Anyways isn’t it also weird, then, that there is an extension called pi blocker? Or pie blocker?

that’s probably their goal, confusing users who sort of heard about PiHole at some point but don’t remember the name or where to get it from.

if you read the article, you’d find out that the alert linked to the X post. it could be linking to a dedicated webpage instead, which wouldn’t require logging in.

Lapz seems like a cool concept (although I don’t follow F1 myself), but it got put on hold because legal https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/20/24301420/apple-vision-pro-viral-lapz-app-f1-complaint

I just tried it with a feed and got Internal server error. I pasted the wrong URL like the dummy that I am.

if you use FreshRSS, you can use CSS selectors to point it to the article’s content: https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/05/using-css-selectors-in-freshrss-to-automatically-retrieve-the-full-text-of-partial-text-rss-feeds/

just say it involves AI, you’ll get all the funding

ooooh, cut the CEO roles by 10% next

Here’s the really long version: like everyone, we publish our videos on YouTube

I think I’ve found the underlying issue

welcome to the world of LLMs

there used to be phones with pop-up cameras for a year or two.

You pay for the catalogue and the recommendation feed.

…and the artists get peanuts.

I listen to a lot of music. like, a lot. and yet from my calculations the artist I’ve listened to the most during that year still didn’t get even a dollar from my listens. and with how absolutely garbage the Spotify app has become, I’ve resorted to just archiving my entire collection online in lossless format and buying albums I particularly like on Bandcamp every now and then. it costs me less than an ongoing subscription because one purchase is just one or two month’s worth of Spotify Premium, I get to keep the music even if the service goes down, I don’t have podcasts that I don’t want shoved in my face, and the artists I like actually get something from me.

the news about climate crisis and increasing international tensions make people (rightfully) more and more worried about their lives and well-being, so it’s easy to sell Going Back To How It Used To Be as the solution

probably because it’s the default SMS app on most Android phones nowadays, and people don’t bother installing a third party one, or aren’t aware that it’s a possibility. or they want to use RCS features.

relatable

Taking the #1[…] ranked word

I just got “love good people people people time people”.

7, there’s no headphone jack.

AI summaries of larger bodies of text work pretty well

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/australian-government-trial-finds-ai-is-much-worse-than-humans-at-summarizing/

https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/

https://manjarno.pages.dev/

the archinstall script is officially supported and very straightforward. like, almost Calamares-but-in-TUI straightforward.

do you also think it’s okay to, say, use an N-word for Black people who commit crimes?

truly the wildest of timelines