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Syrup

@ Syrup @lemmy.cafe

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  • What game do you think came closest to being "perfect"?

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  • If we're going really old school, then Space Invaders. Its way of leveraging the hardware at the time to make the enemies and music speed up after you defeat more of them is elegant. Back then, the more things a game had on screen, the slower it ran. So, destroying more enemies removes more things from the screen, causing both enemies and music to speed up.

    This is something that's taken for granted today, but I think at the time, it was genius.

  • Microsoft, OpenAI sued for ChatGPT privacy violations - The Register

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  • I wonder if this will go differently from Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. ChatGPT likely qualifies as "transformative", but I'm uncertain if it qualifies as a "public service" or not given that it has a paid tier. How privacy/personal information ties into this should also be interesting.

  • Greece boat disaster: Survivors blame Greek coastguard for tragedy

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  • I imagine a lot of that is due to issues with liability. If a journalist says "X did Y", that opens them up to lawsuits. If they say "A alleges that X did Y", then that allows them to report without fear of a lawsuit.

    The end of the article did talk about who may have sent them out there.

    Two of the survivors said Greek authorities had asked them, through interpreters and lawyers, to give evidence against the nine Egyptians who have been accused of people trafficking.

    But all four survivors said the nine Egyptians were passengers, seated among them on the journey. They say the ship's crew were masked and spent most of their time in the cabin.

    "The crew jumped in the water when the coastguard approached and some of these nine Egyptians tried to sail the boat," one of them told us. "It seems to me they are not the ones involved in people smuggling," he added.

    Relatives of Egyptians who fear their loved ones were on board have told the BBC that they paid $4,500 (£3,500) each for the journey.

  • Crypto offers Africans a ‘lifeline’ from inflation and corruption, say execs

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  • Just what we need- crypto bros with a white savior complex

  • YouTube confirms 3-strike policy for blocking ads

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  • Yeah, I'm glad at least a few YouTubers are starting to mirror content on sites like Odysee though (Such as Louis Rossman). I think that, like Lemmy, it just needs to reach a critical mass of users before it's viable

  • Megathread for Reddit News & App Shutdowns

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  • Netflix got rid of the $9.99 basic plan in Canada

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  • If you're learning a language, netflix has good tie-ins with language reactor... but if the $9.99 option goes away, I'll just switch to the beta video + subtitle file upload for that

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    [META] Creating a new community is easy, but to get people on board, you need to create some content.

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  • I kind of hate that you're right

  • YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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  • I tend to agree. Something federated like PeerTube seems ideal for curating what kinds of content you want, but the data requirements for that are going to be much higher than mostly text and image-based things like lemmy or mastodon

  • YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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  • I guess this is the kick in the pants to go over to odysee or somewhere else, huh

  • What are you favorite Movies or TV Shows you've pirated recently?

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  • I've been watching "Match Me Abroad." Basically, it's people going to other countries in order to find love through a matchmaker service. It's not very good, but it's entertaining.