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Blamemeta , to nostupidquestions in Why does a car have both a motor and engine?

They’re referring to the same part. Technically speaking, an engine is a combustion powered motor. EVs only have a Motor, but ICEs have an engine that’s also a motor.

lorch , to showerthoughts in In the future bots will have CAPTCHAs to keep humans out of their communities

Please enter the first ten quintillion digits of pi to continue…

kyle OP ,

You have 50 milliseconds…

Eylrid ,

Some fifteen year old nerd: “I got this”

otter ,

Could you use another bot to solve that bot’s test?

We already have the reverse, where automated spam tools outsource to humans to beat the captchas: www.nytimes.com/2010/04/26/…/26captcha.html

They would have to make a captcha that only a select group of bots can solve

foo ,

It’ll be bots all the way down…

deadcream , to android in Navigation without mashing CPU?

Google Maps is just trash.

SJ_Zero , to nostupidquestions in Why does a car have both a motor and engine?
@SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net avatar

Most cars only have an internal combustion engine. People just refer to it interchangably as an engine and a motor.

There’s a small number of cars that have both an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, called hybrids. They try to take advantage of the best of both worlds, giving the range of the ICE and the fuel economy of the electric motor.

Some cars don’t have an engine and only have an electric motor inside.

danieljoeblack , (edited ) to showerthoughts in If we call reddit users redditors, what do we call lemmy users

For us kbin folks, I've seen kbeans and kbinauts

Voyajer ,
@Voyajer@kbin.social avatar

Kbinauts is my favorite. I'd also accept kbinner.

Hikyuri ,
@Hikyuri@kbin.social avatar

Kbeans is definitely the best!

Spacebar , to showerthoughts in If the classic TV show sci-fi trope of eating pills for food had became a reality, would humans overtime no longer be able to chew?
@Spacebar@lemmy.world avatar

If we don’t chew, our jaws would not develop. The bone growth of our faces would change and our teeth would become incredibly crowded and crooked.

One of the current leading theories for why we now often need braces is called the Soft Foods Theory. The basic idea is that we eat much softer foods than our hunter-gatherer ancestors did, so we aren’t stimulating as much bone growth in our jaws when we chew our food, which leaves our teeth with insufficient space to grow in straight.

If we didn’t chew at all and just took pills for food, we’d probably need to get all of our teeth removed as part of growing up, we’d have no chins and we’d all talk much differently than we do now.

albert180 , to nostupidquestions in Can Lemmy posts be indexed by Google or other search engines?

Yes, but Google annoyingly "corrects" every feddit.* searchterm to reddit

https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/5481e13b-46cf-4e55-a3bf-d0d89740d296.png

Elkaki123 ,

Would this be corrected naturally by people using feddit as a search term more or does google have to manually patch this things?

albert180 ,

I guess, but it's highly unlikely that "vlemmy.net" or "feddit.de" will be more searched than Reddit.com in the next time

EnglishMobster ,
@EnglishMobster@kbin.social avatar

It will be corrected over time, I presume automatically. I was one of the first people with a Steam Deck and when I searched for things Google would "helpfully" autocorrect to StreamDeck. But eventually Google figured it out.

MinusPi ,

I don’t know about others but I used to just add “reddit” to each of my searches. Wouldn’t adding “Lemmy” instead do the same thing eventually?

Spacemanspliff ,

The problem is I don’t know if it would pull instances that don’t contain Lemmy in the name.

shadowbert ,
@shadowbert@kbin.social avatar

Or other federated content on other platforms.

tqgibtngo ,
@tqgibtngo@kbin.social avatar

As a newcomer, I've visited 3 Lemmy sites: Beehaw. Lemmy.world, and a custom instance. I noticed that they each have page footers that contain: Join Lemmy. If the same is true of many Lemmy instances, I can add Lemmy (or, with quotation marks, "Join Lemmy") in a Google query. — (Note: Top matches might not always be best matches on the originating instance, or sometimes the best matches might be hidden until I click "repeat the search with the omitted results included." And of course sometimes I won't get any match because the target hasn't been indexed by Google.)

