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courtneymilan.com
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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dominictarason.com
Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY.

Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
August 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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daiz.moe
As I've been saying: real money to random reward pipelines should always be classified as gambling. Doesn't matter if we're talking digital or physical, it should be considered gambling and heavily regulated accordingly. Can't sell for anyone under 18, can't be advertised in most places, etc.
leonxiao.com Leon Xiao @leonxiao.com · Aug 25
New research: spending money on physical #CardPacks is also linked to problem gambling. 🎰

We answer an FAQ: enough about video game #LootBoxes; what about Pokémon / Magic: The Gathering cards? 🃏💳

We surveyed ≈2,000 card game players in English-speaking Western countries: doi.org/10.1037/adb0....
August 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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sosowski.bsky.social
Oh my god, Copilot is allowed to create and fix issues on Microsoft github repos and it goes exactly as you'd have imagined.

Try going into any of these PRs commits to see poor Microsoft engineers try to coerce Copilot into doing literally anything right.

www.reddit.com/r/Experience...
From the ExperiencedDevs community on Reddit: My new hobby: watching AI slowly drive Microsoft employees insane
Explore this post and more from the ExperiencedDevs community
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May 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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rosemarymosco.com
Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.
A comic called Bird Photography tips. A good bird photo shows a cape may warbler perched on a branch, with excellent lighting, subject in focus, and field marks clearly visible. A great bird photo shows the warbler in mid hop, labeled with peerless athleticism, levitation??, powerful. An excellent bird photo shows a little round warbler facing the camera, labeled borb, round, and a good bird. An exceptional bird photo shows the bird zooming forward mid flight, labeled nyooooom.
April 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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daiz.moe
It is absolutely ridiculous how "we are punishing anything with vague aesthetics of gambling even if there's zero actual gambling" keeps happening, all the while nothing is done about the actually harmful lootbox gambling shit plaguing #games. Fuck you Google & co

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnhN...
Balatro is now 18+ on YouTube.
YouTube video by Balatro University
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April 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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daiz.moe
And this is by no means a new gripe, but the undiscoverable nature of Discord servers sucks and it's a terrible wider support platform for that reason. It'd be nice if devs ran their own forums you could browse on the web but barely anyone does that these days for multiple reasons.
March 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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tinari.bsky.social
2 years ago I responded to a Tweet from @shankmods.bsky.social

It turned into an unforgettable adventure

Shank is a great storyteller, and the video he made chronicling the whole ordeal is truly something special

Even if you have no interest in CRTs, it’s worth a watch!

youtu.be/JfZxOuc9Qwk?...
What Happened to the World's Largest Tube TV?
YouTube video by Shank Mods
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December 22, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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daiz.moe
Yes please to any legislation that will call out DRM-encumbered digital as the undefined time period rental that it truly is. The only way to truly buy and own digital media is via DRM-free files that you can download, copy, and store on your devices however you want, forever.
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · Mar 1
Consumers are being sold an illusion of ownership. "Buy" a digital movie, an e-book, or a game today? Tomorrow, it could vanish. 🕳️

Senator @wyden.senate.gov is calling on the FTC to crack down on this digital "bait-and-switch." ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/28/w...

What's at stake? 🧵
Wyden to FTC: Stop digital “bait-and-switch” sales | Internet Archive Blogs
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March 1, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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migeel.sk
1/4 Life hack: uninstalling the Notepad app in Windows 11 gives you back old notepad.exe that starts faster and uses less memory. This Notepad is going to be a bit cursed and registry hacks are needed to uncurse it. 👇
November 20, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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paletteswap.site
Early reviews of Civilization VII have criticized a new mechanic requiring Western countries to send $50 billion per month to Israel.

paletteswap.site/dif...
February 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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daiz.moe
To give a more concrete example re: subtitle rendering, here's @nebula.tv, YouTube, and what I'd like to see. The linebreaking on Nebula is awful and the sub box desperately needs padding, although ideally I'd like to see a proper outer stroke and subtle shadow for pleasing but well readable subs.
An example of video subtitle rendering on Nebula. It's a two-liner with terribly inbalanced lines, the upper line stretching from basically one end of the video to the other while the second line has just two words. The subtitles are white text on a semitransparent black box background. Said black box background is seriously lacking in padding, leading to the white text almost touching the video area behind at the horizontal edges. The font is also of regular weight instead of bold or semibold. An example of subtitle rendering for the same line on Youtube. It has a lot better automatic line breaking that balances the lines well, although the break on this line could be also placed somewhat due to the presence of punctuation (the first word on the second line ends with a semicolon - this punctuation end could have been moved to the first line). Otherwise it is a similar white text on semitransparent black box background. The background has better padding and the font weight also looks like a semibold, both of which are improvements on Nebula. A final example showing what I would like to see from subtitle rendering on Nebula. Ideal linebreaking (as discussed in the previous image), and instead of a black box background the white subtitles have a proper outer stroke border, which is vastly more aesthetically pleasing while also remaining very readable thanks to the bold-approaching semibold weight used, reasonable outline size as well as the subtle dropshadow on top that elevates the subtitles from the underlying video.
December 8, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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daiz.moe
And while the last image there is what I'd personally like to see as the default presentation-wise (do read the alt text on the images for detailed explanations), Nebula should definitely also have customization options for how subs are presented to tweak stuff like size, background type, etc.
December 8, 2024 at 6:17 PM
nanaya.net
this thing is a bit wonky on firefox due to `scrollbar-gutter: stable both-edges` causing extra padding on the left side 🫤
February 8, 2024 at 6:49 AM
nanaya.net
the heck is this
February 8, 2024 at 6:35 AM