss leader territory.

Microsoft : “When we added all the extra ‘features’ of Win11 into our Xbox OS, we saw a severe drop in performance. So we have kept them separate.” Customers : “So you do agree the features in Win11 are detrimental to the user experience?” Microsoft : “Fuck no, those features are essential for a user. Btw, have you upgraded to Win11?”

Yo dawg, I heard you like Linux. So I built a Linux container for your Linux phone. Now you can enjoy Linux while enjoying your Linux phone.

True. I wouldn’t use them for very complicated stuff. I currently use them for “what is x?” and “how is x different from y?” kinds of question.

One advantage of using an AI is that it removes a lot of fluff that you get on blogs. However, that can change very soon when our AI overlords figure out monetization.

There are hundreds of Windows and Linux apps which can open PDF, but so far only Adobe’s version is the only one which can attach a digital signature. I normally use Zathura on Linux which is like a 5 MB maybe. It’s tiny, very configurable and JUST a pdf reader.

Wrong!

Solid explorer on my phone. Nautilus or any file manager on PC.

sftp each one from the other. Add the connection as a favourite. File transfer becomes a drag and drop thing. Bonus points if you create a static IP for each device.

TRUST THE BOX!

Adobe is worse than scammers. Scammers at least have the self realization that they are scamming. Adobe will steal your money and huff on the fumes that they are providing a valuable service by letting people open PDFs.

I recently downloaded their PDF reader (because it’s the only app which allows for digitally signing a document with a visible cryptographic signature) and it’s 400 MB in size. In no world should a PDF reader be that large.