You shouldn’t spend the money now because normalizing payment to a corporation worth $2.47 trillion for future services rendered is a terrible thing to do.

I’m just going to add that the web ui on mobile is great. Good enough that I’ve stopped using mlem. Mlem doesn’t show you the different instances that users and communities are coming from which doesn’t really matter for users but is super annoying for communities, and the main dev said that’s intentional. It also shows you your “karma”, through what I’m assuming is just adding up the raw up/downvotes your posts/comments have accrued. Seeing that is what ultimately made me bounce, it seems like the complete antithesis of what Lemmy is trying to be about.

Also, while they’re working on adding a NSFW blur, it doesn’t exist yet and fuck seeing all that loli ai porn on my feed. I don’t mind having to scroll past stuff I’m not interested in, but fuck me at least blur it.

6 now with my comment. It’s 200% more lively here!

Despite their issues I put hundreds of hours into each one and enjoyed them all. I see no reason to think this won’t be the same, and have no problem betting $70 on it.

Really the issue here is that there are very few reasons to hand a company your money before they are prepared to deliver you a product. There are even fewer reasons when the product is most likely going to be purchased and delivered digitally, since there is zero chance the product will be sold out. When a game is being developed by Microsoft-owned Bethesda, they don’t need preorder money to finish the game.

I’m not 100% sure on the answer to that.

Twitter relies on Google Cloud to host services…

So I’m assuming that means that Twitter is either using GCP to host cloud-based internally developed services, or SaaS deployments in the cloud, but that’s just a complete guess on my part.> n Musk’s takeover. Since “at least” March, Twitter has been pushing to renegotiate the contract

Edit - This section was in the next paragraph lol.

Now, Platformer has reported that a Twitter service called Smyte—an automated anti-abuse and anti-harassment tool that was previously operating on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—will potentially shut down on June 30. This could lead to a flood of spam bots and CSAM on Twitter as bots and content could fail to be removed.

So it sounds like it’s an internally built Twitter service that they host in GCP.

Scroll to the bottom of your page and click the Instances link. For you it should be https://beehaw.org/instances.

There’s no corporation or company in the mix here.

Well I’m hyped for this now. I’ve been craving a good, story-driven, single-player space game for a while now. As much as I love Elite:Dangerous, sometimes I want a story driving my actions in game instead of just grinding credits for nicer ships, even if flying those ships is a beautiful experience. If the reviews come back positive I’ll buy this day one.

I can’t wait to whip out a bluetooth-capable mechanical keyboard with MX Blue switches on an airplane, plop that chonk down on the the tray table, and clickity-clack for the entirety of the flight from the East Coast to the EU.

…why use that device? … The one solid use-case that interested me was being able to sit in your own IMAX cinema, but is that really worth $3500?

Except this device isn’t being marketed as an iPhone or iPad replacement. The closest thing to it replacing is a MacBook, but it’s not being marketed as a MacBook replacement either. It seems to me like it’s a blend between a MacBook Air replacement and a Pro Display XDR/general monitor replacement. A good OLED ultra wide monitor is above $1,000. A Pro Display XDR is $5,000-$6,000. With the Vision Pro, you could theoretically never buy a monitor again. I’ve bought two ergotron monitor arms at $200 each just to be able to move my monitors around a fraction of the amount that you can move windows inside Vision Pro. I don’t think the price is out of line, and I do think there is a pretty obvious use case here. It’s a monitor replacement for stationary computer use, with the option of limited portability. With a battery life of 2 hours it seems pretty obvious to me that mobile use wasn’t Apple’s priority with this.

Well, this isn’t exactly how I saw the Singularity Church of the MachineGod getting started, I’m still here for it.

I created a cybersecurity community: [email protected]

Whether you’re a seasoned cybersecurity professional, a student, or someone with a passing interest, feel free to join! I’ve been posting relevant news articles and research as I find them, but I would love for there to be more social/conversational posts as well.

In addition to the clean litter box and marking of territory, my cat used to shit on my bed due to separation anxiety if I was gone for more than a night or so. The only way I stopped it was keeping my bedroom door shut. When I travel now I’ll fold up the comforter and put it in my living room so he can still sleep on something that smells like me, and he’s chill, and he has yet to shit on the comforter. It’s just something about the bed idk.

I’ll strongly voice my support for the suggestion to take your cat to the vet though.

I did not even realize this was something that existed. I am now also worried for it lol. I don’t think I’ll even pirate this, it looks too bad to even hate watch if this trailer is anything to go by.

This is a good time to note that as more people migrate over, shit is going to be just a little bit wonky. Glad it’s working for you now though!

I am posting this comment from mlem while using my account registered on sh.itjust.works. I’m not sure what the issue is on your end, but mlem should work with any instance.

I feel like I’ve been specifically called out by the “borderline lethal amounts of adderall” bit, especially since it’s listed for Hackerman.

The best part about this whole indictment to me is that they redacted portions of the classification markings themselves. Dude took shit that’s so sensitive we can’t even know exactly how sensitive it is.

Ah yeah, I can definitely see Dune in it as well! I think it was the circular dome, large windows, and computing bits and bobs on the walls that reminded me of NMS, although that probably applies to the vast majority of space colonization sci-fi.

That’s giving me some hard No Man’s Sky vibes, I like it!