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Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox. Spoofing Chrome magically makes this problem go away.

Sometimes I get curious about chromium based browsers and consider giving them a shot for a while.

Then Google does shit like this and I keep mainlining Firefox out of spite. Half the reasons people experience “issues” with Firefox are just dumb garbage like this (see sites / web content being developed with Chrome-based in mind)

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New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

Reddit feels less genuine for sure, than it would have even as far back as 3 years ago. The mod purge probably accelerated things greatly but in general it’s felt like Reddit was going corporate astroturfing route for a while. Real discussions are very sparse compared to the amount of people telling you “to solve problem, buy this expensive thing!”

At this point the only thing Reddit has is a numbers advantage. The videos are no huge loss because at this point since you’re forced to use their (god awful) mobile app they either autoplay obnoxiously or automatically popup obscuring the comments (discussion is 90% of why I go to a forum why make it harder to see comments?).

The desktop experience is still okay but the constant pushing to get you to enable notifications is very irritating.

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VLC tops 6 billion downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

I know AI has some PR issues at the moment but I can’t see how this could possibly be interpreted as a net negative here.

In most cases, people will go for (manually) written subtitles rather than autogenerated ones, so the use case here would most often be in cases where there isn’t a better, human-created subbing available.

I just can’t see AI / autogenerated subtitles of any kind taking jobs from humans because they will always be worse/less accurate in some way.

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Chonk chart

The uwu-fication of animal obesity these past ten years or so has been pretty disturbing to witness.

Tracks as a “cute” way for pet owners to avert feeling guilty/responsible for their animals being dangerously overweight.

“Oh no Mr. Wiggles isn’t obese he’s just a heckin’ chonkerino wholesome chungus” meanwhile the cat wheezes trying to go up and down the stairs.

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Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature

In a shocking turn of events, google decided once again to make their namesake service worse for everyone.

Legitimately baffling, keeping this feature doesn’t really seem like it would impact anyone except those that use it, while removing it not only impacts those people that already use it, but those who would potentially have reason to in the future.

Cannot think of a single benefit to removing a feature like this.

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No Man's Sky: Orbital Update

Props for continuing to update this game over the years without (any!) dlc or mtx. While the game might’ve been a buggy mess at launch I think HG has more than made up for their mistakes with the insane lifespan this game has had.

Most companies would be starting to sunset support for a game at this point but HG are extraordinarily committed to improving No Mans Sky (indefinitely?)