Another stunning statistic: Google and Apple’s income from app store fees on games is likely higher than all game publishers’ combined income, both mobile and non-mobile.
Holy crap. Talk about egregious rent-seeking.
(Matthew Ball‘s The State of Video Gaming in 2025, page 42)
A 220-page presentation on the past, present and potential future of the video game industry.Matthew Ball (MatthewBall.co)
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Open source “Deep Research” project proves that agent frameworks boost AI model capability.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
Egg farms are still recovering from the 2022 outbreak but now there’s also the cage-free law, mutations and competition as bird flu devastates other states.Tamara Chuang (The Colorado Sun)
The suite of agentic Gemini 2.0 models includes 2.0 Flash, 2.0 Pro Experimental and 2.0 Flash-Lite.Hayden Field (CNBC)
This is how Blackwell delivers its biggest "gains."Jarred Walton (Tom's Hardware)
By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating biological design.Ingrid Wickelgren (Quanta Magazine)
@RaccoonForFriendica version 0.4.1-beta10 has been released and is available for testing in the Play store (or in Obtainium if you prefer installing directly from GitHub)!
Apart from the usual localization and dependency updates, this version contains several improvements for embedded images and, if you are using Friendica, you will also be able to insert embedded images within your post body (as opposed to regular attachments). This can benefit those who want to create larger posts with several illustrations.
Let me know what you think about it and, as always, #livefasteattrash
#friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #foss #procyonproject
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Сегодня мы с вами наблюдаем рождение и становление Всероссийской политической партии «АЧТОТАКОВА?!». Это партия хоть и относительно молодая, но достаточно опасная. Когда всё закончится и начнётся что-то новое, представители этой фракции попробуют затянуть нас обратно. Их будет много, и они будут убедительны — в их программе уютные компромиссы, селективное зрение, с ними комфортно и спокойно, ведь найдётся оправдание всему, и никто ни за что не осудит.
Ну, предлагает тебе много-много денег олигарх за долю в СМИ — возьми, он же человек, по сути, приличный, да и материал разместить просит редко и по делу. Или государственный контрактик без конкурса дают — ты бери, ничего страшного. Ты же хорошо сделаешь? Хорошо! А другие бы хуже сделали в любом случае. Да и с выборами то же самое: «Чуть-чуть подрисуем тут, — скажут они, — а то победит какой-то неогиркинец или коммунист», — и укутают тебя в тёплый пледик, нальют чайку, приговаривая: «Все так делают, а что такого?»
Путинские реваншисты будут разные: одни обвешаются георгиевскими лентами и Z-атрибутикой, а другие будут как раз из этой партии «АЧТОТАКОВА?!». Но цель у них будет одна — вернуть, как было (только без войны! Вот как в 2018-м на чемпионате, помните? Или в Парке Горького в 2013-м! Да и как в 2021-м тоже сойдёт, чего уж!).
Если нам когда-то посчастливится увидеть свободную Россию, давайте никогда не забывать, какой ценой эта свобода получена. И никогда её больше не упускать, засмотревшись, пусть и на очень привлекательную сделку с совестью.
I've been loving @404mediaco lately, but this was such a good read that I just paid for a yearly subscription.
“For most people, social media gives you this sense that unless you care about everything, you care about nothing. You must try to swallow the world while it’s on fire,” said Cross. “But we didn’t evolve to be able to absorb this much info. It makes you devalue the work you can do in your community.”
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Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.Janus Rose (404 Media)
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A new case of iPhone malware has been discovered in apps downloaded from the App Store. It reads your screenshots looking for key info.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 19 updated (14 of those RB) and 2 added apps:
* Sefirah: the continuation of Sekia (Windows Notification Mirroring, Clipboard Sync, etc)
* Moneytopia: track your personal expenses 🛡️
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps (and #reproducibleBuilds) with the #IzzyOnDroid repository 
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Totally agree with this…can we just stop with the wall-to-wall toots about politics, ex-Twitter, etc. Let’s instead build the social web (and world) we want to live in.
“We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it.”
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism 404media.co/you-cant-post-your…
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.Janus Rose (404 Media)
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Sice máme #ETCS, ale přeci se nevzdáme přivolávacích návěstí, že 😎
Když všude ukazují statistiky kolik vlaků jede pod ETCS, možná by měli také začít vést statistiku při kolika takových jízdách bylo použito override.
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Vyšetřovatelé uzavřeli sledovaný případ z loňského 20. prosince – ve stanici Uhersko na východě Čech tehdy projel nákladní vlak návěstidlo zakazující další jízdu.Jan Beránek (Economia, a.s.)
I was just thinking 'it's been a while since I've felt homesick for Singapore' and then I saw this list of food within 5 min from my house and I am now hungry
Jason Shiga's _The Beyond_ is out for iPhone/iPad!
