Can you imagine explaining to someone in 1999 that a significant amount of politics in 2025 would surround what websites we decide to spend 12 hours a day on

Fingerprinting unfortunately uses more than useragent strings. It takes hashes of data in your browser from a javascript context that is not easily masked or removed. For example, it might render a gradient of colors projected onto a curved 3d plane. The specific result of this will create a unique hash for your GPU. They can also approximate your geolocation by abusing the time-to-live information within a TCP packet, which is something you can’t control on the clientside at all. If you TRULY want to avoid tracking by google, you need to block google domains in your hosts file and maybe consider disabling javascript on all sites by default until you trust them. Also don’t use google.

The internet feels post-apocalyptic now. I no longer have any social media accounts (does lemmy count?) . Places that I spent over a decade on now feel so hostile and foreign. I joined reddit as a teenager wanting to read f7u12 comics, and now reddit feels like a total outrage machine. I mean the ads are crap but the algorithm doesn’t show me content I WANT to see anymore. It just shows me videos of car accidents and street fights and other things that get my cortisol levels up. Blocking subreddits straight up doesnt work. I like that on lemmy I can just filter only by the communities I subscribe to

That’s fine. A more fragmented internet is better for the world

Digg: “join us reddit…”

To be fair, the web has become flooded with AI slop. Search engines have never been more useless. I’ve started using kagi and I’m trying to be more intentional about it but after a bit of searching it’s often easier to just ask claude

I think a large reason why many game devs don’t dev on linux is tooling support, not the speed of the runtime. idk if Unity and Unreal editors run on Linux but they do make it simpler to target linux or mac. Ancedotally, however, most Unity devs I see are either on Windows or Macbooks, not Linux.

Personally I’m a fan of DirectX and all the tools that come with it. Vulkan is a comparable API (though more verbose than DX11) and the tooling support for it is very 3rd party. I could switch to Linux for literally anything other than game dev because I’m just too into DirectX right now

They don’t have to meet, the max stack size is defined at compile time

It’s the principle of letting uneducated people dictate what words are acceptable to us

Main branches will be renamed Master

Yes

There are also some fascist states that have endured quite long like […] United States

Lmao, let me know how freshman year poli sci turns out for you

Italy, Germany, Chile

Except the 99% of times it hasnt

I used to use vim but imo it’s not worth the time it requires to configure to get working properly. These days I don’t code without a debugger so if there’s not a good way to set breakpoints I don’t even start

What was it like being on the train? Is it comfortable? What’s the food like? Always wanted to do an overnight train through the south

In principle: no. But Americans no longer have any principles (or never did in the first place)

So it’s your opinion that corporations were not greedy before 2020?

Is it truly your belief that corporations were not greedy over the last 15 years, but somehow got really greedy at the same time that there were major supply chain shocks across the planet? Or is it more likely that “corporate greed” is a more enticing answer to a complex economic problem?

If the price increases were purely inflation then it would stand to reason that profits wouldn’t have gone up so much

During inflation, the value of EVERYTHING goes up. Companies pull in more money because money is not worth as much as it was

It’s just inflation. Corporate greed is a poor excuse for price increases