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@ A_Random_Idiot @lemmy.world

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  • Gaetz says he will no longer voluntarily cooperate with House Ethics probe

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  • insert a political cartoon of an average republican saying "I've nothing to hide" while a trying to hide a mount Kilimanjaro of shit and controversy and illegal behavior behind them.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

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  • dumb TVs

    Only one company makes Dumb TVs anymore, Sceptre, and the quality is very hit or miss due to the way they acquire their screens.

  • Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking

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  • ding ding ding ding ding

    This is why theres an uptick in anti-firefox stuff.

  • Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

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  • Didnt hear about that one, but I do recall some stories of people playing hundreds of hours, dev making a major catastrophic change, and steam still giving the refund.

  • Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code

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  • time for refunds.

    Steam has refunded games that added anti-cheat that broke linux playability in the past iirc

  • Manchin not endorsing Harris after she backed ending filibuster to codify abortion rights

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  • Oh wow, the republican infiltrator isnt supporting the democrats.

    I'm sooooooooo surprised.

  • Youtube has fully blocked Invidious

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  • I poked around dbzer0 and found a few streaming sites, Nothing which carried anything i was particularly interested in.

    Navigating this stuff without my ISP getting pissy is another hurdle, too.

    It was much easier 20+ years ago when you just searched KaZaA or Limewire, or back when piratebay was the site (and before it got drowned in virus traps)

  • Youtube has fully blocked Invidious

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  • I'm more and more inclined towards the idea of piracy myself as time goes on and media continues to shave itself down into more and more ridiculous, unrelated shards, that you have to subscribe to just to be able to SEE if they have what you want.

    I don't actively do it actively since I dont really know where to begin, and things I have found have been to sketch for me, or requiring memberships or even payments to join.

  • Youtube has fully blocked Invidious

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  • the problem is so many people are willing to say they'll take a stand.

    but when the time comes, the mindnumbingly overwhelming majority suck it up, because they must have their precious shiny and can not suffer even the mildest of inconvenience.

    Its my biggest gripe in gaming, but its a enormous gripe just in general, with everything. because it doesnt matter if you are talking about appliances, creative software, video games, streaming services, stores, etc.

  • TIL about Brandolini's Law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it."

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  • We use words seriously, to convey facts and and truths.

    They use words as toys to infuriate and offend, all the while taking amusement from the collective effort to stop their disinformation and lies.

  • What weird false belief did you have as a kid?

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  • That my family cared about me and supported me.

  • J.D. Vance just sold out his family to defend Trump and Laura Loomer

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  • and when that happens, I guarantee she'll then be smeared all over the right wing news as some greencard grabber who only married him to infiltrate america.

  • How serious are you guys when you talk about punching nazis?

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  • The main argument is that the means dictates the ends, so if we want a non violent (and non opressing) society, punching people won’t help.

    And this failed logic is exactly why we are where we at right now, on the brink of the Fourth Reich rising across the US and Europe.

    Because tolerant people have forgotten the most important thing about a tolerant society.

    That it must be rigorously and viciously defended from those who seek to exploit the social contract to elevate their attacks on it, and it requires far more than words and wind to achieve that... again, as evidence of where we are now as a society. Because their ultimate goal is to undo the society we love, and replace it with oppression, fear, and hatred.

  • Why Trump is spreading the lie that schools are performing gender-affirming surgeries on children

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  • conservatives fear the entire idea of transgenderism, because they hate and fear the entire idea of women, and they can not, in their myopic little mind, understand why a man would want to willingly "debase" himself by "pretending" to be a woman. Thats why they think its so perverse and deranged. Because thats how much they hate women.

    cause you notice pretty much ALL their antitrans rhetoric circles around the transwomen and penises.

    In the years of listening to this vomitous verbal diatribe, I have not heard one single comment about transmen.

  • Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead

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  • I hate having to be on the side of "Defending" google... but this is the app makers fault, They are the ones using whats provided and installing the artificial limitations.

    Google just provided the capability to do it. The app makers are executing it.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • Projecting a bit with that whole "Acting superior" claim, aintcha.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • You are trying to put the onus on end users, while also simultainously pursuing some weird guilt based appeal to emotion.

    And still refuse to address the core issue, which is the lack of moderation and policing of content creating the essential need for adblockers in the first place.

    Ad companies don't get create this toxic hellscape, then blame end users with wrung hands and empty "Won't someone thing of the poor content creators" appeals to emotion to try and handwave the responsibility away.

    Why won't they think of the content creators? Why wont they do something to reduce the actual necessity for adblock in the interest of the poor, downtrodden content creators?

    Especially in a world where far better alternatives (like merch and patreon type sites) exists to give them money, directly, without having to deal with advertising hellscapes.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • I don't voluntarily consume malware, malicious software, or hate speech/propaganda.

    Its just forced upon me when I don't protect myself.

    Are you really happy with yourself, white knighting for the poor defenseless advertising companies? The ones who serve this shit, without policing or moderation? The lack of which is precisely why adblocking, the thing you are trying to blame users for with your disingenuous "You criticize society, yet you exist in society.. interesting" type argument, exists in the first place.

    All the ad companies have to do to get rid of adblocking is police and moderate their content that they serve. Something they actively refuse to do.

    And yet you don't have a single criticism for that. You have nothing but vigorous defense of it, and shifting of blame to the users, for it.

  • Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.

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  • Your entire post is trying to frame end users for the responsibility of what the advertising companies have done (or more like failed to do) and caused as a result.

    You're trying to hold a fork up and demand everyone acknowledge as a spade, and ridicule anyone who doesnt agree with a very dismissive attitude.