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Honestly the amount could be $10 and I’d take it. I don’t get why anyone would want to share the same air as either of these people

9point6 ,

Can’t be the de jure president, so I guess he’s trying to become the de facto one

9point6 ,

You’re now a proto-butter-connoisseur

It may be a few days, it may be a few weeks, but you’re going to be walking past the dairy section in the supermarket and the golden oblong that is Kerrygold is going to call out to you.

That said, if you can get lurpak over there, I think I prefer it to Kerrygold personally

9point6 ,

And what if a nation bought the guy in charge? You know, like has potentially already happened with the PIF

Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap (www.businessinsider.com)

Tech’s broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap::Some tech is getting pricier and looking a lot like the older services it was supposed to beat. From video streaming to ride-hailing and cloud computing.

9point6 ,

I’m not usually one for an ad hominem, but it’s business insider—that’s probably one conclusion they are incapable of arriving at

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There’s no amount of money extra a month that can support this lifestyle, I’m sorry

Row over restaurant ‘wealth screening’ boils over in French resort of St-Tropez (www.theguardian.com)

The Nice Matin newspaper quoted unnamed insiders as saying that some restaurants in St-Tropez, a favoured summer haunt of celebrities and the international jet set for more than half a century, had taken to checking customers’ names against their database and refusing reservations if a previous visit was not felt to have...

9point6 ,

I mean it feels like there’s a potentially pretty good GDPR lawsuit in the making here.

Storing non-anonymised customer history without them explicitly signing up to a loyalty program with a privacy policy? That sounds like a big fine to me

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I like how the scale at the upper end goes: red -> purple -> a colour about halfway between red and purple. Y’know like would already be on the scale between red and purple

9point6 ,

The study of language is descriptive, not prescriptive

It’s why dictionaries have new word of the year contests that get won by things like “goblin-mode”

Language evolves every day

9point6 ,

I think most of the traditional manufacturers have pretty decent offerings now. Prices are still a bit high compared to the equivalent petrol car, but that’s only a matter of time given all the bans coming

9point6 ,

Man, bad company 2 was probably the peak of the series. It never seemed to capture that magic again

We should have something like federated communities

Communities on different instances about the same topic should have the option to essentially federate so a post on one appears on all of them and opening any of them shows you the comments from all of them. This way when lemmy.world is down its not a big deal because posting to any news community federates to all of the...

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The problem with this was given by one of the lemmy devs—imagine @news on a tech focused instance and @news on a star trek focused instance, they are not going to have any crossover of content as they’re effectively entirely different communities.

Similar would happen with local language differences like @football or @chips on an American vs a British instance

Although as a Brit I would completely be here for the chaos of that second scenario

9point6 ,

I guess that would mitigate most issues if that’s possible within the activitypub protocol.

Though I wouldn’t be surprised if that kind of mutually approved relationship between non-people doesn’t exist as a concept out of the box. Possibly using the hashtag concept under the hood to do this, but that would not require the mutual approval in the rest of the fediverse even if Lemmy enforced it

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I’m signed up the patreon for mine, they’re gonna get more than $20 over time

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Probably the LibDems in the UK—A mostly inert centre-right party

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If you mean personal photos stored in Google photos, absolutely not.

This seems like it’s more for revenge porn and regretful decisions

Content moderators who worked on ChatGPT say they were traumatized by reviewing graphic content: 'It has destroyed me completely.' (www.businessinsider.com)

Content moderators who worked on ChatGPT say they were traumatized by reviewing graphic content: ‘It has destroyed me completely.’::Moderators told The Guardian that the content they reviewed depicted graphic scenes of violence, child abuse, bestiality, murder, and sexual abuse.

9point6 ,

Hmm also in sync and nothing got spoiler censored

9point6 ,

Wow that’s wasteful, I’d expect a bit more from ubiquiti kit

9point6 ,

Was gonna say the death of vlemmy probably contributed to one of those dips

9point6 ,

FWIW, I think the dev has said somewhere that the tracker libs aren’t loaded if you are subscribed (or pay for the ad-free version when that’s available) as they’re part of the ad frameworks

9point6 ,

Well, while it’s obviously not certain proof—I have a pihole on my network, I’m not seeing any unwanted requests blocked whilst I’m using this app (paid)

9point6 ,

I mean, depending how overt they are, it doesn’t really seem that hard to prove

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So I think the main thing is scale—they’re tech companies (in the category they’re in) because of the engineering required to build & maintain something that operates at the scale they do

And IMO at least in the early years it was pretty impressive what Twitter was capable of in terms of technology.

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Even simpler, I think being able to “favourite” some communities and (optionally?) applying a greater weight to those communities in a user’s feeds would solve the problem quite nicely.

