It’s a scientific study. It’s useful because it provides additional evidence for something that we all suspect is occurring, and they don’t find exactly the results that you might expect.

Great explainer about the changes, and reasons why it actually behooves Google to continue to allow ad blockers in some form. All that said…this still reaffirms my decision to go Firefox, always and forever, to get the most complete privacy options.

They’re taking on the entire Republic of Gamers, all by themselves? Those madlads!

I hate how the Atlantic will publish well-thought pieces like this, and then turn around and publish op-eds like this that are practically drooling with lust for AI.

on the mobile version they forbid this :(

at least they allow addons on mobile. i think mobile Chrome STILL doesn’t

This was posted in c/Environment yesterday. I bring that up to point you over to that thread, where @[email protected] had some great insights into why this move is more regressive than it sounds.

Why does the title focus on 3D pipes specifically?

The developer kicked off a screen saver contest among the Windows OpenGL team, with 3D Pipes being one of the entries alongside 3D Maze, 3D Text, and 3D Flying Objects. The team was supposed to vote for a single winner to be included with Windows NT 3.5, but when a person on Microsoft’s marketing team saw them, he said, “You can call off the vote. We’re adding all of them to the product!”

I feel like I hear about 3D Maze way more when people are reminiscing about old screensavers. Just sorta weird titling

you’re right i’ve got a premium product on my hands

he can pay me $1 for a taste of deez nuts.

Camelcamelcamel already has an extension.

I wouldn’t say that nothing has changed. Maybe you have to be a former daily user to notice, but most of the subs have gone downhill. Quality of posts is at a 10-year low, likely due to the mass exodus of power users and mods. I’m not saying that every valuable user has left, and I’m not saying that reddit is dead. But the quality-to-shit ratio went from 60/40 to 40/60, and it is noticeable.

i took their comment as more of a call to action, to highlight that there will be no “breaking point” unless we make one. if there are examples in other, similar countries where people simply did nothing rather than rising up, then it’s not hard to imagine it happening here. folks who talk about how we will reach a “breaking point” often don’t imagine themselves being part of the change.

we are quickly careening towards a world where textbooks cost $500 a pop and the majority of students obtain their books illegally. Piracy is a pain in the ass, but if students need their textbooks and the publishers make it impossible to obtain textbooks without taking out a loan, then publishers are effectively paying students to spend the time figuring out piracy. If a student makes $15 an hour at their job, then they could spend 30 hours researching and downloading their textbook and it would still be a better use of their time than actually buying a $500 textbook.

honestly you’re playing it smart. I can’t speak to cable, but you are right that streaming apps don’t exactly justify the bump in resolution. The image they spit out to your screen is 4K, but the compression required to stream in 4K means that most of the added details are just crushed by the format. So ironically, you don’t really benefit from 4K unless you use Blurays, at which point you don’t really need any of the “smart” features of your 4K tv.

the smartshitification of TVs is annoying, and i too hate being tracked by every device i use. That said, the incredible value of these TVs can’t be overstated. Most people can’t or won’t spend more than $500 on a TV, so most people would still be using 1080p displays if it wasn’t for this phenomenon, but now EVERYONE gets to have a 4k TV because the price is partially subsidized by all those ads you’re seeing.

I think it’s probably a net negative for society overall, but just wanted to point out that there is an upside to all those ads.

I agree completely! Underfunding of public schools is all part of the plan. Congressional Republicans get to send their kids to private school while their impoverished constituents are forced to send their kids to public schools that are literally falling apart. Most of those kids learn to hate school, so they don’t go to college. The cycle repeats.

undereducation. The missing skill here is critical thinking, and critical thinking is something that you don’t usually get a lot of practice with until college. The conservative strategy of raising the price of college, refusing to spend money on student aid, and demonizing college professors as liberal brainwashers has been quite effective in keeping their constituents away from higher education.

Thank you for the excellent answers to both of my questions! I understand your earlier comment perfectly now 👌

what do you need PWA support for? any clue why Mozilla reduced/removed support?

mullvad browser?