I am really hoping you are right on this. Honestly id rather they don’t give me AI features “for free” seeing as how I don’t want them anyway

I also submitted feedback there. Probably amounts to nothing but you never know.

The big assumption here is that the website had time or money invested in it. I feel like the vast majority of websites these days are just ai garbage with enough ads to prevent you from even reading the thing and give your computer herpies as a bonus. The era of good faith advertising where the ads were reasonable and balanced with the quality of content is long gone. Most sites are now explicitly designed for exploitive data harvesting and endless ad delivery.

Of course, some websites are exceptions to this and adblock can easily be toggled off for those websites if you really want to support them. Taking off protections for a trusted partner though is quite different from raw dogging the whole internet

I also reported it as hostile and inappropriate. I am sure Google will do fuck all with that report but I enjoy being petty sometimes

Probably unsurprising to everyone here, but this is importantly NOT a severance in most cases. It is a delayed resignation. You submit your resignation but are expected to keep working for the duration of that period and can be fired at any point in that timeframe without any further payment.

Basically they are asking to voluntarily surrender your union protections so you can be shat upon. It is definitely not an offer for 8 month free wages in exchange for resigning

Adding to this windows attempts to end all support for windows 10, obsoleting a large number of computers later this year. I never thought I’d say this but Linux has never looked better…

I don’t think it makes me feel better to know that our descent into fascism is because gru promised 1MM rizz for it

I have only ever had great experiences visiting france, but then again I avoided Paris for the most part

I just want my hypnospace outlaw sequel. It was supposed to come out like a year ago and then never did.

I believed my hair would blow away with sufficient wind. And it basically did, it just took 30 more years

Yeah I mean you are right. I guess I am getting impatient waiting for society to decide this is a big enough problem to need to address it, and crippling the oil industry, while having a LOT of other negative ramifications, would essentially force people to use less oil and find alternatives/do without immediately. Ideally that wouldn’t be a necessary intermediate step to progress but it feels like no progress for so long it starts sounding appealing to force the issue

There have been groups doing this for quite a while in many detrimental industries. There was a documentary a while back about one of them (earth liberation front) that eventually got caught. They did extensive work to ensure workers at those facilities weren’t injured and it was just property destruction.

I have to think if enough property was destroyed the owners would run out of money and investors to build more

I have a potentially really dumb question: how is mastodon different from the assorted lemmys and such? I originally thought mastodon was just another fediverse instance but now that I think about it I don’t think I’ve seen posts and content from others on a mastodon instance, either on .world or where I am now at .ee. is this just due to defederation with mastodon or is mastodon different in some way that I am missing?

Probably not but do we really need more of them?

You can just never connect your TV to the Internet or make it forget all networks, that works pretty well if you have a console or PC hooked into it that is doing the actual content for it

I feel like this same subtlety is also what makes it really hard to meaningfully track if an ad is actually effective or not. How do they know if you bought it cause ads or cause you would have anyway? Sometimes I wonder if ads arent way way less effective than companies think they are

I’m not sure how this would work long term or if it would be any less annoying, but right now some content creators have ads within their content, like not YouTube ads but them just verbally promoting it. This could occur on peertube and is an option to still have a funding steam. It also allows creators to only have ads for things they are willing to support on their content. But it’s also harder to skip and a bit annoying as a viewer so not sure if this has long term potential

I have ubo, what are your other kinds of ad blocking? I always want to block as many ads as possible