gedaliyah

gedaliyah OP , 2 days ago

What are some important things that have changed in the past five years that would change some if the choices?

gedaliyah OP , 2 days ago

Thanks, this is one of the few truly beginner-friendly blogs I've found (not just this post, but the entire blog). It would be great for people to suggest some other more up-to-date resources for someone starting out. Specifically, this blog talks about trying and comparing different setups, factoring in costs, time commitments, dealing with setbacks, preparing for different use cases, etc.

There are lots of resources that share technical details, how-tos, system specs, etc., but not many that I've found walking through the decision making process including what worked and what didn't and why.

gedaliyah OP , 4 days ago

This is the start menu when you type a search.

gedaliyah OP , 4 days ago

No, the start menu. This is what happens when you click the windows start menu now.

gedaliyah , 4 days ago

Wait, this is actually a good tip lol

gedaliyah , 4 days ago

For about a year or two, windows had an amazing search from the menu that used a blazing fast index search to search files, directories, and file contents locally and almost instantaneously. It was a glorious thing.

I cannot think of a case in which a user would not need to distinguish between web search and file search (other than the convenience of a single click). I do use a unified search on my phone that includes files, apps, and contacts, and if it's not in any of those, it will launch a web search using the query. That is more than adequate. If it were performing the web search in real time, I wouldn't be able to easily access apps and contacts, and the results would slow and change while typing.

gedaliyah , 4 days ago

Part of the issue with web results is that it would generally update as you type which is just a bad fit for a general menu search. I personally don't see a place for it. If you are searching the web, you're going to open the browser anyway. Maybe some users would use it to navigate directly to common websites, sort of like bookmarks? I don't know.

gedaliyah , 4 days ago

https://tesseract.dubvee.org/image_proxy/lemmy.world/pictrs/image/95412f3e-8dbd-4ba3-95f9-ecb73673a715.png?fallback=true

gedaliyah , 5 days ago

There are a lot more unskilled scammers looking for low hanging fruit

gedaliyah , 6 days ago

How do you change that without completely stripping property rights away from artists though? Not just corporate IP, but all artists?

gedaliyah , 6 days ago

Is it fine for a billion dollar company to ripoff smaller artists? It's a form of piracy, so this would be allowed, too.

gedaliyah , 12 days ago

Strangely worded...

gedaliyah , 13 days ago

This is a revisionist view that requires ignoring a lot of historical facts. Almost a million Jews were expelled from MENA countries in the 20th century, many of whom survived only by escaping to Israel. The Palestinian Authoriry has never accepted any status for Jews. Christians, Muslims, Druze, yes, but no Jews.

Meanwhile, there are about 2 million Arab citizens (mostly Muslim) of Israel who are entitled to equal rights, including government subsidized Churches and Mosques.

gedaliyah , 15 days ago

I've been seeing a lot about this but I am not a programmer. Can anyone eli5?

gedaliyah , 15 days ago

Thanks - that helps!

gedaliyah , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

MS is doing their level best

gedaliyah , 17 days ago

Is this going to turn out to be one of those "last starfighter” situations, except it's about arranging lists of words rather than fighting aliens?

gedaliyah OP , 20 days ago

It's easy to forget that algorithms were originally added to social media as a benefit to the user. It's easy to miss the content you want to see when you follow lots of accounts.

I would love to see an algorithm that allows for manual adjustment. Kagi search allows a user to raise or lower the priority of individual results. I can't think of another platform or service that does this explicitly. Most do it implicitly through various forms of engagement.

gedaliyah OP , 21 days ago

I don't really understand why a computer is necessary at all, is the thing. I know that it's possible to use wifi network to send a signal between two devices. I have a sound board that works this way, and manages to communicate precise multichannel instructions directly over the network without an internet connection.

If I want to turn on a light switch, it seems like all I should need to send is the location of the light switch on the network and the on/off command. I know that there is not the computing power in the light switch itself to process much more than that.

