Yeah, it’s… interesting. Especially with donations.
Apple takes a 30% cut, then Google does so as well from the remainder.

Feeling generous? Congrats, more than a half goes to corporations.

Also to note are regional pricing differences. Let’s for example compare US and Ukraine pricing:

Though I don’t know how much that would seem over there.
But anyway, I pay $1.99 for DNS (NextDNS), so $2.28 for streaming high quality video without ads? Sure, would seem fine.

I wonder how much cost difference there is on the Google side between the regions.

I thought that was just my father.
He also told me many times how that was their chewing gum.

And also the bottle of mercury they used to pour down a slide.
Oh, and also the tradition of melting lead on Christmas and pouring it into water, getting prediction of the future.

Almost all of the ads I see on the home page are of type “Hot ${GROUP} in your area.”

Also, Trump referring to Jeremy Hansen:

And the 4 brave astronauts of Artemis II are our modern-day, you really are modern-day pioneers, all of you. And one of them happens to be a neighbor. You know who that is, right? You have a special person over there, a neighbor. And, uh, we like our neighbor.

Source

In 2021, when Amazon launched its first “just walk out” grocery store in the UK in Ealing, west London, this newspaper reported on the cutting-edge technologies that Amazon said made it all possible: facial-recognition cameras, sensors on the shelves and, of course, “artificial intelligence”.
An employee who worked on the technology said that actual humans – albeit distant and invisible ones, based in India – reviewed about 70% of sales made in the “cashier-less” shops as of mid-2022

Source: The Guardian

UK AI company builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers.

Source: ACS Information Age

I’ve already seen this one.

Plus it’s done using re-used parts which will just become single-use: https://old-man-par.com/2026/01/21/previously-flow-components-of-artemis-ii/

Oldest one first flown on STS-5 in 1982.

don’t encourage setting things on fire in California

I thought this was going to be a joke about car fires causing cancer in the state of California.

I am glad someone reads those. When I was 15 and got my bank account, while making cash deposits I used to put “I use Arch-based distro, btw” into the “note” field.
It was Manjaro with Plasma. Now I use vanilla Arch.

I was able to load this post here manually, but not on lemmy.world.

Hmm, but it’s only visible on lemmy.world, not on sh.itjust.works.

*for when

But yeah, this is it.

Hello.

Nice.

As a GenZ member, I have no idea.

Everything is an advertisement.

And this comment is no exception, brought to you by NordVPN! /j

I don’t know. But there’s already an issue about it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4288

Also, the federation used to work on SDF after each upgrade for like 3 days, so it may or may not break later.

There may possibly be some issue with outgoing federation as noticed by this commenter: https://lemmy.ml/comment/6690834

In fact, it seems comments from lemmy.ml haven’t been federating since 4 days ago. Just check some active lemmy.ml accounts.
e.g.:
https://lemmy.ml/u/dessalines?page=1&sort=New&view=Comments
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/dessalines@lemmy.ml?page=1&sort=New&view=Comments

I am not entirely sure if it’s something to do with 0.19, but my home instance, lemmy.sdf.org is also having issues with outgoing federation since upgrading to 0.19.x, although it’s currently still just on 0.19.0-rc.13. That’s also why I am writing this from this account instead.

Because this was meant to be done

EDIT: GUYS GUYS! This might be it!

I can’t reply from neither account anymore!