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YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
YouTube claims that the pause ads are actually designed to let the company offer you a “less interruptive” experience, but it didn’t tell us that its normal ads will appear any less frequently as a result.
I watch YouTube more than any other streaming service but it’s unusable if you don’t pay for Premium. Or have uBlock Origin. Premium is worth it to me though. I wanna support the creators in some way but definitely not through being spammed with ads every five minutes
The “Third State” That Lies Beyond The Boundaries Of Life And Death
“Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites,” Noble told IFLScience. “However, the emergence of new multicellular lifeforms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a ‘third state’ that lies beyond the conventional boundaries of life and death.”
There’s always a secret third option
Void Text Editor: Open-Source Alternative to Cursor
VS Code is to modern text editors what Chromium is to browsers: a fork magnet. A slew of niche spins have emerged, each putting their own spin on Microsoft’s massively popular original.The latest to join the fray is Void.
Void is positioning itself as a free, open-source rival to Cursor, albeit with notable differences.While Void is AI-centric it’s not chained to a specific set of cloud-based, proprietary LLMs like Cursor it. It aims to work just as well with locally hosted LLMs through Ollama.
[Void] 👀
Mozilla is shutting down its Mastodon instance
We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta.
They’re awfully wishy washy these days
Ohio sheriff instructs residents to list homes with Harris-Walz campaign signs
“When people ask me … What’s gonna happen if the Flip – Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins??” Zuchowski wrote, referring to Harris. “I say … write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards!” Referring to immigrants as “Illegal human ‘Locust’”, Zuchowski added: “We’ll already have the addresses of the their New families … who supported their arrival!”
Of course this shit head is from Ohio. This is who we elect to uphold the law here, I guess 🤬
Inclusive advertising boosts sales & increases brand loyalty, new study finds
The research, based on an analysis of 392 brands across 58 countries, reveals that inclusive advertising can boost short-term sales by nearly 3.5% and drive long-term sales by over 16%.
Inclusive advertising also persuades 62% of consumers to choose a product and enhances brand loyalty for 15% of shoppers
Being inclusive and respectful of marginalized customers, like… actually treating them like people can be good for business? What a concept
Lately I’ve had an obsession with Brutalist design. Stuff like The Brutalist Report and back when I used Mastodon, Brutaldon. I discovered brutalistwebsites.com this morning. I think I’m going to spend a lot of time here today.
Biden moves to crack down on Shein and Temu, slow shipments into US
“over the last 10 years, the number of shipments entering the United States claiming the de minimis exemption has increased significantly, from approximately 140 million a year to over 1 billion a year.” And the “majority of shipments entering the United States claiming the de minimis exemption originate from several China-founded e-commerce platforms,” Biden said.
Any time I hear “Temu” I think of that South Park episode where all the grandparents are compulsively buying cheap junk from the Home Shopping Network
Achieving optical transparency in live animals with absorbing molecules
…an aqueous solution of a common food color approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, tartrazine, has the effect of reversibly making the skin, muscle, and connective tissues transparent in live rodents.
The food coloring used in Doritos and Mountain Dew can make mouse skin transparent in high concentrations. I originally saw an article about this on The Onion and thought it was a joke, but it’s legit!
Boar’s Head Shuts Down Virginia Meat Plant After 9 Deaths Linked to Listeria
I’m sure they’ll do all they can to ensure the other facilities are up to code but it makes ya wonder how it got so bad in the first place. Shit happens but I don’t think I’ll be eating Boar’s Head any time soon 🤢
Flappy Bird announces its return, but with a… twist
So, who is the Flappy Bird Foundation? Well, get ready for a big ol' bummer. When you dig deeper, you realize the foundation specializes in the selling of everyone’s favorite Ts, NFTs.
Yes, unfortunately, the company behind the game’s return snagged the copyright after inactivity and is using it to sling crypto. Dong himself is not directly involved here.
I was so excited for Flappy Bird to come back but not like this 🙃
Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
You cannot trust any medium, so you copy important things over and over, into fresh storage. “Optical media rots, magnetic media rots and loses magnetic charge, bearings seize, flash storage loses charge, etc.,” writes user abracadaniel. “Entropy wins, sometimes much faster than you’d expect.”
Backups are important
OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities
The training behind o1 is fundamentally different from its predecessors, OpenAI’s research lead, Jerry Tworek, tells me, though the company is being vague about the exact details.
With o1, it trained the model to solve problems on its own using a technique known as reinforcement learning, which teaches the system through rewards and penalties.
Most 78s were 10-inches and held about three-and-a-half minutes of music. They were primarily made of shellac, which, believe it or not, is a resin secreted by lac bugs in the forests of Thailand and India.
TIL old records are an insect product 🤯🎵
Ohio’s oldest continuously operating inn appears to be for sale
At 212 years old, the Buxton Inn is billed as “Ohio’s oldest continuously operating inn,” and has even housed multiple celebrity guests throughout its tenure, including Cameron Diaz, Jennifer Garner, Henry Ford, and Yo-Yo Ma.
This place is a few miles down the road from us. It’s always been touted as one of the most haunted places in Ohio. It’ll be interesting to see what the new owners do with it when it sells! Hopefully they keep it operational. Ghosts or not, it’s a cool piece of history.
Ford Seeks Patent for Software That Records Your Conversations to Serve You Ads
If this kind of thing catches on I’m trading in my car for a Huffy. My phone already knows enough about me.
Instead of mindlessly scrolling “for you” feeds, I now spend that time reading posts from other bloggers I follow via RSS. It’s been a wonderful experience.
There’s great content out there, but you must curate it yourself. An RSS reader is a great way to do that.
I’ve been doing the same thing for a while now too. I blogged about quitting social media and shifting over to Micro.blog recently. I don’t think that would’ve been possible without a well curated RSS feed to fill the void!
Woman started wildfires so she could flirt with sexy firefighters
A 44-year-old woman from Tripoli, Greece, was sentenced to three years imprisonment after deliberately starting two wildfires. Local media reports that she wanted to flirt with the sexy firefighters responding to douse the blazes, which did not spread far before being put out.
Sounds like one of those “only in America” things but not this time!
This robot is being controlled by a King oyster mushroom
When the researchers shined a UV light on the fungus, it triggered an electrical impulse that quickly sent a signal to the motors and actuators in two custom built robots.
This mostly feels like “powering a lightbulb with a potato v2.0” but the goal is to one day use fungi to monitor soil health. The robot thing is kinda click-baity but it’s cool they’re able to do something using electrical impulses from a mushroom. Reminds me of how they can “play a synth”
We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world
I like this guys’s take on defining what addiction and trauma are and how they correlate. Gotta figure out who you are before the healing starts 🧘