Sure, but how do you solve the problems that patents in turn solved (and brought new problems with them of course)? That as kinda my point, if we just ban patents we can just look back to know which problems we need to solve in another way.

We always told them we want things to be optional, and now this is an extension so I dunno. Seems they’re listening?

Well, you can just… not install the extension then?

Yeah but again, not a copyright lawsuit.

That’s genuinely not as simple as you think it is. You realize there was a time before modern patent law, yes?

That’s not how patent law works.

So far it’s not perfect yet, but I already switched to it. Very nice.

It’s difficult to say what PP does, last I read about if? One idea was that it’s actually excludes things from server side click metrics, and in that case I would guess I can see point in leaving it there?

I don’t get why, I can’t see this be difficult or costly to run, but then again I have no clue, never ran a Mastodon instance.

I would assume that it’s not worth the small reach compared to running X / Bluesky / Threads accounts but then again, like I said, the cost must be super small. 🤷

It’s 2024, and we still assign significance to streamers and stream viewers. No wonder the world is going to shit as fast as it is…

Yeah that’s true, or at least I wish I could make FF remember my settings.

Yeah I was about to say, just do https? It’s not like getting a certificate is still a big deal in modern times, hasn’t in years.

Me, it makes me a bit sad it’s so low. Reader Mode is one the really cool features of Firefox, but I understand that consuming web content by reading is rapidly on the decline, as a result of the comparatively low information density of video and audio allowing bigger ad space compared to text.

Plus we know from the last 10-15 years how much reading comprehension has nosedived since the proliferation of video content.

Uh… what do you think we do when a client doesn’t pay us for a while? We yank their access. That’s how services work, you get a few warnings that you really need to pay or you’ll lose access and then, well, you lose access.

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“Quiet quitting” 😂

Because yeah, you only do the job they pay you for, how dare you!

Hrm, curious to see whether this comes with a bigger patch for the game.

I kinda bounced off of it, based on my own wrong expectations, as I was thinking it’d be more like Recettear and not as puzzly (in a time-managemeny way) as it was. It’s a decent enough game, just not what I thought it’d be.

Live service, as in: you better watch it live or you’ll have missed it! 😅

It has now been finalized as of yesterday, from what I understand. Previously it was a work-in-progress policy change they were still unsure about, and now it’s decided that this is the way going forward.

I reckon sadly at least part of the reason will be that they are in a partnership with OpenAI, and feeding generated stuff into a GenAI breaks the model, so they need to keep SO as non-AI as possible.

Okay, and how would you address it? The limitation is easy to criticize when you can think in a vacuum about it. But in the real world, we’d need to find a way to change things that can actually be implemented by everyone.

Which usually means transformative change.