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YouTube moved desktop comments beside the video and recommendations underneath it. users are already sharing uBlock filters to restore the old layout.
every major redesign now launches with a second product: instructions for undoing it.
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uBlock Origin filters if you got the new YouTube layout and want to revert it
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an autorickshaw can be ordinary traffic in India and instant viral content in London without changing anything except the background.
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LEGO making an Arkham Batmobile feels like official confirmation that the games a whole generation still thinks of as “modern Batman” are now nostalgia.
Source: brickset.com/article/135138/…
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an Astronaut Pikachu plush spent 67 days on the International Space Station. now Pokémon Go is bringing Astronaut Pikachu to science and space museums across Europe through April.
ten years later, the game still works by turning something digital into a reason to go somewhere.
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India has ordered Apple to remove Bitchat from the India App Store.
the app is designed to work without internet, accounts, or central servers. but on iPhone, it still depends on one centralized gatekeeper for distribution.
decentralization solved the network. it didn’t solve the download button.
source: @jack
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Someone bought a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D and says Riot told him it was blacklisted because the previous owner had cheated.
Riot reportedly wouldn't lift the hardware ban, and the CPU may have flagged the rest of his PC too.
used computer parts now come with a criminal record
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𝕏 Analytics is down for a lot of creators right now.
The posts are working. The dashboard that tells you whether they worked isn’t.
𝕏 hasn’t acknowledged the issue yet.
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Firefox just shipped its biggest redesign since 2021 and made vertical tabs a first-class layout.
We spent 20 years making screens wider while browsers kept stacking everything across the top
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Happy Wheels is 16 years old and racked up 750,000 Steam wishlists in two weeks
a whole generation apparently never forgot what that browser game did to them
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Discord guessing your age from how you use Discord feels like exactly the kind of feature people are going to spend weeks trying to reverse-engineer
Discord’s second attempt at age verification is already having problems.
Discord now estimates your age from things like account age, servers, communities and connected games and says it doesn’t use your messages or calls, and around 90% of users won’t need to verify manually.
Some users are being put in the wrong age group, while others see different results on different devices.
Discord was also cooked alive for making jokes about the bugs during the rollout.
The company says it is going ahead with the system because more places, including Brazil and Texas, are introducing laws that require online services to check users’ ages.
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