JohnEdwa

And Reddit can blame only themselves for it:

February 23, 2024 / 12:35 PM EST / CBS/AP
Google strikes $60 million deal with Reddit, allowing search giant to train AI models on human posts
... from the online discussion site for training its artificial intelligence models and to improve services such as Google Search.

A payment processor tells that they either remove the porn games, or they will remove the ability to pay for all games for them. The only company that can stand up to them in any way is one large enough to call the bluff and the payment processor wouldn't be willing to actually lose.

And that list is basically Amazon, Apple, Google and stuff like that, and definitely not a tiny thing like itch.io.

The only way I could manage my evil dark urge & minthara playthrough was to leave Karlach entirely unrecruited. Not that you could even get that far with her anyway as she doesn't agree with evil choices and will sooner or later leave.

Ajoin juuri Helsingissä tälläisen rivin ohi yön pimeydessä, jokaisessa taulussa helvetin kirkkaalla animoitu mainos. Yritä siinä sitten keskittyä pimeässä kulkevien jalankulkijoiden spottaamiseen kun silmäkulmassa kokoajan vilkkuu häiritsevästi.

It's referencing the spikes the app sees whenever there's a republican event around.

"On the night of July 17—the Sunday that check-in for the [Republican National] convention began—there was a 120 percent increase in users online in the area, more than all previous evenings in July. As of last Wednesday, a representative from Grindr tells Broadly, “more than a thousand guys have used the app near the Quicken Loans Arena.” The total attendance of the RNC is estimated to have been roughly 20,000 people, so this data suggests about five percent of attendees used Grindr during the convention."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/cleveland-was-bombarded-with-white-dudes-on-grindr-during-the-rnc/

To me the karma system is about quality. Not an “I agree/disagree” button.

That's how it was meant to be. The original Rediquette from over 15 years ago has:

"Vote. If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it does not contribute to the subreddit it is posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it.
[Please don't] Downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don't personally like it. Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you're downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons."

But 99% of people definitely use them as an Agree/Disagree button.

Lemmy dot marxist-leninist created as a communist safe-space for users leaving reddit has propaganda about communist countries and they don't moderate it away, I'm shocked.

That's why Lemmy as a whole was originally created in fact.

And now googling will just result in "I asked AI and it said X", as the first thing you get is the AI summary shit. A friend of mine does this constantly, we are in a discord call and somebody asks a question, he will google it and repeat the AI slop back as a fact.

Half the time it's wrong.

It's マリウス.com but the "internationalized domain name" system pynycodes it to gibberish to prevent spoofing urls using lookalike characters.

Like https://xn--mzon-43db.com/ is аmаzon.com. Those are cyrillic lowercase 'а', not 'a'.

[EDIT] The blog itself actually has a great article explaining it.

If it's like here in Finland, coverage means there's a fibre running under the street in front (or close enough nearby) but because it costs quite a lot to connect a building to it, especially if you want higher speeds and have to start retrofitting every apartment, many haven't done it.

For example our house officially has fibre coverage, but the street-to-house connection costs ~1800€ which is why we still run a VDSL while the apartment building down the street has 10Gbit to every apartment.

they say it’s really 19 fibers in one ... It’s not that insane in perspective

The impressive bit being that the bundle of 19 fibres is around the same overall diameter as a single regular one - "diameter of five-thousandths of an inch (0.127 millimeters), which is the same thickness as most existing single-fiber cables already in use" - meaning those individual strands are unbelievably thin.
It's going to be interesting to see how a cable like that is getting fixed in the field when a backhoe inevitably goes om nom nom on one.

Japan is already pretty damn close to achieving 100% fiber network coverage for every household.