Hopefully Pocketpair wins, because they made the better monster catching game. I'm still reeling from how bad the performance is in Scarlet/Violet.

Finally, pokemon taken to its logical conclusion.

I agree with the author for the most part, but I don't think it's just "us." I would say that discoverability in general is just a lot worse now due to SEO gentrification and search engines facing enshittification. There's still cool projects like Neocities around, but if it weren't for networking I'd have no idea they exist. When I type "build a website" into DuckDuckGo and StartPage, I just get links to squarespace, wix, godaddy, and a few listicles. In order to curate cool stuff, you have to be able to find it first; have new tools popped up that facilitate this? What are the new heuristics for discovery?

Clearly the wizards at Nintendo know something about optimizing games for the Switch that others don’t.

Could someone share this information with GameFreak? The beats shouldn't drop as hard as the FPS.

1. Mozilla's goals for the web line up quite nicely with my own.
2. The performance is good for what I want.
3. The extension API is more powerful than Chrome's.
4. Outside of the Apple ecosystem, it's the last major alternative to the Chrome skins.
5. It isn't actively trying to cripple adblockers.

Firefox gang rise up!

I'm getting the feeling that within the next five years I'm going to be abandoning YouTube and just living without video content going forward.

Hot damn! Thank you, EU. Maybe we'll finally be able to climb out of connector hell.

Chromebooks expire? What the fuck? Are there logistical problems with installing Linux on these devices?

Yeah I recall that the Japanese instances have a big problem with that shit. As for the rest of us, Facebook actually open sourced some efficient hashing algorithms for use for dealing with CSAM; Fediverse platforms could implement these, which would just leave the issue of getting an image hash database to check against. All the big platforms could probably chip in to get access to one of those private databases and then release a public service for use with the ecosystem.

Firefish sounds like what someone would call malware targeting Firefox users. I was hoping the name would be better.

I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about Threads privacy policy lately, where people seem genuinely shocked about it.

I know I shouldn't still be jarred by stuff like this, but I am. It's like when I encounter people who don't use adblockers and they just sit in their chair and watch that shit. I really wish normal people gave more of a shit about this stuff.