hololive postduction: Xitter

Here are the links posted:

• https://bw.bilibili.com/#/
• https://bml.bilibili.com/#/bml

cover_irl:

If Kronii is perfect, are several Kroniis (sp??) considered more perfect? Can perfection be improved on?

More than 180 firefighters have responded to a huge factory fire in Derrimut, in Melbourne's west, where hazardous material and unknown toxins continue to burn.

Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) said there had been a large chemical explosion at the factory on Swann Drive, resulting in one of the state's biggest fires in recent years.

Clearly a plot by big chemical to put the mind control drugs into the air!11!!

It's good nobody got hurt, given the last time I saw a chemical explosion reach the news (obviously the scale is different, but still)

If this was a serious discussion, hey fair enough, but the post is satire, the original comment is tongue-in-cheek, and right now we're just dunking on ourselves and each other for fun!

For your enjoyment: Senior Labor officials confirm that Fatima Payman is the Zodiac Killer

Amelia Postson: Xitter

Kiara birthday streams:

• 【WAWA BIRTHDAY】Countdown and Call Ins!!!!!!! #KiaraBDay2024 #shorts
• 【WAWA BIRTHDAY】KARAOKE WITH GUESTS (and merch !!) #KiaraBDay2024

P.s. I mostly finished that intense work I had (I attribute my success to @Syrc@lemmy.world 's well-wishes!), but I found out last week that my schedule for the next few months is going to fucking SUCK so I might be sporadic on the posting again, idk man

I'm not sure it qualifies as "reverse review bombing" if the recent review +/- percentage matches the all-time percentage. There's just more reviews because of the shutdown, the ratio of positive vs negative hasn't meaningfully changed (97% positive overall, 97% positive recently).

Actual summary:

• The article's focus is: lump sum payment vs regular payment.
• Program had three groups: $20/month for 2 years, $500 lump sum, $20/month for 12 years.
• Lump sum allowed people to invest (e.g., to start a business) in a way that monthly payments didn't.
• Monthly recipients often pooled funds in rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs) to provide a lump-sum-like investment ability.
• Monthly recipients were "generally happier and reported better mental health" than lump sum recipients. Articles quotes speculation of cause to be stress related to investment vs the stability from having monthly payment.
• "The researchers found no evidence that any of the payments discouraged work or increased purchases of alcohol".

While you're free to circlejerk about how the article shows how great UBI is, that's not really what it talks about.

They were careful with how they phrased it, leaving the possibility of a refresh without a performance uplift still on the table (as speculated by media). It looks like the OLED model's core performance will be only marginally better due to faster RAM, but that the APU itself is the same thing with a process node shrink (which improves efficiency a little).

See also: PCGamer article about an OLED version. They didn't say "no", and (just like with the previously linked article), media again speculated about a refresh happening.

It looks like they were consistent with what they were talking about with how it wasn't simple to just drop in a new screen and leave everything else as-is, and used that opportunity to upgrade basically everything a little bit while they were tinkering with the screen upgrade.

Yes, though just nitro basic. Discord doesn't show ads and claims to not sell my data. While I can afford to do so, I'd much rather pay a few bucks a month to keep it that way.

The number of people in this thread aggressively against a free-to-use service having any kind of way to pay employees and server bills makes me fucking depressed, and helps to explain why most free services I enjoy never seem to stay afloat with just an optional payment-based membership thing.

Edit: To people suggesting less corporate-based (whether FOSS or not) alternatives, that's totally cool! Just remember that the people behind these projects need some way to pay the bills the same way the corporate ones do, so I encourage you to contribute to them, whether that's through e.g., code improvements (which doesn't pay bills but is still helpful!) or plain old donations.

UPDATE: the shutdown has been (for now) retracted.

The admin (jerry) has switched from kbin to a fork called mbin that has apparently been able to integrate changes faster than the base kbin project. Jerry seems satisfied with the number of issues fixed in the fork (for now), so has retracted the shutdown announcement (for now).

FEDIA.IO update!!!

After I made the announcement about shutting down fedia.io, someone pointed out that Melroy, a very active developer on kbin, forked kbin to mbin. I just migrated to mbin and so far it seems to have resolved all the problems I've seen. It's likely too early to tell, but I think that Melroy is VERY responsive and helpful, so I am retracting my shutdown announcement. And that makes me very happy.

https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/111235153655966812

Followup: https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/350673 tl;dr retraction has become more concrete. No need for the "for now" qualifier anymore.

The advertised “regular device upgrades” will never happen for anyone as part of Pixel Pass, even customers who battled Google’s servers to order a Pixel 6 the moment they became available (it’s me; I’m one of those people) because there’s still more than a month to go before the very first customers in would cross the two-year mark and be eligible to upgrade.

So a core part of the premise of Pixel Pass (device upgrades) is being lost, even to existing Pixel Pass users.

Original marketing from 2021:

Pixel Pass brings together the latest Pixel phone with Google’s best mobile services, device protection and regular device upgrades — all in one easy subscription. (emphasis added)