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YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads
  • They’re testing to embed the ads in the stream and not the usual switch to a different video

    It definitely affects third party client if now they get a file of a video that now has 30 seconds of ad content at the beginning

  • All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration
  • Twitter as a login doesn’t need api access and it’s still free

    They need to pay the absurd fees when they post screenshots on behalf of users. So, since it’s not a very important feature, it doesn’t make sense to pay at least half a million dollars per year for that

  • All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration
  • Surprised that they didn’t remove it earlier

    At $42k per month I would have removed/disabled it immediately

    Why would I need to pay that kind of money to let my users to post on your social where you’re monetizing it with ads and using the content to increase user engagement? Should be the opposite! The social network paying the game console maker in order to get preferential treatment and prominent share buttons

  • The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
  • I hate them so much when they do that. “I don’t know how to export pdf” - yet you know how to make screenshots which is a “secret” key combination that’s written NOWHERE on the ui.

    How it’s possible that they think that’s ok to send four separate emails (separate emails because they click on the screenshot preview on the bottom of the screen and share that) with a screenshot of each page instead of just the file? How they don’t think “wait, is it possible that there isn’t a better way?”

  • The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
  • I know too many people like that and I hate them

    “I’m no expert so I will dismiss this dialog without reading it” - “it gives me error but because I’m not expert I’m not going to read it” - “it says something but you need to come here to read it - no, I’m unable to read it because I’m not expert”

  • The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
  • With usb cable most of people doesn’t even know where to start. They have no idea of where the document is saved. Plugging the phone to the computer doesn’t show a “recent files” list but the whole directory hierarchy. Maybe they even used some proprietary note taking app that doesn’t create a file and they don’t realize that

  • The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
  • I saw middle school students preferring to type a report on a fucking touchscreen rather than a pc with keyboard “because in this way is faster”. Then for some reason they share a fucking screenshot of the document instead of just attaching that to the email

  • Scientists propose converting natural gas into hydrogen directly in gas fields
  • Methane is lighter than air and goes up while co2 is heavier than oxygen and stays down. I don’t know maybe in case of some disaster where water leaks in the well and then pushes out the co2

    I wouldn’t want to live nearby in both cases anyway

  • How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air?
  • I didn’t read the article but it seems off. With only 1/20 of energy used by the world in a single year we could undo the damage of 300 years?

    Seems too low. If that’s true we could shut down completely for just two weeks to undo

  • Humane is said to be seeking a $1 billion buyout after only 10,000 orders of its terrible AI Pin
  • HP is reportedly one of the companies that Humane was in talks with over a potential sale

    They didn’t learn the lesson with webos? They lost billions even if that was a good os with good phones.

    Can’t imagine anyone wanting to buy this company for more than 1million and that’s just because of patents and devs (acquihire - where the buyer is only interested in ip and devs and doesn’t care at all about the actual product)

  • Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment
  • most of them if not all are mitigated by google play services. otherwise there would be 2 billion of infected android phones and there would be many alarmist posts like when ten years ago stagefright happened

  • Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment
  • Big difference: on android you can stay 6 version behind and you probably find any incompatible app during real life use. Browser and framework (google play services) continue to get updates

    On iOS once your device stops getting updates it becomes ewaste as almost every app becomes incompatible after 1-2 years . Browser stops getting updates at all so your browsing experience will degrade fast

  • xaitax/TotalRecall: This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots.
  • Imagine how easy is the life of law enforcement now.

    Before if they seized a laptop encrypted with bit locker they could not do anything.

    Now they just need to ask Microsoft the encryption password, which is automatically and silently saved in the Microsoft account (now mandatory) and they can have all the history of what the subject of the investigation did in the past years

  • How to save on Spyro?

    For the first time in my life I'm playing Spyro, the original from 1998.

    I played around 20 minutes in the starting fields, found the required ten dragons to go on the hot air balloon but then I had some real life problem and I had to turn off. In all the playtime it didn't ask me to save and once a dragon freed said "the game saves a check point every time you free a dragon".

    So I restarted the console and... No save...

    How to save?

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    Can't rename my iPhone

    For some reason my iPhone is called "iPhone (2)" and that bothers me to no end. But i can't find the way to rename it, the name can't be clicked and no textbox appears.

    This phone was given to me by my employer. Do they have the power to restrict this?

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