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  • Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model

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  • Also worth addressing that people are using large language models exactly because the ad driven web was enshitified enough that people clambered for this new option.

    There will be at least one LLM that's good for web searching and doesn't give in to advertising, and in the meantime, we'll just need to keep jumping ship whenever one becomes awful, as we did with the old web.

  • Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model

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  • I have a surprisingly forgiving opinion on AI. There are many cases that I think it's purpose is stupid or defeats the point but it has the potential to cause such a large break to employability and capitalism in general that it has it's upsides.

    People are right to take issue with the fact that it is causing people to lose their jobs or be unemployable by no fault of their own, but underlying that issue is the fact that society shouldn't function on the employment being necessary (which I am aware is an opinion).

    Even in its absurd energy and water usage, this is largely an issue with how we currently get our energy and water. Having our technocrats suddenly more invested in new and better forms of energy, even just for powering AI has the potential to be a path to better clean energy options.

    AI is fundamentally a neutral tool, but as much as it may be sued for evil, it may accelerate flawed economic and environmental systems to a breaking point where a redesign of those structures will be required, which could be the greatest opportunity to implement better structures that we've had since the industrial revolution.

  • Anyone else hating Shorts (the videos, not the pants or financial instruments)?

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  • Tragically when I first switched to Lemmy, my friends convinced me to get Instagram to stay in better contact with them.

    The difference in how much I engage with Instagram reels Vs YouTube shorts is huge. YouTube shorts suck and I get cripplingly bored or annoyed with them after 2 minutes, where as Instagram reels suck and I lose multiple hours to that fucking app. Fortunately I run a version of the app without ads etc so I'm only rotting myself and not contributing as directly to the end times.

    I never tried tiktok and I'm too low willpower to stop using Instagram until they make it too shit to put the effort in, but I do feel that YouTube shorts sre the worst interation of this shitty format.

  • It was actually more efficient than EB (Against a group of 50 CR1/4 peons)

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  • Green flame blade is a great horde killing spell while still feeling cool. IMO everyone picks booming blade because it's more useful against single targets, which is more fun against a larger range of enemies, from bosses to your equals, plus thunder is rarely resisted compared to fire.

    Some people implement minion rules where overflowing damage from killing a weak enemy flows on to the adjacent enemy, which of course is simplified and incorporated into green flame blade. One of the hardest things to capture in the standard D&D rules is that in fantasy, the warrior (Aragorn, Holga, Achilles) typically cuts down hundreds of mooks while the mage battles the giant powerful monster who cannot be defeated by a sword (Gandalf Vs Balrog). In D&D, either it's totally inversed or the mage is better at both, largely because spells like fireball suit both situations better.

    Green flame blade is a very easy option to balance this scale, albeit via magic.

  • Today: many Protests in Europe. Serbia, Hungary, Romania & Italy.

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  • The main thing I've heard online is that it's a pro-europe movement, particularly in support or rearming the EU, particularly in response to current US actions.

    I was speaking to an Italian guy at the pub on the weekend and he said that's totally wrong and it's just protesting general government corruption. I don't know if he's more credible than the internet, being Italian is a big plus but being a man at the pub means it's likely wrong. Maybe there are protests for both.

  • No one asked for this: Google is testing round keys in Gboard

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  • One thing I did notice a while back, was seeing the 2022ish interface for YouTube and Google search and feeling how dated it was, still absolutely usable mind you, just clearly with a design ethos from an older era.

    Most the time, I feel that changes Google make are absolutely arbitrary, rounding a button and then squaring it again, but I need to give them credit that there is something more, something about staying at the forefront of GUIs. It's still all bullshit of course, the old one looks older but is identically useful.

  • As warming climate hammers coffee crops, this rare bean may someday be your brew

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  • A few years ago in my home town (UK), some people were arrested for making cocaine in their bathroom, by recreating the climate of south America in their bathroom.

    It would be wildly impractical and very silly, but also a great experiment, to set up a coffee plant in your home, simulating the humidity, temperature, light and air pressure of high-altitude rainforests, just to have your own sustainable coffee.

