I was talking about gamification in general. Are you talking specifically about Duolingo?

Exactly what I said, gamification is not bad in itself.

Gamification is not the problem. The problem is predatory behaviour.

Gamification per se is not a bad thing. Gamification is anvalid way to get better engagement and retention.

Can’t wait for IRL denial of service attack

they have far more important customers: the surveillance state,

Except Microsoft is also losing the whole EU market because of Trump

Which is more teustworthy then?

As if his taxes are done legally :)

“Nice, 400 million tax deductible”

– Trump probably

Standard firefox provided 19 datapoints and with jshelter it was 24 and nothing changed what the site says :)

Language and dark mode setting are also funny. Yes, I literally want to share those preferences so you don’t serve me a blinding white website in hebrew. What a hacker you are.

I’m not even on VPN and I was located half a country away in Europe

the kernel alone is fairly useless

Any essential part is usually fairly useless without the other parts

That was peice before the war. It’s 11 usd/gallon now

Half life? ;)

There are a lot of air defences around Moscow still standing despite the lack of them in war zone.

So you can hazard a guess where these are targeted ;)

Do they actually make it better or does their marketing say so?

Wlbr is a weird name but Wilbur would be fine.

Edit. Gimp mascot is apparently named Wilber

Yes, but calling thing “just a distraction” really downplays the how serious thing closing of strait of Hormuz is or starting a war without a reason or threatening to genocide a whole civilizations.

They are not distractions. They are more evil things on top of more evil things.

I’m sure Hegseth would agree that God isn’t real since you cannot see him with the naked eye.

Then again, his christianity is also just a manipulation.

I’m all in for short term sucking if it accelerates the green transition. This timeline sucks anyway