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Why is it that websites refused to understand the only reason we're using ad blockers is because they upped the number of ads, blasted them everywhere, with pop-ups and sound, and movement, and flashing lights, and God knows what else.

A couple of static ads has never been a problem.

I run uBlock Origin or other ad-blockers in every browser I use.

Sometimes I get the "hey, you're blocking ads, we can't make money" popups. From otherwise agreeable news sites.

Then I think to myself, if you just ran the ads yourself, from your own site, without the adsystem trackers involving Meta/Google/Amazon, then the ads would probably get through.

The ads themselves aren't the problem. It's that publishers want to send all the data and most of the revenue to someone else.

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if you'll be in Berlin for @localfirstconf.com and are sticking around after... the Userandagents.com community is hosting a casual space for #localfirst people to hang / hack / chat for the Thurs/Fri after the conference! registration and more info: lu.ma/v457jxp2

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Great article, “How a Biofilm’s Strange Shape Emerges From Cellular Geometry” in Quanta Magazine.

Here are biofilms grown by researcher Lars Dietrich, all from the same bacterium, fed different nutrients.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-a-biofilms-strange-shape-emerges-from-cellular-geometry-20250421/

making a generic poker game for PC except calling it "Balatro Origins"

I "love" how we need to keep on studying things that are flat out good for society while bad things just get rolled out without the same onus of proof.

Things that need to be proven over and over and over:

- Universal Basic Income
- Walkable cities prioritising pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit
- Low speed limits for cars
- No-strings housing for homeless
- High taxes for the rich

And the list goes on and on... why do we make it so hard to improve our society while making it so easy to ruin it?

Being able to reproduce a bug is like 99% of the effort. Once I can reproduce a bug I usually have it fixed in no time.

its been a while since we stole the rainbow.

i am proud to announce that today, we will begin work on stealing the infrared spectrum. but we wont stop there. we are also currently in the early stages of planning out how to steal the strategically critical radio and microwave spectrum too. our end goal is the complete gayification of the entire electromagnetic spectrum

Uhm, a new ChatGPT version just dropped and GeoGuesser is now a solved problem.

PSA: When posting any outdoors photos, update your threat model from "someone skilled and dedicated could theoretically locate this" to "any stalker can do this for 20€/mo"

https://xcancel.com/arithmoquine/status/1912671688874926575/