You know the ads have gotten ridiculous when the advertising company says “hey, maybe we ought to cool it a little.”

Probably something that could be dns blocked. Hopefully anyway.

Yeah, could very well be. But corporations gonna corporate. If you don’t like the product, don’t buy it.

Five dollars’ increase. FFS

Pretty sure I can soak it. I mean that’s what, five bucks a month? If that’s a hardship, kill the subscription and get a goddamn library card.

Good. This is just theater for the knuckle-dragging Republican base anyway. The dems who went along with it can eat a bag of dicks.

Because broken as they are, people still come first before AI. Or they should, anyway.

And then they wonder why their sales are tanking, when it turns out AI’s can’t buy their products and everyone else is too poor to even consider it.

This seems deeply, disturbingly fucked up. “Fuck working with real people, who have their own goals and desires out of a career, we’re just gonna use an AI since no one can tell the difference.” It’s fucked up on multiple levels, not least since the fashion industry was already full of broken people before AI hit the scene.

If for some reason you can’t use a full-on ad blocker, “SponsorBlock for Youtube” is another Firefox extension you can install. It doesn’t block ads per se, but it will auto-skip segments of a video that have been reported as ad content. Kind of a grassroots thing, like reporting cops on Waze.

Hopefully this motivates a competitor to emerge.

The article gives the game away. Just change your user agent and you’re golden.

Does it need road? Rail? Asphalt, steel, or concrete, which wear down and need to be replaced? Or does it just need a standard charging station as used by current EV’s? FFS, get over your fucking normalcy bias.

Depends on how hard you scratch! lol

Oh look, a republican being spineless. Must be a day ending in Y.

Rail infrastructure costs money to maintain. So do roads, for that matter. If this is the first step towards ubiquitous pollution-free air taxis, we should be cheering, not grousing.

I put it to you that ideals may constitute a scratchable itch.

The Art of the Fuck-Up

I suppose the thing is, I personally wouldn’t care much if anyone else used it or not, my itch has been scratched. If someone else finds it of use, great! If they need changes, they’ve got the code and can get crackin’ on it themselves. Or, they can pay me to do it if we can agree on a price. Outside of that I have no expectations.

As I understood it, one of the foundations of open source development is scratching your own itches, then putting what you made up for grabs in case it scratches someone else’s. There shouldn’t be any expectation of support on your part beyond an email or two. The code’s out there if they want to scratch the itch a different way. It’s kind of a homesteader ethic.