I can’t really imagine wanting to do the reverse anyway (subscribed to a community but I want to see less of its content)

what are .webp files and why has my online experience been plagued by them?

I don’t know what a .webp file is but I don’t like it. They’re like a filthy prank version of the image/gif you’re looking for. They make you jump through all these hoops to find the original versions of the files that you can actually do anything with....

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Yep! Not least of all, GIF & JPEG are over 30 year old formats and WebP is about a decade old. So there’s at least 20 years of advancement there

9point6 ,

Yeah for sure, new is not always better.

Though for compressed media file formats, that pretty much has been the correlation for a while (though obviously there’s many different conflicting qualities that can make a file format “good” for various purposes)

Take video for example: MPEG2 came along and MPEG quickly became uncommon within a couple of years. MPEG4 displaced MPEG2 due to being more efficient. DivX/AVC replaced that for the same reasons and HVEC/VP9 replaced that. We’ve got AV1 coming now that looks to have beaten h.266/VVC to the punch, but it’s still a fairly linear progression of improvement.

Given all that it’s kind of mad we’ve not seen the same level of iteration on image file formats, but that’s almost entirely down to browser wars and having to pick lowest common denominators. JPEG2000 might have taken off if it wasn’t for the fact only Apple ever implemented it in a browser—it was definitely a technically better format.

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He has not always been pleasant. Don’t fall for the post-retirement PR spin

9point6 ,

So in the UK we have had a standard free “instant” payment system between banks for what feels like a couple of decades now (and compatibility with the IBAN for at least half that time). Given that, how has this taken so long? What did people do before Venmo?

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It will probably be that there is a load more announcements possible on newer trains, so rather than only doing the missing bits with a new voice actor, they may as well do the lot so that it’s consistent

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Depends on where you live, my understanding is that the USA is pretty notorious for being quite lax on food related regulation (where this honey appears to be from)

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Google assistant can already do this in some markets, believe it or not! I think the feature is called “duplex” or something like that

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The Guardian is the only mainstream centrist outlet we have left, everything else has lurched towards (or has always been on) the right-wing. And before anyone says the Guardian is a lefty paper, you only need to look at their coverage of the Labour party during the Corbyn years to know they would back the LibDems in a heartbeat if they weren’t such a colossal joke.

9point6 ,

Honestly, I think you’re wrong here, they were colloquially called floppy disks because at the time the whole thing was floppy. If the first floppy disks came in hard casings, they would never have been called floppy disks

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The improvement was the supermarket’s profit margin

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Been using this system for years now, works pretty flawlessly and keeps me in control of my password database. You can even self-host the database if you don’t want to use a cloud storage provider

9point6 ,

I need to try the tapenade idea, that one’s never occurred to me before. Chopping up olives and sweet pickles and mixing in a bit of Coleman’s has been a semi-classic addition to my sandwiches for a little while now

People commonly neglect saltiness in their sandwiches, even if it’s as simple as just literally adding some salt (and pepper).

9point6 ,

It’s kind of sad to look back at that blind optimism that of course Reddit wasn’t going to shit itself and I was definitely going to get that “!remindme in 10 years” DM and get a blast from the past.

Now all those messages will never be sent

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… Here?

9point6 ,

I’d say that’s pretty much it—querying the database locally for subscriber counts was probably a very simple feature to add, at least versus collating totals from other instances (perhaps would need more data sending over activitypub to facilitate it)

That and it helps pick communities to subscribe to, so there’s value enough in the local count to be able to determine at a glance which communities are active, without having to go into each one.

9point6 ,

I think I saw there was a set of scripts you could use to migrate today, it’s just not built into the software yet.

The lemmy devs have said it’s on their radar, just not coming soon due to (I guess) stability improvements for larger instances taking precedence

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The other thing is tweet embeds in articles.

You can be watching a BBC live text page and have 20-30 tweet embeds go by over the duration of a football match.

300 is low enough you could feasibly read enough news and hit the limits without even directly visiting Twitter

9point6 ,

It’s pretty clear now that Musk was almost certainly just a lucky moron with a big bank account for his previous successes. He’s completely misunderstood the value proposition of Twitter and has almost entirely destroyed that irreparably in a handful of months.

The only real alternative explanation for his actions now are down to the Saudi monarchy being heavily involved in helping him buy it in the first place. We know they have no real need for ROI, and we also know they very likely still have an axe to grind over the role Twitter played in helping people organise during the Arab Spring and similar uprisings.

So our options are, he’s a genuine moron with no idea how damaging his actions are or he’s a bought-and-paid-for asset and he’s destroying it to make some autocrats happy. Neither are going to make it a better place.

9point6 ,

Gotta keep it sensible before work, I respect your self control

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