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- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 day ago:
How many websites do you browse with links to truly illegal content?
If you live in a country with truly abysmal human rights, definitely don’t bother with this plugin, but in most cases you should be fine on the illegal side.
Even if somehow the website you’re browsing has some super sketchy ad to
buyillegaldrugshere.comor whatever, to get in trouble with the law in most civilized places you’d have to actually buy the illegal drugs, not just ping the illegal drugs IP. Especially since you can pretty easily prove to a judge that your system fetches ad links automatically and without further engagement.Not saying it can’t happen, just that it’s really unlikely you would be served an ad for something so illegal just clicking on it is a liability. The literally only case I can think of coming close is CSAM, but even then, if you’re regularly browsing websites that advertise CSAM, maybe find other websites to occupy your time? And I can just about guarantee any website serving CSAM ads is already doing illegal shit, so you should probably be more worried about that than an ad-click…
- Comment on Mining is an environmental and human rights nightmare. Battery recycling can ease that. 1 week ago:
Half as many child laborers digging up cobalt in this world countries is a good start, I guess… But this does nothing to solve the root cause it the problem.
Who’s to say when they lose their jobs at the cobalt mines they don’t move onto something even more dangerous?
Also this assumes some sort of growth plateau. We could recycle and continue to extract at the same rate pretty easily due to growth.
Solving child labor by recycling batteries is like trying to solve global warming with carbon capture. At best you’re just ignoring the cause. At worst you’re enabling the worst offenders by providing a smokescreen for them to hide behind.
- Comment on The basics of the Fediverse. Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, Reddit, ... vs the Fediverse. What do you think? 1 week ago:
Certain other content crosses boarders. Matson especially. Whenever you see people replying to messages and it starts with some sort of
!user@lemmy.versetagging, you’re probably eavesdropping on a Mastadon thread and you don’t even know it. - Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 week ago:
Came over during the great 3rd party app API debacle. It didn’t even make the list. Am I old now?
- Comment on Here, have some unpleasant knowledge about Mario. 1 week ago:
You ever watch Orphan Black? Based on a true story.
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- Comment on The Unique ID You're Giving to Everyone 3 weeks ago:
You have my phone number? Then why do you never call?
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 4 weeks ago:
if OP doesn’t keep their honey in a bucket in the basement they should be fine
First time on the internet huh? Pretty good odds OP is right now trying to figure out where to store that 5-gallon bucket of honey he just purchased, and that basement is looking mighty tempting.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 4 weeks ago:
In terms of result quality? In my opinion, based on my particular search habits:
Kagi > SearXNG > Brave > Startpage/Google > DDG/Ecosia/Bing
Everyone is going to have their own opinions on each of those companies, but from a results lens, that’s go what I find to be most/least effective.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 4 weeks ago:
Like all Google products, they will still make a halfhearted attempt to make it as useful as they can before absolutely destroying it with ads
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 4 weeks ago:
Guessing Edge by default sent you to Bing, no surprise the DDG results look similar, given that they use Bing under he hood. They shuffle rankings slightly, but it’s the same index.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 4 weeks ago:
You can also use Ecosia, if your prefer a different shade of lipstick on your ~pig~ search results.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 4 weeks ago:
There’s not really a strong player in the open source search space.
Mwmnl exists, but per their own readme:
The quality is a long way’s off from matching the commercial engines at the moment
Kagi provides the source code for many of their services, but is not truly open source, especially because at its core, it relies on applying its own rankings to other’s indexes.
That said, search is a space where the old adage rings true:
If you’re not paying for it; you are the product!
For what it’s worth, I find value in my Kagi subscription.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 5 weeks ago:
I’ve also used some really crappy gas stoves but none have struggled that hard.
You must not be going to the right crappy AirBnBs, I’ve had gas stoves struggle to stay lit, which is not just bad for boiling water, now you’ve got a gas leak in the house!
