48 PixelsDo no harm, but take no shit.
From CNET:
Instagram’s website leaked user contact information, including phone numbers and email addresses, over a period of at least four months, a researcher says.
🤦♂️
It seems like there’s a similar article every week and every time I consider going back, I’m reminded of why I left.
This pretty much sums up all of my feelings about Season 8 😂
From Brett Terpstra:
If you don’t already have the scoop, it’s the search engine that can serve as a complete replacement for Google (and Bing and whatever else you like), except it respects your privacy and security. And while Google does some cool tricks, DuckDuckGo does some even better ones.
I’ve tried switching to DuckDuckGo a couple of times and always ended up going back to Google. Maybe I’ll try it again and these tips — particularly the “bang” searches — will help me stick with it.
From The Onion:
Wondering how the social media giant will unethically exploit their personal data next, Facebook users conceded Friday they are morbidly curious to see what the company does to them in order to recoup its losses following a $5 billion Federal Trade Commission fine.
I know this is from the Onion, but this sort of shit really is exactly why I left.
🙌
Lillard with 50 points and a beautiful buzzer beater from 37’ out to send the Blazers into the next round of the playoffs.
Update – May 1, 2019: Gone.
Ed. Note – April 24, 2019: I originally wrote the post below on February 1st, but for whatever reason decided to stick around for a bit. However, the latest batch of stories coupled with the fact that most posts I read make me literally hate everyone and everything finally pushed me over the edge.
TLDR: In an effort to preserve my sanity and for my own mental health, I’ll be deactivating, then eventually deleting, both my Facebook and Instagram accounts at the end of the month.
Dear Facebook,
It’s time for me to go.
If I think about it, this has been coming for quite a while. I haven’t exactly been quick to do anything about it (I mean how else am I supposed to know it’s the birthday of a friend I had in high school that I haven’t seen or talked to in 25 years?), but it’s time.
Why, you ask? Well, pick one or more:
I’m not sure exactly which of the above was the straw that finally broke the camel’s back, but over the last few days something finally pushed me to do something about it.
To my family and friends on Facebook:
I’ve enjoyed reconnecting with old friends, but I don’t want to keep supporting this company. There are a few ways that you can keep in touch with me if you’d like (I’d love it if you do). You can:
P.S. – Since Facebook owns Instagram and is ruining that too, I’ll be deactivating my Instagram account as well.
From Apple:
What Spotify is demanding is something very different. After using the App Store for years to dramatically grow their business, Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store ecosystem — including the substantial revenue that they draw from the App Store’s customers — without making any contributions to that marketplace. At the same time, they distribute the music you love while making ever-smaller contributions to the artists, musicians and songwriters who create it — even going so far as to take these creators to court.
Spotify has every right to determine their own business model, but we feel an obligation to respond when Spotify wraps its financial motivations in misleading rhetoric about who we are, what we’ve built and what we do to support independent developers, musicians, songwriters and creators of all stripes.
Yes, hello, authorities? I’d like to report a murder.
Daaaammmmmnnnnn.
From Destructoid:
Fallout 76 might be a mess, but there’s hope on the horizon with several big DLC drops and of course, a ton of user-created content.
That includes this newest video from YouTube user aswiftkickinthejunk, who created their own death maze to trap players in. The mad man lures people in like the Pied Piper with a wave emote, then swiftly locks them in to be mauled by his pet Deathclaw (which you can tame by way of an endgame skill). Naturally he gets to watch from above like Jigsaw and continues to emote/taunt them.
This is so good.
*goes off to build a deathtrap maze*
Typically I never win anything and am generally just not very lucky — when I was a kid my dad used to tell me that if it wasn’t for bad luck I wouldn’t have any luck at all — but back in January I entered 9to5Mac & SetApp’s MacBook Air giveaway and, much to my surprise, I WON. It arrived today. Yay 🙂
From Bethesda:
We’ve just passed 100 days since the launch of Fallout 76!
There’s nothing like the start of something new – for you and for us, and having millions of you join us on this new adventure is humbling for our studio. Thank you for sticking with us as we figure this online experience out together, and we do mean “together.”
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To that end, we’re excited to announce some of the new free content we’ve been working on for Fallout 76 in 2019.
Thanks again for sticking with us. It’s a privilege to have such passionate and caring fans. We have big plans for 2019 and we’d love to hear your continued feedback on everything we’re doing. We hope you’ll keep sharing your thoughts with us on the forums, Reddit, in videos, and streams. Your voices push us to do better and your support has meant everything to us. We’ll do our best to earn it.
The Fallout series is one of my favorite game series of all time and Fallout 76 is really the only game I’ve been playing lately (sorry for neglecting you, Battlefield V), so I’m super-excited for the new content that’s coming.
The image at the top of this post is me in my C.A.M.P. 🙂
Here’s another one:
I play it on Xbox, and my gamertag is Dr Crankypants. Let’s play!
