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toymin··on Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family
It's all either porn or self-help slop
toymin··on CSS Bed: Classless CSS themes to use as starting points in web development
Quite a few of them look off on mobile, they either have no edge margins at all or they're too large and force the user to scroll horizontally
toymin··on Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
My guess is that it's less about the architecture and more about the blast radius and the number of users
toymin··on Polishing Cloth Updated
there are no nano-texture display devices that fit in a reasonably sized pocket
toymin··on On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails
They could give more funding to SailfishOS, for example
toymin··on Has the New Cocaine Arrived?
It arrived at least 6 years ago, at least in Europe. Before the fairly recent ban you could get it delivered to your mailbox from a website
toymin··on The AI Aesthetic
Hamburger menu is not a good UX abstraction, that's why the mass usage stage of it was pretty short lived and most people are leaving it for more obvious patterns, like tab bars
toymin··on Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states
It's interesting that you bring up Netflix. While their initial offering of having a good selection of movies in one subscription was very attractive, their expansion and eventual entry to public stock market caused it to be pretty much synonymous with "slop" in TV and movie circles, which I think makes a very good case that "big production studio" != "good quality productions".

Warner Bros specifically, while still a very large studio, has been relatively generous with funding more risky movies, and there is a lot of warranted caution that this consolidation is going to result in streamlining everything into taking as few risks as possible and aiming for broadest appeal and highest possible gross margins, which is a terrible thing for anything that could be considered art.

toymin··on Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states
> Who cares?

People who like movies, presumably

toymin··on The World Cup Could Not Be Americanized
https://archive.is/UVfe0
toymin··on The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
> A visa allows you entry

That's incorrect, holding a B1/B2 US visa only allows you to arrive at the port of entry, the actual permission to enter the country is always left to the border officer interviewing you

toymin··on OpenAI Executive Who Opposed 'Adult Mode' Fired for Sexual Discrimination
> Beiermeister started at OpenAI in mid-2024 as a part of a wave of hires from Meta who viewed themselves as trying to change tech companies from the inside

Looks like that's not really effective, even if you're at the executive level

toymin··on Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone
Pretty sure this doesn't remove Activation Lock so it shouldn't make a difference
toymin··on Why do people drop litter?
> Is someone more likely to drop litter if there’s already lots or less litter already around, I wonder?

That's definitely a big factor, there's a whole theory on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

It seems like people are less likely to litter in clean places

toymin··on Insects and other animals have consciousness
yes those are obviously the same, after all lions are known for running industrial-scale farms where they force millions of gazelles to procreate and then keep them in tiny cages for the entirety of their short lives so that other lions can conveniently buy prepackaged gazelle meat in a supermarket not even having to ever associate the pack of meat with a once living gazelle
toymin··on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
> Not Apple

They're definitely moving in that direction https://searchads.apple.com/

> Microsoft

It's not a huge part of their revenue but they definitely make a sizeable amount of money from ads

toymin··on Airlines will make $118B in extra fees
They still should be way cheaper if you don’t care about the seats and/or only have hand luggage
toymin··on Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
Considering the importance of the negotiations for Apollo’s developer he could have considered hiring a middleman for the call, that would probably have prevented some misunderstandings
toymin··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
but there’s no incentive for Reddit to pay any money, they either start charging for the API and recoup the costs or the app shuts down and it starts costing Reddit absolutely nothing