RoyalEngineering ,

Adding “join lemmy” is really smart.

albert180 ,

I guess you would need the name of the instance where the community resides. But usually if you search about specific questions the site with the information will appear (be it reddit or some lemmy instances) without adding it to the search term

GammaScorpii OP ,

The issue is google for the last few years has been prioritising businesses and services with really good SEO. And ads.

So in order to find helpful user content I always had to add Reddit to the search query.

chaorace ,
@chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Is there any reason the site: syntax can’t be used? For example: Musk site:feddit.de

albert180 ,

That's what I did, see the search term in the search field

chaorace ,
@chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I don’t understand. I looked at your screenshot again and the search field seems to show feddit.de: Musk. This is not the site: syntax. What I suggested was Musk site:feddit.de. Am I missing something?

albert180 ,

The site: is feddit.de: and after that follows the search query. It works that way too, and it's less work to type. Try it out by yourself

chaorace ,
@chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I tried it myself and they’re not similar at all. site: is handled specially through Google’s advanced search syntax while the other approach is no different from a normal keyword. Please refer to the below images with attention to the result counts:

https://files.catbox.moe/i8fq9s.png

https://files.catbox.moe/vtsisc.png

It’s fine if you don’t want to use the syntax, but using it would solve your problem with keyword autocorrect and properly filter your results to only the website you’ve asked for.

albert180 ,

You are right. My apologies

Chozo , (edited )

I think OP is asking about a broader, Fediverse-scaled search. So using the site: search tag will only search a single Lemmy instance. I don't think Google will index cross-instance content in those searches, otherwise it'll end up with a ton of duplicate results. So if what you're looking for was actually posted to a different instance, it may not be found with that search.

I'm just theorizing, though, since this is all still really new and untested.

yaomtc ,

Why are people using a site named after the place they purposefully left with just one letter changed?

Orbitrix ,

Feddit is the name of a Lemmy/kbin style federated instance.

Moka , (edited )
@Moka@kbin.social avatar

Presumably because reddit itself has a lot of positivity and memories attached to it for a lot of people - it wasn't the site that people wanted to leave, but rather the ceo and staff behind it.

albert180 ,

Because the f stands for federated and it's the biggest German node?

Zerlyna , to nostupidquestions in What is so great about Reddit/Lemmy apps?
@Zerlyna@lemmy.world avatar

Reddit app has ads to click between every few posts. Didn’t see them with the third party apps. Reddit has a premium you can pay to remove the ads but it was far more expensive and IMHO they want the money for themself.

cupcakezealot , to showerthoughts in In the future bots will have CAPTCHAs to keep humans out of their communities
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I’ve used captchas before, this already happens :(

PillowTalk420 ,
@PillowTalk420@lemmy.world avatar

please click all images with busses

Sees extremely distorted reflection of bus in a store window in one panel; has breakdown

Wistful , to piracy in How important is port forwarding, actually?
@Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Quote from some old guide:

The Importance of Being Connectable:

When it comes to torrents, being connectable can go a long way in helping your ratio. Connectivity is directly related to port forwarding, your router, and incoming torrent connections. Here’s how it works:

You upload a new torrent. After going through the upload page and adding the torrent to your client, the client connects to the tracker to do the following:

  1. Tell the tracker it is going to begin seeding a torrent.
  2. Ask the tracker if there are any peers it doesn’t know about.

Normally, no one has downloaded the torrent from the site between the time that you upload the torrent and when you add it to your client. So your client will now wait, for 45 minutes (or however long it’s been told to wait by the tracker), until it will connect back and ask for more peers.

Now suppose someone downloads your torrent from the site after you added the torrent to your client. Normally, the person’s client will ask the tracker for peers, to which the tracker will return your IP address to connect to. That client will then connect to your client, using the IP address and port number it got from the tracker pertaining to your client and the port it accepts incoming connections on. This is where being connectable comes into play. We’ll assume your IP address is 139.129.43.5 and your port number used for torrenting is 3058.

