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bluGill

@bluGill@kbin.social

A programmer with an interest in transit, making music, and building things of all types.

I have dysgraphia which makes writing difficult for me. I hope you can figure out what I mean despite my issues.

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bluGill ,

Your local bike store should have a nice selection. I use my EV bike all the time and the car I keep for those few trips where the bike doesn't work just sits... You should too. Don't forget to check out the local transit options (and if - as is likely - they are bad demand better)

bluGill ,

Which is true only in the rare case you only have one office that everyone is in. As soom as you don't have everyone in the same room teams is better. So once you have more than 50 people

bluGill ,

There always have been some around. Not all diy stores have one but there is always one near from what I've seen. People keep discovering them and thinking they are new.

bluGill ,

There are pros and cons to both. Sometimes you should rent, others buy. If you use it every day then buying is often best. If you need it once a decade then rent.

bluGill ,

drive the retail areas of town and look for the rental signs. yellow pages. They want to be found by locals so look in the places locals might. hardware stores either rent stuff or will tell you if you ask.

bluGill ,

Only if there is a monoboly in place. If there is a market then when they raise rents you just go elsewhere. Since these are items rented by the day it isn't hard to go elslwhere in the city.

Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?

I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

bluGill ,

I have needed a new phone every 2 for the last 6 years because my old one physically broke. Battery might be good, but the screen is cracked: new phone. My last phone quit recognizing the SIM, and so new phone it is. In theory I can buy the parts to repair the phone, but in practice either the parts are obsolete and not stocked, or I can get them special order from China if I'm willing to wait weeks and pay half the price of a new phone. Then hope I actually manage to get the phone together again.

I live in the US where we use many weird by world standards frequencies. I've looked into various repairable phones, (fair phone, pine phone), but I quickly realize I often travel in parts of the US where they won't work. Thus I'm stuck with what my carrier offers. (Apple might be more repairable, but apparently more locked down)

bluGill ,

There is more cntent than you hake time to watch. Look to peertube and suyport what is there.

bluGill ,

I'm not asking that. I'm asking you to find the good content when it is there and wetch that instead. I do watch youtube when I'm out of interesting things on peertube but peertube gets first obportunity for my eyes.

bluGill ,

The bigger proplem is copyright. Google will fight for 'their' creators if they discover you archiving anything. They don't own copyrights but will tell the court that if the creator wanted their content on peertube they would have put it there.

bluGill ,

Not hard to trace down who is seeding a torrent and deal with them.

bluGill ,

I'm not saying give up. There are answers, just not easyones.

bluGill ,

The problem with large customers is they can see value and if you charge too much it goes they can build their own.

bluGill ,

Often execs stick around longer than that.

bluGill ,

They generally have a large part of their net worth in company stock and are getting options. Thus long term matters.

bluGill ,

None of the the benefits you state apply to something a distribution provides and so I don't understand why Ubuntu is pushing them.

bluGill ,

Vehicles need it because the keyless entry radio needs to pair with the engine start. Otherwise a thief can steel a car in a few minutes by bringing their own computers.

bluGill ,

Which is why manufactures are now putting those pairs in so you cannot do that anymore.

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    bluGill ,

    Abuse. I don't agreewithfree speach in all things. I doupt anyone does. I don't want to see constant (to the point of only) ads for vbucks. I don't want threats to my person. There are a few other things like that, that I think we all agree on., I then have a personal list of things like porn or swearing that iidon't want to see but some of you do. Where to draw theelineethus isn't clear but there is one.

    ajsadauskas , to DeGoogle Yourself
    @ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

    In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?

    Back in the early-to-mid '90s, one of the main ways of finding anything on the web was to browse through a web directory.

    These directories generally had a list of categories on their front page. News/Sport/Entertainment/Arts/Technology/Fashion/etc.

    Each of those categories had subcategories, and sub-subcategories that you clicked through until you got to a list of websites. These lists were maintained by actual humans.

    Typically, these directories also had a limited web search that would crawl through the pages of websites listed in the directory.