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THE BEYOND: an interactive comic by Jason Shiga Your death was a tragedy... your afterlife is a mystery. Unravel the secrets of death with the help of Xochitl, your guide.App Store
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Konference o Linuxu, open-source a vším, co s tím souvisí. Koná se každoročně v pražských Dejvicíc na půdě FIT ČVUT v Praze.www.linuxdays.cz
🤔Is Google Lighthouse an industry accepted standard for assessing #accessibility?
❌No it's a tool that automates testing of a subset of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 Standard
30% auto testable
70% manual evaluation
Okay, for those of you who don’t know what bikeshedding is:
If you built a nuclear power plant and asked the community to give feedback, they will focus on the details of the bike shed out front because they don’t know the first thing about nuclear power, but still want to sound smart.
This is textbook bikeshedding behavior. They’re not in their positions to oversee power plants or launch rockets. They’re here to do bigot shit. That’s literally their only qualification.
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Attached: 1 image Hey um remember those two astronauts who are still stranded on the space station https://www.404media.co/nasa-dei-drop-everything-executive-order/ #USPolvmst·io
Google adds its experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking “reasoning” model that’s capable of explaining how it answers complex questions to the Gemini app.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
NEW: DOGE employees have been ordered to stop using Slack while the agency transitions itself to a legal regime that is not subject to FOIA and other government transparency laws
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Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
The US DOGE - Department of Government Efficiency - has closed the U.S. Agency for International Development today. Their DNS records were deleted last week ( usaid.gov/ )
An official has told the WSJ “It’s a coup”. wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-…
Elon announced the US Agency for International Development was shutting down on an X stream, where he called the staff "evil" and a "criminal organisation".
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America's top diplomat Marco Rubio says he is now the acting head of the agency that distributes billions of dollars in aid around the world.Kayla Epstein (BBC News)
The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's company at the time of Musk's assault.Lucas Ropek (Gizmodo)
If you are in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power.
#interesting #youshouldknow #food #economy #business #smallbusiness
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This is live now! My reach is not super great, so please share around. Thank you! #ttrpg
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Our Retro Retreat group is now open on #Matrix!
It's a community all about revisiting the magic of retro gaming, or discovering it for the first time. Come hang out and help us test things before we start our monthly game playthroughs in March.
(You're more than welcome to join even if you don't plan on doing monthly playthroughs)
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Hello EU people:
There is an EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" on LGBTQ+ folks. If that's interesting to you, you can sign it here:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
Please especially take note if you are a national of Spain, Slovenia, Belgium, or the Netherlands; the petition needs about 5x as many votes as it has now, but it also needs to hit a threshold in three additional countries, and those are the four closest.
Here is a post about the petition:
Britain proclaimed the legal non-existence of trans people in the last month with a court decision; in the US, Texas did so last night, with a bill passed in its House of Representatives. There is a global effort to unexist trans people. If nothing else, if the EU wants to show that it's different— that it's not a part of this— it seems like a pretty direct way to say so would be this citizen's initiative against attempting to unexist individual trans people via torture.
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EU citizens, if you want in while you can, there's a EU citizen's petition for the EU to ban "conversion therapy" (this is as ominous as it sounds) of LGBTQs, with 7 days left to sign.It will not make the threshold, but might be able to rack up a few more country thresholds— I'm happy to note Spain just hit it. Belgium and The Netherlands are the next best bets as they're over 65%; If you know queer-friendly folks in those countries, maybe a good time to forward this:
eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…
It is 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative calling for a ban on "conversion therapy" (here meaning, pseudoscientific attempts to "cure" LGBTQs) is less than 250,000 votes from success. This is astounding, the votes have like, *tripled* in a week.
The page says voting ends "May 17", and I wish I knew if that meant "at midnight tonight" or "midnight tomorrow" or what. Uh. Do you know
Germany is ~6,000 local votes from endorsing it. Are there 6,000 Germans on this website
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The final seasons of both Stranger Things and Squid Game hit Netflix in 2025, marking the end of an era.Andrew Webster (The Verge)
The tech giant previously ruled out applications that were "likely to cause harm".Lucy Hooker & Chris Vallance (BBC News)
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Ralfeek (1808?) is playing Anon. in a casual Correspondence game of chess. Game is still ongoing after 0 moves. Click to replay, analyse, and discuss the game!lichess.org
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I'm trying it. It seems well done and very fast. I would add more links to the various options in the drop-down menu.
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in reply to Piero Bosio • • •@Piero Bosio thanks for the feedback! Let me see if I understand your idea correctly: do you mean to add more options (e.g. "add image", "embed image", "add link", etc.) in the drop-down menu shown in the post creation page?
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Yes, links to the various timelines too, for example.
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