andrew_bidlaw

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to 196 in Need to have my eyes checked Rule

I CUM, therefore I M.

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to 196 in Need to have my eyes checked Rule

CUM

Keanu Reeves from Cyberpunk 2077

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to Privacy in Blogging in the AI era

In spite of you saying it's not for you, I think that finding a cheap hosting for your blog is the easiest solution there. With some effort you can export your Wordpress.com site onto an actual free WP engine they sit above. Then, with plugins, here come autoreposts to other social media and whatever you want. Low traffic means you can choose an options with the lowest price.

As a bonus you can also host your portfolio page, get personalized email addresses, a VPN server to wherever it's hosted, and basically an environment you can put anything to, even your own Lemmy instance.

On the latter - the population of federated platform is very small but super loyal, and also lacking content. So I feel that even if you won't consider making or renting your own server, establishing your blog here can get you a lot of interactions. Probably, some admins won't mind if you make your own /c/ommunity for that as long as it's not abandoned.

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to Privacy in Blogging in the AI era

OP means Wordpress.com, a hosting website and a constructor using Wordpress.org engine. VPS solves it completely, but they don't find paying for hosting worth it.

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to 196 in lego rule

In russian, there's a phrase 'Сейчас вылетит птичка' ((Once the shutter is open...) The bird will fly out!) to make everyone be prepared for the shot.

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to Technology in Microsoft word update messes up exams in Denmark

If Microsoft fails their exams, you fail too (:

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to 196 in Food Rule

With an onion ring to compliment it even.

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to Privacy in Microsoft Recall takes constant screenshots of everything you do

We can log active processes and services, windows' headers and states, their and mouse's position, integrate it with one's git versions' and browser view's history, history of all file relocations done by select programs or\and by user. If there's an AI assistant like M$ Autopilot, also log every request and output in a text form, log keys, back up settings and configs. If we talk about screenshots, pure text table is as light as a feather and is easier to work with, so this 3sec delay looks like an overkill, even though they'd find a way to compress it. With enough data, it's probably easier to take time and reconstruct an approximate screencap than hoard it.

I imagine dragging your position on a timeline across entire months may be a fun novelty. But I don't see myself having a reason to use it and prefer to lose information over logging so much of it even if it's secure.

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to Technology in Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza

Their integrated drive+mail+docs+forms+... cloud system is not the first or maybe the best one out there, but it's very popular and I like it more than the competition for some of their key decisions. More obscure things are their accessible API anyone can use, some free computing power they provide for experiments, their analytics system for marketing, and their benchmarks of how fast the page loads being a standard. There's probably Scholar somewhere here but I haven't used it. Android gets installed everywhere even if it's unreasonable. Search is their major brand, but they have fingers in many buckets.

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to Technology in Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza

In that process they went through a full circle of first establishing and then gradually reducing it's usability and the health of the web itself. Their sometimes obscure ranking of pages enabled SEO, then AI written articles and now they try to replace the need to click on any site at all with THAT. A very interesting saga.

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to Technology in Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

Their probable way to solve it? Hire hundreds of $2\hour foreign workers to verify outputs.

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Lefty Nemesis

It advocates working within existing mass organizations, such as trade unions, in order to transform them into vehicles for a social revolution.

How narrow or broad should we go? They come from a different side, but being flexible and 'work within what works' is a pretty close thing. It's telling 'anarchism' is unusually ommited from the name.

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to Technology in X is the worst social media app for LGBTQ+ people, says new report

Less accent on actual interactions between fellow consumers plus genZ prevalence?

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to Comic Strips in Accurate

In some languages 'plan' does even mean 'weed'.

andrew_bidlaw , 1 month ago to Technology in People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?

It's true, but it's no longer a reality. Keyboards now can only happen in dumb phones or some luxury concept phones. It's against a couple of current paradigms: making phones easily replaceable, incentivizing quick and short-term usage, having full control over UI\UX, maximizing interactive screen's real estate, making sure you always look at the screen, and, besides that, engineering challenges that are kinda hard by themselves, but moreso they are in a conflict with banning replaceable batteries, holes for headphones and so on. We are out of luck.

Nevertheless, I'd probably do any stupid thing to get the modern version of something akin to that beast.

Nokia N9000 slider with a full physical keyboard