just another dev

I did this too years ago, with varying levels of success.

Now I just buy Linux laptops instead - dell at work, Tuxedo computers for personal use. Less worry about supported hardware that way too.

Honestly, shit like this is why I set up my own lemmy instance where down votes are disabled. It’s built in configuration option, but very, very few instances have it set.

In practice it works pretty well. Popular stuff rises faster than unpopular stuff, but people don’t get shit on for valid but unpopular opinions. It also means you can’t down vote yourself, but the counter to that is to just up vote other things. So much less toxicity and more positivity - I can really recommend it.

And don’t forget about right wing bots!

For what it’s worth: I used the skyrim character creator to validate my YouTube account. “Look to the left. Now look to the right. Yups, you look like a human to me, Dovahkiin.”

If I understand checkt, hey’re not actually capturing the sound, just measuring the delays that hardware- and software specific implementations introduce. With the Web audio api, you can connect all sorts of nodes to one another - audio file input, to a left/right splitter, to a frequency analyser, to a joiner, etc. It can get quite complex. Like you said, actually needing mic input would be too obvious and the

DNS, no, ISPs yes. But the last time I recall them doing that was with The Pirate Bay, and that went terrible.

For what it’s worth, the European tracking law doesn’t give a shit whether you use cookies, localstorage, fingerprinting or pigeons to track people. If you do not consent, it’s not allowed.

Then again, good luck enforcing China to comply.

Thank you! (sincerely)

I like the image of a parade of glasses marching down the marketing isle, playing all kinds of different instruments, much more pleasing.

Don’t forget the dictionary quotes and the personal attacks.

For what it’s worth, I thought it was an interesting read until the other person went full ad hominem.

The very first GTA was promoted through “outrage” that they stirred up themselves. I trust their marketing department about as far as I can throw them.

It amazes me that people keep bringing this up recently as though it’s new. This has been the case since forever. When you “bought” Mario for your NES, you bought a license to use it; when you bought a music record, you bought a license to play it, for yourself. You never “owned” it, because that would mean they no longer do. Just because you could get away with doing whatever you wanted to with your copy (pirate it, copy it, sell it), doesn’t mean you were allowed to.

And yet, people are just now acting like it’s an outrage. I really don’t understand the surprise.

The exception proves the rule.