Blackmist

Blackmist , 1 day ago (edited 11 hours ago) to Technology in Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative

And it passes the Acid3 test, which is more than Firefox does.

Blackmist , 2 days ago to Lefty Memes in Self-Regulation

Second picture should be Bhopal.

Blackmist , 2 days ago to Technology in T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents

They're beaming electromagnetic waves into your eyes, man!

Blackmist , 2 days ago to Comic Strips in Changing interests [Haus of Decline]

Those kids have no idea whatsoever of what went on at Stalingrad.

Blackmist , 4 days ago to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

As he counts his money.

Blackmist , 5 days ago to Technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

Half of them aren't in China though. It's dropshippers, so you still get your cheap death traps, but you get them in a few days, Amazon get their enormous cut, and they get to take no responsibility when it burns your house down.

Blackmist , 5 days ago to Technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

Shit, most of Amazon is that as well.

Blackmist , 5 days ago to Technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

And the product thumbnails that all look like sex toys.

Blackmist , 5 days ago to Technology in Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete

Yeah, it's the reason I cancelled Amazon the day they announced that, while Netflix shambles on.

Blackmist , 5 days ago to Technology in Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete

If they haven't been doing so for at least a decade, I'm sure their shareholders will want to know why not.

Blackmist , 8 days ago to Technology in Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died

You'd think so, but who do you think pays huge sums of money every year to be allowed to sell death traps to the public?

Blackmist , 8 days ago to Technology in US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement

But of course. If artists want to fight for their rights, they better get their own lawyers.

Blackmist , 9 days ago to Technology in YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount

Yeah, there's no real costs, because in this case it's a cost of "lost opportunity" in advertising.

As a rich westerner, your eyeballs are worth more than some rickshaw driver in deepest darkest India, because you have more money to fritter away on nonsense.

Never understood how the third world pricing logic holds up for things like video games, since the hardware to play them costs pretty much the same no matter where you are.

Blackmist , 9 days ago to Technology in Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs

I gave up trying to figure out what the "bitness" of CPUs were around the time the Atari Jaguar came out and people described it as 64 bit because it had 32 bit graphics chip plus a 32 bit sound chip.

It's been mostly marketing bollocks since forever.

Blackmist , 10 days ago to Technology in Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds

I'd imagine 60 million dollars to google is like 60 cents to most of us.