arsCynic
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- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 1 day ago:
I honestly tend to think that instead of using search engines where you already have to know what you’re looking for, it might be better to use something like lemmy where you can advertise what you made with a post in an appropriate community.
Obviously both have their place, but POSSE is the magic sauce:
“POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.” ―https://indieweb.org/POSSE
⚜︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 1 day ago:
https://marginalia-search.com/
“The need for discovery
Nothing you do to try to make the web a better place matters if nobody can find what you did. There are a lot of precious websites out there that deserve an audience, but instead are languishing in obscurity.
This makes alternative discovery mechanisms an urgent priority of the free and independent web, both document search as well as blog and RSS-feed discovery.” - Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 1 day ago:
I don’t know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money
- Some people pay for Discord and they still exploit their data.
- Some people pay for Lichess and their whole website is free of charge without tracking/advertising.
Yes, things cost money. Yes, ideally pay who can pay for it should. No, something being free doesn’t legitimize unethical means to make a profit.
- Comment on You should know how to coil cables 3 days ago:
And I love you too.
- Comment on You should know how to coil cables 3 days ago:
I love you.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 4 days ago:
The entire stock market has become a meme stock pyramid scheme. No price makes sense; it’s all glorified gambling making life on this planet worse for most living things.
- - ⚜︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 week ago:
By using unfriendly language online?
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 week ago:
Brain rot only for the right… 28 TikToks Later…
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 1 week ago:
That analogy is spot on. Everyone know how light one feels after the first post-coffee morning dump.
- Comment on If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest? 1 week ago:
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 1 month ago:
Ezekiel 25:17 these incestuous limp dick cowards.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 months ago:
Moron. Next please.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 2 months ago:
Usability.
Windows and Mac are both easier to use for the standard user.
Not at all true anymore for Windoze. Windows 7 was the last installment where that was true. Linux distributions are consistent. Once shown how the basics works, e.g.,
apt installorpacman -Sand the general whereabouts of settings or software, it’s super easy to get them going, indefinitely. Even troubleshooting is within reach because searching the settings isn’t a maze within a maze (except for Gnome sometimes). Windoze keeps changing shit constantly, reinstalls uninstalled software, search algorithm is horrible and has Bing search results within the menu enabled by default [the fuck?], updates don’t indicate how long they’ll last, setting a default program often requires configuring it manually for every file extension, oh goddamn fuckers I have to stop typing because Microsoft pisses me off so bad.
Tabula rasa, if I had to teach a 70-year-old who’s never touched a computer before, to do so, I’d pick Linux every time. Consistency and customization is key. - Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 2 months ago:
Please sit down for what I’m about to tell you. When a Linux user communicates with someone using Windows, the Linux user’s data is still being harvested. 💢
