You can also use their DNS server without having to install anything

OK I read the bandcamp thing and… It’s not enshittification at all. Can we stop applying the term to every online service that kinda gets slightly worse for some reason or another?

Just in case:

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification

None of those things happened with Bandcamp

You’re probably better off using dedicated websites for each site you need to download videos from.

They are usually ridden with ads, but it’s not a problem if you use uBlock Origin or similar addons

While I kinda like what Bellingcat does, you do have a point. Crowdsourcing decisions rarely lead to good outcomes

But it looks like Proton does not choose the beneficiaries. From their statement:

‘Recipients are nominated by the Proton community and selected based on community feedback. Proton doesn’t nominate the recipients. Recipients cannot be changed after the raffle begins and the fact that some find Bellingcat controversial was not known beforehand.

Axios is very good. Very dry journalism - almost crossing into news agency territory -, very fact-based, always mentioning the different positions on the matter at hand. They do talk about politics but you can just visit the other sections. They are especially big on tech stuff

EDIT: For how to get news, I use RSS. Inoreader in particular lets you subscribe to entire sites or just specific pages. It’s possibly the best piece of software I’ve ever tried

Podcasting uses RSS in general, yes!

I don’t know what client you’re using, but Inoreader usually finds the RSS feed even if the webpage does not link to it

YES

They don’t want a bad experience so they use shady websites to download music in the shittiest possibile quality? I don’t buy it.

People are just not able to afford what they want, that’s it

The instance is toast.ooo but there’s spam also coming from lemmynsfw.com

I don’t know about the team, but to motivate the players you can always decide to permanently install “anti-cheat” software directly into user’s kernels. THAT will make them happy.

Also, did you know that the Riot client does not have an uninstaller? If you want to get rid if it, you have to search for all its files across your system and delete them manually. They are in at least 3 different folders. It’s great!

Is it strange that I have absolutely NO idea what you’re talking about?

I’m so pumped about this game

Agree. Also the new Kobo Libra 2 has a dark mode option (white text on black background).

We would like to do that - lime we do with PCs - because we’re nerds. It would be a veeeery small market, just like people who build PCs

IDK, I just love the fact that this is basically implying that web3 is already dead

Some of them may not have a choice, though, if their internal rules say that they can’t be associated with porn. Also it’s not only payment processors, but also advertisers and, most importantly, investors. Imagine if all the stock holders, overnight, effectively found themselves investing in porn. Lots of them would be (or feel) obligated to sell their stock. Remember Amazon is an American company, and porn is not taken lightly in the US

It’s not that simple. Porn is a huge risk for a company, especially if it’s user-generated content. You have to police access against underage kids who want to watch that content, and also have an enormous team devoted to immediately take down CSAM.

Lots of payment processors and advertisers do not want to associate themselves with porn because there are too many PR risks. Ask Pornhub how difficult it is to be a porn company on the internet, they’ve had lots of thorny problems. Or look at Reddit and how it’s handling porn content before the IPO: they can’t outright ban it or they’ll lose users (e.g. Tumblr, another great example of what I’m talking about), so they are trying to hide it as much as possible.

Basically trying to monetize porn is not worth the headache. Last but not least, because there is so much free porn around. Risking so much to gain a few users that could go somewhere else in a whim is REALLY not worth it

Still awesome!