Interesting Links for 11-12-2021

[andrewducker]

"10 years late, I have fallen in love with Dark Souls, and you can too"

(tags:games )

Brutal review of Michelin-starred restaurant Bros' goes viral

(tags:restaurant review funny )

New Zealand unanimously passes gender self-ID law in trans rights win

(tags:LGBT transgender newzealand )

Which early hominid are you? (I got homo sapiens sapiens, which delighted me)

(tags:neanderthal prehistory quiz ViaDrCross )

The TikTok Couch Guy on what it's like to be investigated on the internet.

(tags:privacy internet socialmedia OhForFucksSake )

"The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience" makes it clear how impressive modern games can look

(tags:games graphics matrix )

Computers revolutionized chess - Magnus Carlsen wins by being human

(tags:chess games AI humans )

What it's like when your brain starts working properly for the first time

(tags:adhd brain )

How do you do on the digit span memory test? (I top out at 8, and seem to use auditory memory to hold them)

(tags:memory numbers )

Comments

[simont]

That works, thanks!

I'd never considered it before, but now I think about it, it would be a perfectly plausible strategy for news sites to enforce paywalling inconsistently, precisely so that people would unsuspectingly spread links to articles they hadn't realised were not free...

[andrewducker]

Intermittent positive reward is the best addictor, so it wouldn't surprise me!

[movingfinger]

FWIW, I've noticed that my newer mobile devices with adblockers running are often able to bypass paywalls, at least to the extent of letting me turn the article into text (which I generally do anyway, for legibility). Laptop browsers with noscript/adblock are not bypassing, but they are all older software.

[armiphlage]

Ooh, and assign a random-number link to those viewing it from their own website, but maintain the same address for those accessing it directly from a link shared with friends; after X number of views indicates it is gone viral, the shared link gets paywalled, or loaded with ads.