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- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 23 hours ago:
Read my comment again, because I neither accused you of anything nor reduced your argument. Your brain is in fight mode
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 1 day ago:
Maybe. They use several other indexes as their backend so they have to pay microsoft for every search
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 1 day ago:
So you won’t pay for a subscription to use a search engine. Do you prefer the model that other search engines use where they take the content of your searches and use it to advertise to you?
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 1 day ago:
It’s because you have to pay for the search engine. They dont serve ads
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 1 day ago:
I argue that we should replace property taxes with income taxes because property taxes lead the disparities in outcomes between different jurisdictions
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 2 days ago:
Gross
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 2 days ago:
Yes (Chad face)
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 days ago:
I think it’s the moral issue of having to cash out your own property to afford to live in something you built and already own
- Comment on Celebrating my 1000th comment. Here is a shitpost. 2 days ago:
Lol. Lmao, even
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 days ago:
Engineer Syndrome. You get mildly good enough at writing Javascript to sell a product and then assume that means you can fix all of society’s problems
- Comment on Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian joins bid to acquire TikTok 3 days ago:
Terrible website with some legitimately hilarious but completely unironic posts from what I can only surmise are the human equivalent of NPCs. Still, I don’t spend all day reading LinkedIn crap, I just use it to communicate with recruiters. Has been useful in my career but the social aspect of it is hilarious
- Comment on Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian joins bid to acquire TikTok 3 days ago:
Fuck:
- Meta
- Amazon
- TikTok
And all the tech douchebags who created them. Apple and Microsoft aren’t included here because they’re not running websites that rot our fucking brains
- Comment on Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery 4 days ago:
Because it’s made out of cheese. Legally if you take something that is cheese and use it as an ingredient in another food, then it is no longer “cheese”, it is “cheese food”. The first ingredient is cheddar
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 days ago:
The internet peaked in utility around 2004. Most, if not all, developments since then have only made things worse
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 week ago:
Who gives a fuck what Sergey brin thinks
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
SMS is a pain in the ass. iOS users aren’t using SMS, they’re using a proprietary system which is inaccessible to android users. Occasionally a 1-on-1 text works with RCS but it’s janky
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 1 week ago:
> it’s 2150
> the last humans have gone underground, fighting against the machines which have destroyed the surface
> a t-1000 disguised as my brother walks into camp
> the dogs go crazy
> point my plasma rifle at him
> “i am also a terminator! would you like to switch to gibberlink mode?”
> he makes a screech like a dial up modem
> I shed a tear as I vaporize my brother
- Comment on Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps 1 week ago:
I used it for boilerplate work. Like if I need to write a model in typescript with a ton of class-validator annotations, it’s pretty good at filling those in
- Comment on Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps 1 week ago:
Never again will I make the mistake of using a “free” product from big tech
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
Would like to get my family on Signal. I deleted my facebook account and now we use various other chat apps that I don’t quite like
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 1 week ago:
MacOS
And you get the privilege of making that one-time $2000 purchase every 2-3 years when Apple eventually nerfs their hardware with bad firmware updates
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 1 week ago:
Notepad is useful for saving a simple piece of info to your hard drive somewhere, it’s not a daily driver for code editing or anything. If I’m on the phone with some customer service rep and they give me some reference number, I’ll pop open notepad to write it down and save it.
Seriously though, Android, macOS, Steam OS, Android TV, Chrome OS, Debian, heck, Ubuntu, Linux Mint
Some of those are not competitors to Windows. Android, Android TV, Steam OS are installed on specialty devices.
macOS is not a good OS. I wouldn’t consider it a better alternative to Windows. macOS often lags behind Windows in certain features such as tiling Windows. Apple is more hostile toward developers than Microsoft is and Apple ships their own versions of coreutils which are vastly inferior GNU coreutils and often totally out of date (Apple uses a build of bash from 2007 that was the default shell until the switch to zsh, and they STILL ship this bash binary today).
For any other Linux variant, the answer is the same as it has been for 20 years: normies don’t install their own OS, and also only use their machines to browse the internet, so it makes no difference to them.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 week ago:
There’s a couple contenders but they’re not very good. I think most FOSS people don’t WANT a facebook alternative; they’d prefer to keep their IRL identity separate from the internet. And the people who don’t care also don’t care enough to want to go federated.
There’s spacehey as a myspace alternative though. That’s pretty neat but it’s full of teenagers unfortunately.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 week ago:
Bluesky has a lot more normies on it while mastodon is mostly early-adopter types. Mastodon, in my experience, is either very technical people (software engineers and other tech people) or very political people. Bluesky has normal people on it
I checked out threads for a day and I liked it because the algorithm wasn’t jamming a bunch of outrage content down my throat but that’s the only thing I can say about it. Haven’t used it since then (deleted my entire meta account)
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 2 weeks ago:
Idk what you’re talking about most Americans are mad at the state of out country
- Comment on are terfs actual feminists or do most transphobic women just call themselves that? 2 weeks ago:
No transphobic person calls themselves a TERF, only transgender people use that term
- Comment on Social media users grapple with anti-LGBTQIA+ policy changes. 2 weeks ago:
Can you imagine explaining to someone in 1999 that a significant amount of politics in 2025 would surround what websites we decide to spend 12 hours a day on
- Comment on I miss myspace 2 weeks ago:
Check out spacehey spacehey.com
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 3 weeks ago:
The internet feels post-apocalyptic now. I no longer have any social media accounts (does lemmy count?) . Places that I spent over a decade on now feel so hostile and foreign. I joined reddit as a teenager wanting to read f7u12 comics, and now reddit feels like a total outrage machine. I mean the ads are crap but the algorithm doesn’t show me content I WANT to see anymore. It just shows me videos of car accidents and street fights and other things that get my cortisol levels up. Blocking subreddits straight up doesnt work. I like that on lemmy I can just filter only by the communities I subscribe to
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 3 weeks ago:
That’s fine. A more fragmented internet is better for the world