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noodlejetski ,

"brain organoid" sounds like an insult.

noodlejetski ,

do... do I form Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium?

noodlejetski ,

FYI, for stuff like this you can just use Catima

noodlejetski ,

I expect that you'll have to pay the money according to the statement

‘A fine line between humor and flopping’: tech summit’s rap battle is the height of corporate cringe (www.theguardian.com)

The next time you’re sitting through a company-wide meeting, half-listening to a leader drone on about updates or product launches (and hoping they don’t announce layoffs or budget cuts), remember this: at least they’re not rapping....

noodlejetski ,

here's the rap: https://glitterkitten.co.uk/@babe/112519077532925739

and very apt commentary: https://types.pl/@nathan/112519668640983426

noodlejetski ,

"bug fixes and performance improvements"

noodlejetski ,

in every changelog of every software, ever

noodlejetski ,

LibRedirect can redirect Google Maps links to OpenStreetMaps, too, among other functions.

An Important Hypothetical - What Android Apps Do You Install?? (sh.itjust.works)

You're twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You'll be leaving for Grandma's in about a half hour, and she's lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is...

noodlejetski ,

Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

noodlejetski OP ,

don't worry, they're already using The Onion

noodlejetski OP ,

not even for the articles?

noodlejetski OP ,

thus particular company is apparently also being accused of being involved in an NFT scam before they rebranded to Rabbit.

noodlejetski ,

not being able to use contactless pay does not equal "NFC can't be used on anything".

noodlejetski ,

it's effectively the same thing since I've

big detail. I connect my Sony XM4s to my phone with NFC multiple times a day. not to mention that you still can use Google Pay on rooted devices with some workarounds. not to mention that some bank apps don't use Google Pay for contactless payments at all. I've been paying via NFC with my bank app on a rooted phone for years until they scrapped their own solution and adopted the GPay approach instead.

noodlejetski ,

I honestly do not understand why anyone would want to watch TV on their fridge.

noodlejetski ,

me irl

noodlejetski ,

as a large human model, I'm able to provide the following information about Anna's archive:

https://annas-archive.org/

it gud

noodlejetski , (edited )

they've also recently implemented an Al chatbot, which will probably offset all the trees they've ever planted in the next week or so

edit: I read the comment above me too quickly, I was talking about Ecosia mentioned in the comment before that one, not Youcare.

noodlejetski ,

because not everyone sees blocking RT and anti-vaxx websites as a problem

noodlejetski ,

but once they start blocking obvious disinformation and conspiracy theories, where will it end?!!?!1

noodlejetski ,

it's a fork (Next Generation) of deprecated SearX project.

noodlejetski ,

We may collect aggregated, non-personal search data to improve search algorithms, train AI models

ugh

noodlejetski ,

it's been using both for a while.

noodlejetski ,

remember kids, everything you post on the internet stays forever*

*unless it cannot be monetized anymore

noodlejetski ,

Their real power is their ability to understand language and context.

...they do exactly none of that.

noodlejetski ,

Custom search engines are limited to PC browsers only. Unfortunately, the mobile versions of these browsers will not let you set up a custom search, so you're stuck tapping on the Web view in all your mobile search queries.

someone hasn't heard of Firefox on Android.

noodlejetski ,

can you set a custom URL, which is required to do what the article is talking about, or do you just pick from the predefined list of search engines?

edit: just checked and nope, you can only pick from Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo and Ecosia.

noodlejetski ,

depends on what you mean by "fixing", I guess. I just resorted to not using Google at all, and use uBlacklist to filter out garbage websites from my search results.

noodlejetski ,

I prefer "Habsburg AI".

noodlejetski ,

I hope they'll get investigated for boomer radicalization next.

noodlejetski ,

there's still a way back! https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-14/deactivating-facebook-for-just-a-few-weeks-reduces-belief-in-fake-news.html

noodlejetski ,

SteamOS is based on Arch, which you do not want to use and maintain as a beginner. what matter is the desktop environment, which in SteamOS' case is KDE Plasma, a great choice in my completely unbiased opinion.

noodlejetski , (edited )

the absolute state of capitalism-driven internet in the year 2024: you have to choose a specific option on an internet search engine website in order to search the internet.

noodlejetski ,

or does google actually have some of its own

every phone running Google's version of Android with location enabled.

noodlejetski ,

Kagi started as an AI company. and they do a bunch of weird things otherwise, which made me stop giving them money.

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

noodlejetski ,

it's not private, and could technically read and collect messages sent via e2ee services, FYI.

1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog (blog.mozilla.org)

The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...

noodlejetski ,

not sure how well the first two are going to work together, given that the first one clicks through the banners to deny as many cookies as possible, while the second one blocks said banners from loading.

What's stopping you from using Ecosia? Your searches could plant trees! (www.ecosia.org)

Ecosia is a search engine that aggregates search results from multiple other search engines. The ad revenue from our searches funds the planting of trees worldwide. With over 200 million trees planted so far, Ecosia have learned to be fully transparent about their projects, and financials which are available right on that...

noodlejetski ,

they've added an LLM chatbot recently, so I'm sure the energy required to run the queries will offset all the trees they've planted so far in about 4 days.

noodlejetski ,

it used to be on F-droid (not sure if on the default repo or Izzy's), but it appears it's been removed.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

noodlejetski , (edited )

I've ditched Spotify last year when their app has suddenly started draining battery on my phone (and also because of them being so eager to give Rogan a platform). I've switched to Deezer, but I've ran into the same issue I've had with Spotify for a while - even if I download a playlist for offline usage, it'll still try to connect to the internet, so if I was somewhere with poor reception, it'd get stuck on a spinning circle for a minute before giving up and showing me the songs I've wanted to play. I ended my Deezer subscription, rebuilt the library on my laptop, and just manually transfer files to my phone. I get instant access to my music with no delays, with music players that offer much better experience and handle shuffle and queues the way I want to, and aren't a glorified Chrome tab on desktop. and if I really like an album, I'll just straight up buy one. I listen to music a fucking lot (two years ago i was in top 0.2% of my country's Spotify users), and according to some screenshots of my Spotify Wrapped, I've played my artists songs for 1200 minutes, which translates to 300-400 plays at best (probably less than that, given that many of their songs are around 6 to 8 minutes long). given that, from what I've found online, 1000 plays gives artists 4 bucks, I could just buy two of their songs on Bandcamp and pirate the rest of their music, and they'll still get more money in a year from me.

I do miss seamless playback switching between devices, though. it was a really nice Spotify feature... when it worked, that is.

noodlejetski ,

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=apple+music+android

noodlejetski ,

thing is, it didn't do that in the past, or at least it wouldn't be that noticeable to me. but some time ago Spotify introduced a feature that would automatically add "smart" suggestions to the playlist, and it makes sense it requires network access for that. what doesn't make sense is that it still wants the connection even when I kept that feature disabled.

noodlejetski , (edited )

then I dunno, maybe require periodic (e.g. monthly) checks to verify that I've been paying for a subscription, instead of punishing me for having the nerve to try viewing my library while I'm on an elevator?

noodlejetski ,

https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/112410704497640450

noodlejetski ,

AND 1-on-1 chats only, no e2ee for group chats available at all.

noodlejetski ,

you're replying to a verbatim quote from the article.

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