These days, the only ones I stay permanently subscribed to are independent platforms: Dropout and Nebula. They’re both cheap, entertaining, and they feel like responsible companies trying to make a positive change in their industry.
For all the others, I subscribe on a month by month basis when there’s something specific I want to watch. I try not to have more than one active subscription at any given time.
I got 8 in the span of about five hours today. Absolutely insane.
Yep, I got a series of those recently claiming that I had unpaid paid tolls. Each messagr came through as a group text with two or three random numbers, which were immediately removed from the group after the text arrived. I’ve been wondering why they started doing this. I assume they’re trying to exploit some kind of loophole in the carriers spam filtering.
Yes, but it’s also the common ancestor of kale, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, kohlrabi, and (obviously) farmed cabbage.
All of those foods were bread from the same plant by selecting for different traits.
Ceci n’est pas une rock
Fun fact: Victorinox has been operating since 1884 and has never had to lay off an employee.
To avoid this they set aside profits during boom periods to supplement recessionary periods
What a novel idea.
Huh, I was under the impression that they used their own index. I just did a quick search found a blog post they publisted back in 2023. Here are some relevant excerpts:
At the time of publication, Qwant has in its servers 20 billion indexed web pages
Qwant uses Bing to supplement search results on which we do not have sufficient relevance, and on images where storage capacities are very important. On the rest, the main SEO logics are often the same which explains why you often find the same search results, ranked slightly differently according to the weight given to one or the other.
Of course, that’s the company pushing their own preferred narrative, so take it with a grain of salt. But assuming it’s not an outright lie, then they’re definitely more independent than a lot of other search engines.
I’m partial to Tom Cardy’s view: Pluto isn’t a planet, but that doesn’t matter because it’s still hot shit.
I’ve wondered before how large an order would be required to entice a white label manufacturer of robot vacuums into doing a production run of units with Valetudo preinstalled.
I would absolutely buy one if someone could work out a fair business arrangement with the developer and throw the project up on kickstarter.
I think I can answer that, although I’ve never actually seen it explained, so it’ll be interesting to see if anyone else has a different take.
The Lemmy posts with “rule” in the title are all made to the 196 community. Per the sidebar, rule #1 of 196 is “you must post something before you leave.”
Putting “rule” in the title is basically shorthand for “I don’t have anything specific to say, but I have to post, so here’s some random shit I find funny.”
At least, that’s how it started. At this point, it’s evolved into a bit of a meme in its own right.
All the Bardcore covers by Hildegard Von Blingin are amazing.
FYI: The American Red Cross has a pretty nice (and completely free) app that’ll send you push notifications for all kinds of different emergencies.
You can set up multiple locations to monitor (in addition to your live location) and select which types of emergency events you want to hear about for each one.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cube.arc.hzd
The sample data shared in the article includes
"c": "ES", // Country code,
ES is usually used for Spain, so it looks like these tests were run from within the EU.
This is a fun thought experiment. If I’m understanding correctly, you’re writing a story where the character has a flash drive with important information. They have to remove the end to prevent the bad guys from getting access to it, then later replace the end to access the information themselves. Here’s my pitch (disclaimer: don’t actually try to do this. It would probably work, but if you have actual important files on a flash drive, this isn’t by any means how you should be trying to get at them)
For removing the end, soldering would be safe if they have access to a soldering iron. If it’s an emergency scenario, then I’d say just snap the plug off. It’s a bit risky depending on how the drive is made, but if it’s done deliberately by someone who knows what they’re doing, then I would say they could plausibly take off the USB connector without permanently damaging any of the guts.
For connecting the drive later, find a spare usb cable and cut it in half. It shouldn’t be hard to find one in an office. Even cutting the plug off a wired mouse or keyboard would work. Use a pocket knife or pair of scisors to strip the outer insulation off the cut end. This exposes four small wires. Strip the ends of those as well. Now, you just need a way of attaching each wire to the correct spot on the circuit board in the flash drive. Soldering would be best, but in a pinch, I’d look around the office for some of that sticky clay stuff they use to hang up posters. Pre-chewed gum might also work. Lay the stripped end of each wire over the correct spot on the board, then put a blob of the sticky stuff on top to hold it in place. Plug the other end into a computer, and you should be good to go.
I’m aware that pine64 sells a smart watch that they encourage flashing your own OS onto. I wonder how hard it’d be to just port the pebble code onto that hardware (a lot harder than I just made it sound, no doubt.) It could be a good way to get a pebble-like experience for people who prefer not to support this guys new company.
Theres actually a similar story with the fish. From Memory Alpha:
According to Ronny Cox, Patrick Stewart hated Livingston’s presence in the ready room, and constantly petitioned the producers to remove the fish. Stewart, a strong animal rights advocate who opposes many forms of pet ownership, felt that using a captive animal in an ornamental display was “immoral” and inconsistent with TNG’s core theme of exploring the inherent dignity of different species across the galaxy. Cox, who called Stewart’s point “well taken”, stated that Livingston’s temporary removal in “Chain of Command” was thus a “sort of a bone they threw to Patrick”.
Man, I feel you on the affiliate link fluff. I actually ended up unsubscribing from the Popular Mechanics and Popular Science feeds because the signal to noise ratio was so bad.
The creator of Nunti provided a very good primer on the algorithm design here. Basically, you indicate to the app whether you like or dislike an article and then it does some keyword extraction in the background and tries to show you similar articles in the future. I suppose you might be able to dislike a bunch of the fluff and hope the filter picks up on it, but it isn’t really designed to support the kind of rules that would completely purge a certain type of content from your feed.
Most of the feeds I subscribe to came to me in one of two ways:
It can be as simple as just putting an app on your phone. I use feeder which is fine. Pretty bare bones, but in that way it’s easy to learn and use.
I’ve also been meaning to try out an app called Nunti, which I heard about a while ago from this Lemmy post. It claims to be an RSS reader with the added benefit of an (open source and fully local) algorithm to provide some light curation of your feed. It looks interesting, but I haven’t actually tried it out yet because I’m still deciding whether I want any algorithm curating my feed, even one as transparent as Nunti’s. It’s also only available through F-Droid right now, which is a bit of a barrier to entry.
All credit to Dan Olson’s masterpeice video Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to go watch the whole thing again.