micka190

I know there's always a relevant XKCD, but man talk about specific!

The big problem with DNS-based ad-blocking is that it doesn't prevent redirects. Sure, you'll get redirected to a harmless blank page, but then you need to go back to the previous page. You don't have that issue with uBlock.

Microsoft's naming strategy is just the American Economics wheel from South Park, but with names on it. Of all the big tech companies, they are easily the fucking worst at naming shit.

Might be a case where Canadian applicants submit another form that has the relevant information in a different format too.

Neil DeGrass Tyson rails femboy doomers from behind while debating science or something idk.

Not to be that guy who defends Ubisoft (God knows I haven't bought one of their games in ages), but that quote from the CEO is taken way out of context.

He was directly asked what would need to happen for game streaming to take off, and he responded with "players would need to get used to no longer owning their games", which is pretty much true as far as answers to that question go.

That’s not Amazon’s fault.

That’s mostly the fault of consumers who buy from Amazon (and other e-tailors).

There's quite a few retail stores that don't keep inventory, even for common things. Staples comes to mind, where it feels like half their damn office items aren't in stock, so you need to wait for them to have it brought in.

The problem is that those same retail stores can't compete with Amazon's shipping speed. It becomes a case of:

• I want to buy a thing, I need it fast, so I guess I'll check my local retails stores
• My local retail stores don't have it in stock, but I can order it and it'll be there in 4-5 days
• I can just buy it off of Amazon at a comparable price, and have it tomorrow

It's alright if they don't want to carry inventory, but they need to have the shipping speeds to compete, otherwise there's no reason for the consumer not to just buy it off of Amazon directly.

Do you think it takes a brilliant mind to come up with that basic-ass mob bullshit?

I feel like you're misunderstanding what I'm saying in, like, an extreme way.

I'm absolutely not saying that Elon is some kind of mastermind. But there are people who legitimately are buying his bullshit. I'm explicitly pointing out that it is bullshit, and that the dude did not "just make a dumb joke without realizing the implications".

You’re talking about two different things here.

I'm really not. This very thread is full of comments acting like Elon is a moron for making his stupid "joke", literally playing into his hand. As @[email protected] said, he's doing the "turbulent priest" thing.

I still don't understand how anyone here (or on the internet in general, for that matter) is still asking "Is Elon stupid? Is he a moron?" in response to stuff like this.

Elon's a jackass, but he clearly knows what he's doing with this. He's inciting political violence and then acting like it was an edgy joke as a way to give himself probable deniability. Dude's an asshole, but he's not literally brain dead.

I was having this discussion with a coworker after Apple's event where they talked about their image scanning AI. Like, if someone takes a picture of me, and sends it to the AI's servers, they'll use it as training data, but I haven't consented to it. So how does taking it down work?

It's obviously a rhetorical question. They obviously won't, and they'll tell me to pound sand.

In this case, it seems like it's the app makers themselves who are requiring the Play Store, though. Unless I'm misreading this, the developers are using the Integrity API to determine if the app was installed through "official channels" (in this case, the Play Store). Feels like people should be upset at the companies behind the apps, here.