Also, I realize the goal of the Texas law is to label anything GLBT+ as “porn.”

They may not even need to go that far. The age verification laws going around these days tend to require it for content “harmful to minors”, not just porn, and everybody knows Republicans think “anything GLBT+” is harmful to minors.

Youtube and Instagram tried for years to lure in Tiktok users, and they failed so badly that even with Tiktok potentially getting banned, people would rather switch to a different potentially sketchy Chinese app.

What should we call blatant pandering to Trump and his ilk? MAGA signaling?

Meta says it was a mistake

They’ll be pricing it against the 5070, not the 4080.

Ctrl+Shift+i should bring up the inspection panel. It won’t be for the specific element, but it should have a button to get an element picker.

Gizmodo’s post on this has the most honest title: A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their Clicks

Point is the gains are mostly from the new frame generation. The difference between a 4070 and a 4090 is much more than gains they’re showing without the new FG.

PC Gamer left out the charts that really show it; everything to the right of A Plague Tale: Requiem has extra generated frames on the 5070:

The player that got the link back to Youtube removed allows publishers to sell their own ads. Seems like Youtube is worried about the content of ads it doesn’t control and wants to limit its association with them, so if, say, someone sees a porn ad, they blame the site the player is on, not Youtube.

I think the Verge messed up: the announcement said there would be a full-text RSS feed for subscribers, but they’ve actually added full article text to the existing feed, where normally I’d only get 2 or 3 paragraphs.

Their sister site Vox made a similar mistake; their RSS feed already had full text, but once they added the paywall I got the full text of articles that were paywalled if I tried to click through to the site. It’s like Vox Media doesn’t fully understand how its RSS feeds work.

The deportations will be scheduled, and they may be canceled if and only if the appropriate bribes are paid.

But also their migrant child labor force will be scheduled for deportation

Spotify can also pay lower royalty rates on music in subscriptions that bundle audiobooks, so definitely drop audiobooks if you don’t need them.

The official announcement says they did because people have been asking for a way to support the site, but it’s not at all clear those people had a paywall in mind. Ars Technica has had subscriptions for years, and they paywall extra site functionality like topic filtering and a full-text RSS feed, not content.

Apple devices support changing the DNS server through the wifi settings.

Similar vibes than Reddit api pricing

Reddit got the idea from Elon’s twitter API fees. This is Elon being consistent(ly terrible).

Firefox won’t get some weird nobody-asked-for feature that’ll be ditched some time later

Nah, the features nobody asked for will just be limited to ones that will provide a revenue stream.

They seem to be mostly upset about Apple requiring browsers on iOS to use Webkit instead of implementing their own backend. Which is yet another problem the UK wouldn’t have if they’d stayed in the EU, where that’s already been dealt with under the DMA.

According to the article, not that likely:

Terms requiring users to sue in specific courts are usually enforceable, Vanderbilt Law School Professor Brian Fitzpatrick told Ars today. “There might be an argument that there was no consent to the new terms, but if you have to click on something at some point acknowledging you read the new terms, consent will probably be found,” he told us in an email.

A user attempting to sue X in a different state or district probably wouldn’t get very far. “If a suit was filed in the wrong court, it would be dismissed (if filed in state court) or transferred (if filed in federal court),” Fitzpatrick said.