AeroLemming

joined 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

As long as they're not shitty mobile games brainwashing the kids with inappropriate and intensely manipulative ads. If you have kids that are playing lots of mobile games, consider keeping them safe from predatory advertisers by installing DNS-level ad-blocking. RethinkDNS is very easy to set up on Android, and while NextDNS is a bit more complicated, it should work on any platform that allows you to set a custom DNS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

That could work in that specific case, but telling the LLM to write code to answer random questions probably wouldn't work very well in general.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They're not a troll, they're just being sarcastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

That would definitely help a lot. It wouldn't be perfect, but at least some people's votes wouldn't be worth 3x more than others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Who's Dessalines? The name sounds familiar, but I can't remember much else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's absolutely insane that we have to talk about winning swing states instead of just having everyone's voice matter and vote count equally. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 and his presidency was illegitimate. We will never have a functioning democracy as long as we have the electoral college.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Friendly reminder that Donald Trump LOST the popular vote in 2016 and was illegitimately put into power by the rogue electoral college. His presidency should never have happened.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

It literally happened in the US with period tracker app data getting subpoenaed in a state with an abortion ban.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks, you have saved me the time of trying it again.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Does KDE connect actually work with SMS on Windows now? Last time I used it, I couldn't text people, only reply using the notification if they texted me and I happened to click on it quickly enough. Pretty useless.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If Microsoft was a smaller company, this would completely ruin them and the next headline would be them declaring bankruptcy after failing to fight off 50,000 lawsuits. Fortunately for them, laws don't apply to companies their size.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Don't get me wrong, I'm voting whoever I have to to vote against Trump. I'm just not super optimistic about the future even with a Democrat winning the 2024 election.

 

I daily drive Firefox, but more and more websites are starting to break without Chromium, so I still have to occasionally switch to get something working. I was using Ungoogled Chromium until I realized that there was no easy way to update it when that pixel-stealing exploit came out a while back.

To be clear, I'm not talking about stock "no settings changed" Vivaldi. With that requirement, even Firefox could be called invasive! What I want to know is if Vivaldi is relatively safe to use with all the telemetry and stuff disabled in the settings and using any necessary extensions.

Thanks!

 

For the past couple of days, I've been getting timed out or needing to wait a very long time for things to load. Did we get another influx of users from Reddit? I haven't seen any announcements. I love this instance and its federation policy because I can just filter out specific instances myself on Boost, so I'll only switch if I really need to.

Just tried to post this and got a time out error. (3x)

Now 400 rate limit.

 

I normally use the Aurora frontend, but I used Google's app to check something. I couldn't help but notice that when I swiped and then let go, the page would barely move past the point I had let go. It had no momentum whatsoever. As soon as I got past the ads, scrolling was back to normal and the exact same flinging motion would send me down by at least a screen's worth.

Has anyone else noticed this?

 
 

It's very nice to see that X people liked a post/comment and Y people disliked it instead of just having a singular "goodness/badness" rating. It (literally, in a mathematical sense) adds a whole new dimension to post ratings and gives us a more nuanced understanding of people's opinions. Plus, it feels a lot better to see that 5 people agreed with you and 7 disagreed when you made a controversial statement instead of just seeing a score of -1 telling you how bad you are.

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