✨full of marbles ✨

the internet is a mysterious thing isn't it.

[homunculus-argument]

Ad blocking/reporting should have some sort of an "I never want to see this fucking ad again and if you fail me and show it to me again I will track down where you live and fucking kill you" option.

[nuggybee]

Wdym people are complaining about big walk not being "loner friendly"-

BITCH-

[angiemelon]

[manrimon]

Endacopia Surgeon

[klayfruit]

finished all 3 endings yesterday its very very wonderful. Mellow and the surgeons dynamic are so incredibly important to me…

[showakyonen]

art fights over so you’re actually gonna see art fromme again waow. someone on twt drew surgeon w the cool long mad scientist coat so naturally i adopt it into my own design

[diamondeyes-deluxe]

I work with kids and sometimes we have to do safety lessons with them about like, not telling strangers on the internet your home address or something. And sometimes the kids wont understand why, so you have to impart upon them that, well, some adults want to hurt children. And thats kind of difficult to do, because you have to beat around the bush, both because you dont want to scare them (while still making them understand how serious it is) and because you might lose your job if you explain it too straight forward.

Luckily, for some reason, the villain of one of the most popular franchises with children for the last 10 years happens to be a serial child murderer. So when a kid asks why they shouldnt trust strangers, instead of hand wringing and humhawing my answer out, I can just say "we dont always know when a strange adult has good intentions with children, or when they are William Afton."

[desk-drawerr]

Schmoovin~

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[tapewormmmmdeer]

i love wikipedia so fucking much everyday i thank god that wikipedia exists anyways quite like this guy

[chongoblog]

Visit Original Link

Enjoy

[s-h-a-s-e]

[astertale-melody]

Everything used (op's list):

[chongoblog]

All of this and also “Enemy” by Imagine Dragons

[nuggybee]

Ima be so fr, crk fans in YouTube comments are kinda smooth brained-

Even when someone whose played crob and knows the lore is telling you the truth face to face they still gonna think their right 🫠

[nuggybee]

The new prognosis: doom chapter was the biggest nothing burger I have ever played/sat through.

Not gonna spoil anything ofc but holy fuck I miss the old way they did chapters and the old cool map with stages format, the background pictures are cool but good Lord it feels like all the creativity and writing decided to eat a bunch of dynamite and then jumped into an active volcano. Not to mention only 1 new mini game that gives literally no currency and has limited daily attempts-

Take me back to before golden cheese's update man, those were blissful times 😭

[aquilae-stims]

( ❄ )

[unpaid-inchworm]

Obsessed with the fact that, in a show that got away with a ton of gore, swearing, and innuendo for something rated tv-pg, they still managed to push the butt jokes to a point where someone had to step in and be like "ok that's too much ass"

[pineappical]

ACTUALLY heres another one i quickly animated of rocky beating the shit out of grace

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

I fucking hate it here

[some-sort-of-ecologist]

For those of you with android devices, you can use the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) standalone app control program to get rid of all the bloatware, data mining, and AI crap - no coding needed!

[d-e-w-p]

save

[clatterbane]

There are also Android-based alternatives like GrapheneOS and LineageOS, which are pretty easy to install. These are unfortunately available for a more limited range of devices (Graphene is ironically Pixel only, while Lineage supports more), but it's very worth checking out whether one of them might work for your phone.

GrapheneOS: the private and secure mobile OS

GrapheneOS is a security and privacy focused mobile OS with Android app compatibility.

LineageOS Android Distribution

Typing this from Graphene now, in fact. But, both of those take the Android Open Source Project, without all the bloatware--and largely de-Google the whole thing. They give you much more control over privacy and what the apps you choose to install can do and access on your phone.

I know Graphene sandboxes everything, including the optionally installed Google Play Services which a lot of apps unfortunately require to run. (Lineage uses an alternative to Play Services instead.) So, you can install what would normally be unacceptably intrusive apps and just lock them away from pulling any funny shit with your data, or phoning home. Including the couple of Google things I do still keep around.

I also prefer running much more transparent, privacy-respecting open source apps where possible. Besides the transparency, I'd rather avoid the shitty tech corps entirely where I can. There are pretty good alternatives available for a lot of the usual suspects.

AlternativeTo lets you find apps and software for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android Tablets, Web Apps, Online, Windows Tab

An alternative app store:

F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy

[clatterbane]

Also just going to leave this here.

ReVanced

Continuing the legacy of Vanced.

GitHub - ReVanced/revanced-manager: 💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android

💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android . Contribute to ReVanced/revanced-manager development by creating an account on GitHub.

This lets you pretty easily patch some of the worst offender corporate apps to make them behave better.