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Apple slams Android as a 'massive tracking device' in internal slides revealed in Google antitrust battle in c/technology@beehaw.org

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

At least we know about it.

YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers in c/technology@beehaw.org

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

At the moment, I am in a hybrid state. I also use Indivious to watch the videos, but I still use the subscription view of YouTube to see what video is new. I have 145 subscriptions. I installed a new addon Redirector, which you can guess what it does, and it redirects each new tab to an Indivious instance if it's a YouTube video page. So YouTube thinks I stopped watching videos at the moment. Sometimes I forget to middle click instead and get reminded how bad the ads are.

The reason I am doing that is, because I feared Google could delete my account, if I keep blocking ads with uBlock Origin. It probably never happened to anyone, but the uncertainty was too high to risk for me, as I need this account for other things. Also sometimes I want to like or comment on the video too.

YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers in c/technology@beehaw.org

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Well, well, well, Google. I told you.
This is only 20% of our power. We are not even Super Saiyan yet.

The new voice of Mario is also the new voice of Wario in c/gaming@kbin.social

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The new voice of Mario who is the new voice of Wario, is also the voice of Luigi. Either this man is a talent who can do multiple voices, or they sound the same. I didn't play enough to know the answer. Has anyone listened closer?

Just realized I can just use "..." to go back two directories! Is this a zsh feature? in c/programming@beehaw.org

Counter-Strike 2 Gets Custom Maps as Part of Workshop Update - IGN in c/gaming@kbin.social

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

The entire IGN article is just a copy paste of the original announcements from Valve:

WTF IGN

Just realized I can just use "..." to go back two directories! Is this a zsh feature? in c/programming@beehaw.org

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

BTW in case you didn't know, a bare cd without arguments will bring you to your home. I have alias setup to quickly navigate one or two directories up and print the path then:

alias ..='cd .. &amp;&amp; pwd'
alias ...='cd ../.. &amp;&amp; pwd'

Should works with every shell and I don't even need to type cd itself.

Google Chrome's Web Environment Integrity feature has been cancelled in c/technology@beehaw.org

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 41 points 2 years ago

That's what Google want you to believe, forget about and step back. It's not over yet. We just stopped the first wave and it will get harder with each wave.

Google Chrome's Web Environment Integrity feature has been cancelled in c/technology@beehaw.org

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

If they can't storm the front door, then try to sneak in through the back door I guess.

Google Chrome's Web Environment Integrity feature has been cancelled in c/technology@beehaw.org

Which language you wish would really grow and reach mainstream adoption? in c/programming@programming.dev

[–] thingsiplay@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Came here for Zig too. I never programmed anything in it other than hello world stuff. I think the world is waiting for the 1.0 release with complete tooling and package manager and a solid foundation that won't change too soon. I watched talks from Andrew and what this guy and his team is doing is amazing. It's a small team.