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The Palestinian workers have to wear different color clothes so security knows to not let them use certain hallways.

I can’t afford Covid Pro, so I have to watch ads

s/sure to be a winner/sure to win/

Probably, but they don’t really have to. Exploiting the OS itself is way better.

Why would you want to turn ownership of a country-sized apparatus that acts solely in your interests into something as motionless as cash?

I’d say that’s pretty typical. Nobody wants to pester or to leave someone hanging, but that timeframe is different for every relationship.

Yeah no, it’s a totally fair question and I get the spirit of it, but it’s still interesting to reflect on the way that video games have a pretty strange concept of genre or “format” vs. other media like video or print.

Maybe it’s cuz games are so heavily influenced by their associated hardware.

I mean, I guess everything is, right? Early printing press is mostly pamphlets not books (aside from the bible), and you don’t get TV shows without TVs.

Especially if they were born January 1st.

December 31st throws the whole thing off though.

It’s kind of like asking for the best video.

It wouldn’t make sense to compare TV shows, movies, Youtube videos, TikToks, sporting events, commercials, journalistic footage, etc. all as a single category.

Idk. So do you ask for “best RPG” or something like that instead? Seems overly specific now.

Most universal answer I can give is:

Every country that has attempted communism has been desperate and vulnerable.

Desperate to find a strongman to save their crumbling old government, and vulnerable to having the CIA appoint their own strongman in turn.

What is the sound of one penny farthing?

I’d recommend some Scott Galloway. He’s an advocate for young men, but he’s not one of those toxic manosphere types. He’s not exactly a leftist, but he’s certainly a liberal by today’s standards.

Best of Module - by Module

Module has always been my soundtrack through hard times, and I was fortunate enough to get a signed copy of this album.

It’s a pretty well-constructed compilation and I think it’s worth a listen, no matter what you typically like.

But uh… I might be biased:

People wondering what Chrome has to do with a search monopoly:

The obvious benefit is that they can default the user’s search provider to Google.

But the more nefarious benefit is that, by controlling both the client and server, they can unilaterally decide the future of web standards. They don’t have to advocate for proposals, gain consensus, and limit themselves to well-supported standards the way other companies do. They can just do it, gain the first-mover advantage, and force others to follow suit.

If they don’t like HTTP/2, they can invent their own protocol and implement it for their search servers and Chrome. Suddenly, using Chrome with Google Search is way faster than using Chrome with Bing or using Firefox with Google Search. Even if Microsoft and Mozilla don’t like the protocol, they now have to adopt it or fall behind.

This has happened. QUIC was deployed in 2012. Firefox gained support in 2021.

They’re doing the same thing with Privacy Sandbox, and you can also look at browser feature compatibility tables to see how eager Google is to force their own interpretation of every not-yet-finalized web standard as the canonical interpretation.

Edit: Also, JPEG XL vs. WebP.

FTC works. For now.

The Importance of Ice

Lemmy does not understand that people are leaving X cuz of Nazis, not cuz it’s a centralized corpo platform.

People getting put on the no-fly list cuz of racial profiling, I guess?

Yes, unfortunately, and it’s healthy to recognize that. Good on ya.