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Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts
  • Good; crazy how many public services, organisations (government and otherwise), companies, charities, and public people are still supporting this far-right platform. Do they not read the news? It turns me off every one of them. I have my criticisms of The Guardian but they did the right thing here, far too late but at least they did it.

  • My pro-Trump family found out that I voted for Harris and now my brother is openly threatening to kill me. How do I get out ASAP?
  • In the UK you typically have to pay and agree to their terms be a party member to vote on things like leadership, most people aren't party members. After that they wouldn't typically spend much money on sending things out to you (or no more than anyone else) since you're a safe vote (apart from plenty of emails about party activities). Just to ask you, what I've always wondered about the US primaries is do many people register for their opposing party to vote for their worst candidate in order to sabotage them?

  • My pro-Trump family found out that I voted for Harris and now my brother is openly threatening to kill me. How do I get out ASAP?
  • That's my question too, do they not have a secret ballot in the US? If they do (and I'm pretty sure they do) my advice to OP is to deny who they voted for until they can get to safety, "was just joking about voting Harris" is a perfectly reasonable lie if your safety is threatened, the family would have no proof or way of finding out.

  • Is there any good, free search engine left?
  • Ironically one of DDG's early selling points, before they fully jumped on the privacy bandwagon, was that they would filter out results for low-effort content farms (this was pre-LLM stuff).

    I had used DDG since almost the beginning and it was one of the things I was originally sold on. It's difficult to find a source for it now but I did find this: https://web.archive.org/web/20110608072253/https://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?bid=377&bpid=25532

  • Is there any good, free search engine left?
  • Are you (or is anyone here) daily-driving Stract yet? I discovered it a few months ago and thought it was everything I was looking for in a search engine, but also concluded that its search results aren't up to the standard I can use for now, so I filed it as one to look out for. Would be interested in hearing others' experiences.

  • Yt-dlp is the best way to download videos and audio
  • How ever YouTubers get paid is entirely between the YouTubers and YouTube, that is the relevant contract. Adblocking is necessary for user security and not negotiable. I do choose to pay some YouTubers via Patreon but that's completely a personal choice that I feel no obligation towards,

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • .org was always intended for miscellaneous sites that don't fit anywhere else, I think that's the most appropriate. I mainly remember this from back in "the day" but here's a source I've just found to back me up: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1591

    I'm not a big fan of the "new" generic TLDs like .world, they're not part of my hill, I don't really care what they're used for but I think we could do without them. Most Lemmy instances should really be .org in my ideal scheme of things.

  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • People should respect the intent of top level domains. e.g. videos at youtu.be should be related to Belgium, and podcasts with a .fm domain should only be podcasts related to the Federated States of Micronesia. Users at lemm.ee should be from Estonia.

  • www.theguardian.com Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

    Exclusive: MPs leaving platform or scaling back use over its ‘deterioration’ under Elon Musk’s ownership

    Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’
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    Ortholinear mechanical keyboards

    Looking for some purchasing advice.

    At the moment I use a Typematrix non-mechanical keyboard which is starting to wear out and become unresponsive. I was really happy with it apart from wishing it was mechanical. A mechanical clone of that, maybe a bit wider, is really my dream.

    So what are my options? The mechanical ortholinear keyboards I've seen tend to be of the compact and minimalistic variety, but size isn't my priority I'm looking for something full-featured, preferably with some media keys and shortcut buttons. A number pad or some way to input numbers with a calculator-style layout is essential as my job involves numerical data entry.

    Other "nice to have" things I'm more willing to compromise on:

    • I type in Dvorak so blank keys or Dvorak labels would be preferable

    • Hard-wired Dvorak switch is nice to have, the Typematrix has it, handy if I want to switch layouts in software to access special characters without worrying about finding a Dvorak-based layout.

    • Ideally no assembly required

    • I'm in the UK, I'll import if necessary but local availability is better. On that note the 105-key layout is preferred (but not that the Typematrix has that either)

    Open to alternative suggestions that ignore any of the above.

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