

Sad there isn’t an alternative to it :/
Sad there isn’t an alternative to it :/
I really love Bear, and I’m immensely relieved they’re not trying to bake AI garbage into it.
Not as much as I probably should be! I have a nice little Proxmox cluster, backed by a UPS and a beefy NAS, but mostly I use it for fussing around with stuff, playing with instances, nothing really mission critical.
I use DDG because I’m still not decided on whether or not Kagi is worth it. If there’s no significant difference in the results returned by DDG, why pay for Kagi?
“Enshittification” has quickly become commonly used after it was described here: https://doctorow.medium.com/tiktoks-enshittification-bb3f5df91979
It’s a specific process that tech companies seem to go through, and differs from other things, such as rent seeking.
As one of the founders of Rocky Linux and the RESF, I agree!
Thank you! I’ve seen this mentioned a couple of times and have been meaning to give it a try.
Reddit burning itself to the ground is the best thing to happen to the Internet in a long time. Just look at how decentralized communities are flourishing.
I usually look up games on https://protondb.com to determine if they work on the Deck
Never even heard of this before, but I’ve been a console gamer for a long time until my Steam Deck. I’ll check this out, thank you so much for linking!
Basically, the second order to me really boils down to this: AI generated content isn’t really a ‘brand’. Good writing shops tend to build a following with their writers and expectations with their editors. The writing, investigative, and editorial bent of a house is essentially what makes a shop. See The Economist and The New Yorker as examples. In other places, a lot of niche shops are selling personality as much as product with youtube, podcasts, and others.
Yep. This is why I’ve been a paying subscriber to Ars Technica for over a decade. You’re exactly correct. Ditto with NPR.
Right. That’s why searching for anything on the internet SUCKS these days. The results are all just filler bullshit.
This is fucking gross. There’s no one who thinks people will read the mass shit they pump out.
I LOVE this approach though. I want tech news, or politics, or whatever, but I want to be able to decide what my experience engaging with those posts is like. If an instance isn’t seriously discussing something in the comments, or moderation isn’t what I want, then I can go to another instance where it is. Beehaw is already a fantastic example of this, and why I strongly prefer this instance over others—I really don’t like the type of comments that seem to gain popularity elsewhere, like on lemmy.ml.
If they want their subs back so badly, let them take them. They can deal with moderation (or finding any decent mods at all) on their own.
Good luck with that, Reddit admins. lol.
I don’t have anything to add to your questions, but these comments made me LOL:
the NASA-esque startup sequence … I probably have six hackers fighting for dominance over my dedicated network for smart garbage
Lol, I got a good chuckle out of this. Fantastic sense of humor
I use Ivory both for iOS and macOS, and that’s a great way to browse Masto, IMO. When I’m in the browser though, I do use and prefer the quad layout.
I wonder just how performant the M-series GPUs will be with games once they begin to get optimized for macOS.
There are some pretty big advantages to ‘modern design standards.’ For one, they make the Internet a less hostile place to users with accessibility needs. I don’t have problems viewing clashing colors, flying gifs, jumbled pages with no sanity, etc, but a hell of a lot of people with various disabilities sure do. I don’t want to even think about how screen readers try to deal with pages like that. Web1.0 offered absolutely nothing for those users who needed accessibility.