As long as they’re not shitty mobile games brainwashing the kids with inappropriate and intensely manipulative ads. If you have kids that are playing lots of mobile games, consider keeping them safe from predatory advertisers by installing DNS-level ad-blocking. RethinkDNS is very easy to set up on Android, and while NextDNS is a bit more complicated, it should work on any platform that allows you to set a custom DNS.

That could work in that specific case, but telling the LLM to write code to answer random questions probably wouldn’t work very well in general.

They’re not a troll, they’re just being sarcastic.

That would definitely help a lot. It wouldn’t be perfect, but at least some people’s votes wouldn’t be worth 3x more than others.

Who’s Dessalines? The name sounds familiar, but I can’t remember much else.

It’s absolutely insane that we have to talk about winning swing states instead of just having everyone’s voice matter and vote count equally. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and his presidency was illegitimate. We will never have a functioning democracy as long as we have the electoral college.

Friendly reminder that Donald Trump LOST the popular vote in 2016 and was illegitimately put into power by the rogue electoral college. His presidency should never have happened.

If Microsoft was a smaller company, this would completely ruin them and the next headline would be them declaring bankruptcy after failing to fight off 50,000 lawsuits. Fortunately for them, laws don’t apply to companies their size.

The issue then is that all the investors that have already bought a ton of places can still leave them empty.

Firefox can open PDFs and I’m not sure about the desktop versions, but the Android version is 117MB.

The way it was explained to me was that regardless of gender, if you see someone in the woods, there might be other people nearby and they might pose a serious threat to you. Bears don’t really gang up on people, so you should be okay if you keep your distance.

I don’t know whether or not I agree with that risk assessment, but I can see that it comes from a logical standpoint.

Everyone else:

“Pardon me, do you have the time?”

“OH MY GOD A TALKING DODO BIRD!”

You need more data to recognize frames, but not a lot more data. A hash for each quality setting would be sufficient as long as they don’t start fuzzing the videos, which would be very expensive on their part.

It’s illegal to not identify an ad as an ad (unless you’re a movie maker, but that’s a different topic). All ad blockers need to do is read that indicator. That might not be super simple, but I have faith in the abilities of the brilliant people behind many ad-blocking technologies.

Myanmar’s average internet speed looks to be around 10-20mbps, so they probably stream with lower quality. Their GDP per capita is ~$1,150, so ads being shown to people in Myanmar wouldn’t be worth much anyway.

I don’t really get how that worked. If I was in a group of people arriving to a new and mysterious land and our leader decided to order the ships burned so that we couldn’t head back, I’d assume he’d lost his marbles and elect a new leader.

I just tested it by updating something and it didn’t work, so I would say no, we don’t have background updates on F-Droid.

That’s interesting, thanks

I’m not a huge fan of Maven either. I guess I’m just spoiled by Cargo.

Those are both solutions that only work sometimes and for the former, you have no way of knowing if it worked unless you actually listen to the result. Having to download the podcast twice is also rather undesirable.