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- Comment on Migrating Dillo from GitHub 23 hours ago:
At least they have text instructions.
I got my browser at IKEA and all my instructions are just drawings or a small blob man using a computer - I have to infer the steps from there.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 1 week ago:
The article does a good job breaking it down, but a short example is if you want to post about technology, you have to choose one of those communities to post to.
You can cross post or repost in the other communities but then any discussion gets fragmented, people see the same thing multiple times in their feed, only engage with one, and likely not the same one as somebody else.
On the other hand only posting in one community could significantly reduce engagement if you choose poorly.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 1 week ago:
Wait, so am I reading correctly from the wiki page the only app that supports merging crosspost comments is Interstellar, which also doesn’t support crossposting?
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 1 week ago:
Proposed solution 3: Communities following communities
The ability for communities to “subscribe” to other communities is an idea that comes from this Github comment. This is, in my opinion, the best proposed solution by far. Community a can follow community b, making posts from b also appear on a.
What this means is that community moderators can choose to have posts from other communities to show up on theirs. That means if all the pancake communities are following each other, I can post on pancake@a.com and it would show up on the other pancake communities as well, and the comments would simply be grouped into just one post!
The main proposed solution doesn’t force merging on anyone. Mods can decide whether or not they want content from other communities to show up in their space. No two news instances have to merge if they serve different audiences.
It isn’t explicitly called out in the proposal but I could easily see there being an option for mods to unlink individual posts from other communities if they get too spicy.
- Comment on Creative workers on the affects of AI on their jobs 1 week ago:
I work in a creative industry for a pretty large business, with limited exception really nobody is using AI except maybe to send lazy email responses. If there’s workers getting replaced by slop it’s not where I’m at.
It just really hasn’t shown much ability to not fuck up. People dip their toe in occasionally to show upper upper management we’re leveraging “all the tools available to us”, but I’ve never seen it used for anything more substantial than a mood board.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 2 weeks ago:
Looks to be B2B focused. I don’t see a price anywhere, but can request a quote, and their references to data sovereignty makes me think it’s “self"-hosted, as opposed to an E2EE cloud solution.
Could be wrong, I was just scanning, but it feels much more focused on big businesses with large dedicated IT departments.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 2 weeks ago:
Steam was the first major storefront to refuse to carry Horses, a first-person psychological horror adventure about “the burden of familial trauma and puritan values, the dynamics of totalitarian power, and the ethics of personal responsibility” set on a ranch where nude human beings in horse masks are treated as livestock.
Publisher Santa Ragione said in November that Valve declined to carry Horses because it contained “content that appears, in our judgment, to depict sexual conduct involving a minor.” Santa Ragione disputed that characterization, but an appeal was rejected and the ban stands.
Seems like it’s treading a very fine line…
- Comment on After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys 2 weeks ago:
You’re assuming that whatever they’re talking to is capable of giving only good advice with awareness and consideration of their living situation.
Sex education is beneficial if done well, but there is zero evidence suggesting AI can do anything well.
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 2 weeks ago:
Gonna go with the wildcard here and suggest Walkscape. It’s still in beta, so access requires a one-time patron sub ($4.50, then cancel) or a free written application through their portal (may take like a week to approve)
It’s a classic runescape-style RPG where all actions cost “steps” walking. It’s designed to keep screen time to a minimum and walking time to a maximum.
Character management is generally pretty passive and 1-handed. Definitely much more casual by nature, but encourages much more active participation.
- Comment on YSK about SearXNG - an open metasearch engine 2 weeks ago:
Tried a few public instances and it seems like there only way to not get rate limited by the big players is probably to self-host.
Trying to wrap my head around how to self host and still keep it anonymous. Anyone have experience hosting a “private” instance that’s web accessible? Are tokens sufficient to keep others off it? Cn you still get results routing through TOR?
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
Not all disabilities are visible.
- Comment on The Saudi Arabia fund behind the wildly leveraged EA buyout is dealing with "financial distress", claims report 3 weeks ago:
Who needs money when you can just have the company you’re buying take on debt to pay for its own buyout, then let that debt slowly rot it from the inside out.
- Comment on Hytale gets a cheap price point, all because its devs don't think the game is good yet 3 weeks ago:
Which you’d think would be incredibly easy to do
Minecraft has a gigantic base of players and modders, a “better” Minecraft would need to draw a similar crowd or convince them all to give up years of customization and optimization to switch en masse.
Hard to imagine any game pulling it off without going F2P, which, bleh.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
And, as with any standardized hardware, it’s a lot easier to ensure games and services (like Proton) perform reliably.
Time will tell if this sells enough, but it could become the new standard for industry benchmarking/testing.
- Comment on Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source 3 weeks ago:
Attack Troll with Nasty Knife
- Comment on ‘Healthy’ snack choices loaded with hidden sugar, new study reveals 4 weeks ago:
Wait, so you’re telling me that “health” bar with 30g of sugar actually was secretly concealing 30g of sugar? Who could have seen this coming??
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 4 weeks ago:
Windows Vista would like a word.
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 4 weeks ago:
In theory you could lease your server capacity to the big AI players, but then they would have to trust you -a noted crypto grifter - with their data.
- Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search 4 weeks ago:
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html
When you enable Privacy Pass, instead of logging in with your Kagi account for each search, you use special cryptographic tokens. These tokens prove you have the right to use Kagi’s services without revealing who you are. This means your searches can’t be linked back to your account or to each other, providing an additional layer of privacy.
Obviously you lose some of the customization, but otherwise still a great service.
- Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search 4 weeks ago:
I enjoy it. They have a 100-search free trial so you can test it out for yourself. Between them down ranking sites full of trackers and allowing you to put your own preferential ratings on sites, I find myself getting the results I’m after so much quicker.
- Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search 4 weeks ago:
Then I have great news for you! Kagi accept bitcoin, does not validate email addresses (so you can register as
fhhdsbgwg@hrjesbgwgw.comif that appeals to you), and they implemented privacy pass tokens that fully anonymize your searches. They also allows searching through tor! - Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search 4 weeks ago:
You are paying for search, just differently.
https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth
https://wallethub.com/blog/bad-google-results-for-0-apr/157511
- Comment on Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search 4 weeks ago:
Ahh, the ’ol 1-day-old account here to troll in the comments.
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- Comment on YSK: Your library card is probably a golden ticket to free streaming, e-books, and audiobooks. 5 weeks ago:
Also YSK:
Generally speaking you aren’t limited to just what’s at your nearest library. Other nearby libraries (or even those you pass by on travel) may have better/different offerings and will generally welcome folks with open arms.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 5 weeks ago:
What can you even do on an un-networked fridge screen? Play bejeweled while contemplating suicide?
- Comment on Google brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer 5 weeks ago:
If they do start adding AI slop it’ll all be cloud hosted, of that I’m certain.
- Comment on Google brings Gemini to the Google TV Streamer 5 weeks ago:
Not sure I have much hope for Nvidia holding back on “AI” features in the long run
- Comment on Sony is making a Horizon MMO — here’s the video and details 5 weeks ago:
Don’t you have phones?
- Comment on Microsoft Offers Chrome Users ‘Real Cash’ Rewards To Change Browser 5 weeks ago:
Maybe? Hopefully? This makes people ask why its so important to Microsoft for Edge, a “free” service, to be your default browser…
Probably not, but still…