Oh no, the video game industry is dead. Good thing we still have about thirty million video games to choose from.

If we’re at the point where it takes “economy of scale” to remain in the game then the average miner must have invested in a whole lot of hardware and such. What happens when the cost of financing the premises and equipment outweighs the meagre returns over electricity cost from keeping things running? There could be periods where nobody’s making money. Not that I have any idea if we’re in one.

Bitcoin mining hasn’t had anything to do with GPUs since 2014. Ether, since 2022. It’s the AI people you’re looking for.

Yeah whatever they improved for the remaster, it pales in comparison to the upgrades available in modded Skyrim.

the doomed king and his armed guards need to escape through a secret passage that just so happens to cut through my jail cell seems a little too convenient

I remember playing it for the first time in 2006 and I had completely forgotten about that guff by the time I got out of the tutorial. My character went on to ignore the main quest for many dozens of hours.

Of course several of those hours were spent struggling to defeat boars that started appearing on the road at level 5. They were insanely tough since I’d accidentally made the most difficult possible custom class. At least the remaster doesn’t have that problem. Instead the combat is very easy — unless you go up one level in difficulty in which case you’ll probably be killed by a mudcrab.

Lemmy would be decimated.

Okay cattywampas, if that even is your real name.

As I heard about it — mostly from people who migrated to mastodon — the “verified” nonsense on old Twitter was the cause of many problems. But I was never there myself, so all I really know is that I’d want no part of it.

Come on Bluesky, try to hold it together long enough to finish taking out Twitter before you go for complete enshittification.

Oh, only a third of all Americans. Practically nobody. Way down there in the less-than-five-billion user club with nodebb and mbin. Why even go there?

It already exists at least as an “experiment” but I guess now it’s nearly ready for full production use. Perhaps the new terms of use text is motivated by not enough people accepting the old merino opt-in prompt as well as wanting to get more third-parties involved in the system. More details here: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/browser/urlbar/firefox-suggest-telemetry.html

When Merino integration is enabled on the client and the user has opted in to Firefox Suggest data collection, Firefox sends everything the user types in the address bar to the Merino server.

They want to intercept your searches and url entries to run them through the privacy preserving data extracting machine in order to collect data that will be sold to advertisers and used to pollute your search results and url suggestions with paid-for links. They were trying to be vague about it so that people would not understand this, and instead all they accomplished was to make people think they want to record everything you type into every web form. That’s my guess, anyway. Maybe they really do want everything.

Indeed, fingerprinting. Preventing it is one thing Mozilla could be working on. Going all-out on it really, devoting significant engineering resources to making their browser fingerprinting resistance bulletproof. Reworking every js api with defence against adversarial use of it in mind. If they’re really that desperate for cash they could sell it as a premium feature for a modest subscription fee, although obviously it’d be available free of charge for those willing to get their Firefox builds from someone other than Mozilla.

Don’t panic, though! Much like the competition does, while we sell your data we’ll tell you all about how we respect your privacy so much more than the competition does. It’s for the best. Driving away all its users is the only way to make Firefox commercially viable. That’s just how capitalism works.

We will collect data about you and sell it, but only after we’ve run it through a privacy preserving machine that turns it into privacy jam so you can’t tell how much of yours is in the jar.

Looking back over my long and occasionally successful life, I must admit that I do have a few regrets here and there. One is that for a couple of years, I was a Skype user. Oh well, at least I stayed away from Teams.

I’m glad we have the word “enshittification” because otherwise it’d be difficult to explain what they’ve done to Twitch.

AI compute credits will be tied to printer ink, so if you run out of either one you need to buy more of both.

the data will no longer be saved locally

You no longer need to know your location history, only Microsoft and its very close friends will have that data?

I remember it well. I think the biggest difference between OS/2 then and Linux today is that OS/2 wasn’t all that much better than Windows in any easily understood way for the average non-technical user.