Carighan

Carighan , 6 hours ago

Same. Once every few months I give DDG another try for a week or two, but between their strictly inferior and more spam riddled results and the absolutely grotesquely bad Apple Maps they integrate, it's back to Google pretty quickly.

It's like that study found out: Yeah, Google results have objectively gotten worse. But so have Bing's and by extension DDG's, and more so than Google's.

Carighan , 1 day ago

America! Land of the free*!

*: Unless you meant freedom of religion. You better not! We'll sue/burn/shoot/jesus you if you do! Ultraconservative Christianity or death!

Carighan , 3 days ago

But what if it ain't a car but a Cybertruck?

Carighan , 3 days ago

Honestly if the POS that Tesla sells here counts as a truck, my bicycle does...

Carighan , 6 days ago

I hate how this woman still gets attention. Sigh.

Carighan , 6 days ago

Imagine thinking the standards are from, or care about, the US.

You're the ass-backwards place that still measures things in bald eagles, dingbats and whatchamacallits. You and 2 more countries. Get with the times.

Carighan , 9 days ago

They hopefully dragged the CEOs of the companies that put up the pro-plastic ads through the streets before flogging them publicly?

Because if they didn't, they really should have. For bad taste. Taring&feathering could also work. Sends a clear message to not be a dick.

Carighan , 8 days ago

Had to think of this xkcd of course. 😅

Carighan , 10 days ago

Fascinating, and makes perfect sense. The only character you could viably write over every other one without conflict ist 1111111, after all.

Carighan , 14 days ago

[x] Blurgenfurl

Carighan , 14 days ago

If you're the Consort, that's an important part of your endgame scoring! (Stationfall board game 😛)

Carighan , 14 days ago

This is just shutting down an already outdated API. Devs should be moving off of it, and now it has a year out set for full removal instead of just being deprecated.

Carighan , 14 days ago

I still don’t quite get why some people are defending manufacturers which remove the headphone jack on their phones…

Not defending, just utterly couldn't care either way. 🤷

Carighan , 14 days ago

Power User is if you don't actually know how to close tabs, aye.

Carighan , 17 days ago

It's never too late for a post-natal abortion.

Carighan , 20 days ago

Shoutout to the absolutely fantastic pen&paper RPG "Heart" in which one of the classes is the Deep Apiarist. Including the ability to have the bees crawling through your body that doubles as their hive animate it while you sleep, allowing you more active hours a day.

Carighan OP , 21 days ago

Ah I hate that, too. It speaks of bad abstraction, over eager abstraction or unnecessary coupling that is the hidden behind this. Difficult to fix though without essentially starting over.

Carighan OP , 20 days ago

Vegetable is probably meant in the culinary use here, not in the biological one. And like with many such terms the two do overlap but not entirely.

Carighan , 24 days ago

Probably based on the tea.xyz exploit, tbh.

Carighan , 24 days ago

Probably because of lagging behind in something they need to adopt from the mainline Firefox. Just checked in Firefox beta and I can access all of those sites perfectly fine.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Meta is taking over the fediverse now, uh huh. Thought we all blocked it?

Carighan , 1 month ago

Which is kinda the point of the federated stuff: run your own instance.

If we just all pool shit together again, we might as well launch a company and hey, in a few years do an IPO and cahs out. 😛

Carighan , 1 month ago

Or they might just be quite into the open and federated concept, above all else.

It's not your instance, so what do you care? Again, half the point is that you can run your instance however you want, and talk to whoever you want or do not want. Federated. Mastodon or Lemmy aren't distributed systems, they're federated systems.

Carighan , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

But it's his instance. The whole point is that you run your own if you want a different approach to administration. Like, sure, you disagree with an admin, but that's the thing about the federation instances, everyone is essentially free to run their instance however they want. You defederate them if you dislike their content spilling into yours, like many do - understandably - with Threads.

And the same goes for the software. Mastodon can federate with other similar microblogging services. Again, the whole point of the federation thing, you're bound neither by admin nor by specific developer. In turn everyone is free to do as they wish, and you are free to allow or block them as you wish.

Carighan , 1 month ago

With large instances there comes the responsibility of moderation

Sure, so long as it comes with the responsibility of the users to pay, they get to have a say in moderation.

Otherwise, they get to vote with their browser: Use the site if they like it, do not use it if they don't. And the same for the software. Don't like Mastodon, use another microblogging software.