Do these devices all connect to a remote server to switch on and off??

gedaliyah OP , 21 days ago

This is really amazing to me. I had no idea that it was using the internet to send the on/off signal from my phone, up to a server (multiple servers), just to send the command back to my home network, and to the device. That seems like an absolutely bonkers system to turn on a switch. I would be better off to repurpose an old RC toy to control the switch!

gedaliyah OP , 21 days ago

Thanks. That helps.

gedaliyah OP , 21 days ago

That's helpful. It seems like a system an insane person would come up with, but I understand it.

gedaliyah OP , 20 days ago

In my case it was a specific use case in that I have a number of outdoor lights that I want to control without needing to go back in the house every time. Folks here have given a few options that would work well for this without relying on the internet, but I already have the setup installed at this point

gedaliyah , 21 days ago

"Architects hate this one weird trick”

gedaliyah , 22 days ago

It seems like messaging services are particularly prone the misinformation campaigns, since it is much more difficult to audit what is happening on the platform. How is a service like messenger or WhatsApp (both meta)going to monitor the content of messeges in a way that is safe to users? How would researchers identity and track information?

I know that the most outlandish content I see as a highly connected individual tends to come from these platforms. I do my best to educate when I see it, but I doubt it has much of a lasting impact.

It's depressing and a little frightening to know how easily and cheaply our electorate is manipulated, and to see it happening in real time.

gedaliyah , 28 days ago

Am I the only one here bothered by that weird improper hyphenation?

gedaliyah , 1 month ago

Just 34 of these misleading posts received more than 37 million views, according to ISD. Many of the accounts posting the misinformation were also verified, meaning they have paid X $8 per month for the “blue tick” and that their content is amplified by the platform’s algorithm.

$8 for a million views is a pretty good deal. Ex-twitter is essentially now just a troll marketplace.

gedaliyah , 1 month ago

I read that wrong and thought that was to emulate the iphone and I was pretty stunned!

gedaliyah OP , 1 month ago

That's the rules!

gedaliyah , 1 month ago

That's included with your gold tier Microsoft 365 subscription. Also there's tiers now.

-Microsoft, probably

gedaliyah , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Do any windows users remember in like 2019 when they had the offline search in the start menu that was such a beast? It could find anything inside the contents of any document on the computer almost instantaneously, use booleans, search metadata and everything. We had no idea at the time that was peak start menu. It's all been downhill.

gedaliyah OP , 1 month ago

Neat! I use an app to avoid the inconvenience of clunky equipment, so this wouldn't help my situation, but definitely very cool! I would have put this to good use when I was in school!

gedaliyah OP , 1 month ago

I only wish it had better discoverability. If you know the exact app you want it's phenomenal. If you want to search, you need an app that searches repos (F-Droid, NeoStore, Droidify, etc.). Even Aurora Store has some big advantages over the official Play Store, although is is effectively just a front-end.

gedaliyah , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I've used it for quite a while now, so I can safely say it's not just the honeymoon effect. There are certain specific searches that I will prefer Google, for example if I know an exact string from a document that I'm looking for. Google still has a larger search base so if there's information that can only be found in one or two places, Google is more likely to work. Image and video search on KAGI is still a little bit finicky. I might use Google, DDG, or Bing for those (Actually, DDG is just a front end for Bing in this regard). For everything else, when I'm looking for information or answers to questions, Kagi is the best there is.

gedaliyah , 1 month ago

Uuuuugh. I just had this problem after dropping my phone. Can't log into the phone without the phone being logged in. Solution: disable 2fa on a logged in device. If I can disable it from another device why can't I verify it from another device? This is so broken!

gedaliyah , 1 month ago

I'm literally buying new smart plugs today because the manufacturer discontinued the firmware. They're still in perfect condition, and the exact same set up that I've always had. It's extremely frustrating.

gedaliyah , 1 month ago

Giving off Chris Ware vibes.

gedaliyah , 2 months ago

Defederate.

They can have a corporate silo. They can use an open standard. But they cannot do anything good for the fediverse. The best thing for the fediverse is to let them exist as a walled garden (and we can put up the wall).

There are about 10 million users on the free fediverse. That number has grown steadily and sustainably. There are 160 million threads users. They were instantaneously leveraged onto the platform by a billion dollar corporation (possibly in violation of antitrust laws).

If we federate, Threads won't become a part of the fediverse; threads will become the fediverse.

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