And all was well in the fediverse
Hopefully the deleted commenter doesn’t see this but if you do thank you!
Hey, it’s been 12 hours and this might be worth a revisit with a fresh perspective. The parent commenter was plenty pleasant, I would say.
subject-based social media (here) over identity-based
There’s a good way to talk about it!
How else can we describe Lemmy? I’ll call it a “social news site“ but meh
Heh, well they are certainly unafraid of being perceived as self-centered!
Better when others are the ones to hype someone up with a high superlative like this guy I found:
In an informal poll at a 1990 cosmology conference, Witten received the largest number of mentions as "the smartest living physicist".
Oh Mr. Musk, why must you do the silly stuff… so many big, expensive distractions (to say the very least)…
“Good news, boss, we’re intercepted 10 tax refund checks already today, but those ain’t nothing compared to what we think we just found. Ever heard of the Strait of Gibraltar?”
Voyager Dev Purple lookin’ good against OP blue
Disclaimer: opinion reflects visually impaired privilege (the opposite of visually impaired)
pasting (T)OTPs for websites that choose to have 6 separate input fields
Possibly a job for "insert text by typing" in a program like Keyboard Maestro on macOS.
Edit: baller app, it is:
Loved the initial laughs
(Noting I’m not in a position to judge his claim, but that’s OK as plenty of other commenters are comfortable doing so)
You might appreciate Farside.link which catalogues all kinds of privacy-protecting front ends, and lets you bookmark a randomizer to automatically choose one for any service.
Interesting. Just looked at Mlem for a minute and for some reason the Voyager UI agrees with me more.
The funny thing is Mlem offers higher contrast between different UI elements yet it is easier for me to differentiate between those elements in the lower contrast way that Voyager presents them.
Can adblock “cause” it?
Software development is so hard!
Good reminder how @aeharding@vger.social must be a friggin boss - been a beautiful nearly error-free year on Voyager (iOS) 🙏
Edit: I use it on iOS but available for others too
Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing
Shoutout to our hard-working maintainers, first of all.
Wanted to open a space for the community to discuss this aspect of marketing/identity.
Original comment link [e: snip]
Reavers wouldn't touch DuckDuckGo, it's half dead. Which SearXNG instance do you use?
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Two horizontally stitched screenshots comparing a search for “Reavers GIF” on DuckDuckGo and Google in Safari iOS (private tabs). DDG presented zero Firefly/Serenity relevant results while Google found them exclusively.
Hopefully a privacy-focused yet fast instance for US West Coast cheapskates who probably should pony up for Kagi, buttttttttttt
Incredible progress on Bing AI over the past 19 months: totally won't summarize (fake) webpages it can't read and hallucinate about dinosaur playgrounds
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A user asks Bing/Copilot chat to summarize an invented article:
[User] summarize
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/dinosaurs-found-roaming-playground.html
Copilot
The article from The New York Times reports a surprising and amusing incident where life-sized dinosaur replicas were found roaming a playground in a small town. These realistic models, part of a local museum's exhibit, were accidentally released due to a security malfunction. The sight of dinosaurs in the playground caused quite a stir among the residents, especially the children, who were both thrilled and startled. The museum has since apologized and retrieved the dinosaurs, ensuring such an incident won't happen again. The event has sparked a lot of local interest and laughter, turning into a memorable story for the community[1].
Note this is problematic for a number of reasons including someone who wants to summarize a real article/thread won’t be informed an accurate summary may be impossible.
This home screen theme isn't my style, but I like how customized it is!
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Four stitched screenshots of an iOS 18 home screen. The icons are themed in the style of a “NookPhone“ from the video game Animal Crossing.
Translated:
&:
Reference, apparently: NookPhone
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I’d like to try heavily theming my home screen, paradoxically while keeping icons quite recognizable.
Taylor & the end times
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Taylor Swift on the red carpet with this text superimposed:
As the bulbs flash, I can't help but think of cyberwar - When the arcing death of electric transformers will light the night, leaving our nation in darkness.
- Taylor Swift
Edit: Credit: Swift on Security
Pizza rule
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The image contains a cheese pizza, with one single slice flipped over. The accompanying text includes:
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A tweet from "spence" stating: "pizza tip: always flip a lucky"
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A reply from "Carrier Technician" saying: "Looks awful"
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A follow-up tweet from "spence": "if you died nothing in my life would change"
The timestamps show the follow-up was posted at 4:54 PM on September 5, 2024, and notes it has 99 views.
