A couple months ago a story came out of a court case that they would happily keep running ads that were identified as scams; they would just increase the advertising costs for the accounts running those ads. The more reports, the higher the price until they reach a limit to ban them. Basically if their users are getting scammed, they want a bigger cut.

These were the developer accounts to sign their software to run on Windows

Theft of her revenue. I don’t know that she could get it to a criminal level but civil probably.

EDIT: and not suing Google but Vidya and Timeless Sounds IR

It’s impossible to miss something that large

This feels like the kind of slam dunk legal case some law firm would be happy to take on contingency. People will keep doing this if there are no consequences.

I think we got one of those later. The first one they got was a monster of 1980s technology. It looks more like a news camera than anything for consumer use (although maybe not to actual news people).

You couldn’t record to laserdisc, right? My parents had a VHS camcorder with a selling point that it could also be used as a VCR (the recorder hung from a shoulder bag and could be separately connected to the TV). We have a lot of old home videos from that, and I remember us recording programs from the TV too.

Taken out two years ago

From their perspective, why cut your prices when you’ve reduced your cost if the customers will still pay the same? Use it instead to raise prices on the physical copies to bring them in line with your new, increased margins!

MindSpring was the name of our first Internet provider

I can’t read the whole article because of a subscriber login, but the author is complaining about the looming imposition of a hard salary cap in baseball, in response to the Dodgers’ spending.

Have other U.S. sports been ruined by a salary cap, though? I found baseball kind of boring back when the Yankees were constantly winning by dramatically outspending everyone else. Moving the dominance from the nation’s #1 market to the #2 market doesn’t seem particularly interesting. It feels like we see more variety in winners—and smaller market teams—in other leagues. MLB has had more variety in recent years, perhaps because moneyball became a more popular way to compete, but if we go back to one team outspending everyone else and constantly winning, then it feels like things get boring again.

I think it goes back to the Reddit days. Subreddits would be referred to as r/SubredditName, which referred to the URL path (reddit.com/r/SubredditName) and was how they would be displayed on the page. I think the Reddit mobile app at least would actually turn that into a link. The equivalent to a subreddit on Lemmy is a community and their URL often shows up as lemmy.instance/c/CommunityName. It’s not actually as useful in the Fediverse to refer to them in that way, though, because it generally only works as a link if you’re signed in to that instance. Using !CommunityName@lemmy.instance is better because it should work regardless of what instance you’re on, or even if you’re using something different from Lemmy.

I don’t think it even registered at first for the truck that they were being told to stop because he’d just told the Frontier plane to stop

A gaping hole was left on a small island in the Pacific Ocean when the United States military released an 18-kiloton nuclear blast in 1958, known as the ‘Cactus’ test.

After the blast took place on the Marshall Island’s Runit Island, the military filled it in with contaminated soil and debris, creating a ‘tomb’ of nuclear waste known now as the Runit Dome.

The 115-meter (377 feet)-wide dome, built between 1977 and 1980 as part of military cleanup efforts, rests above more than 120,000 tons of material that were contaminated by US nuclear testing across Enewetak Atoll, including lethal quantities of plutonium.

The dome was intended as a temporary solution to contain material left behind by the nuclear tests, some of which exceeded the magnitude of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1,000 times over.

Sounds like it’s time for a more long-term response

I did not know this was an Andy Weir story; that makes me more interested in checking it out!

I tried for like an hour this morning, kept clicking the checkout button and it would just reload the page. One time I got to the page to enter shipping details but after that got a message saying it was no longer in stock.

None anymore. I’d like to get my hands on a CRT HDTV if I can find one. I saw a listing on Nextdoor a decade ago but it was old and the guy had wound up trashing it before I messaged him.

It’s probably been even longer since I used mine, which is a shame because it is fun; I just don’t have a good space for the more active games right now, or even Walkabout Mini Golf

I guess they weren’t even working on those games anymore:

However, while Red Storm is best known for its association with Tom Clancy games, for the past decade, it’s been focused on VR games, such as Werewolves Within (2016), Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017), and Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR (2023).

Modern stewardship of Tom Clancy titles has been handled by Massive Entertainment (The Division), Ubisoft Montreal (Rainbow Six Siege), Ubisoft Paris (Ghost Recon Wildlands), and Ubisoft Toronto (Splinter Cell remake).