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darreninthenet ,

You’re accusing Cory Doctorow, the guy who invented the phrase “enshittification”, of making a blog post that’s really an advert…? Really???

darreninthenet ,

They claim that they don’t link/save your search history so although they have your details for payment, technically it’s not linked. If they aren’t lying…

darreninthenet ,

Have a read on the trouble the 2600 guys have been having sending out emails for the next HOPE conference - the junk filter is also great at filtering out topics it deems unsuitable.

darreninthenet ,

How do you provide evidence you didn’t use something???

darreninthenet ,

Can only speak for the UK but as the lowest civil court here, small claims decisions are not binding on any other court (including other small claims courts) but they are considered “pervasive” and thus a judge should be aware and take them into consideration.

darreninthenet ,

Pronounced “shitter”

darreninthenet ,

You have the same problem as my mother who also cannot distinguish between being told she is wrong and being called a liar.

darreninthenet ,

Although it’s not free, Kagi has been a dream

darreninthenet ,

Best thing about Evernote was its web clipping extensions… anyone use one that’s as good or better…?

darreninthenet ,

Thanks, will give it a try!

darreninthenet ,

Nice generalising there… given all my friends are Android/Windows users I wasn’t trying to show off when I switched over, I just wanted an ecosystem that works when I want to do something… too many times in both Windows and Mint did I have to spend time setting up the system to do something instead of just getting on with it.

darreninthenet ,

Do we have a Fediverse equivalent of Facebook yet…?

darreninthenet ,

This article is a pretty good summary of why, by Google’s own words, an ad driven search experience will be rubbish:

pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/…

Not only does Kagi produce great search results, as good as “old Google” IMO, its business model means the above cannot (or at least, shouldn’t) happen. If it ever changed its model to include ads etc it would collapse so fast.

So for me, unlike the other poster, I’d recommend it to everyone who’s finding the existing search engines are rubbish and full of useless Etsy and SEO etc links.

darreninthenet ,

I mean I guess it could happen… so I guess why trust anyone? May as well just switch it all off!

darreninthenet ,

Playing devil’s advocate, I’d argue the in the wild community testing is more likely to uncover an edge case that the formal testing didn’t envisage…? 🤷🏻‍♂️

darreninthenet ,

The idea is it gives enough time for competition to establish and then everyone completes on an even footing without fettering the original monopoly after it’s no longer a monopoly in that space… arguably it worked as Chrome took over but all that’s happened it it made a new monopoly 🤷🏻‍♂️

darreninthenet ,

And what happens if they’re a pilot as well???

darreninthenet ,

Market cap of Nintendo - 50 billion Market cap of Microsoft - 2.4 trillion

darreninthenet ,

Christ on a bike this is supposed to be Casual UK, not UK Horror Stories 😱

darreninthenet ,

Unless I’ve missed something I don’t see how this makes WhatsApp worse…? Just don’t sign up to the people’s channels if you don’t want to 🤷🏻‍♂️

darreninthenet ,

Same here, currently using Avelon and pretty happy with it… Voyager dev recently announced he’ll be working on it less going forward which may or may not be an issue 🤷🏻‍♂️

Both definitely feel like using “Apollo for Lemmy” though 👍

darreninthenet ,

From what he’s said he’s not abandoning it but I guess it won’t advance much or as quickly… he’s only just said so we don’t really know if and how it’ll impact things

darreninthenet ,

There was some moderated groups, the group name usually ended in .moderated.

All it meant was somebody with the moderator role on that group had to approve every post… only thing I never understood is how one became a moderator on those groups 🤷🏻‍♂️

darreninthenet ,

I still think a Usenet like service would be brilliant and it’s a shame there isn’t a Lemmy-like service that has that.

To clarify, what I mean is decentralised infrastructure (you go onto the news server you want) with shared content (ie the same was that every Usenet post ends up on every Usenet server, if that server carries that newsgroup) - it gives all the advantages of federalisation (don’t like your server, just go to another, you lose little or nothing) without the disadvantages of unintuitive discovery and fragmentation.

darreninthenet ,

Depends on the communities… quite often they consist of one or two users (or bits) reposting old or current Reddit posts.

And certainly for more niche topics the communities tend to be dead.

Quite often there is little commenting or conversation.

The communities with the most conversation seem to be about Lemmy and the Fediverse…

But yes there are a couple of decent communities in my Home feed, but the whole needs to grow to get it to a tipping point where it provides an active and diverse (in topics and conversation) community.

darreninthenet ,

I’d like to know how that’s even remotely compliant with the ECHR???

darreninthenet ,

This is genius 😂

darreninthenet ,

Edge was my main browser until about six months ago, then they pushed that obnoxious UI change that added a load of buttons to my toolbar that I can’t move or disable, and that irritating sidebar that jumps up whenever it can even when the button is disabled, and I went back to Firefox again.

Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days. (www.businessinsider.in)

Police in England installed an AI camera system along a major road. It caught almost 300 drivers in its first 3 days.::An AI camera system installed along a major road in England caught 300 offenses in its first 3 days.There were 180 seat belt offenses and 117 mobile phone

darreninthenet ,

This has always been the case for road cameras in the UK from the start from when we first had speed cameras introduced, before they are sent out they are (supposed to be) reviewed by a person first to check for false positives.

darreninthenet ,

“Objectively” 🤦🏻‍♂️

darreninthenet ,

I like Ivory for Mastodon (it’s by the guys that originally made Tweetbot for Twitter) and I use Voyager for Lemmy (basically it’s Apollo reborn) and am trying out Liftoff as it has a few features I like that Voyager doesn’t (yet) and testing Artemis for Kbin.

darreninthenet ,

Would be nice if there was a way or an app that ties together all those individual accounts into a single view.

darreninthenet ,

Although he posted that he had to follow strict German anti piracy laws 🤷🏻‍♂️

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