Inhuman rule
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A screenshot of a YouTube video embedded in a news article where YouTube is throwing the error “Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This helps protect our community.” Stitched below is a screen grab from Avengers Endgame where Captain America says, “no, I don't think I will.”
Peppermint tea that tastes like candy canes?
My friend’s had this before but doesn’t know which to buy!
Evolutionarily disadvantaged rule 💩🛻
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“David Attenborough” (a soundalike voice) explains the Cybertruck's parasitic relationship with flatbed trailers; transcript:
>Here we see the Cybertruck has formed a peculiar symbiotic relationship with the larger flatbed trailer species. Evolutionarily disadvantaged, the Cybertruck has come up with a clever way to transport itself long distances.
>By attaching itself to the flatbed trailer, the Cybertruck can reliably move about without risking injury to its fragile exoskeleton or internal organs. What the flatbed trailer gets in return for this kindness, science has yet to discover.
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>I wondered who had made the video and found myself on Reddit, in r/CyberStuck, where the video was originally posted. The creator of the fake Attenborough video, who has since deleted the post, explains in the comments that they wrote the script and edited the video, and for source material, they used "a bunch of Cybertruck fanboys on YouTube, Whistlindiesel, and also the lovely people on this fair subreddit."
Royal Gen-Z Armouries Museum rule
Source: @royalarmouriesmuseum on that ByteDance-owned site
Edit 2: OK it’s not this guy but I’ll leave it as it was; original edit below:
>Jonathan Steven Ferguson is a British firearm historian and author who is currently the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, England.
Thanks @ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone :)
🅱️ingo
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A hand holding a blue dotted bingo dauber over a red bingo card with numbers arranged in a grid. The text above the image says "Transgender Illegal Aliens in Prison #Debate2024".
Schrödinger's Microphone: Google Meet Says Muted, iOS Says Otherwise
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Horizontally stitched screenshots showing a Google Meet call on the iPhone where the microphone mute icon is highlighted in active mute status while the lock screen displays a mute icon which is not selected and inactive.
Always been this way for months. IIRC, the lock screen mute button is nonfunctional. Mute functionality detailed here.
Latest Versions: iOS 17.6.1, Google Meet 260.0
I should report this bug to Google and not Apple, right?
Cow Trules
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Four-panel comic featuring characters from the popular comic "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson, and a cow from “The Far Side” by Gary Larson.
Panel 1: "WHAT JOKE WOULD YOU LIKE TONIGHT? WE CAN READ ANYTHING EXCEPT..." "COW TOOLS?"
Panel 2: "NO! NO COW TOOLS TONIGHT! WE'VE READ THAT JOKE A MILLION TIMES!" "I WANT COW TOOLS!"
Panel 3: "LOOK, YOU KNOW HOW THE JOKE GOES! YOU'VE MEMORIZED THE WHOLE THING! IT'S THE SAME JOKE EVERY DAY!" "I WANT COW TOOLS!"
Panel 4: (No text, just an image showing the characters and a cow)
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Pick your seat, Lemmy
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A seating chart for an "8 HOUR FLIGHT" with the text "PICK YOUR SEAT" at the top. The chart is composed of 10 numbered seats, each occupied by a different famous Republican politician or public figure, or the devil. Each number represents a seat, and each seat is either adjacent to or between one or two different individuals.
Jesus, the 10x Preacher
WSJ article (paywall-free MSN syndication)
Edit: y’all see the alt-text above? 🤔 Tried the Voyager feature for the first time. Will copy below the old way for now:
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WSJ Elon Musk's Walk With Jesus The billionaire has been invoking Christianity as he discusses core beliefs By Tim Higgins Aug. 17, 2024 5:30 am ET Elon Musk is publicly offering his own interpretation of Jesus' teachings with an Old Testament twist.
Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky[…] "You have got to be kidding me..."
Anil Dash @anildash.com "I heard there's an institution that doesn't have to pay any taxes and repeatedly systematically abuses children, and I decided I wanted to talk to the growth hacker who founded it."
Agrarian rule 🌽👕
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Social media post above an image of a t-shirt:
“Guess you could call this shirt...
...a crop top”
“T-shirt that reads "I [heart] local corn" with the heart shape printed with yellow corn kernels”