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Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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Post by bjoli »

mikkupikku wrote: post #302
lazide wrote: post #237

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They won’t be marginalized if we don’t shit on them somehow .

Unless we nut up and ban gambling, there will never be a shortage of broke motherfuckers who should be able to make ends meet with their job but simply never will be able to. You have no idea how badly gambling suppresses a large subset of the working class.

I dont think most people here see that, or even have the willingness to see that. The same was true for the opioid epidemic. Had it hit a group with any political capital there would have been laws passed and the sacklers would have been not just painted as villains, they would have been castrated a quarter of a century ago.

Just wait 15 years when the middle class has been struggling with easily accessible gambling and it can't be explained as problem of character. There will be laws passed and people prosecuted or successfully sued.

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Post by bjoli »

philipallstar wrote: post #319
jon-wood wrote: post #315

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My phone also reports as only having used a couple of gigabytes of mobile data each month but that's because most of the time I'm using it attached to wifi at home or work. The people being given free phone plans by the government probably don't have a home internet connection, that 3GB of data will be the only access they have outside of finding a library that's somehow still funded, or paying for a drink to use cof…

> finding a library that's somehow still funded Libraries just got an increase in funding in the US in the 2026 appropriations bills. > Maybe YouTube or listening to music aren't strictly essentials but they also don't seem like absurd luxuries that we should be arbitrarily denying to people in 2026 No-one's arbitrarily denying things. It's about what should and shouldn't be given as free things that other people wor…

Libraries haven't gotten much since 2009 except for huge costs for digital licensing.

Ebook publishers are scamming the libraries. I shit you not, but over something like 4 years an ebook can be 10x the cost.

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Post by 542354234235 »

ZaoLahma wrote: post #264
pineaux wrote: post #250

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Nobody is turning off ad blockers.

Exactly we don't, and what's worse is that the "content" is getting to the point where we need _content_ blockers. I recently got hit by an "article" that promised to tell me which three AAA games would be released with PS Plus soon. A three point bullet list was all I wanted. Instead I got pages after pages of word-manure about nothing at all for reasons I don't even understand. At the end of it I still couldn't tel…

> Instead I got pages after pages of word-manure about nothing at all for reasons I don't even understand.

More writing means more space to shove ads in between every paragraph.

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Post by robrain »

lapcat wrote: post #323
robrain wrote: post #149

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Settings, Accessibility, Motion, switch off Auto-Play preview videos is supposed to do the trick for System Apps (including messages, safari etc). Untested since I run my phone via Wireguard to my home network and block everything there.

This is incorrect. The setting does not apply to Safari. It's for App Store, for example.

Now tested - you’re right

Re: PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading

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Post by colesantiago »

Marsymars wrote: post #185
colesantiago wrote: post #28

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Pay for the web or print edition? Journalists need to eat as well as you do. The more people aren't supporting journalists weather in Substack or Reuters, the more articles that will be behind a paywall. It's such a shame as well since AI is also constantly bypassing and scraping RSS for business and commercial purposes, violating licenses.

I don't think the complaint is that RSS doesn't get around paywalls, it's that even if you pay, many publications don't offer full-text RSS.

Because AI bots will scrape the full text RSS.

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Post by prmoustache »

qingcharles wrote: post #60
timpera wrote: post #57

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Downloading 500 MB in 5 minutes in the background of a random article is really disrespectful to readers on low-end devices or metered data plans (and these two groups are often the same people!). What a waste of ressources.

I've worked with a lot of people at the bottom end of society in the USA. They are given government provided phones they can use so they have access to Google Maps, email, job search apps etc. These phones come with 3GB of regular data per month. After that they drop down to 2G speed, but not in a way that will allow anything to actually load. Three days into the month these phones are just ewaste.

How so? Aren't there any public wifi anymore?

My daughter also has a 3GB data plan but she knows to only use whatsapp when she isn't connected to a Wifi network and we configured it to not auto load the photos and videos when on mobile data.

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Post by Aurornis »

gertop wrote: post #245
Aurornis wrote: post #76

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I don’t think comparisons to native compiled code for old low resolution computers are all that valid for multimedia websites. I can take a single photo with my iPhone that is larger than a Windows 95 installation depending on my output settings.

Fair enough, let's use dvd rips as a metric instead. They tend to begin at 700MB. So by reading this article on PC gamer you've now downloaded the equivalent of a full-length movie worth of low quality code and ads.

DVDs were in the 4-5GB range.

700MB “rips” are heavily compressed with modern codecs.

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Post by kelvinjps10 »

devmor wrote: post #41
kelvinjps10 wrote: post #32

The person who wrote the article and the people in charge of the site are different.

Sure, but it’s a great example of the reason RSS readers are so great. No matter how much you enjoy the work of particular authors - their editorial oversight might make it too miserable to enjoy.

Yeah, that's what I mean.
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