    If locally sourced and sustainable are your goal, there are some amazing mushroom coffee alternatives that do taste like coffee, one of my local coffee shops offers it. But I also understand the tempting voice in our heads that makes us want to do it the hard way, and get the correct product from a 100% self sustained route.

  • The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot

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  • This is what the US have encouraged Taiwan to do. Taiwan wanted to purchase a few incredibly expensive fighters and ship from the USA, but basically all war simulations just had China target these and secure a fast win. The USA instead encourage Taiwan to take the "porcupine" technique, spreading many small weapons, particularly handheld anti-aircraft type weaponry across the country. The plan is to make invasion too inconvenient. The flip side is that without a reliable way to show a display of strength, anywhere the larger aggressor does pick on (USA to UK China to Taiwan) can focus on one part of the country and reliably cause massive damage there.

  • The question no one dares ask: what if Britain has to defend itself from the US? | George Monbiot

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  • The chances of a future where the UK and USA go to war where those military bases aren't long since gone is nearly impossible.

  • US news channel fires presenter after she calls Musk a Nazi

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  • UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance'

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  • I've been told by literal Brewdog barstaff that if they know he's coming, they need to encourage their female staff to either dress moderately or not come in, to minimise his sexual harassment.

    I don't know how true that is, but the city I'm based in, which is pretty happy to boycott assholes is filled with people who boycott Brewdog.

  • Fallout and RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says most players don't want games "6 times bigger than Skyrim or 8 times bigger than The Witcher 3"

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  • I do think a huge world with an engaging and dense design can still be made worse with size. In some games like Skyrim, Breath of the Wild or GTA 5, you could probably drop me anywhere and I'd know where I was, half due to good and differing region design and half because the map isn't that big.

    Back in 2015 I'd dream of a GTA 5 expansion that adds San Francisco and Las Vegas to the map, turning the north and east of the map in to a 500 yard straight of water, but in reality, two more large cities and their surroundings suburbs and wilderness would have never kept it's memorability like the first region.

  • Fallout and RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says most players don't want games "6 times bigger than Skyrim or 8 times bigger than The Witcher 3"

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  • Honestly I think these games need more points of interest that are not marked on the map whatsoever, and don't matter towards 100% completion.

    I eventually went through the Witcher 3 post game and got every single marker but it was basically background work while I listened to audiobooks, I didn't come across anything interesting for hours. However I do acknowledge that those markers aren't necessary meant to be sought out, but stumbled upon.

  • So apparently you can just, type the word eject into bash and it will pop open your disk drive

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  • It it to wait 30 mins then do it every 10, and pop it in startup, those were the days.

    The other was Free_Cupholder.EXE. I miss disk drives for this reason more than for actual use.

  • I've seen enough: No more forcing singleplayer studios to make mediocre live service games

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  • The execs probably get away fine from it as well, even if the company sinks, they'll end up high up somewhere else.

    Online service games are just peak venture capitalism, grinding a small studio to dust and causing massive misery followed by unemployment for a 1/50 shot at making a money printer.

  • Lemmy more social than Mastodon or Nostr

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  • I've never understood what twitter style websites are actually for. They seem to have a tiny niche of celebrities and known personalities making a statement with no reasonable conversation stemming from it.

    I don't understand how that structure was once one of the largest social media platforms in the first place.

  • Black Ops 6 is massively outselling last year's Call of Duty even though it's on Game Pass, which probably tells you how Modern Warfare 3 went

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  • This is Call of Duty 22.

  • [IGN] Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Campaign Review (9/10)

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  • I used to play call of duty way back in the day and fell off around the time Black Ops 2 came out, mostly because I felt like there are too many games and I didn't need another black ops.

    There's now more Black Ops games than I've bought games this year.

  • Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe.

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  • This is definitely a selfish opinion but people who block adverts or torrent being a small percentage of users can be a good thing.

    If they lose even 5% of their userbase to Firefox over this decision, they'll find a way to make grand modifications to Google search and YouTube in a manner that stops you blocking ads from alternative browsers, and while I'm happy swapping to an alternative search engine, it'll definitely becometedious to sidestep Google's gaze.

    But if it's 0.1% of people who swap due to this, and Google already don't care about the small percentage they lose to Firefox then I would rather sit under the radar and not be cracked down on.