Same thing I thought at first. “Oh, so like that one feature from Google Maps” Nope, just some shitty tech bro tech.

My guess is It’s probably cheaper and has much greater variety. You can watch anything from any streaming service through one single interface at the price of one service.

And ChatGPT, of course.

I find the concept of hijacking someone’s computer to do cryptomining remotely so that you can make money off their hardware quite surreal. Like, the entire concept wasn’t a conceivable thing for me until recent years. Now couple that with Docker containers running who knows where and it gets a bit trippy. It reminds me of all kinds of parasites and their eccentricities from back in college but now in digital form. I’m not unfamiliar with cryptominers or malware, I just have a different POV.

Crypto fucking mining. Surreal.

Oh, you beetlejuicer you!

But you are correct

That’s what the article says, not me! lol

Feedback across the Firefox and YouTube subreddits highlighted that it could break timestamped video links and chapter markers. However, YouTube knows the length of the ads it would inject, and can offset subsequent timestamps suitably.

The move also adds a layer of unnecessary complexity in saving Premium viewers from these ads. If they are added server-side, the YouTube client would have to auto-skip them for Premium members, but that also means ad segment info will be relayed to the client, opening up a window of opportunity for ad blockers to use the same information meant for Premium subscribers and skip injected ads automatically.

It sounds like there’s a silver lining after all.

Or they figured out short-term tracking is more effective at predicting future shopping than your entire driving history. 🤷‍♂️

What are you doing that renders Firefox unusable? I’ve never had this issue in over a decade and I usually have 10+ tabs open.

A 34 kUN7 pH4LLU5?

🤭

lmfao That reminds me of Mr. Handy from Fallout:

Lucy expected this robot to do horrible things to her, so the kindness causes her to open up to him […] Lucy has nothing to fear, he’s “simply going to harvest [her] organs.” Wait, what?

Episode recap

The voice sounds a lot like Samantha from the movie Her. We’re living in the future! 😍

Reminds me of the time I was at a trans camp as a young cis gay ally. A woman walks up to me and says, “since when have you been transitioning?” and I scoffed at the thought of assuming anything about anyone, especially at an LGBT+ camp. She thought I was scoffing at being confused for a trans guy. We didn’t speak for the rest of the event because she thought I was being weird. 🤷‍♂️

I still think you can do that procedurally, I could make it happen.

I don’t think you need an AI for the basic functionality. Not everything needs to have AI.

I wonder what sort of problems having near-unlimited energy at our disposal would bring. Like, light and noise pollution are already bad enough. But would people be even more careless with that? And if we manage to automate most things and energy isn’t an issue, how would we live and occupy ourselves? How would that change industries and the world? How would that change things like war and power struggles in general? What about science and electronics?

It’s a bit concerning but also fascinating

And the stupid thing is that all I use Chrome for is Meets… And that’s it. Do they really think they win me over?