When the peer attempts to connect to you on that designated port, your router has to know what to do with the incoming connection. It receives an incoming connection from the peer, on port 3058. If you have your port forwarded to your client correctly, that is, you’ve told the router what to do with incoming data on a specific port, the router knows to send anything coming in on port 3058 to the computer your client is running on. Now, if you are not connectable, the router doesn’t know what to do with items coming in on port 3058, so they are discarded, and the other peer isn’t able to connect to you.

If your port isn’t forwarded correctly, the peer who just added your torrent to their client will have to wait for 45 minutes, until your client updates with the tracker, and gets the new peer’s IP address and port to connect to. If the peer is connectable, you will then make an outbound connection to them, and it will connect successfully. Outbound connections aren’t normally blocked by a router, unlike incoming ones, this is why a client doesn’t need a port forward for outgoing connections. This scenario is also why you can still seed even if you aren’t connectable. This can have very negative consequences for your ratio though as I will now explain.

Here’s how not being connectable will hurt you. When you are seeding a torrent in a large swarm and a new peer comes online, his client will attempt to make connections to the other peers. If you aren’t connectable, you will have to wait (at max) 45 minutes until your client learns of their existence, before you can start uploading data to them. During this time the peer is getting data from other peers, but not you. By the time your client finally learns of the new peer’s existence, the client will already be done downloading! You won’t get nearly as much upload than if you were connectable. Depending on the size of the torrent, your client may not get any upload for that peer, because he will have completed the torrent before your client even knew he was present.

The absolute worst case scenario is when both peers aren’t connectable. Neither peer will be able to connect to the other, and both will sit without connection indefinitely.

yingleheimerschitz , to android in Managing bookmarks across browsers? - OFFLINE

i have a bookmarks.txt file (stores the bookmarks in plain text), but the links are consistent with the documentation for the “open external links in a container” extension for firefox. you can then open the links from the file any way you want, be it dmenu, rofi, fzf, fzy, gum, etc.

you then sync the text file between devices with rsync.

WhoRoger OP ,
@WhoRoger@lemmy.world avatar

you can then open the links from the file any way you want, be it dmenu, rofi, fzf, fzy, gum

I barely recognize these names as something Linux like. Does this have relation to Android?

timbertick , to android in How does everyone feel about Sony (+Ericsson) Phones?

The best phone I have ever used is sonyericsson p910i It was years ahead of it game. Best form factor, came with a pen, removable keyboard, SD card, and so on… https://vlemmy.net/pictrs/image/d5481e6e-a48b-4d90-9c8b-5b833cc823a9.jpeg

fidodo , to nostupidquestions in What is so great about Reddit/Lemmy apps?

For me I found the new Reddit desktop site completely unusable. I hated everything about it. On desktop I used old.reddit with RES.

On mobile their 1st party app was similarly shitty like their new desktop ui. The 3rd party apps were much better but I didn’t necessarily prefer then over the old+RES desktop website.

Main reason I also used mobile apps was that I could browse Reddit while taking a shit.

Candelestine , to nostupidquestions in Can Lemmy posts be indexed by Google or other search engines?

First we need to offer google competitive answers to reddits. Then it will consider indexing us.

Phrodo_00 ,

Not the way Google works. It's probably indexing most medium size instances and up. They just need to get better Pagerank along with the other metrics google uses now to show up more prominently

For example https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=reddit%20site%3Akbin.social

RightHandOfIkaros ,

We could just pay Google. How else do you think scam sites keep appearing at the top of Google searches

hawkwind , to nostupidquestions in Can Lemmy posts be indexed by Google or other search engines?
@hawkwind@lemmy.management avatar

Being decentralized will make it harder to just use “search + reddit” because you don’t know if it’s “search + lemmy.world” or “search + beehaw” or “search + kbin.” Also, each admin is in charge of their own Robots.txt.

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