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- Submitted 42 minutes ago to technology@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. 3 days ago:
Yep. Encouraging a whole new generation of casual artists, makers and readers can only be seen as a great thing. I would just add that we all need to remember how to slow down, and understand that’s good and necessary to do so every so often.
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- Comment on "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. 3 days ago:
The 31-year-old keeps one bag at home in Northern California, carrying it from room to room, and another in her car
I think the problem is that we’ve forgotten how to just do nothing and be content with it (or even a bit bored with it). While I think unplugging is good, this just seems like replacing one kind of attention addiction with another.
- Comment on A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light 4 days ago:
I’m going to mod my regular glasses with a couple of ultra-bright IR LEDs and hope that these cameras do a crappy job of filtering it out.
- Comment on The procedure is harder once they psionic. 4 days ago:
“man, people back then would read just about anything " I say to myself as i swipe through my feed of garbage.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 1 week ago:
- Comment on Buffalo chicken 1 week ago:
Jesus I hope it’s the first one.
- Comment on Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances 1 week ago:
I don’t think it matters as much as you think it does. However, for actual humanities subjects probably mander.xyz may be the best fit, as they’re the instance dedicated to nature and science and AFAIK nobody defederates them.
- Comment on The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat 1 week ago:
Squirrel hole doesn’t have the same cache´ as rat hole
- Comment on Looking for a good kindle reader alternative 2 weeks ago:
I’ll second the kobo ecosystem but add that if you install the 3rd party koreader software on it it will make syncing to a local calibre-web seamless. And it leaves the stock reader software in place so you can read drm encrypted files if needed. I have a similar use case to yours where I use the device to read books but also papers, which I usually pdf and put in a specific shelf in calibre
- Comment on Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, in the coming years we’re going to see a lot of “cheap electricity enables China to…” headlines.
- Comment on Cast your spell on me 3 weeks ago:
I did this once in college to use up food plan “points” that would have expired at the end of the semester. I drank half a mug of espresso and was NOT ok afterward.
- Comment on Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic 4 weeks ago:
What did the world do to you that you felt the need to make this?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I love this image. I think it should be required on the any smartglasses packaging like the surgeon general’s warning is on a pack of cigarettes (for now).
- Comment on Bulls On Parade 5 weeks ago:
Who on earth downvoted this masterpiece?
- Comment on Plump prophet proved perfectly precise 5 weeks ago:
Bring back old-school Orangina!
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, you could do the same thing the next life and have no memories of it. Think of all the bad things that happened to you, it can happen OVER AND OVER AGAIN! 5 weeks ago:
Isn't that more like if you're stuck in a time loop?
My understanding is that if you're reincarnated you're still in the current timeline (ie time has continued to pass), you're just now in a different body.
And if it's not a dharmic path-style of reincarnation and you're just reincarnated into whatever living creature needs a soul, you'd probably come back as some kind of bacterium for the next 200 trillion times before -- if you're reeeeallly lucky -- then reincarnating as a tardigrade.
- Comment on Chinese companies cracked the code on getting people at home hooked. Now, they're exporting that playbook globally. 5 weeks ago:
Ironically this article is about how China mastered the ultra capitalist art of getting people to buy (and crave) shit that they don’t need. They have mastered marketing and advertising. And they are now exporting this to the rest of the world.
- Comment on ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate? 1 month ago:
RSS still leaves data in silos. If I love the content on site.com and they decide to put it behind a paywall, enshittify it, or the site goes down, that content is lost. On the fediverse, as long as it has propagated across the network it can be found on other instances (the content being comments in this case, not offsite-linked materials).
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
Not broken, working as intended (for them). They just happened to say the quiet part out loud this time.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
This is all according to plan for Google tho. What could be better than having everyone sign up for the GoogleNet? We’ll finally back to the ways of pre-Internet AOL and Compuserve.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
Ever since search engine “optimization” became a thing — which was not long after the Internet was opened to the public in the ‘90s.
- Comment on Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel 'fake' 1 month ago:
_bots are making social media ̶f̶e̶e̶l̶ 'fake' _
FTFY - Comment on What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely. 1 month ago:
Don't tempt them. It's hard enough to cross the street as it is.
- Comment on Look at that plumage, bro. 1 month ago:
I bet he just reads it for the articles.
- Comment on 22 Unspoken Rules Your Florida Neighbors Are Judging You On Without Saying a Word - Mindfully American 1 month ago:
Wow that whole website is like one big shitpost -- but I don't think intentionally.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
Then you get to load and execute 10MB of JavaScript while another 5MB of ad content loads and displays in the background. With the obligatory two dozen API calls to various trackers, counters, taggers, and “optimizers” in the background of course.
- Comment on Longest comment chain! 1 month ago:
I feel like we can do better than this.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
Sounds like the Internet in the 90s.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 month ago:
The AI companies are doing something different and possibly worse by stuffing all of the open sites full of AI slop and then re-training their models on said slop.
Wasn’t there some mythological figure that was doomed to eat its own excrement or something?