I'm old enough to remember the cat in the hat, but had to look up who the hat man was.

I use the gasbuddy web site now and then. I've refused to install the app just like I refuse any app like that. The web site is a pain but you can use it with some persistence. It's surely invasive too, and it's probably best to access it through a VPN, but it can't be as bad as the app sounds.

Bezos's ex got the other share.

Was $500 now $400 still lol.

The split decreases the value of 1 share.

Don't forget Bezos had a 2 for 1 split when he got divorced.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Good luck with that, how about a star trek replicator while you're at it.

Article didn't say whether this recent shooting was inside the bar or not, but it mentions that the earlier of the two shootings was from someone shooting "at" the bar, which I took to mean from the outside (it's unclear). Security measures like metal detectors at the entrance presumably wouldn't help with shootings from the outside.

This thing (like Amazon's) says home speaker but I don't even have to look to know that it's really a home microphone that uploads your private behaviour to Google.

Here's what a home speaker looks like, an Atwater Kent tube radio from 1931:

It delivered sound in only one direction. You could listen to it, but it didn't try to listen to you.

Dunno about Google but Youtube seems to be making some things harder on purpose, like seeing the date of a video or showing search results in chronological order.

Someone must have told them about proxmox lol.

I'd be interested to know if there's a way to fix this issue with extensions. Do you mean browser extensions? I use a browser sometimes and newpipe sometimes.

Using a browser and ublock origin, I find viewing youtube to work ok except for the occasional age gated video that I can't view without a google account. What's stopped working is search ordering and seeing timestamps. Like old comments might get labelled "2 years ago" with mouse-over no longer showing the actual date/time. It's not shown in the unrendered HTML in any obvious way either.

Thanks, I don't see any of those fixing the functionality that youtube broke, but the effort is appreciated. The one that shows the upload time only says you can use it while watching the video, but that time is shown in the text blurb if you click "more...". And it makes a network request, of course. I'm using firefox so ublock origin still works for blocking ads.

It occurs to me that everyone using phones might be why the quality of Lemmy posts is so low. It's too big a hassle for people to write anything informative through the phone keyboard, so they post a youtube link instead.

I hope we start getting more Graphene and similar phones but I also see some benefits to adding a little friction to using them on text-heavy sites.

And yeah, 6 billion phones users, but most of them don't give a crap about source code. So they're not really affected.

Mobile phones, sure, and they are important. But I'm typing on a Debian laptop right now. Not a phone. Phones aren't the whole world.

They're going to be more like Apple has been all along. It's annoying, but jeez, Android is not the whole world.

In ear hearing aids or similar?

I want to rewatch the Star Trek episode about the brain destroying video game. I keep being reminded of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

Yes I see what you're getting at. IDK how a software change proposal would be received. It could be that the devs think that the other comments on the thread could somehow identify the original poster or the topic. On at least one reddit subgroup there's a bot that does that on purpose (copies the original post and maybe the author name into a thread comment). The reasons for the bot might be specific to the subreddit.