Cris_Color
@Cris_Color@lemmy.world
Hello, my name is Cris. :)
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 1 week ago:
I mean, if you can factory reset a phone to strip the need for authentication, that seems like kind of a bad thing, no?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I think thats fair, but I don’t get the impression most folks who eat meat consider it wrong at all, never mind in such a black and white way. I have a lot of respect for vegan ethics and even I have mixed feelings on whether I consider it explicitly wrong or immoral
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I think you’re pretty out of touch with how most folks experience eating meat. I don’t say this as a personal attack, but I think the emotional experience you’re ascribing to folks who do eat meat is inaccurate
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
As much as I’d like that to be true, I’ve definitely still seen vegan spaces online that are intensely alienating and hostile 😅 when I was using reddit, often anything from r/vegan that hit r/all was pretty hostile to anyone who hadn’t already decided it was an important issue for them and made big lifestyle changes accordingly, adopting veganism.
To be totally honest I’ve also never seen any beef industry propaganda encouraging people to hate vegans or resent veganism. If you can think of any examples off the top of your head I’d be curious to see them (if nothing comes to mind thats fine, I don’t intend that as a gotcha)
I’m not vegan (grew up with an eating disorder, not in any position to cut stuff out of my diet or make eating more complicated/difficult, though I have a lot of respect for vegan ethics) but I am a big nerd about open source stuff and linux, and I’ve observed similar things in that space. I have a friend who’s averse to open source stuff because folks have evangelized to her aggressively and with the same sort of superiority complex many folks perceive vegans as having. I’m grateful she’s excited to listen to me talk about the stuff I’m excited about anyway these days, but I’m careful not to make her feel pressured to drop proprietary software she’s using for open alternatives because I want her to feel respected even though she’s not invested in this thing I care about a whole lot
I think when you work hard to adopt a big change for reasons you’re proud of, it’s easy to view yourself as superior for having learned the thing, or made the dietary change
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
Nah, it was stract, which if I understand correctly is open source and has it’s own index. Though the results haven’t been amazing in my experience. Still, it’s exciting it exists though :)
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
Oh, thanks for the correction!
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
You’re very welcome, thanks for your initial post laying out a bunch of the options for folks to think about ☺️
Hope you have a good one!
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
Kagi is a paid open source and private search engine. Folks seem to really like the results they get from it 🤷🏻
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
Brave uses its own index. It used to be supplemented with results from other engines but I believe they have now phased that out.
Brave is the best of the free options in my experience, and it supports “bangs” which let’s you send your querry to a different engine (typing “how far is it to the sun !g” will pass the search to google. Duckduckgo also supports bangs), this is especially helpful for image searches (!gi for google images) since braves image search sucks dogshit 😅
Quant seemed like the second best free option in my experience. Some people don’t like brave as a company for various reasons, so quant may be a good option for those folks. Its my understanding that Mozilla has worked with quant in some way, which is kinda neat.
Both have their own index making them a sustainable/viable option going forward, where meta search engines that use other engine’s results are at the whim of those they fetch the results from (but may provide better results by piggybacking off a larger successful engine)
- Comment on FF Evangelists 1 month ago:
Why would being WebKit based make it bad? Because it supports the web engine duopoly?
- Comment on FF Evangelists 1 month ago:
I’ve not heard of orion before, what do you like better about it? Is it WebKit based?
- Comment on Very tactical 1 month ago:
I want those electric blue hot-pants
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
Lol, yep I got gifted into the same house.
I’m sending well wishes on your wizarding journey!
- Comment on True Story 5 months ago:
I don’t like that. ಠ_ಠ
- Comment on We're going in the wrong direction 5 months ago:
If you misuse it to convey an inflection that doesn’t contextually make sense and use it over and over again, yes, it certainly is annoying.
You know what else is annoying? Badgering random people on the internet about using language in a way that you wouldn’t, despite the fact that it served their needs perfectly and conveyed exactly what they meant. You might even say that it’s something only “fucking idiots” who desperately need to feel smarter than others would do…
Also, in what world is “it only conveys inflection” a meaningful criticism- inflection is a vital part of communication thats often lost when interacting with people online. It helps convey what I mean, and therefore is an important part of communicating.
- Comment on We're going in the wrong direction 5 months ago:
I will do what I please, thank you very much.
The point of language is to convey ideas, and sometimes the most succinct way to communicate what you think and that you’re open to people disagreeing or alternative perspectives is to end a statement with a question mark.
Telling other people how to communicate because what they said disagrees with rules you arbitrarily made up is dumb. The text you quoted conveyed exactly what I meant, in the way that I meant it.
- Comment on We're going in the wrong direction 5 months ago:
Gotcha, that makes sense
- Comment on We're going in the wrong direction 5 months ago:
YouTube shorts do have controls, you can scrub through the video with the progress bar along the bottom edge of the screen? Unless they’re getting rid of it.
It doesn’t super matter to me, I try really hard to avoid short form content. My attention span is bad enough as-is
- Comment on Stop using Fandom 6 months ago:
I’d be very curious to hear more details on this, do you happen to have a source handy, or any recommended reading?
In fairness, the money he gets from being a scumbag with fandom probably can’t be used to fund Wikipedia unless he wants to donate the money he’s making from his business to run his nonprofit. It’s not surprising he wouldn’t do that (even if thats the way the world ought to work) and I don’t presently have reason to believe he personally gets anything out of the donations that are given to keep Wikipedia running