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herbst··on NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing
Really curious to see how this will benefit AAA game makers and hurt indie Devs in near future. I have serious doubts that these billion dollar companies will just eat up such rules.
herbst··on Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States
Some countries have healthy ground water I guess
herbst··on Dam removals are bringing fish back across the northeastern United States
Definitely the most American solution to this problem
herbst··on Gold is now the top U.S. export
So it's in fact a bigger business. Why do Americans always make up weird comparison methods when it looks bad for them?
herbst··on Gold is now the top U.S. export
Swiss here. People literally sold it to us and bring it here for safety. No stealing as far as I know.
herbst··on Gold is now the top U.S. export
To be fair we are in some kind of quiet cold war since nearly all of Europe has to work against and around trumps sanctions and build up independence ASAP which makes orange man even more angry.
herbst··on Gold is now the top U.S. export
What makes you think they are are worse financial positions? Propaganda around here makes it sound the US is very close to collapsing
herbst··on Tesla Roadster
How is that impressive as a demo? It would be impressive if it's actually a working, mass producible car, but in terms of an demo it's obviously something that is possible in today's world ..
herbst··on /dev/null: social network for developers
GitHub? You mean that complete, usually offliney, mess Microsoft dig a grave for? Not sure if that's a good idea in 2026
herbst··on Neckbeard – A DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent
Can't tell if this is some kind of inside joke or actual 2026 tech talk
herbst··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
I never had anything like this happen to me. Tracking shows where the package is coming from from day one. No way to pretend to sit anywhere else.

Returns are weird because usually I just get my money back and have the keep the wrong product. Had this happen easily over 100 times already.

herbst··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
I bought a pack of cell batteries a while ago. They arrived after 2 months instead of a few days, have been the wrong kind, the packaging was really dirty and the cells didn't all work. Still took several weeks and like 5 emails to get my money back.

I couldn't imagine a worse customer support than this.

herbst··on Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts
Ok fine. So will it stop crawling my websites so extensively? I never had a business account
herbst··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
Much faster and less discussion too. I never had a good experience with Amazon so far. The 3 times or so it took well over a month and many emails to process anything
herbst··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
For me it also does that for brands. The first 2 pages are almost always just scam.
herbst··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
This is law in Europe. By that logic there would be no reason to use Amazon anywhere in the EU yet many people seem to use it.
herbst··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
Remotely impossible to return anything in Switzerland too. Either you get ignored, pay a lot on top or just get your money back.
herbst··on How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet
And they fail at making the customer king even. I can't name a single other platform where customer support is so bad and unreachable. Directly ordering in china even offers better customer support in case something is wrong.
herbst··on Do dentists know what they're doing?
You say Europe. But in what counties are dentists part of health care? From my experience in Austria and Switzerland upselling definitely is a thing
herbst··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
That is a separate, very niche, issue tho. Character.ai and most similar products aren't made for long term relationships, rather short term fun. Like one time throwaway experiences.
herbst··on I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic
Having the same issue with Bing bot. No idea why it's so eager to not behave.
herbst··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Did you ever try? The internet is full of spam, scam and and whatever else. You can easily waste a lot of time and money to find a play partner just to get disappointed.

Why not just pay $20 to a proper company and make up whatever you want to fap to and proceed with more productive stuff after that?

herbst··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Do you actually think gooning is such a intense thing that people are going to personify AI more than what they do already everyday with Gemini and ChatGPT?
herbst··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Are there children on X? Adult ads on subreddits for children? If so that's a platform issue.

I honestly believe not much has changed. There have been many many "weird" fetish producers out there to fulfill almost any fantasy. Now people can make it up themself more easily and waste less time and money on actually weird sites. Not to mention less scam risk, less money into porn credit card providers, ... Nothing bad about it, except you make it bad but that's the users choice and always was.

herbst··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Was it ever hard? Even pre internet some friend of a friend would supply magazines.
herbst··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
All the drama in here just because it's a gooning and role play toy.

From what I can tell it was a popular tool with many users, one of the more popular ones among MANY. There are thousands of users using tools like this. Nothing inherently bad about that.

Nothing wrong with some AI gooning IMO

herbst··on RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine
Are you telling me every pizza and event place using the same AI pictures and flyers suddenly is already normalized?
herbst··on Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
Does it really? I've been to mono forests that basically had one type of visible bug, maybe 2 kind of spiders and maybe a squirrel but definitely no birds (because of the lack of bugs)

Meanwhile the average urban area in Switzerland comes with many different types of plants and areas.

herbst··on Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
Not that a data center would be better but calling a human made mono plantation a forest also seems a bit off.
herbst··on European Alternatives
I didn't mean the name is strange, it's just a strange example to show up first as it's a very niche company you won't easily find to buy anywhere in Europe.

My parents also swear raider was the better product. Not sure if I ever tried one.

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