Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

@blakespot Hmm, is that an announcement of an upcoming update, or has it already been released?

(The GOG version still seems to be stuck on Adrift)

@KuJoe (Bonus: a frankly shocking amount of 'custom hardware platforms' in large companies are essentially Raspberry Pis or equivalent boards in a trenchcoat, sometimes even repurposed consumer hardware)

@KuJoe Honestly, even in those cases the custom thing is usually made with commodity processes and parts (just optimized to their specific needs, as opposed to general-purpose tradeoff choices).

Custom hardware definitely requires some capital investment, but often you can get surprisingly close with stuff like affordable off-the-shelf FPGAs.

@jik @stags @mcc@mastodon.social People have been writing about and sharing evidence of contextual advertising working better for *at least* 6 years by this point already, so clearly point 1 isn't going to happen.

@donaldball @baldur Honestly, it's probably a lot simpler: the only way to differentiate yourself as a new advertising broker is to claim to have data that your competitors don't, and so it's in the direct financial interest for adtech companies (including but definitely not limited to Google) to insist that behavioural advertising is not only effective, but *crucial*.

Because if you can't convince advertisers of that, you don't have a business; you can't get fat profit margins from brokering commodity contextual advertising spots, because anyone can offer those, so you have to invent some special sauce that justifies your existence and cut, whether it really exists or not.

@ebel @mdione (Figured you'd know, just included it for completeness' sake, given that it's safety-related information :p)

@mdione @ebel Safety sidenote: if the battery has *inflated* (in which case the shell of the device will seem to be bulging weirdly, or gaps will have formed between the parts), then don't do the long-charging thing - in that case the battery is actually dead and needs to be disposed of safely.

@mdione @ebel FWIW, they can sometimes be revived by leaving them on a (safe, suitable) charger for a *very long* time, on the order of days or weeks.

(On the point of replacing e-readers, I'd recommend looking at other e-ink options as well - I've been quite happy with my Pocketbook, also in terms of durability. Much better than the Kobo I had before, which didn't survive a single low drop...)

@packbat Yep. That's exactly the sort of thing I was alluding to with "only a threat to the least privileged people".

Copyright as a whole is a system of hierarchical power, a system of oppression; and as systems of hierarchical power always do, they might *claim* to protect the most vulnerable, but in practice they're a big hammer for the most privileged.