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Wow, I just scrolled through the front page and it was 100% depressing/anxiety-inducing news.

I don't think I want this in my life.

I had no idea Omeleto existed. Looks like I've got a few weekends of watching their vids ahead of me!

Good to see them learning LaTeX young. It's one of those life skills that no one should need, but everybody does need at some point

Why do I find "match-3" most offensive part of that thought?

You're right. Everything is suspiciously wordy, substance is sparse, and every headline is clickbaity. It's like they tuned the content specifically for google, not human readers...

EDIT: Because my comment was also lacking substance: e.g. the Steam Deck review in "30 Best Retro Handhelds Of 2024 [All Reviewed]" says "Yes it’s big, and the battery life… pretty terrible", then gives no further information about size or battery life, which seems extremely relevant to potential buyers. They wrote 8 paragraphs and shared only 3 shallow facts.

Google also is responsible for the SEO industry. They made ads hugely profitable, then started directing traffic to sites that serve more of their ads, regardless of quality.

I'd say it's more like they're failing upwards. It's certainly good for AMD, but it seems like it happened in spite of their involvement, not because of it:

For reasons unknown to me, AMD decided this year to discontinue funding the effort and not release it as any software product. But the good news was that there was a clause in case of this eventuality: Janik could open-source the work if/when the contract ended.

AMD didn't want this advertised or released, and even canned this project despite it reaching better performance than the OpenCL alternative. I really don't get their thought process. It's surreal. Do they not want to support AI? Do they not like selling GPUs?

With jobs, maybe. With careers, especially in STEM, you get lots of exceptions like extremely rewarding but low paying positions in academia, and tech companies that think they can just spend money instead of effort to fix their culture and broken hiring process.

Saying goodbye to their life in France, where they were paying around £2,574 (€3,000) in taxes every year,

So these people who were rich enough to own a second home wanted to spend more than 50% of their time in France, but were paying the vast majority of their taxes back to the UK?

No wonder the laws got tightened.

To accept it, you just move on with your life. Find the next thing you should do and do it. The more you dwell, the harder it will be to stop dwelling, so just break the cycle and go do anything else.

You will encounter plenty more people who are insistently wrong. Each one will affect you less than the last.

Western companies no longer operating in the Russian market, but still producing desirable content. ... Western companies have 'legalized' piracy in Russia.

100% this.

Media is culture, and IMO people have a right to participate in culture. If it's excessively difficult or impossible to legitimately access culture, one has the moral right to illegitimately access culture, and share it so others also have access.

It's inexcusable to refuse to directly sell media. The internet has made it easier than ever to trade access to media for money. Geo-restricted subscription services should be a nice add-on option for power-consumers, not the only way to get access to something.

There's a weird divide between self-determined identity and external classifications. Often, a culture forms around the label and the external label stops being relevant because the term has more social/cultural implications than practical implications. Some people internalize the label as that's how they wish to steer their future interactions, and others ignore the label and move on with their lives.

You can watch all of Star Trek, and some parts of society will label you a Trekkie if they find out, but it's up to you whether you choose to identify as a Trekkie, or just go about your life not making a big deal about it.