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 5 weeks ago:
If you really want to
burn your house downflame your home wok, you can always get a handheld blow torch to do the finishing ignition. Could probably flame 1000 wok dishes for a single torch canister. - Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 5 weeks ago:
Photons cause cancer so I guess I may as well do nothing at all.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 5 weeks ago:
Yes, and you can test it pretty easily by just seeing how much faster a pot of water boils on induction, on-par with the boiling times of commercial burners.
Also, in a commercial setting, induction stoves cook just as effectively with less energy which means they don’t put out nearly as much heat to the environment. For a chef, its the difference between working all day in 90-degree spaces to 70-degree AC. I’m an engineer who works on a lot of commercial kitchens (among other things), and our chefs love the electric kitchens we’ve delivered.
When you’re cooking for work, 8+ hours a day, being comfortable while you do it is a major game changer.
The other thing they enjoy is the level of control and consistency - many professional induction ranges will let you control on temperature, which means you can quickly adjust to specific values in order to, say, sear a steak at 500, then finish it at 300 until it hits the desired internal temperature.
- Comment on Proton will no longer post on Mastodon 5 weeks ago:
You guys know you don’t have to follow businesses on social media, right‽ Like, it’s all just different flavors of their own advertisements, and you can just not interact.
- Comment on A crate for puppy 5 weeks ago:
OP has a poodle as well, which means either hair cuts at home or regular grooming. Many groomers keep dogs in crates between wash and cut, which is a lot easier on the dog if they consider crates safe.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 month ago:
Libby is able to sync with your kindle, and then you just choose “send to Kindle” on your phone when checking a book out and the book will appear in your Kindle library.
help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6017.htm
If you have a Kindle, this is 100% the best way to read books.
- Comment on YSK: This May Have Been Unstalled on Your Device Recently 1 month ago:
I was like “Wow, did they roll it back already?”
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 3 months ago:
Yeah there are idiots, but what’s the harm? They may be shocked to find there’s 0 dairy, but his does that impact them? The nutrition info is on the label, as is the ingredients.
- Submitted 3 months ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 5 comments
- Comment on flouride 4 months ago:
Its a common component of all cancer cells, and trace amounts have been found in the blood of dead lab rats.
- Comment on AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops 4 months ago:
Businesses make decisions based on money. People make decisions based on vibes.
- Comment on China powers up the world's largest open-sea offshore solar farm 4 months ago:
Little bit of A, little bit of B.
In China there’s a lot of big coastal cities with very little open land for development. Putting small amounts of solar onto 1000 skyscrapers vs one big ocean plant, and the additional costs of ocean maintenance start to be less significant.
Similarly, in some places there may be opportunities to align the deployment of the panels with other systems, e.g., a kelp farm or ocean fish farm where you can collocate ocean structures.
There’s likely to be lots of new challenges faced by these structures, but it’s still good to work the kinks out now with some pilot projects
- Comment on In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily 4 months ago:
Not trying to be a “nuclear shill”, but it is worth mentioning from the article you linked:
The 1.8 million solar panels are expected to generate up to 690 MW and they’re co-located with 380 MW of 4-hour battery energy storage (1,400 MWh).
The capacity factor of solar is something around 25%, so that 690 MW solar array (even with batteries) produces about as much energy as ~160 MW nuclear… So 7x faster, but the costs are closer than you suggest. Solar is still cheaper because the O&M costs are minimal, but pretending 690 MW solar + 380 MW battery is equivalent to 1 GW nuclear is a bit disingenuous.
- Comment on Privacy Guides is Hiring 5 months ago:
That’s… That’s the… Well nevermind…
- Comment on Privacy Guides is Hiring 5 months ago:
Remember kids, everything is a data mining trap. Be sure to submit your resume with zero PII, and at least 1024-bit encryption.
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 5 months ago:
Height selection on metric side has jumps of up to 3 centimeters lmao.
Too lazy to look, but given 1 inch = 2.54 cm, my guess is the tool is written in inches, and just rounds those values to the nearest whole cm, thus alternating between 2 & 3 cm increments.