Reminded me one of the vids of f4mi, although that ladiy’s approach is far more beautiful. Basically, she took advantage of ai scrapers relying on subtitles and YouTube allowing for pretty advanced styling of those very subtitles to insert garbage that only bots will see.

To those interested in the details, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEDFUjqA1s8 (selecting a working invidious instance is left as an exercise for the reader)

Quite simple, actually. If you want to do a thing that violates a law, you modify the law to allow the thing.

Codeberg is a forgejo instance, yes

You sure? To me some of the other options look more convenient, so to say, especially if you tend to watch stuff while away from home :)

As a Russian, fuck those assholes and the shithole they’re operating.

Please, just don’t. At least unless there’s a reasonably not shady ROM on XDA that you feel comfortable flashing.

a message

Or 6

I mean, scammers aren’t exactly the smartest tools in the shed (but usually the toolest), but this one seems especially weird. Like, wouldn’t they at least notice this whole campaign became a huge meme at this point?

Neither can we, little system. Neither can we.

A recent report from Stanford University in the US, published in the journal Nature Communications, found that recycling lithium-ion batteries is far more environmentally friendly than mining for new materials.

Huh, who knew

The music you guys breakdance to doesn’t have breakdowns?

Been on the receiving end of apologizing for no reason. Annoying AF

I’d rather not drink it, on the off chance it’s mixture of water and ethylene glycol, like in those snow globes, or some other poisonous shit.

Riiiiight, a chromium fork with questionable crypyo and a history of even more questionable decisions (referral scam or not blocking all the trackers, for example) is better than a non-chromium non-fork with no crypto and a history of questionable decisions.

And that, my friend, actually depends on the establishment you’re sourcing 'em from

Wasn’t there a more general definition as well, like man = human? Kinda outdated given the current trend of replacing those with persons and whatnot, yet presents enough reasonable doubt to me 🤷

Neovimservices ftw

Iirc, traffic lights are called robots in some African English dialects. Although it’s more like one of those regional peculiarities.

To me it looks more like they’re saying they’ll monetize their work no matter what, tho. One way is through direct payments by those who consider their articles worth paying for, then they don’t need to sell userdata or show ads; the other way is selling userdata. Well, there’s also non-targeted advertising, but mb it doesn’t worth as much or something (and targeted ads already pay close to nothing from a single viewer, afaik).

Where I personally draw the line is when such subscriptions still include ads (looking at you, “ad-free” disney+) or have unnecessarily large costs and so on. I mean, if they charge close to what they’re making with ads and selling data, we could get most websites ~tracker-free for probably a couple of bucks a month each. This, in turn, lessens the power of ad network owners, which again makes the web better. Although, mb I’m idealizing too much, idk.

Idk what’s the big deal, honestly. Remember the memes about yt premium, “I either give you my money, or my data, but not both”? Well, it’s kinda like that. The caveat is, their payment provider likely still collects data, and some info is saved on the backend anyways, but that’s another can of worms.