Donating money doesn’t give you free rein to be an asshole, and shockingly, their donations went way up when they removed the trash.

They elected to decide that some of the people being jackasses didn’t technically violate their community guidelines and apologized, but that doesn’t mean that there was a single person who was banned who didn’t deserve it. Yes, jumping on a bandwagon of unforgivable horseshit without technically saying a banned thing still makes you a bad person, and yes, everyone they banned should have stayed banned.

They banned “developer” accounts who were being incredibly disruptive throwing a tantrum about the social media account celebrating games with a wide variety of perspectives. I don’t think there’s any actual evidence for them banning a single person who ever did anything useful, but it doesn’t actually matter. They aren’t obligated to let you be in their community.

Don’t behave like a raging jackass and you won’t be called one. I’m not obligated to ignore bad behavior either. It’s perfectly OK to call bad people behaving badly bad people.

You realize it’s open source and you don’t need their blessing to use it right?

You’re not entitled to force people to deal with you being a raging jackass.

lol because people always behave in ways consistent with how they tell an interviewer they will.

From 14 to 31 is still pretty rare. (I checked, population is ~6mil).

And at such a low rate relative to the population, if you’re assuming most cases don’t report it, the difference in reporting could pretty easily be increased awareness that reporting it was an option or some other similar cause unrelated to an actual increased failure rate.

But you can get an Android device with a reader that’s actually functional. Navigating a file system doesn’t even vaguely resemble functional.

I’m not advocating stock Kobo. I’m saying the absolute bare minimum for me to consider a reader usable at all is the ability to navigate/search/filter my library by all of author, publisher, tags, series, and any other metadata. Folders are an extremely poor substitute for actual organization tools.

I’m genuinely baffled every time I see people suggest KOReader.

It has the worst library navigation I’ve ever seen.

$350 for a thin client locked out of doing anything useful and requiring a subscription to function?

Shockingly, your brain and productivity improve when you get regular downtime.

(Yeah I know most people want something shorter than a book. It’s a solid read though.)

And when it’s junk out of the box because random no-name Amazon cables are universally terrible?

It’s $10 and high quality. How much do you think you’re saving with a junk off brand one?

lol the problem with Destiny is they turned it into a treadmill and stopped putting the work into character and level design.

Elden Ring can easily take more than 100 hours on your first playthrough, and different builds significantly change your play style.

BG3, similar deal. Subsequent playthroughs are probably going to be accelerated, but there are a bunch of different story choices you can make that feel different, the party members have their own story lines, there’s a special custom character called Dark Urge that’s intended for a later playthrough that has it’s own twist, and you can change the strategy of encounters a lot with different party constructions.

Rimworld calls itself a story generator because you’re going to fail and have people die and whatever, but every game plays out different, there are a good couple scenarios, and there’s expansions and mods you can add on top of that for variety.

Just the first couple that come to mind. I’m not near 1000 hours on any of them, but they all have a lot of content.

TorrentFreak has really been spoonfeeding Nintendo’s nonsense positions about emulation everywhere lately.

If those sites think that being linked to is a service they’re providing Google (which demanding payment implies), then Google is just fulfilling their wishes.

“AI” long predates LLM bullshit.

Hallucinations aren’t a problem with the actually medically useful tools he’s talking about. Machine learning is being used to draw extra attention to abnormalities that humans may miss.

It’s completely unrelated to LLM nonsense.

Except the summary is almost always literally the content the sites ask the sites linking them to show.

They have “please show this preview instead of a boring plain link” code.

Of course they aren’t, because they’re not required to, and money is money.

The fun part is that if it actually were restricted to collecting data for law enforcement? It would be a pretty obvious (though probably still not enforced because the courts suck) violation of your rights against searches without due process of law. But because it’s “publicly available”, they can pretend that it’s not really a search.

There’s a place for more formal writing.

But the point of using precise, formal language is the intent behind it. If you’re just RNG-ing it it loses all meaning.

They’re asking for a jury trial. That’s what I’m referring to.