This is the key underlying idea behind the federation of activitypub. Do not undermine it. This is not Reddit, or Twitter, or whatever. This is not a central place, it does not need central evolution, vote by abandonment.

(and I'm not saying I agree with Mastodon's dev, seeing how I couldn't give a rat's ass about microblogging in general, but again, it's his instance, everyone is free to use whatever they agree with)

Carighan , 1 month ago

I don't get it. By that account, what would everyone... "pooling their resources" do? Nothing, correct.

Carighan , 1 month ago

How so?

Carighan , 1 month ago

Defederating won’t solve anything

[citation needed]

We have to make better apps than facebook so people want to leave from threads to the open alternatives

[citation needed]

Carighan , 1 month ago

That's worrying, albeit I will say that in a city as large as NY, even +21 infections don't sound significant. At least to me as an outside.

Carighan , 1 month ago

I suspect it mostly infects homeless people.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Good reminder how confusing Lemmy's particular markdown flavor is. TY.

This explains why I keep seeing those colons in plenty posts.

Carighan , 1 month ago

I mean I always wanted to shag the hot librarian in my hometown but sadly they weren't sex dens back then! 😭

Carighan , 1 month ago

This sounds like the judge is quite aware that it's bullshit, but the law says it's supposed to work this way so that's how it ends up being. As in, the law needs to be rewritten to adapt to modern times where you cannot just tar&feather the landlord.

Carighan , 1 month ago

I really wonder how boneheaded micromanaging you have to be to not even want the massive bonuses from saving on all that real estate, heating and power bills from removing a giant portion of your office space. Nevermind how much money you can get from cities due to making space available for housing.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Damn, I had not thought of that. It's the opposite here as the public transport network is overburdened and underfunded, so they don't mind the daily commuters working from home instead. But of course I hadn't considered eateries. 🤔

Carighan , 1 month ago

Not really. The browser just loads the URL, it would need to include a real-time updated tracking parameter to then know on reload when the video was paused.

I think it works on some sites where you are logged in and the site itself remembers until when you have watched, but that's not something the browser does.

Carighan , 1 month ago

It's easier to piss on the ones below you.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Did she have kids? Darwin awards are about removing yourself from the gene pool IIRC?

Carighan , 1 month ago

But his official account isn't secret, is it? 🤷

Carighan , 1 month ago

The same hopefully goes for all humans to certify they are potty trained?

Have an emotional support animal? Fuck off. That’s not a get out of consequences free pass.

Unless this varies wildly by country, it's not. And the major reason for your downvotes would be that this is exactly how it works already. You need paperwork to be allowed a support animal on a plane.

Carighan , 1 month ago

However, in the specific case in question here, isn't someone certifying that the animal can go without relieving itself the most relevant piece of documentation? 😂

Carighan , 1 month ago

I dunno, people seem to have a real hard-on for pissing over Fairphone, in a totally weird way. And this travelled over from Reddit. And I know the majority of /r/android has long been Samsung fanbois, but sometimes it gets ridiculous. 😅

Back to the actual topic at hand, wow they're chunkers. Ouff. Since I have a comparatively small head these would look pretty weird on me I imagine. But OTOH, damn is it impressive to build earbuds - a device usually filled with glue - with a user-replaceable battery. I kinda want to support them assuming I need new headphones any time soon.

Carighan , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I hope these people don’t find out that the Framework 16 notebook got rid of an on-board headphone jack and moved to a USB-C adapter as well. There might be riots.

Can't you still buy a headphone jack, though? Which to me is actually cool. Consistency, the more modular the better.

Fuck, I have a Samsung phone (from work, not actually mine but private use permitted) and Fairbuds XL. I use products from both companies on a daily basis. Which camp to I have to join now?

Ah, I'm sorry to inform you but the company shill police is on their way. You will be re-indoctrinated, probably for Apple.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Because the entire point of fairphone is to not do those sorts of things.

That's not their point, as their website makes pretty damn clear. They state their goals openly, and pretty clearly.

Carighan , 1 month ago

Why would I throw away my perfectly good bluetooth headphones just because a phone removes the audio jack? 🤔

Carighan , 1 month ago

Oh the phoenix is pretty!

Carighan , 1 month ago

The problem is that in this cktnext, the cost of living has gone up significantly. But there's no equivalent increase in pay, so we see shit like the gig economy being more and more common.