Not sure how true it was, but there was a YouTuber claiming that their videos were getting entirely demonetized because too many of their viewers had Ad blockers enabled. So even though 75% of people were seeing ads on the video, Google was keeping that ad revenue, withholding it all from the creator because 25% weren’t getting ads. The claim the youtuber made is that this will probably predominantly impact creators with a more tech savvy / privacy aware audience, resulting in less of that niche content.

Anyway, this is anecdotal, but I wouldn’t put it past Google to pass the issue to the creators for the actions of their consumers, even though it’s not their fault.

And hope that someone stronger than you doesn’t want your rock. Or pay someone to guard your rock from stronger people.

I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today

Why would you want to shoot yourself? Don’t do x.

What? No. What problem will will this solve?

Be careful that people don’t think you’re contractually agreeing to something with the emoji: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/06/canada-judge-thumbs-up-emoji-sign-contract

Yeah, I remember when it was $75 but didn’t jump on it then. Back then I didn’t think they’d ever charge for basic functionality that was offered for free for 10 years. I don’t regret not getting it though, this is the kick I need over to Jellyfin.

Let’s Encrypt supports DNS verification, if you have access to update the zone file. It makes automation harder, but there are scripts to do the DNS update for the verification.

Was the price the same then as it is now? $120 USD? Based on the article, the price will only raise at the end of April.

Every one of the posts today that I’ve received have the url https://lemmy.laitinlok.com/pictrs/image/e1be7d9e-9e3e-4ba9-9c08-1ff084b554e1.png. If everyone has the same links, then logging people’s IP would get you the same information as logging IPs from a public post in any popular community. I think that would only make sense if each user was receiving different URLs, for the attacker to log the requested resource and their reference of which user they sent that URL to. I can’t confirm this suspicion on my own, but if the URL I posted is the same one you got today, then I doubt there’s any attempt to match users to their IP addresses.

Yess finally. Switched off of Chrome after seeing uBlock Origin was going to go away, but I have a lot of PWAs which has been hacky to get working.

DENIC doesn’t even report domain expiration in whois data, which is super annoying. I guess you pay per month technically, but was new to me for a project to monitor a whole bunch of domains for renewal.

If you can sacrifice quality, you can encode the videos at a lower bitrate, but that is lossy compression, not lossless. Also, if your videos are in h.264 codec, then transcoding them to h.265 and preserving the quality may be a way to get the files smaller. You would use a tool meant for video, like Handbrake for this, and not winrar or other generic compression tool.

Don’t be distressed about it, dad. You’re here now. You’re safe.

Here’s some good movies in each decade which are classics:

1930s: Modern Times

1940s: Double Indemnity

1950s: Vertigo

1960s: Bonnie and Clyde

1970s: Alien

1980s: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

1990s: Edward Sissorhands

Ahh I kinda remember that, that wasn’t in the movie?

what was the coolest part of the book? it’s been 10 years and I only saw the movie once and forgot about it.

Basically, each of these sites used open standards and APIs as a way to grow their service. Eventually once they got to the user base they wanted and beat out the competition, they could tighten the screws, lock things down, since the users didn’t have any place to go, they were locked in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

In terms of specifics, it’s unclear if they were ever profitable before locking things down, since the main goal at that phase wasn’t making money, it was growing active users and killing competitors. I would have to imagine that with the locked down APIs, they are more profitable, and they never really cared about the community and good will, only when it was beneficial to grow their user base.

Haven’t seen it but a Google search with this posts title shows it’s this episode:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2708122/

https://americandad.fandom.com/wiki/The_Full_Cognitive_Redaction_of_Avery_Bullock_by_the_Coward_Stan_Smith

Not sure if that’s true or not.

Ok, thanks, I’m unfamiliar with pre IPO access, so that’s helpful. Just to make sure I understand, from Reddit’s perspective, they weren’t setting the option price lower than the market price when the option offered? There was just a pre ipo market which you got the ability to trade on, no income earned when executing the option?