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  • The return of ‘OG Facebook’ is a big Meta priority this year

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  • Probably they'll try to bring back features that cause people to interact more publicly, like poking. No way sponsored posts and ads are going away. For me it is an unusable app, way too little organic content on there. Marketplace is great though.

  • Netflix Raises Prices Including First Hike on Ad-Supported Tier

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  • Hahaha true. I'm not really there yet where they're requesting but we usually go with Play School or Bluey with our toddler. Fortunately ABC iView has both and is free with barely any ads.

  • Netflix Raises Prices Including First Hike on Ad-Supported Tier

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  • Huh, that's an interesting workaround.

  • Netflix Raises Prices Including First Hike on Ad-Supported Tier

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  • I find the paid with ads tier so confusing. Kind of defeats the purpose of paying.

    55% of new Netflix signups between Oct-Dec 2024 were for the ads tier though.

  • how much power does your system need?

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  • I did a physics degree and am comfortable with Joules, but in the context of electricity bills, kWh makes more sense.

    All appliances are advertised in terms of their Watt power draw, so estimating their daily impact on my bill is as simple as multiplying their kW draw by the number of hours in a day I expect to run the thing (multiplied by the cost per kWh by the utility company of course).

  • how much power does your system need?

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  • I was really confused by that and that the decided units weren't just in W (0.1 kW is pretty weird even)

  • Teens abandon X and Facebook as TikTok and WhatsApp gain momentum, report

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  • Yes

  • Counter-Drone Systems For Yachts Are Growing In Popularity

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  • That was really interesting.

    I've got to admit that I felt that elation/rush that they felt when finishing off that guy on the field.

    Horrible that the Russian is probably just a normal guy, but they are the invading force attacking a sovereign nation.

  • The PS5 disc drive is back in stock, but only for GameStop Pro members

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  • A few key Sony exclusives came out on the PS4, but overall in the industry third party games were hitting pretty hard (e.g. Sekiro, Bloodborne, Doom 2016, many indie games) that I consider part of the generation.

  • The PS5 disc drive is back in stock, but only for GameStop Pro members

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  • There's an argument that the PS4 generation was pretty great too, but Xbox had their last good console with the 360.

  • U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack

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  • I go one further and also use public/private key pairs that my acquaintances must use to decrypt the scrambled letters I mail them.

  • The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’

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  • Finally some good news!

  • Bitcoin hits record high as Trump vows to end crypto crackdown

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  • Income taxes go back into services that help society. How do you expect a government to fund any of the infrastructure and services that you take for granted around you without it?

  • Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source

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  • Have got two of my family members onto bitwarden and even that is a lot for the tech-illiterate. Couldn't imagine Keepass+syncthing.

    Ultimately, bitwarden is better than using hunter12 for everything like how they were.

  • Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill

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  • That's a really good point. So many of my friends who used silk road would be multimillionaires if they didn't spend the btc.

  • Man who threw away $500M Bitcoin hard drive sues city for right to search landfill

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  • This is such a monkeys paw. You have a drive with $500 million USD of Bitcoin, but the drive is somewhere in the local landfill.

    Such a curse, I can't imagine the regret they feel every day getting up for work.

    After 10 years though, isn't it just gone/destroyed? Rain/corrosion would have destroyed the drive by now.

  • DOJ proposes breakup and other big changes to end Google search monopoly

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  • Would YouTube get shittier if Google was broken up? I was under the understanding that YouTube is a loss leader service for Google, but I still think its one of the best social media sites on the web. Even when you consider the number of ads (that doesn't affect a revanced user).

  • Tantacrul mentions onboarding problems with average people learning to switch to the fediverse as an alternative to Facebook

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  • Hahaha, touché. To be fair though, a lot of people struggle with email.

    And if an easier version of email existed, email mightn't have caught on.

  • Tantacrul mentions onboarding problems with average people learning to switch to the fediverse as an alternative to Facebook

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  • He's more than capable of joining the fediverse, but he's also a UI/UX designer. I would say his main issue with the fediverse is the amount of friction between a normie being exposed to the concept and actually signing up and engaging with it.

    You have to admit that it isn't the simplest thing to do. People have to understand the concept of the fediverse, find an instance that will accept them, sign up (with confirmation required from the instance mods) and then find out how to find communities that they are interested in.

    It's not about whether a tech-savvy person can figure it out with some effort, it's about whether normal people can transition away from a monolithic, streamlined, social media to it.