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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day 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 3 days 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? 5 days ago:
MAGA?
- Comment on 5 days 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 week 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 week ago:
These gals do.
- Comment on Is it just me or is Lemmy less active than reddit? 1 week 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 week 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 2 weeks ago:
Ivermectin and ingesting Lysol will protect you.
- Comment on Should I pretend to care about the lives in Gaza and Palestine? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen such a tryhard edgy post before so congrats on that.
- Comment on How to search Lemmy like Reddit? 3 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
No more having to sit on your hand to make it feel like a stranger is giving you a happy ending.
- Comment on It's Official - TurtleWoW is Over 1 month ago:
I enjoyed playing on their servers in the past, it was one of the more refined servers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
due to Switzerland’s political stability & neutrality and high liquidity
I feel like you answered this in the first sentence of your post.
- Comment on When you block someone on Lemmy, does it stop them from seeing your posts? 1 month ago:
No., you are blocking them, you can’t force them to block you.
- Comment on If I submit a question to /nostupidquestions/ and I get downvoted does that mean my question was actually stupid or is it a paradox? 1 month ago:
Down votes don’t equal stupid, I imagine you already know that there’s lots of reasons a post could get downvoted.
- Comment on When did the world change to the so called hashtag? When I was younger it was only the pound sign. So hashtag Taylor Swift still reads in my mind pound Taylor Swift? 1 month ago:
What are you talking about, the octothorpe?
https://snomoto.com/the-octothorpe-why-we-stopped-calling-it-a-hashtag-and-why-it-matters-1bol
- Comment on How come they don't make generic drugs for cats and dogs. I love my sisters buddy to death. Its just weird that all my meds are generic but animals are name brand. I just hate spend 250 every 3 mon. 1 month ago:
We can barely get our government to protect us from medical price gouging and unfair practices. They care even less about a dog or cat than they do about a human being.
- Comment on If you were in Jail would you stick withe bible or be interest in other religions? 1 month ago:
I would remain indifferent towards all religions.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s dimensional lumber so it’s not actual size but before they started shorting them for profit, they were called 2x4s because they measured 2 inches x 4 inches. 4x4s, 6x6, 1x8, 2x12, etc. They all represented actual dimension of the lumber but you’ll notice that today, they are basically 1/2 inch short in every dimension so a 2x4s actual measurement is 1 1/2” x 3 1/2”.
- Comment on If Trump reformed the gov so much he made himself a King. What recourse would americans have? How would we fight at considering all gadgets and armed forces would be his? 1 month ago:
While I agree with your entire sentiment,
powerless/spineless the rest of the gov is.
I would add “less openly but equally corrupt” to your summation.
- Comment on If Trump reformed the gov so much he made himself a King. What recourse would americans have? How would we fight at considering all gadgets and armed forces would be his? 1 month ago:
I would think it would be obvious but the answer is numbers and guns. A corrupt government would be unable to fight against 10s of millions of armed militants.
Although your question was “How would we fight” and although many Americans like to cosplay as well-armed superheros, there will never be a number of citizens large enough to risk their lives, safety and comfort for a greater good to achieve a successful uprising. The way “we would fight” would be sharing videos somebody else made on social networks, impotently arguing in comment sections and finding echo chambers to talk to like-minded individuals about how terrible the other half of America is.
- Comment on GrapheneOS push apps, aka "install available apps" feature, how does it work? 1 month ago:
Play is already sandboxed and as was explained to me on their forum, separate profiles do not further isolate apps from each other so I operate with a single profile policy to keep the complexity down. Keep in mind that privacy is not my primary concern but rather the usability of a smartphone so Ymmv.
- Comment on How did the gun buy back program work did you get a gift card or cash or something? How effective was this? Did this even make a dimple in crime? 1 month ago:
It made no positive change in the surplus of weapons on the street. The only people that turned them in were people that would have never used them in the first place and many people in the deep red areas, like where I lived actually went out and bought more guns because they saw it as the beginning of forcefully taking their guns from them.
I would suspect that the only people that benefited from the program was the weapon industry and might have even helped get the program in place.
- Comment on If I was in the market for a good used car, which car would be the best to outrun the cops? 1 month ago:
Bugatti Veyron.
- Comment on Why is 'Philippines' spelled with a PH, but 'Filipino' is spelled with an F? 1 month ago:
I had no idea either but I did find this while Googling(Kagi-ing?)
https://grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/04/why-is-filipino-spelled-with-an-f.html
- Comment on Planet Fitness has a "No Commitment" membership, with a Commitment Length and buyout fee. 1 month ago:
Wow, I’m really sorry you went through that but it makes me want to suggest using something like privacy.com for future subscriptions and purchases. You can create virtual cards that you can make merchant locked(so if a scammer got the number, they couldn’t run it), one-time use, and with a total or monthly limit. In this case, you could have simply paused or canceled the card you used for of as you were being told you needed to write a letter. I’ve used it for years in this manner and I’ve never paid a dime for the service, their free tier provides everything I need.
- Comment on Planet Fitness has a "No Commitment" membership, with a Commitment Length and buyout fee. 1 month ago:
I think they take a ton of heat on it and most employees just don’t even try when you come in to cancel. Two out of three PF accounts in our house were canceled at different times and both times, the person behind the counter didn’t ask a single question, just wiped the account and told us to have a great day.
- Comment on What are some good communities to follow for someone who is just getting into lemmy? 1 month ago:
Rather than try out other people’s preferences, browse all / new, invest a little time learning how to block instances, communities and users and in no time you’ll be browsing content you want to see. Not what any of us want you to see.
