uBlock Origin on Firefox Desktop/Mobile + YouTube ReVanced on Mobile + ReThink DNS are life savers, don’t know how I can live without them, specially on Mobile where Ads are even more egragious.

• Google/Microsoft everywhere. Anything you do, people expect you to use Google’s/Microsoft’s suite, and they look you weird when you don’t.

• Spam e-mails

• Job search, you have to tell even you dog’s birthday to apply to any job, 0 privacy, they never tell you why you didn’t got rehired, they most times don’t even tell you that you didn’t get chosen, you just wait infinitely. But it is even worse when there are 10 rounds of interviews, activities and whatnot.

• Most games run on Linux, the problem is mostly anti-cheats, most anti-cheats support Linux but a lot of games just choose not to turn it on for Linux, so we get blocked from playing those online games.

• Constant remakes/remasters of games, sequels and “live action” remakes of cartoons, those corps have billions in their pockets, but choose not to take the minimal risk of creating something new.

• Paywalled articles, there’s even the ironic paper about the inaccessibility of scientific research, and that paper was paywalled. But I have found the open source project Marreta (sledgehammer in Portuguese) that works really well to read paywalled news (and remove ads).

• On Dungeon Keeper, that game was so cool, I’m sad that the same happened with Command and Conquer, Red Alert 1 (and specially 2) where awesome games, but now are dead, and the last game launched was a shitty mobile game.

• Fantasy in general (RPG, Games, Shows), it is so satured with over the top stuff, that it just stopped being fantastical. You don’t find a normal King diminishing the amount of silver in silver coins to fund his war, only a beautiful and rich warrior-King. You don’t find a normal small medieval castle, just a 18th century chatteu. Every has magic, so it just loses the charm. Etc etc etc. And the worst thing for me, is how Eurocentric this genre is, and it’s not even the enterity of Europe, it is just Anglo-French centric. You never get arabic medieval stuff, chinese medieval stuff, or african medieval stories.

• Cool artwork, I don’t know, I just hate artworks that try to make the character look super cool, it really irks me.

• When you buy something at the bakery, and the “filling” is so fucking small, you mostly just eat bread dough

Same lol, it’s uncanny

For comparison

This makes me thonk of some articles from 972mag.

Like this one: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

Israel using AI and phone data to bomb people when they get to their homes, killing their entire family.

Unironically, yes. They only mask it as “democracy” to make the West lift the sanctions, western countries don’t really care if it is really a democracy or not (like with Saudi Arabia), only optics.

Deepseek was trained in a lot of western and English stuff, they also stole a lot of data from Chat GPT, and every single of those are very anti-communist and anti-China, DeepSeek just regurgitates western takes, at least when you use English, so the devs put a censor module in the website, so it doesn’t say or touch topics they know DeepSeek will not handle well (like Tiananmen, or Xi). I’ve heard that, in Chinese, DeepSeek talks about these stuff as the training data is not that shitty.

Yep, and it’s very sad to see. At least they are a non-profit, for now

Happy birthday! Wish you well!