darreninthenet
@darreninthenet@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov 7 months ago:
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…
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov 7 months ago:
You’re accusing Cory Doctorow, the guy who invented the phrase “enshittification”, of making a blog post that’s really an advert…? Really???
- Comment on Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot 8 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
If you replaced “company” with “monopoly” in your last sentence, I agree.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
Also it depends what’s driving that attitude… if it’s an ethos from Gabe then great but he won’t be around forever… what happens when he dies/retires?
Many companies have started with great ethics that went out of the window when the founders moved on, and Steam is in a fantastic position to enshitify if it wanted to.
- Comment on It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Thanks, will give it a try!
- Comment on It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Best thing about Evernote was its web clipping extensions… anyone use one that’s as good or better…?
- Comment on Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever 10 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media 1 year ago:
Do we have a Fediverse equivalent of Facebook yet…?
- Comment on Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News 1 year ago:
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/#fun…
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.
- Comment on Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding 1 year ago:
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…? 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks 1 year ago:
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 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email 1 year ago:
Market cap of Nintendo - 50 billion Market cap of Microsoft - 2.4 trillion
- Comment on The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] 1 year ago:
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 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Which iOS app for Lemmy? 1 year ago:
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
- Comment on Which iOS app for Lemmy? 1 year ago:
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 👍
- Comment on USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix 1 year ago:
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.
- Comment on USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix 1 year ago:
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 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
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.