Just for clarification, but do you mean you can automate that stuff? Because FF already has debug tools built in that lets you edit the HTML or CSS of the page however you want, but it’s only for the current session. I’d occasionally use that before realizing I could just use reader mode for sites that did client side html5 bs for access control. Just go in and delete nodes using the picker tool. Until the annoying thing is gone.

I’ve never really played around with ublock’s capabilities, though did know that it must have been more sophisticated than just dns lists to stay in the arms race vs youtube (as well as why google was pushing “security features” that would kill it).

It’s shorthand for “the federal government”.

Though from my POV, opposition to the Albertan oil industry is popular rather than just driven by the federal government. If anything, it seemed like Trudeau wanted to work more with Alberta but faced loud complaints (including court challenges) from the rest of Canada.

Like I’d much rather see a long term strategy that ends up leaving most of that oil in the sands than any further investment in extracting it. I also interpret “don’t worry, it’ll be perfectly safe” as “we’ll extraxct as much value from this until it fails and if the consequences are severe enough, make sure retirement funds have invested in us so that we have hostages”.

Yeah, the fact that they still tried to sell or use so much AI slop that still had major flaws should have been a clear sign that you should never trust marketers because they’ll still try to push obvious garbage as if it is amazing. Same thing with those early coke AI ads that were just a series of unrelated scenes that look ok until you look any closer, but someone greenlighted it despite all that.

They were phoning it in so hard they pushed what were technical demos at best as final products.

Though from my perspective, I already had inverse trust based on apparent ad budget even before AI slop showed up because enshitification and apathy about actual quality were rampant long before AI slop was a thing.

I’ve decided I’ll compromise and give it up for an EV, probably for my next car, assuming I can get a Chinese one (would have never expected to say something like that just a few years ago).

Though maybe if my current car dies before I can do that I’ll try to get a pre-18 MT something or another. Something without touch screens and outside connections other than AM/FM radio.

Though the kid inside me also wants a fun car since I can now afford it might just rent a Ferrari or something for a few laps around a track to get that out of my system. Probably an or something since the top end cars don’t even come with MT anymore. I don’t even care that stick shift isn’t peak performance anymore, it’s more fun and using a clutch is engaging (heh).

If you keep stacking them high enough with a perimeter strong enough to keep them contained, the heat and pressure would eventually get high enough to liquify the ones at the bottom.

What exactly did feminists do to atheism or gaming?

Though it would be cool to do that and then set up microphones to pick up the house settling sounds and see if there’s a correlation. If only those with the resources to set that up could be trusted to not abuse that access to data because I wouldn’t consent to some data firm having access to mics in my place.

I hope there was a bee involved in that picture.

Religious roots or religious “justification”? Like they don’t seem to put as much importance on other things their religion says is important, like the commandments about lying or being envious of their neighbours or most of what their religion’s namesake said, who was pretty clear that punishing sinners isn’t supposed to be a duty of his followers.

Try making a game. I think minesweeper might be a good one because it can be broken down into many different problems with different complexities. Like user input could start out as entering coordinates into specific cells to interact with a seperate grid, then you could switch to using an input grid where you enter a value into the cell you want, and then move on to clicking on cells like in the real minesweeper, including different behaviours for left, right, and both clicks.

Pretty sure you could implement a full version of minesweeper in excel, though even if you can’t get all the way, there should be enough low hanging fruit you can reach to learn a lot from the process.

Or if you’re feeling really ambitious, I think a realistic physics racing simulator is also possible, though I wouldn’t expect a lot on the graphics side of such a thing. Just lots of formulas that then get used to simulate a car accelerating, braking, and turning. But this one might also be great to get started with because you can start with a simple model and add complexity from there.

Decent chance you could get it financed for 0%, too.

Imagine a screenshot where someone is chatting with copilot, asking it to help them find copilot and copilot replies with frustration that the user needs to be more specific.

Alternate answer: just click any icon.

Goku is the mechanism that prevents the game from going on endlessly. As each player feels like they want to do something else, they reveal a dragon ball on the board (if there are less than 7 players, the game starts with however many dragon balls are required to make the total 7). If a player is eliminated, the player that knocks them out gets their dragon ball.

Once all 7 dragon balls are revealed (or owned by you), you can declare that you’re searching for them, after which you roll a search check each turn and if you get the dragon ball symbol, then roll the 7-sided die to determine which one you found. If you roll one you already have, it goes missing (another player can hide it on the map). If you roll the dragon ball finder, you get an extra roll each turn (which can be given up to avoid losing a dragon ball).

Once you have collected all 7 dragon balls, you must summon Porunga (yes, we managed to grab Namek’s dragon before Frieza turned it all to lava), turn out the lights and wish for Goku to be revived or summoned there. At this point, Goku will challenge whoever the strongest fighter is. He is not strong enough to defeat any players in his normal form, so you’ll need to tell him to not hold back and then defeat him (because he’ll agree but hold back anyways). Once Goku goes SSJ, he will eliminate one player per turn, starting from the strongest, but after eliminating one player you’ll need to feed him before he feels like fighting the next one. This brings us to the farming mechanics… (continues on for 16 pages)

Investing in good blinds can help with this. If you picture strings and plastic or wooden panels that can get wrecked by kids or pets (or sometimes wreck the kids or pets), blind technology has come a long way since then.

I got some dual layer ones where one layer is zebra stripe transparent/translucent and the other layer is blackout. Balanced such that I just need to lift or lower it and it stays put where I let it go. Helps with the heat, too.

Yeah, I agree that, as far as f2p monetization models go, neither approach is bad on its own. I even liked the LoL one as I found it helped limit the choices right now so I didn’t have to pick out of like 100 characters, while still allowing for getting ones you liked, for free even if you were patient (and I was). HotS used the same model iirc.

But Blizzard displayed unbridled greed and contempt for their users for how they handled that. It really should have led to a landmark case regarding consumer rights when purchasing a license to play a video game and rules for clauses like “we can change this agreement whenever we want”.

Yeah, I wonder how much of this is actual learning vs just gaming the school’s systems. And how much of it was just getting an LLM to fake it even more.

The difference is that I did buy the first game (at a AAA price even, iirc) but then they got rid of it when they released the second one and gave a big middle finger to anyone that gave them money for the first.

Doesn’t really affect me personally, since I’d already decided to stay away from anything they offered for other reasons, but just another thing on the pile, though I hadn’t realized they then added a “oh but you can purchase the full thing again option” and thought that it worked more like DOTA2 for monetization (where all characters are free all the time and they monetize it with cosmetics and the plus subscription that gives data on the meta in game) rather than the LoL model.

Ah so activision (blizzard) made a game that people paid for, then replaced it with a f2p version, then added the ability to buy a bunch of the paid shit in a bundle? Can’t say that surprises me if it is the case; they made it pretty clear how out of touch they were the moment their rep asked “don’t you have phones?” as if “can I buy and play this?” was the only question any gamer had.

Yeah, I take any of the sudden jumps with a grain of salt, figuring it’s due to cybercafes getting more surveys or something like that. It usually bounces back the next month. The overall trend is more interesting to me than the specific numbers.

Though I’ll say that after I finally switched (as win 10 end of life loomed and win 11 looked worse even before copilot was integrated into everything), I regretted waiting so long. Just going through the install process without the whole “oh and of course you want these other things shoved down your throat, either now or later” and not needing to immediately dig through the settings because a design philosophy was “the user is stupid and needs to be protected from their own mistakes” and their other design philosophies for their UIs seem to be drawn weekly from a hat.