That’s interesting, thanks

I’m not a huge fan of Maven either. I guess I’m just spoiled by Cargo.

with all the suck taken out.

You still need Gradle, so not all the suck.

It’s a little embeddable mini-app that you can put on the home screen of your phone along with your app icons. For example, you might display the current weather on your home screen using a widget.

Source: am also not a beer drinker.

There are 309 million possible ways to combine 6 letters. I would wager only a few million are even remotely pronounceable. The notion that someone can claim a bunch of those words and prevent other people from using them, even in unrelated areas, is completely absurd. There are over 8 billion people on this planet, words get reused. They should just fucking deal with it.

I installed it and gave it a whirl. I’m not sure if I’m just doing something wrong, but every time I disable it for a specific website (like with discord or lemmy, since those already have dark themes), I get a popup that says, “Settings application failed. Refresh the page and try again. Midnight Lizard has been updated. Please refresh the page.” It also seems to make the extension popup switch to light theme, which is pretty atrocious lol.

Sounds good to me, I’ll give it a try!

What about it is better?

Yeah, I see video monetization as running on a similar model to that of free to play games. The majority of people either don’t make you any money or only very little money, but they boost your engagement and popularity metrics so that you get more ‘whales’ that do things like donating on Patreon, choosing to watch sponsors and use affiliate codes, and buying merch.

Ads are only the worth the actual amount of business they generate. I know that a lot of people don’t realize that even if they never intentionally buy something from an ad, the familiarity of seeing things in an ad makes them more likely to pick it over something else down the line. However, this still only works if you have any disposable income and don’t immediately hit mute, close your eyes, and count to 30 when an ad comes on. A lot of people using ad blockers would just devalue the ads themselves if they were forced to watch them. The people with the money just pay for Premium.

Instead of not watching them, you can just use SponsorBlock!

Yeah, and no ads unless they’re inserted by either the podcast creator or distributor. I do wish we had some sort of sponsorblock equivalent, but I know that AntennaPod doesn’t have any sort of backend, so implementing those features would be a pretty big undertaking.

Can’t help with music on the phone, but try AntennaPod for podcasts if you’re on Android. It’s FOSS.

I’m pretty sure it’s illegal for them to try to make you pay the service charge you didn’t agree to.

If a rights holder claims injury, I should be allowed to make it true by stealing their car.

I have never seen that once.

That’s a great point. I wonder how many people have died because of billboards.

I’m all for banning billboards and whatnot. Forced advertising without any service in return is theft of attention and time.

We should use sortition to get the money out of politics. Modern cryptography allows us to generate verifiably random numbers. You should be able to put your name into a lottery that gets drawn from using calculations from said random numbers and if your name gets drawn, you have some period of time to study up and prepare to serve a term in congress. No elections, just pure and truly representative legislature.

It should be illegal for companies to put ads in a system you paid for.

Also, no way people on the higher part have the same amount of leg room. Their feet would go through (or possibly over, which is still unacceptable) other passengers’ heads.