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Angela Collier just released a video about how billionaires really want to be seen as physicists, whilst most of them dropped out of college. “I could’ve become”, “I considered to” and so on.

They really want to be perceived as smart. I don’t get any brownie points for saying “I thought about getting a PhD”, why should they?
Especially when they can hire several professors to teach them personally with their billions of dollars.

It’s a long video, but well worth the watch.

I tried switching to Aurora, but apps updated through there no longer appear in Android Auto for some reason (Spotify, Smart Audiobook Player)

It’s the official bang for Startpage. You can’t configure custom bangs in DDG; Kagi can do that.

Oh, like so. When you said “same” I assumed you meant Google as well, and I found !s to be an intuitive bang for that. Startpage makes more sense, I know they get their results through Google.

I’ve found DDG/bing’s results to be quite lacking.

It seems our experiences have been different, then.

but with !s

Is that built-in, or do you have to configure it yourself? Configuring one is fine, but DDG has quite a few I semi-frequently use (!i, !g, !gi, !yt, !w, !gt), even Google itself feels like a downgrade when I want to search an image and I manually have to click the ‘images’ tab after performing my query.

It’s much more convenient to just have good search results to begin with though

I agree, which is why I’ve been happy to continue using DDG.

I keep hearing about Kagi, maybe I should try it sometime.

DDG has been quite serviceable to me, however. If I can’t find something I can just add a quick !g to my already existing query and look it up on Google instead, which I’ve found rather convenient.

defeating Denise Swanner, whose campaign attacked his sexuality.

Remember when it was all about “the identity politics of the left”?

It’s going to be based on user votes, and given just how popular that game was I don’t think it unlikely to win.

As if Google’s results haven’t been getting worse

I see. There’s stuff such as apkmirror, but an official way to do it is better.

What do you use it for, when you’re outside network range?

I’ve never been in a situation where it felt necessary.

Black Myth Wukong had one of the highest concurrent player counts of Steam of all time. The game was very popular in China.

Meanwhile Astrobot’s sales figures were lacklustre, according to some reports.

I largely agree, but the interests have gotten misaligned. Back then it was the threat of regulation which changed things up, I think the governments should do a little more of that.

but… Looks like they don’t audit so good, if this article is evidence

That’s the whole issue with it being a lobby group. It makes them a ton of money, so they are incentivised against making a rating for it because that would draw more attention/limit sales.

And that’s where the whole government lobbying part comes in.

Not entirely sure about the European PEGI, but the American ESRB is funded by the same companies that it regulates. It was created after the outcry about violent games and was the industry self-regulating to avoid the government getting more involved.

It is a lobby group for the industry, for better and in this case very much for worse.

I assume PEGI is little different.

Same for public transit.

A bit of compensation isn’t a crazy idea, but it doesn’t have to break even with the money it does bring in. It’s not like we have a ton of toll roads either, it’s not an issue to spend billions on another lane or two.

As the article says; there are different ways to embed YouTube videos, and the method that’s “broken” is the one that gives more revenue to the website.

In the case of uBO, just search for “url” in the filter list and you should find it.

The “EA Originals” that they have put out have mostly been fairly solid, Hazelight’s games especially so.

Eternals of Aveum had its fair share of flaws, but it was a complete package.

Though, because it is EA, I cannot help but wonder if/when they’ll pull the switcharoo

Websites automatically adapting to viewport size is pretty handy, not having to select whether you want the mobile site or not each and every time you load the page is generally considered a good thing.

You may also want the website to adapt to smaller or wider windows, unless you want every website to become one where you manually zoom in and pan around.

Similar things go for language and timezone.

There are various ways to spoof various settings about your browser, through add-ins or otherwise.

Yes and no. There are still plenty of things that get tracked regardless of JavaScript, and disabling JavaScript is it’s own mark they can track.
Do Not Track is one such request, but screen size, viewport size, language, timezone/region, whether you block ads or not, browser/engine version, and many more are all things that do get tracked without the need for JS.
All have legitimate reasons, but can also be abused by being tracked server-side.

The cover your tracks page on eff.org has some pretty good explanations for most things.

Fun fact, the reason the TOR browser launches in windowed mode is so that this viewport size tracking is less of a marker.