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  • This makes me feel a bit nauseous.

  • What old thing surprisingly still exists?

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  • Nothing new under the sun.

  • PC gamers buy way more games that cost less than $30 at launch compared to PlayStation and Xbox players, analysts say, and it's "reshaping the PC market"

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  • Pretty much nailed why I almost exclusively play Indies these days. That and spyware that calls itself anti-cheat rarely working on my OS, thank God.

  • New ‘Jesus-centric’ Christian phone network will block pornography and LGBT content

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  • You could take care of like 90% of that just by blocking X.

  • Steam Controller and Puck CAD files now available!

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  • You underestimate how stupid the average person is.

  • Valve shares an update on the Steam controller

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  • I saw one that sold for $300 on eBay.

  • Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

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  • The bigger problem for me personally is that my bank uses the app to verify certain transactions and there doesn't seem to be a way around that. I'm planning on moving to GrapheneOS on my daily phone soon, my solution will be to have my old iPhone run nothing but my banking apps. It sucks but privacy sometimes involves sacrifices.

  • Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender

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  • Welcome to a new kind of tension

    All across the maple leaf nation

    Where musicians are slanderd by the claaaaankers

  • Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks

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  • Ultimately Discord is a corporate-owned social media platform, and like all corporate-owned social media platforms their best interests rarely intersect with the best interests of their users. Centralised systems like Discord always end up with a power imbalance between the users and the administrators, and if you break their rules they have it within their power to just vapourise your community without a second thought. Your organisation or community only exists for as long as you toe their line.

  • Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks

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  • I mean if you want to help someone in an abusive relationship, telling them to just leave doesn't really work there either, and for a lot of the same reasons. But you can support them in other ways until they're able to do what's necessary to leave.

  • Anon goes back to Windows 10

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  • You can install macOS on other systems too. It's garbage and Apple really don't want you to do it, but it's possible if you hate stability.

  • Anon goes back to Windows 10

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  • Windows 10 was never good, it just looks good compared to the radioactive slag heap that is Windows 11.

  • Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender

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  • Don't wanna be a Canadian diddler

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    Mixed him up with his brother, the fiddler

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  • Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks

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  • We probably shouldn't be using Discord but you've got to meet people where they're at. Telling someone to just drop a service when all of their connections are there is unhelpful at best.

  • Some people really lack civic sense

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  • I've been finding that there's generally more than enough comments to read right here. Much higher quality too.

  • This Early Access pirate game [Windrose] was quietly killing your SSD without you knowing - A misconfigured database cache was driving writes of over 108GB per hour, but a patch is already live.

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  • Did someone vibe code too close to the sun again?

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  • Not the person you replied to, but I did work in the music industry for a little while. The short version is that streaming services and especially Spotify pay artists like shit. They work on a revenue share model based on the number of streams an artist gets per month so there isn't really a fixed number, but it hashes out to fractions of a cent per stream typically. Even the more "generous" services like Tidal or Apple pay just over a cent per stream on average if you're pulling in serious numbers of streams. I did the math once, and to make the minimum wage from streaming alone in my country, an artist would need to be pulling in over 600k streams per month on Spotify. Most artists will get a fraction of that. This is also assuming that the artist is entirely independent with no labels and distributors to cut in too, so the true number will be much higher for most.

    If you purchase an album from an artist on Bandcamp once, that's almost certainly going to be orders of magnitude the amount they make from streaming that same album over and over again.

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  • Can also recommend the JM21. I just wish the battery life was better.

  • Utah first state to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs — law goes into effect, designed to prevent bypassing age checks

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  • That works from the ISP end, but this legislation makes websites themselves accountable. Even if it was about ISPs, as you said they can't see what you're doing to stop it and there's too many use cases for VPNs to just block the protocols outright.

  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
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    How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims | Novara Media

    novaramedia.com /2025/04/15/how-the-labour-party-is-using-biased-ai-to-determine-benefit-claims/
  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    How Labour Is Using Biased AI to Determine Benefit Claims | Novara Media

    novaramedia.com /2025/04/15/how-the-labour-party-is-using-biased-ai-to-determine-benefit-claims/
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Can this become the European Union's own Linux Distribution?

    news.itsfoss.com /eu-os/
  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Can this become the European Union's own Linux Distribution?

    news.itsfoss.com /eu-os/
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Can this become the European Union's own Linux Distribution?

    news.itsfoss.com /eu-os/
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Ten Brits Accused of War Crimes in Gaza, Including Killing Civilians | Novara Media

    novaramedia.com /2025/04/07/ten-brits-accused-of-war-crimes-in-gaza-including-killing-civilians/