    Lycos, Excite, and of course Yahoo all offered web directories of this sort.

    (EDIT: I initially also mentioned AltaVista. It did offer a web directory by the late '90s, but this was something it tacked on much later.)

    By the late '90s, the standard narrative goes, the web got too big to index websites manually.

    Google promised the world its algorithms would weed out the spam automatically.

    And for a time, it worked.

    But then SEO and SEM became a multi-billion-dollar industry. The spambots proliferated. Google itself began promoting its own content and advertisers above search results.

    And now with LLMs, the industrial-scale spamming of the web is likely to grow exponentially.

    My question is, if a lot of the web is turning to crap, do we even want to search the entire web anymore?

    Do we really want to search every single website on the web?

    Or just those that aren't filled with LLM-generated SEO spam?

    Or just those that don't feature 200 tracking scripts, and passive-aggressive privacy warnings, and paywalls, and popovers, and newsletters, and increasingly obnoxious banner ads, and dark patterns to prevent you cancelling your "free trial" subscription?

    At some point, does it become more desirable to go back to search engines that only crawl pages on human-curated lists of trustworthy, quality websites?

    And is it time to begin considering what a modern version of those early web directories might look like?

    @degoogle

    bluGill ,

    @ajsadauskas sounds like you want https://curlie.org/ - which seems to be up to date and interesting.

    bluGill ,

    Nothing is exposed. There are things I want exposed, but I don't want to keep security patches up to date, even if there is a zero day. I'm looking for someone trustworthy to hire for things that it would be useful to expose, but they are hard to find.

    bluGill ,

    That won't work for human reasons: few people will remember to lock the car that way at night-

    ajsadauskas , to Fuck Cars
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    A rising road toll in the US. A rising road toll in Australia. Journalists give 1000 reasons why it could be happening.

    And they studiously avoid mentioning the growing proportion of massive SUVs and pickup trucks on the roads. If they mention it at all, it's only in passing: https://youtu.be/Hb5_RUNeC0g?si=uuns6D1I6fGINdpU

    But.

    If you have larger and heavier cars, with larger blind spots, of course you're going to have more fatalities!

    Remember kids: Every 10cm a vehicle's hood height increases, the risk of fatalities grows by 22%: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017

    @fuck_cars

    bluGill , (edited )

    @Jawaka

    @fuck_cars @ajsadauskas worse, they have much less room outside. Give me a full size bed, I have a truck to haul stuff, when I have people to move i have a van or car.

    bluGill ,

    mobiles and desktops are very diffrerent and need different user incerfaces. So you are not savin, much work. In fact trying to handle both in on may be worse because of all the special cases. Be glad you don't have to support teletypes, they demand different user interfaces.

    bluGill ,

    You can do that, but if you are in California you have just broken the law. If California enforces the law you will discover projects all make a big deal about this since users can be arrested for violation of the law if they don't handle it correctly. Most likely it is just turned on by default for all versions, but there is also the possibility that they have large warning about turning it off. Note that if you go with warning nobody with your project should travel to California as then you are liable for helping someone violate the law.

    bluGill ,

    It is enforceable. Not in all cases, probably not even in the majority, but it only needs a few examples to be hit with large fines and everyone doing legal things will take notice. Often you can find enough evidence to get someone to confess to using AI and that is aall the courts need.

    Scammers of course will not put this in, but they are already breaking the law so this might be - like tax evasion - be a way to get scammers who you can't get for something else.

    bluGill ,

    That isn't clear, but probably not. Though if you are a dev there are some open source charities that exist to defend against things like this, so I'd recommend you go look for one.

    bluGill ,

    You can have good luck just by buying 10 year old cars - they might have connectivity, but the it will be to a cell/network standard that no longer exists and so for practical purposes the car cannot connect to anything.

    bluGill ,

    No you don't. They look cool and get you thinking you want them. However if you ever had to live with them instead of just looking you would quickly discover some of those cool looking things make for very annoying compromises and so you wouldn't want them.

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