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  • Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer

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  • I think you're misunderstanding. I think what the person above is saying is that if Youtube can go back to skippable ads and not pull out of Vietnam or go bankrupt (lol), then places like the EU or even individual EU countries have more than enough leverage to demand this.

  • Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer

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  • No, but some public transit services, random service providers, random SMEs whose services I use communicate solely through Whatsapp.

  • Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer

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  • I'd love that, but I need Whatsapp to participate in society. Several companies, mostly SMEs in fact but also big ones won't talk to me if not through Whatsapp.

  • Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer

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  • I guess the alternative is locking their people out of Youtube by effectively banning it. Even this is a gutsy move TBH.

    It's the same deal when "how is it that you're paying taxes if you're a libertarian"?

  • 3rd day of 2026...

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  • Naming problems is okay. Do that. Name them. Try to find solutions. That doesn't make you a doomer.

    Telling other people to not be happy, and be engaged without pointing to a specific problem does.

    All I'm saying is that Big Tech and AI bots peddle and foment defeatism. Look at climate change propaganda if nothing else.

  • 3rd day of 2026...

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  • Yeah, but doomerism doesn't help engagement.

    Doomscrolling and commenting in echo chambers is not engagement, it's the way the system traps you. Being merry at Christmas, then helping your neighbour and building community so that you can set a mansion on fire together is engagement.

    Jokes aside though, let's say you live in Europe (this is a European platform, so let's default to that). Here is the way to get engaged: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/

    Look at the Stop Killing Games initiative. You can do what that guy did. If you don't feel that you can shoulder that level of engagement, then just get your ID, go through the list on the website, and sign the petitions you think are worthy. Takes almost zero effort, zero money and it makes a difference since these are legally binding petitions. Tell your friends, coworkers and family too.

    Then go find out what political parties are campaigning around you, find one that is closest to your vision of society, and help their activists trudge through the snow to get people out to vote next time. Or if you don't feel like trudging through snow yourself, just brew a bunch of hot tea and take it out to them to make them feel supported.

    Go join an union.

    Or go volunteer, or at least donate to an organisation that does something good. Put your time or money into something worthwhile. You can plant a tree or buy a combat drone, depending on your priorities, but everyone is taking donations, and every little bit helps.

    You can acknowledge that shit's fucked, and still be happy in your community. In fact, building and sharing that happiness is the biggest way you can help stop this. The people doing this, and the people supporting them are not happy people, and one of the biggest reasons they are doing this are because they are not happy people.

  • Tech Support

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  • Its incredibly hard to search on the web nowadays, so this is the best I could find. If I try searching for anything military, it's propaganda slop.

    It's not specifically about nukes, and it might have been the origin point of an urban legend that reached my circles mutated.

    https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98125

    Also it's technically a storage leak not a memory leak.

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  • The problem I see with this line of reasoning is, among other things, is that just telling these young men to suck it up won't cut it.

    The current layoff tsunami is hurting men more than women since male-dominated fields are more affected. We live in "unprecedented times", promises are kinda worthless.

    These men are expected to marry and father children today, and find mates in a society that ties their value to their salary. According to data from dating apps, that isn't happening, women are still marrying up, to older men, and this cohort of men is just getting shut out.

    But what they can do and will do in the next few years is vote for people who present a solution to them for today, instead of marginalizing their problem.

    Today, that's fuckheads like Trump and Tate.

    So yeah, we can argue with them or listen to them. My point is if we as a society make an effort to listen to the ones that try to speak to us, we can get them out of this hole.

    Or if we just go and argue that their problems don't matter as much, there will just be more of them in crisis and they will eventually start murdering people that argue with them today if they get told that's their way out.

  • Tech Support

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  • One thing I think about is that we make servers with ECC RAM because normal RAM has cosmic rays cause random corruption IIRC once every 100 days on average.

    It's overkill for desktops because you don't care about 3 bit flips every year if you only have 1 machine as opposed to managing thousands in a datacenter, and you regularly restart your stuff anyway.

    And then you have people who have to deal with hundreds of people who never restart their stuff.

    And companies ship stuff with memory leaks all the time on top of this. US nuclear guidance systems have them, but they are not expected to have to be on constantly for weeks on end like the laptop of Joan from Marketing.

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  • Well I wouldn't say an entire generation, but apparently in the urbanite Western Gen Z population, the wage gap has reversed with women earning more than men due to how modern education and gender roles interact.

    So if you were to be born in this millennium, the "most privileged" demographic is Western urbanite women.

    In any case, I think it would just be a nicer thing if we were nicer to all people that are disadvantaged, or just people in general. Tearing others down doesn't lift you up.

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  • The only good thing about this is that we get to watch how Trump can even make US naval procurement worse. It's definitely going to be a challenge, but the US definitely chose the best person for the job.

    Immovable objects and unstoppable forces and stuff.

  • Freud would have something to say...

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  • grounded (supposedly)

    Yeah I think you're right, there is no way they are flying around with so many unsecured articles in the cabin. Or maybe the world would get lucky and the pilots would decide to lock the cockpit door and practice stall and spin recovery.

  • Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried

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  • That'd block google and youtube, even outside a VPN.

  • I'm not an artist. If I sketch something, and have an ai upscale it for me, is it still slop, vs just asking it to do everything?

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  • I'll be honest, your technique makes the half done sketch look better and closer to what I'd consider a finished piece than the AI copy.

    It fucked up your lines and made them uninteresting. I like the original better.

    I'm neither militantly anti-AI nor an artist, I just think AI is kinda shit at doing things.

  • The Inheritance

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  • Being IT for you must be like being janitor to a brothel

  • Obama encourages Democrats to focus on winning back House, not "tactical differences"

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  • He was? In the primaries?

    Bloomberg made a run just to try to prevent him from winning. Then all establishment candidates stepped back at once to endorse Biden, and there was a smear thing coming from Warren...

    Is my memory wrong over here?

  • New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code

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  • Put a random fuck in the comment to differentiate yourself

  • TIL The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus is a biomechanical oscillator (internal clock) in the brain of animals which synchronizes from external stimuli such as light

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  • Actually, you have two cycles, like everyone else. A long cycle that is indeed 26-28 hour long, which makes sure you sleep every once in a while that is pure time based. And a short cycle that syncs to light.

    These two cycles interact in complex ways, but the gist of it is that if you fuck with it by staying in a dark room with no lights but screens, it ends up being pretty random, with 26-28 hour long days.

  • :|

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  • To be honest, I was more into ancient Greek, Egyptian and Norse than Christian mythology as I was growing up, so yeah, it might be.

    I am not a scholar on these things by far.