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Here to talk about fighting games, self hosting web apps, and easy weeknight recipes.

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    Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

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  • I don't think I've ever seen them ask for donations as visibly as Wikipedia does. Sometimes there's a small banner at the top of their website with a donate button. Currently, if you go to https://mozilla.org and scroll all the way down, there's a "Donate" link in their footer.

    Seems like they're always kind of subtle about asking for donations -- I wonder if they think that if they pushed for donations harder, it would just make more people use Chrome. (On the other hand, there is no real alternative to Wikipedia, so they can do the big banner once a year.)

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    Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

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  • Always sucks to have more tech layoffs.

    The article mentions they're "decreasing their investment" in Firefox Relay, which is a service for creating burner email addresses that get forwarded to your real email address. It's honestly the best spam-prevention method I've ever used. If Mozilla decides to axe that project, I hope the Thunderbird team can somehow pick it up. Seems like it could be an opportunity for some recurring income for them.

  • Dead Cells designer says decision to stop updates is ‘asshole move’ by former studio

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  • I'm not sure what kind of disagreement went on behind the scenes, but just as someone who enjoyed the game, this seems fine to me. Five years of post-release content is better than what you usually get, especially considering that they were all good updates and none were hasty cash grabs. The base game by itself was endlessly replayable, then they kept adding variety.

    The article mentions the studio is a co-op; I was not aware of that before. From the studio's Wikipedia article:

    Motion Twin is run as an anarcho-syndicalist workers cooperative with equal salary and decision-making power between its members.

    WELL DAMN I already loved the game, now I love it all over again.

  • 23andMe’s Fall From $6 Billion to Nearly $0

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  • 23andMe was always a product with a very small upside and absolutely massive downside. Best case scenario, it's a neat little thing to learn about yourself. Worst case scenario, it's a massive opportunity for discrimination and blackmail.

    Completely unrelated: for some reason, on kbin, the thumbnail for this article is the thumbnail for this youtube video, and that is a cooler thing than 23andMe by far.

  • Switch 2 Rumors Swirl As Major Nintendo Games Go Out Of Stock

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  • nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

  • Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal

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  • Microsoft's initial departure from Microsoft-brand peripherals meant it would only focus on more expensive, higher-end designs worthy of Surface branding.

    They're saying this like we didn't all just read an article about the official Xbox Toaster yesterday...

  • Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy free on EGS

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  • I remember a lot of people saying it was very good, and being surprised by that fact since it got very little promotion.

  • Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do

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  • Yeah, this is perfectly consistent with the idea that people don't want to read AI generated news at all.

    The title of the paper they are referencing is Or they could just not use it?: The paradox of AI disclosure for audience trust in news. So the source material definitely acknowledges that. And that is a great title, haha.

  • Fntastic Appears To Have Simply Changed Its Name To Eight Points

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  • Eight Points is the George Santos of game studios.

  • SEGA says reveal of IP revivals is “just the start of our initiative”

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  • I think the next best thing we could get would be Sega releasing a Dreamcast Mini, which apparently they thought about, but scrapped.

  • Suicide Squad Will Get An Offline Story Mode, Eventually

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  • I'm kind of surprised that they didn't pull the plug as soon as they saw what happened with Avengers. That game did not make money. So even greedy assholes had a reason to change direction on this one.

    The concept of Brainiac taking over the Justice League, including Superman so the Suicide Squad has to be called-in has so much fun potential, especially with how Rocksteady handled the Arkham series.

    Definitely! That's what makes this live service game so confusing. Rocksteady knows how to make a great game with a great setting, and those have made a bunch of money. But instead, someone saw what happened with Avengers and thought, "second time's the charm?"

  • Suicide Squad Will Get An Offline Story Mode, Eventually

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  • I am posting this purely so that I can say that I called it:

    No, it won't. This game will be very unpopular and they will abandon support for it quickly.

  • YouTube limits Video Viewing for Ad blocker Users

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  • Yeah, I actually haven't seen the nag screen in a couple days, whereas I was seeing it often last week. Whatever updated circumvention uBlock has figured out, it's working just about perfectly.

  • YouTube once again ahead of uBO on Firefox; fiddling with the extension settings not working this time and DDG search is useless ... anyone got ideas?

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  • I've noticed that the nag screen never shows up in a private tab. In the last week I've gotten in the habit of right-clicking a video and choosing Open Link in New Private Window. It's not very convenient, but it has been working.

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    Something weird going on at DuckDuck…

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  • It showed me the same thing, but after searching again a few times I'm now seeing a summary of the articles on their homepages.

    Side note: I've had a weird bug a few times with DDG lately, where it showed me results for current events that were completely unrelated to what I was looking for. I searched for something like "10 inch chef's knife" but the results were as though I had typed "US house of representatives speaker." This has happened maybe three or four times in the last two weeks.

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    Something weird going on at DuckDuck…

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  • I don't want to jump to conclusions, but that does sound like a very possible explanation.

    Poo. I was hoping DDG would keep LLM-generated summaries out of their UI.

  • Sam Lake Explains The Alan Wake Story So Far

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  • Remedy says its Max Payne remakes are ‘a big, big project’

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  • But that screenshot proves that no remake is necessary. Does that not look perfect already? Literally pictures of real people slapped onto 3D models. Photo realism, done. Perfected. No one else, besides the classic Mortal Kombat games, has had the courage to make a game out of straight up photographs of real people. Max Payne had the best graphics. The MOST graphics. THE PHOTO GRAPHICS.