That’s been my life for the past 10 years, you won’t regret it at all.

Yeah, the answer here is cancel prime and pirate whatever amazon video content you want. if you absolutely have to have prime for some reason, don’t sign in to amazon video on any of your devices and pirate the stuff you want to watch so at least your not contributing to views or their prime video ad revenue.

Edit - I see in another comment you said you unsubscribed, good on you.

detailing that he had been promised 500,000 rubles ($5,418).

Fuck me, this really hammers home that first world privilege. More than that amount of USD hits my checking account each month in my direct wages. This guy knew what would happen to him when he was caught then decided that risking misery in Siberia before being executed was worth less than a month of my take home pay. I mean i get that some level of radicalization is involved here, but still what the fuck.

that’s exactly what i’d expect a dark empath to say. sheathe your knife unless you want to get saddled with karmic debt bro. you’re limited to paying off karmic debt in transactions of no more than 3k eurohms each, and with this dark energy you’d be in karmic debt into the millions.

MacOS is really the only one I never understood unless you’re really tied to the Apple ecosystem.

I’d argue the “just use Linux” meme is more relevant for Mac users than Windows.

At this point when I’m choosing a computer I’m really just choosing a hypervisor front end.

MacOS gives me all the familiarity and transferred knowledge that I built up with Linux, but with a much more polished desktop experience. I like the Messenger sync, it helps me actually notice texts from my partner when I’m rabbit-holing hard. I like Mail better than Outlook (or Thunderbird or whatever the modern mail client on Linux is now).

I just prefer MacOS as the glue between all my VMs that I work in each day. I’m personally on the desktop pc with Windows for gaming, MBP for all my work/hobby work (using VMs with whatever OS is necessary that day), and headless Debian on any servers train.

Yeah, Usenet servers all have a maximum retention time, usually around 3000 days or something like that. Any articles older than the retention time of your server won’t exist for you to grab, but stuff is usually reuploaded frequently. With torrents a super niche thing requires someone seeding the content all the time for it to be consistently accessible, while Usenet requires someone to reupload it once every 5-10 years (barring takedowns) which imo is more consistently stable, but as the other poster said having both ensures your bases are covered. I personally don’t really torrent anything beyond oddball bbc2+ documentaries at this point though.

You shouldn’t spend the money now because normalizing payment for future services rendered is a terrible thing to do.

I’m just going to add that the web ui on mobile is great. Good enough that I’ve stopped using mlem. Mlem doesn’t show you the different instances that users and communities are coming from which doesn’t really matter for users but is super annoying for communities, and the main dev said that’s intentional. It also shows you your “karma”, through what I’m assuming is just adding up the raw up/downvotes your posts/comments have accrued. Seeing that is what ultimately made me bounce, it seems like the complete antithesis of what Lemmy is trying to be about.

Also, while they’re working on adding a NSFW blur, it doesn’t exist yet and fuck seeing all that loli ai porn on my feed. I don’t mind having to scroll past stuff I’m not interested in, but come on at least blur it.

Finally the web ui has the rainbow indent lines, while there’s nothing but whitespace to indicate child comments on mlem. I’m sure they’ll fix most of the stuff up given time, but I’m not using it until they dump the cumulative karma tracking.

6 now with my comment. It’s 200% more lively here!

Despite their issues I put hundreds of hours into each one and enjoyed them all. I see no reason to think this won’t be the same, and have no problem betting $70 on it.

Really the issue here is that there are very few reasons to hand a company your money before they are prepared to deliver you a product. There are even fewer reasons when the product is most likely going to be purchased and delivered digitally, since there is zero chance the product will be sold out. When a game is being developed by Microsoft-owned Bethesda, they don’t need preorder money to finish the game.

I’m not 100% sure on the answer to that.

Twitter relies on Google Cloud to host services…

So I’m assuming that means that Twitter is either using GCP to host cloud-based internally developed services, or SaaS deployments in the cloud, but that’s just a complete guess on my part.> n Musk’s takeover. Since “at least” March, Twitter has been pushing to renegotiate the contract

Edit - This section was in the next paragraph lol.

Now, Platformer has reported that a Twitter service called Smyte—an automated anti-abuse and anti-harassment tool that was previously operating on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—will potentially shut down on June 30. This could lead to a flood of spam bots and CSAM on Twitter as bots and content could fail to be removed.

So it sounds like it’s an internally built Twitter service that they host in GCP.

Scroll to the bottom of your page and click the Instances link. For you it should be https://beehaw.org/instances.

There’s no corporation or company in the mix here.

Well I’m hyped for this now. I’ve been craving a good, story-driven, single-player space game for a while. As much as I love Elite:Dangerous, sometimes I want a story driving my actions in game instead of just grinding credits for nicer ships, even if flying those ships is a beautiful experience. If the reviews come back positive I’ll buy this day one.

Well, this isn’t exactly how I saw the Singularity Church of the MachineGod getting started but I’m still here for it.

I created a cybersecurity community: !cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works

Whether you’re a seasoned cybersecurity professional, a student, or someone with a passing interest, feel free to join and contribute! I’ve been posting relevant news articles and research as I find them, but I would love for there to be more social/conversational posts as well.

I did not even realize this was something that existed. I am now also worried for it lol. I don’t think I’ll even pirate this, it looks too bad to even hate watch if this trailer is anything to go by.

I am posting this comment from mlem while using my account registered on sh.itjust.works. I’m not sure what the issue is on your end, but mlem should work with any instance.

I’m pretty sure there has been mention, either by the Lemmy devs on a post here or on the projects GitHub repo, about adding a feature analogous to the multireddit feature on that site. It’s definitely a feature I would appreciate, and would go hand in hand with what you’re describing as well.

The tool cannot be liable itself, obviously, but the creators of the tool and those who wield it absolutely can…

I absolutely agree with you here. The creators of the tool are responsible for its content. I’m a complete supporter of Section 230 in the US, but I absolutely do not think that sort of protection should apply to companies like OpenAI. Their tool created the content, their tool “published” the content, they are responsible for that content.