I second the dark reader recommendation, it'll save your eyeballs and works on (almost) every site. You can even install it on Firefox mobile and its various forks

Edit: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

This type of thing needs to be investigated in the real world. A picture and a reddit post won't crack the case lol

I think people are too polite to call shitty programmers out on being shitty. It's probably not a fair assumption, but whenever I see someone admit they use some AI coding tool, I immediately assume they're either a junior, or one of those people who just were never intelligent enough to be a good developer, and ended up getting filtered into some low skill web dev job. Those are the kinds of people who probably feel threatened by AI, and I feel are more likely to use it.

We need to make elitism and public shaming cool again.

Godot? Wtf?

Also,

I’ve looked around, and I found all the local GUI converters like Handbrake are unwieldy to use, especially if you just want to convert in bulk.

Idk Handbrake specifically, but generally when that kind of thing happens it's for a good reason. There are a lot of options when converting a video file, and you can't support them all without exposing that complexity in some form. If you don't think so, then you haven't done enough research into the problem space.

With that said, a "dumbed down" version of Handbrake that is optimized for a single common use case could be useful. For example, re-encoding iPhone videos to minimize compression artifacts when sharing over Whatsapp could be useful to people. However, I don't think a desktop app is the most accessible implementation for that.

EDIT: also, even if a desktop app was a good choice, it might be more practical to implement it as like a preset for Handbrake rather than a whole separate app. My mom isn't very tech literate, but I could probably teach her how to activate a preset (idk if Handbrake supports presets, but it probably does lol)

Peter Thiel is going to declare VPNs the antichrist now

I just remembered that I'm the guy everyone in my family goes to when they need someone to scan their ID or passport for whatever stupid bullshit.

Guess it's time to sign all my conservative family members up to gay porn websites!

I settled on DeltaChat too. XMPP is great in theory, but the apps aren't great on iOS. That basically killed it for me in terms of getting people to switch to it, which sucked since I went through the effort of setting up my own server.

So far, Delta chat has been working for everyone with zero issues. Maybe the only complaint is that the gray logo isn't as exciting as the bright green whatsapp one lol

Who's the guy in the bottom left?

Off topic, but is there a name for that grin/facial expression? It's like technically a grin, yet devoid of any real emotion. Feels like it's trying to not commit too much into an emotion, maybe even for calculated social engineering reasons. I see it in the Godot logo as well.

In my head, I've taken to calling it "the autistic stare" due to the confused/vague communication of an emotion, but idk if that's offensive.

Both. I'm strongly of the opinion that monopolies should not exist, and if they do it's the result of illegal and/or unethical activity, and should be fixed immediately. They break the free market and end up hurting everyone in the long run.

In addition to what @Asterisk@lemmy.world said, they also include a forced arbitration clause in their terms of service to prevent class action lawsuits from customers.

Tbh, they're very low on my personal list of monopolies to hate, so I don't really have that many arguments ready to go. I'm sure others have made a good case against Steam somewhere on the internet already.

I read an article recently where EA said there wouldn't be a Sims 5 because expecting people to get rid of all the content they've collected over the years would be mean.

Not sure how much I believe that, but it's weird to think that in a few years/months, people will be reminiscing about today's EA as the good EA

I think what's important in this drama is that, despite their evil monopoly shit they're guilty of, Valve really does do the right thing sometimes to win consumers. Gamers want AI disclosures, even if devs don't.

That's why it's not surprising to see that statement from Sweeny, and why it's not surprising that people still hate the Epic Games Store.