That’s not what the phrase “dark pattern” means.

It’s a switch. It’s clearly marked. It literally says “sponsored”.

I read that as “on state for 3 minutes” or “off state for 3 minutes” and not a combination of on/off for 3 minutes. Easy to test. Turn the light off. Turn the light back on.

Does that mean you can’t turn the light off and back on quickly, in the case of something like forgetting something in the room?

https://nebula.tv/

Yeah, more games need to be like Amazon’s New World, where they kneecap their own game in an effort to appeal to the masses like you and the shareholders.

Tennis would also have wider appeal if you didn’t have to run back and forth so much. They should look into that.

The PvP is the majority of the challenge of the game. If you remove that, for the PvE players it becomes Cookie Clicker and they’re done in a week. And it also reduces the participation in the PvP side and damages that part of the game as well.

The cat & mouse mechanic is integral to the game’s success. If that doesn’t work, this isn’t a game.

PopOS with Cosmic did handle my odd 4 monitor configuration better than Ubuntu did.

I wonder how good AI is at deobfuscating code. It seems like the kind of thing it might be good at.

The game would have been appropriately hyped if it weren’t for a few massive fuckups.

1. Resource gathering was supposed to be a cat & mouse game. But the potential PvP while gathering resources doesn’t appeal to the masses, so marketing added a “you can’t touch me” PvE flag.

2. Item duplication. There were exploits that allowed item duping. They didn’t reset the economy after those exploits were addressed, and they didn’t catch everyone.

3. They decided the content was too easy (especially given the duped gear above) and made everything much harder after a couple weeks. Again, no server reset. So if you didn’t get in in the first couple weeks and duplicate some items in that time, you were forever behind.

I think I’m going Ubiquity, which isn’t entirely platform agnostic, but should work with Frigate just fine afaik. Would love if someone could confirm.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/cameras-dome-turret

No, but it clearly wasn’t the solution. They likely could have used some of those people they fired for that.

If you need a bulb or two, Matter/Thread hue is good, just expensive. Otherwise I’d try to wait until January when Ikea is supposed to release all their Matter/Thread stuff.

pushing people towards specific ideas using social media

I’ve been incredibly concerned about this for more than a decade. Watching r/the_donald in action was incredible and validated all of that fear.

And it’s still happening. On all social media, including here.

Certain narratives are pushed hard, and it’s effective. Some of it is fully genuine. Some of it is/was seeded artificially and picked up some genuine steam, and is still being reinforced. The stuff that’s fully artificial seems to be dropped fairly quickly most of the time these days.

After the artificial narrative picks up and gets genuine sentiment mixed with it, it becomes hard to tell the difference. If you can mix it in with existing emotions, like anger that we’re in this situation, and add in some seeds of truth it works even better.

Propaganda works. On all of us. And just by being here, we’re being exposed. But I’m afraid to leave, too. The more real people leave the easier it is to manipulate the remainder.

It’s just all so easy and effective and actually happening. And the alarm bells about it aren’t loud enough.

some other country

Yeah, because anyone who’s attempting to control this country is doing such a great job in their own that it’s something we should look forward to.

How do you think all this shit got started? Trump didn’t really have the friends or influence domestically.

I don’t carry keys, ever. My keys are on my phone. Much better than my keys being next to my phone.

Dark Age of Camelot

They may not be my friends, but they are my allies.

You can be with us or against us. The two sides are fascism and anti-fascism. If you refuse to choose, the fascism choice is made for you.

Fight for primaries, sure. Primaries are important and there are choices to be made. But when it comes to actually fighting the Nazis you’re either with us or against us.

Seems like clickbait. Wikipedia does not need actual visitors that badly.