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Sina , 8 days ago to Technology in YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes

I'll just use invidious, it's a bit of a chore to use, but it's increasingly worth it.

Sina , 8 days ago to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

Adding government ID to their data would hardly be anymore of a privacy invasion

Are you listening to yourself?

Sina , 21 days ago to Technology in Adobe Announces That They Can Use Your Content for AI

Photoshop has unmatched tools to get work done 15 to 30 times faster than Gimp. This does not apply to everything of course and in some niche stuff Gimp's even faster. However what I use Photoshop for, such as removing unwanted distractions like trash cans, trash, overhead electric cables and such Gimp is like 30 years behind. It's not realistic that someone would spend many minutes just selecting hair outline in Gimp.

Ultimately developing these tools has cost evil Adobe many millions of dollars. 1-3 extremely talented and enthusiastic programmers cannot compete with this.
Then again in the near future we will either not need Photoshop anymore, or open source projects like Gimp or a more open minded fork could use Ai generated code to develop similar automated tools.

Sina , 1 month ago to World News in EU countries vent anger with Hungary’s “pattern of behaviour” which increasingly often blocks EU foreign policy decisions and prevents progress on crucial military aid for Ukraine

Hungary is not unique, Orban is just very loud. There are several countries in the EU where getting an Orban voted in is a real danger & it just happened in Slovakia as well.

This is the equivalent of kicking the US out of everything if they voted Trump..

Sina , 1 month ago to Politics in Nearly 3 in 5 incorrectly believe US is in economic recession

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Sina , 2 months ago to Technology in Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

, or you think every single person that age is a “vertical video crazy”.

Sounds about right to me ^

Sina , 2 months ago to Technology in Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

I think people that are very interested in TikTok largely overlap with the vertical video crazies :-)

Sina , 4 months ago to World News in Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says

Yeah

Sina , 4 months ago to Technology in Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything

This is a really great read, but I'm less optimistic than he is.

Sina , 4 months ago to Linux in New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option

There is a shill on YT called Linuxcast.
Personally i'd rather fix some arch fuckups, then to not have the AUR. (or if I don't have the AUR, then just use Debian)

Sina , 4 months ago to World News in China’s Censorship Dragnet Targets Critics of the Economy

The censors are not idiots, obvious sarcasm will get you in trouble just the same.

Sina , 5 months ago to Gaming in What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time?

It just occurred to me that Death Really (1995) would deserve to be talked about as well, it's just an incredible little game.

Sina , 5 months ago to Gaming in What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time?

I think Gothic 1 is much better. :p (it would totally deserve a spot in this conversation, but it's a very highly regarded game )

Sina , 5 months ago to Gaming in What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time?

You will die thousands of times, but until you reach your limit as a gamer it will never feel like banging your head against an unbreakable wall. Just moving around is so much fun in Celeste.

Sina , 5 months ago to Gaming in What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time?

Celeste is the best of all time in its genre. i have put more than 100 hours in it and yet i'm still shit, but it's just so gratifying to complete a harder screen..