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Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers
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The harder they push their official app, the more sketched out by it I am.
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Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers
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The harder they push their official app, the more sketched out by it I am.
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Windows 11's latest endearing mess contains rigorously enforced Britishisms
Microsoft continuing the tradition of alternating good and bad releases of the OS.
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Linus Torvalds -- Creator of Linux -- defends gun regulation, woke communists and trans rights. Linux is political!
Reminder that according to DeSantis's general counsel in a courtroom, when asked to define "woke" said
the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them.
Which doesn't sound like such a bad thing
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Suggestions for slightly older AAA games for Steam Deck?
Depending on your definition of AAA and older
Are you asking specifically for older AAA, or is that more a description for good games that have good battery life on the Deck?
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Whats a game that everybody seems to love that you cant stand for one reason or another?
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It's weird, I liked a lot of the things they did mechanically: I liked that they filled a lot of "negative possibility space" where if I saw a boulder on top of the hill and decide to push it just for fun, the game acknowledges it. The freedom of traversal was also interesting.
But I really disliked how they did lots of mini-dungeons instead of some really in-depth ones. I was very disappointed in the first Legendary Creature what whatever they're called, and kinda switched off after that.
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Twitter US ad sales plunged 59%, and internal forecasts are grim, NYT reports
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There aren't clear rules by design
https://beehaw.org/post/107014
The issue as I see it with modern social media is the way in which rules are enforced. There are many good reasons to itemize specific behavior which is not allowed, but the downside is that extremely specific rules are easy to maneuver around. We’ve all experienced someone who’s a real jerk on the internet but manages to never get banned because they never explicitly violate any rules. I’m not sexist, they’ll claim, but happen to post a lot of articles calling into question modern feminism or criticize the wage gap.
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What games do you break?
While not exactly what you're talking about, I was thinking about it a bit ago and I think Vampire Survivor might actually be a good example of "game breaking" as a mechanic. You can get a good synergy of items that create a feedback loop, and use items on the map to get above the item limit and it feels like the fun you get from breaking a game. But, interestingly, it's balanced around that, and when the enemies suddenly jump in strength you don't feel so powerful anymore.
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First impressions: Yes, Apple Vision Pro works and yes, it’s good.
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Reminds me a lot of Google Glass, which was a failure, and it was considered too unnerving while being much less intrusive.
If it does flop, I'd be curious if they're not concerned about it hurting their brand then they lost money. I don't follow apple very closely, but I don't remember the last really failed product
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Traffic cop sues city over ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ cards for NYPD friends and family
It's kinda wild to me that the department doesn't really seem to be denying the policy or the claims made, their response just kinda talked around the issue.
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CNN boss ousted after backlash over Donald Trump town hall
To me, definitely a good thing, being a mouthpiece for Trump, and it seems like he was making all sorts of bad decisions.
That said, I can understand a bit why. I'm certainly guilty of having paid attention to the news much more during Trump's presidency just out of concern for all the unexpected things that were happening. I'd assume (but haven't checked) that news numbers are down across the board since the country got a bit more stable.
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Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi
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The power aspect is a lot bigger of a factor than I would have thought. I had an old computer I was going to use as a server for Foundry that I could keep up all the time, but when I measured its wattage and did the math, it would cost me $20 a month to keep on. A pi costs like $2 to keep running, so it paid for itself pretty quick
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What is your favourite 3rd party Lemmy client?
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Interesting, mine is 60+ characters and was fine. Might be a 64 limit
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What games do you break?
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I love that you can go full Limitless and make potions that make you make better potions that make you make better potions... until you can make a potion that maxes everything
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OpenAI faces defamation suit after ChatGPT completely fabricated another lawsuit
I haven't actually used ChatGPT, but I've used the "new bing" AI. With that, whenever it states something as fact, it fixes a citation to a website where it pulled it, so you can verify things. Does ChatGPT do that as well?
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Sports-Focused Instance
Thank you! I wasn't a fan of having the NFL teams scattered across different instances, hopefully it congregates there well
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Todd Monken - two plays as OC with Cleveland
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As far as I've been admitted to tell, he hasn't, so it'll be interesting how much he adapts to it out whether he designs the offense as traditional pocket passing with lethal scrambles.
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The indictment describes Trump showing classified documents to unauthorized people. So why wasn't he charged with dissemination? Possibly because more charges are coming in a different venue.
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Their website also makes a (surprisingly common) mistake of sending you the entire article and trusting your browser to shorten it. If you turn off JavaScript, or disable it for that website, you can see the whole article.
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Russian military receives Chinese armored vehicles
Looking at the Wikipedia and googling around a little bit, it seems that these are "new" with respect to the vehicles, but it is an old design. It seems(maybe?) that China was licensing the manufacture of them from Russia, so it's slightly ironic they're being sold back, but I don't know how common that is.
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Jerboa lets you preview your post's formatting before posting
More power to Jerboa, but I think the progressive web app works just great, and of course already has the preview feature.
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I think that might be how it works. At the very least, if you're able to comment/vote from a @fanaticus.social on !news.beehaw.org then you're definitely federated