schwim
@schwim@piefed.zip
- Comment on If I stick my head out a car window or a gust of wind hits my face it's like my throat closes and I can't breathe. How come motorcycle riders without helmets don't seem to have this problem? 4 hours ago:
It’s the same as being unable to breathe the first few seconds of submerging yourself in water while wearing SCUBA gear. Your brain is overriding your normal action of breathing but doing this multiple times teaches your brain that it’s not unsafe so that involuntary response diminishes over time until it simply doesn’t occur.
- Comment on Voyager app for Lemmy 2 days ago:
Correct, because it wouldn’t know in which community to put the post. Once you navigate to a community, it will offer the option and place your post in that community.
- Comment on Voyager app for Lemmy 2 days ago:
When using voyager, if you are in a community that you’re allowed to post, clicking the three dot menu at the upper right of the screen will bring up a flyout with “Create Post”.
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- Comment on Request to be made a mod for an inactive instance 1 week ago:
Just a heads up, you’ll want to edit your title to “inactive community”. In it’s current state, you’re asking to be made mod for the entire lemmy.world instance.
- Comment on What's gunna to happen when the American Federal Government starts prosecuting people for owning powerful computer hardware and software? 1 week ago:
Not a stupid question but pretty silly to think anyone could answer this with anything more than an uninformed wild-ass guess.
We’ll build robots out of our microwaves and refrigerators to start an uprising?
- Comment on Your phone is about to stop being yours. 1 week ago:
FTFA:
Worse: this flow runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS.
Everyone running a privacy-based AOSP like Graphene try to keep your giggles to a minimum.
- Comment on RadioShack Used to Sell Kids This Madness (Amateur Radio Adjacent) 1 week ago:
Oh, I remember that well, it was one of my favorite toys, if I remember it correctly though, I wasn’t very successful at making it do what it was supposed to do.
- Comment on Why do people get mad at you for using Wikipedia, but treat Google and AI chatbots like they're gospel? 2 weeks ago:
I have never met a person that was upset about me citing Wikipedia and I e been using it for as long as it has existed.
This seems like desperately reaching for something to be upset about.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You had the chance to do us a solid but instead you filmed him.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
There was a web prior to JavaScript.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, I missed where I stated that it mattered.
- Comment on GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers 4 weeks ago:
I would bet my last donut that the screwup has something to do with AI generating at least part of their email content.
- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 4 weeks ago:
Just as interstate travel used to involve horses. You are absolutely terrible at correlation/causation.
- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 4 weeks ago:
Where is the internet defined by the word “wires”?
- Comment on Do you think all billionaires deserve to die? 5 weeks ago:
You’re as bad as the billionaires if you entertain the thought, luckily you’re just powerless to put it into action.
Nobody needs to die to fix the issue. They just need to be held accountable for the things they do instead of being enabled by the system that’s supposed to keep them in check.
If one billionaire went to prison and lost their wealth, the rest would fall in line immediately.
- Comment on What is the point of this community compared to asklemmy? 5 weeks ago:
Community overlap has existed as long as the ability to create communities has. There’s no answer you’re going to get that will satisfy you in regards to your question like “Oh, you don’t have to be helpful when answering in !asklemmy”.
- Comment on Brooklyn Man Charged with Threatening to Assault and Murder ICE Officer and His Family 5 weeks ago:
Dude should have joined ICE before making the threat or carrying it out as he would have been completely immune to prosecution.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I think a lot of it is the neverending push to put it everywhere by the billionaires that are counting on it to make them the first quadrillionaire. AI-first browsers, AI search, AI assistants, AI support, AI therapy, AI cameras, AI birdfeeders, AI healthcare, AI price manipulation at the grocery store, you can’t buy memory because AI, false arrests because of faulty AI facial recognition, etc. Then add in the surveillance factor where we are being turned into a fascist police state.
The pushback is because they aren’t even trying to hide the fact that they are turning everything they touch into shit, releasing stuff that’s clearly not ready for the real world in an effort to stay ahead of everyone one else in the contract race.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV sits in Ferrari's first fully electric car 1 month ago:
Sweet Jesus in a rolling donut, this timeline is just so absurd.
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 1 month ago:
MAGA?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
He’s a big box store professional; in other words constantly confidently incorrect.
- Comment on Trump Mobile has exposed customers' personal data, including home addresses and phone numbers 1 month ago:
I don’t care about the data leak but this got an audible chuckle out of me:
To support those tried-and-true American values, the golden smartphone features an American flag on the back. There’s just one problem. This particular American flag has just 11 stripes, whereas the real flag has 13 stripes. I guess “American values” don’t allow for an extra set of eyeballs on a design document.
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 1 month ago:
These gals do.
- Comment on Is it just me or is Lemmy less active than reddit? 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t label this a stupid question but it has to lean towards one with a very obvious answer.
How could you not be aware that the fediverse as a whole and lemmy in particular are a niche network? With my filters set to new/all, I see on average 10-20 new posts per hour. It’s one step up from a single-player game.
It would be like asking if it’s you or if linux is a less popular OS than Windows.
- Comment on Does TikTok do it on purpose? 1 month ago:
Of course it is. Consider not using manipulative platforms like it.
- Comment on "Public deserves to know”: Harvard Professor says official messaging contradicts hantavirus science 1 month ago:
Ivermectin and ingesting Lysol will protect you.
- Comment on Should I pretend to care about the lives in Gaza and Palestine? 1 month ago:
I’ve never seen such a tryhard edgy post before so congrats on that.
- Comment on How to search Lemmy like Reddit? 1 month ago:
or maybe nobody has posted that question before (which I find unlikely).
It’s very likely. You’re comparing gargantuan and incredibly long-established site with a burgeoning, comparatively unknown niche network. I would assume it hasn’t been asked yet on this platform rather than the opposite.
- Comment on Are there seach engines that dont depend Google and Bing, if not what are the barriers to entry of new search engines? 2 months ago:
Kagi has independent indexes.
Kagi Search Sources( source ):
Kagi is known for delivering a unique flavor of high-quality search results, sourced from our own web index (internally named “Teclis") and news index (internally named “TinyGem"). Kagi’s indexes provide distinctive results that help you discover non-commercial websites and engage with “small web” discussions surrounding a particular topic.
We don’t stop there; we are always trying new things to surface relevant, high-quality results. For example, we recently launched the Kagi Small Web initiative, which showcases content from personal blogs and discussions around the web. Discovering high-quality content written without the motive of financial gain gives Kagi’s search results a unique flavor and makes it feel more humane to use.
Our search results also include anonymized API calls to all major search result providers worldwide, specialized search engines like Marginalia, and sources of vertical information such as Wolfram Alpha, Apple, Wikipedia, Open Meteo, Yelp, TripAdvisor, and other APIs. Typically, every search query on Kagi will call a dozen or so different sources simultaneously, all with the purpose of bringing the best possible search results to the user in a split second.
Our unique algorithms down-rank pages with a lot of ads and trackers (which we have found correlate with a decrease in content quality) and promote content from independent, ad-free sources and personal websites. This ensures that Kagi shows results that delight users and are worth paying for. Subscriptions from our members pay for search results, allowing Kagi to remain ad-free and 100% privacy-respecting.
- Comment on Nerve-controlled prosthetics 2 months ago:
No more having to sit on your hand to make it feel like a stranger is giving you a happy ending.
