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  • YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge

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  • Nope, that's not what uBlock is saying. YouTube rolls out new adblock detection several times a day. uBlock can't stop it instantly, it takes time for the devs to adjust their code. So for a few hours, YouTube's detection works. If you haven't been caught yet, then it means you've been lucky to get the rollout after uBlock already had a fix. Some of us aren't that lucky. Last week, I got an early rollout several hours before uBlock had a patch. Turned off all my extensions, used default uBlock settings, all their suggestions, had no effect. A few hours later, uBlock had a fix and I didn't see YouTube's block anymore.

  • Parents!! Make sure you check your kid's candy thoroughly this year!! Look what i just found in my son's Reese's Peanut Butter Cup!!

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  • This sounds like something out of the Fazbear Frights books.

  • What a time to be alive

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  • This is a joke, right? This feels like a very dumb solution. I don't know much about UTF-8 encoding, but it sounds like Roman characters can be encoded shorter than most or all others because of a shorthand that assumes Roman characters. In that case, why not take that functionality and let a UTF-8 block specify which language makes up most of the text so that you can have that savings almost every time? I don't see why one would want it to be random.

  • I refuse to believe this show is this funny

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  • Lower Decks is like if Rick and Morty didn't make me sick.

  • Gene Roddenberry's first sci-fi show pitch from 1955: "The Transporter"

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  • The ending bits that imply a darker vision of this future suggests a very different direction for the show. Still, there are Star Trek episodes that do consider the holodeck from this angle. Maybe we need a mirror universe holodeck episode.

  • Apple backs national right-to-repair bill, offering parts, manuals, and tools | Repair advocates say Apple's move is beneficial, but also strategic

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  • A couple years ago, Apple announced a program to let people buy replacement parts for their devices just as Congress was talking about right to repair. The program ended up having tons of limitations: very small part selection, and prices identical to Apple's own repair prices, etc. It was clear that this was an attempt to make it seem like they allowed end-user repair, while doing as much as possible to prevent it. Apple still uses software pairing so that you can't use working components from donor devices. You can't swap the camera module between two identical iPhones without getting errors, and this can only be fixed by getting Apple's help. They are going out of their way to stop independent repair, and have been for some time.

    So what's the catch this time? I suspect it's probably more software restrictions. Currently, nobody can sell aftermarket parts for most phones, so any replacement parts need to come from Apple (and with Apple's restrictions). I'd want to see legislation to ban software locks and enable third parties to make replacement parts for phones.

  • Cities Skylines 2 player feedback

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  • I don't like how we have 2 games called CS2 in the same year. Since Cities has worse performance, I say we all agree to abbreviate it some other way, like 2 Cities 2 Skylines.

  • What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?

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  • Where's Apple?

    Edit: oh there they are. Far too low on the list imo.

  • copy paste

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  • To the Max!

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  • Nvidia: announces DLSS to enable "4K" gaming

    Gaming industry: requires DLSS to get cinematic frame rates on last-gen hardware.

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    the freer the money...

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  • That's the dangerous aspect of capitalism. The best thing for a business is to have no competition, but the best thing for us is fierce competition. Take the internet. ISPs fought hard early on to get regional monopolies which they exploit today. Nobody can compete with Comcast where I live because Comcast will just use their market position to price them out. Is it really a free market if one company is completely invulnerable? Comcast might be free, but are its competitors or customers free? Free market needs to be redefined. Our government has the power to fix this, they just don't feel like it.

  • reposting my old reddit posts to lemmy rule

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  • He is worthy!

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  • ...Mister Rogers in a blood-stained sweater

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  • My head cannon is that moopsies were invented by Section 31 as weaponized tribbles.

  • ATACMS aren't real and can't hurt you

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  • Precisely because it knows where it isn't!

  • World attention

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  • We forgot them, and now Hong Kong is just as repressed as the rest of China.

  • Duolingo focusing on the important phrases to learn

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  • PETA, is that you?

  • The citrus gives it corrosive damage too

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  • Aperture Science's legal representatives would like to know your location.

  • Comedy = Tragedy + Time

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  • So I guess it's actually pretty funny when you do the math.

  • Let's move this along, future boy

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  • I keep 3 forms of payment on me for this reason. Phone, card, cash, in that order.

    Edit: Within 30 minutes of making this comment, I was at a Walmart. No NFC payment. The machine didn't like my card. Now I have 2 quarters and a penny in my pocket.