Scrollone
@Scrollone@feddit.it
- Comment on Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. 12 hours ago:
Qwant is also good. And it’s building their own index together with Ecosia.
- Comment on Google Says iPhone Adoption Of RCS Has Led Users To Share 'More Than A Billion' Messages Daily, Yet SMS/MMS Still Reign Supreme In The U.S. 14 hours ago:
Yes. Disabling RCS is the first thing I do on every new phone. Nobody uses text messages in my country anyway.
- Comment on Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors 14 hours ago:
Haha yeah sure. That will never happen.
- Comment on Todays touchscreen UI's are so forcefed with slide-options, widgets, AI assistants, popup UI's and auto- correct/translate... 2 days ago:
If you use Android, install Firefox, add the uBlock Origin plugin and your experience will instantly become better.
But it’s super sad that we need to resort to ad blockers to have a decent web experience.
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 4 days ago:
I can’t stand the fact that they don’t support Linux
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 4 days ago:
I think copyright should last maximum 10 years. Plenty of time to earn enough from your creation.
Imagine how advanced we would be, as a civilization, if everything created before 2015 was free for everybody.
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 4 days ago:
That’s exactly what Meta did, they torrented the full libgen database of books.
If they can do it, anybody should be able to do it.
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 1 week ago:
I love em dashes. Fuck AI.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
Proton = Trump support
So no for me.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
Too bad the owner of Proton supports Trump, so when my two years subscription ends, I’m moving to Tuta or Posteo
- Comment on LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues 1 week ago:
I think it’s better on Windows. It feels like a good old school Win9x app
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
Also, my mom doesn’t know what Tailscale is. She just want to watch movies
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
One other sad thing of Jellyfin is that you can’t access multiple server at once with a unified view
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
It’s useful to have one of your friends host a home server and share all the movies with your friends. Then you can watch from the smart tv
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 2 weeks ago:
Oh boy it’s not! But mainly for binaries
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
Mapy is also a great European alternative, based on OpenStreetMaps
- Comment on Why am I seeing political ads for Donald Trump in April of the year of his second inauguration? 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. Switch to Firefox + uBlock Origin. Problem solved.
- Comment on What is Docker? 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t all of this a complete waste of computer resources?
I’ve never used Docker but I want to set up a Immich server, and Docker is the only official way to install it. And I’m a bit afraid.
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 2 weeks ago:
“Open” AI. Yeah, open my ass.
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral 2 weeks ago:
Where is she buried? I feel like I need to pee soon
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 2 weeks ago:
Also add DeArrow to remove channel-set preview images and actually see a preview of the video
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 2 weeks ago:
I only think they should have moved the controls outside of the video, at least on desktop
- Comment on In the most delicious irony imaginable, the notorious early 2000s 'You wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy campaign may have used an 'illegal' font 2 weeks ago:
I mean, just think about the meaning. “You wouldn’t download a car” doesn’t make any sense lol
- Comment on For me, it's going to be Fediverse or nothing 3 weeks ago:
Or maybe using the canonical URL meta tag? I don’t know if it works across different domains.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
GIMP and Inkscape are unfortunately worse than their commercial counterparts.
The Adobe suite sucks big time, but it’s still the de facto standard.
Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer are lighter and snappier than Adobe, but still better than GIMP and Inkscape.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
I love yt-dlp!!! Too bad that the Pluto TV downloader has been broken for a long time, I used it in the past to download region locked shows
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
Files shared on Usenet (which may violate piracy laws) are usually packed in the rar format
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
NanaZip is a modern fork of 7zip, useful if you’re on Windows 11
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 3 weeks ago:
Let’s get some powerful people Luigi’d to restablish some democracy
- Comment on Judge: Google Illegally Engaged In Anticompetitive Monopolistic Ad Tech Practices 3 weeks ago:
I like them but (if I’m not wrong) they don’t support custom domains.