How does AI actually improve their financial position? Who pays them to use AI?

I probably would, if the organizational structure and its spending focus(es) weren’t so fucked up. They have been spending insane amounts of money on bullshit like AI instead of core browser features, and their leadership has extremely high wages for something that should be a non-profit open source organization. And it has been like this for years at this point.

Try incremental games like Cookie Clicker.

The issue with a “The worst of …” list is that you need to find examples that are both really bad and also notorious/high-profile enough to be interesting. “random game I’ve never heard about is really bad” has very little value as a news/“news” item. It’s like buying a bottom-shelf liquor and complaining that it sucks ass.

Most porn sites do run ads!

And I did support a probably independent creator of erotic audio on Patreon once.

If we compare humanity to other species on earth, the year-round horniness without any specific mating seasons is fairly uncommon. There’s not really a good reason to assume that a sentient alien species works the same way.

For masturbation, mostly.

Humanity is relatively unique compared to earth’s other animals in that the species’ females can conceive all year (minus the time when they have their period) without any kind of mating season, and while it’s very hard to study this, it doesn’t seem like sex is particularly fun in most species, especially for females. This does help humans somewhat with forging long-lasting social bonds, which is definitely something that’s core to the human species, but it’s by no means the only way that a species can be instinctually inclined to form long-lasting social bonds. So to a hypothetical alien civilization, humans probably seem to spend a lot of energy on sex.

The main dev is also an admin on lemmy.ml. There would probably be more instances that defederate lemmy.ml if it weren’t for that, and the way that account-level blocking is implemented isn’t really that great.

Servers cost money to run, many lemmy servers have set up a way to donate for server costs.

You can try to post about lemmy on other platforms, but be aware that that carries a risk of getting banned.

Normally I’d also recommend supporting the devs, but fuck tankies. I plan to switch to Piefed because of that, since it’s obviously hypocritical to keep using a standard Lemmy server when you dislike the devs so much.

I think that may depend on the kind of anime you’re into … and on which sites you go looking.

I do generally enjoy political memes, but the constant Trump Trump Trump of both news comms and meme comms can get a bit much. For obvious reasons, but sometimes you just want to take a break y’know? This is why I generally don’t sub to these types of comms, I just have them open in separate tabs when I want to torture myself a bit.

So yeah, I don’t have any gifts yet. Not that people expect much from me, but still, it’s a bit much to turn up completely emptyhanded …

I’ve used Ardour. It works and Unfa posted a lot of really good tutorials, but even after about half a year of using it, the clunkyness (especially for workflows that focus on samples and programming synthesizer plugins rather than recording real instruments) never really went away for me. I’m using Bitwig now, which is not open source but works great and has a good workflow.

I had to replace mine every couple of years because they break (i.e. start leaking).

Websearch “Staplerfahrer Klaus” for (what I assume is) the reference! Both NSFW and NSFL!

Damn, it’s going the way of Facebook. I never saw anything I wasn’t subscribed to in my home feed when I was still on Reddit.

Looks like I abandoned Reddit at just the right time.

If nothing else, Lemmy moderation doesn’t have the corporate input that Reddit has, and currently Lemmy moderators seem to be more likely to perma-ban a real person for being a bot than to let malicious bots exist. Plus it’s pretty hard to get banned for “ban-evasion” on Lemmy unless you’re an obvious troll.

Is this in your logged-in feed that used to only show posts from subs you’re subscribed to?

Gif is just an image format. It supports still images, too, and many if not most other image formats also support animations.

But it is true that with most displays, images are never truly still.

Yep. It’s ultimately a human thing, people make mistakes and most are unwilling to admit it. For more choice examples, check out [email protected].

One of the bigger issues is that Lemmy’s lead dev and main admin of lemmy.ml has rather controversial political opinions and frequently uses his admin powers to enforce them. I think him being the lead dev is the only reason why there aren’t a lot more Lemmy servers who defederate lemmy.ml.