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Just passing through.

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I think there's a lot of us who would ideally want to avoid both Microsoft and Google, and now that Bing is having problems it's more relevant than ever. I don't really see how the comment is braggy or patronising.

That said, I'm not comfortable using Brave either. I wish Mozilla or the Internet Archive would launch a search engine. Maybe both in cooperation. Then again, it would require Mozilla to bite the hand that feeds it.

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I was paying for Kagi until recently, but they keep working on functionality I'm not interested in rather than lowering their prices. Other than that it was a fine experience, but too pricey, and the argument that that's the cost of running a search engine doesn't hold when they choose to develop all kinds of extra stuff.

I wish I liked SearXNG better, but the results are sadly not that great for me.

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Yeah, fair enough. I read the post more favourably, as a "at least my alternative is still working well for me", but then also being aware that every time Brave is mentioned someone jumps on and reminds everyone that the CEO is a jerk, so it saves us the time by addressing it right away.

Both interpretations are valid I guess. :)

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The vikings got a bit of a bad reputation, probably in large part because they were not too popular amongst munks in England (who were avid writers). Sure, there was raping and plundering, but not necessarily so much worse than other peoples, and there was also trade and coexistence. We had particularly close relations to Scotland, and England is hardly in the position to accuse anyone else of plundering! ;)

Fun fact about the word viking: It literally means someone from a "vik", which is contemporary Norwegian for a cove. More traditionally, it's a dwelling by the coast, which explains the many -wich-towns in northern UK: The vikings would settle, usually for salt supplies, and name the place something ending with -vik.

So a Viking is not a job description as much as someone dwelling by the sea!

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Yeah, the Palestinians went a long way to reach an agreement, and in the end Israel were the ones to gut it. It was pretty much an impossible compromise to reach, but if anyone had the right to be disgruntled with the Oslo Accords it would indeed have been the Palestinians.

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Yeah, it runs like a charm on my T14s. No that I've tried much else.

In our post-AI era, is job security strictly mythical? Or How to believe in careers as a concept worth doing?

With the lastest news of AI layoffs, I’m struggling to understand how the idea of a career still holds. If careers themselves effectively become gambles like lottery tickets, how do we maintain drive and hopes in the longterm endgame of our struggles?...

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Artificial intelligence. There's nothing intelligent going on in an LLM model. There's learning, but not intelligence.

The people objecting to the use of the term AI to describe computerized parrots are the people who think intelligence still matters as a concept.

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Is it possible that I miss out on valuable insights by immediately dismissing the opinions of anyone who refers to machine learning as AI?

Sure.

Will I stop doing it?

Sure as hell not.

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Waydroid might help with that, but no guarantees.

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A 2nd hand Fairphone 4 should also have good support for Ubuntu Touch, so might be worth considering.

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One of the agents involved has since testified that they knew they were killing the wrong man.

Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites - Digiday (digiday.com)

The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.

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I could read the full article, not sure what's going on.

Anyway, the journalist is writing about the Verge and 404 Media, and the more general potential benefits for the industry. There's nothing about Digiday.com following the same path.

It's a nice write-up. The main things I learned is that the Verge is transitioning to WordPress, and 404 is using Ghost. Both hope to activate the ActivityPub capabilities of these platforms when they're ready - the Verge when it finishes transitioning, 404 when Ghost implants AP support.

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How bad is it when you end up cycling into a pit like this, potentially at some speed? Has the water made the soil soft in the road leading the front wheel potentially getting stuck and throwing you off, or will you most likely cycle through with a significant splash and be on your way?

I guess a huge part of it might be the problem of not being able to see so well what's under the water, in case the road has been damaged?

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Fascinating how the federated Bluesky spam came from Nostr. Dorsey's lovechild vomiting crap all over his disowned brainchild. Clearly he bet on the right horse.

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You never know what kind of moronic ideas can find a political majority. Especially not when it comes to technology and surveillance.

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But then the EU is also pushing towards interoperability. If Threads require ID checks and is 15+, but also federates, 13 year olds will just go elsewhere.

I guess the age limit could best be enforced by parents, who would be able to tell their kids they can't use social media before they're old enough. Sure there will still be kids around, but there will be fewer of them.

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Totally vote for us. We're a bunch of na... Uhm, we don't talk about that either. But vote for us anyway.

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I think it's a good size, any smaller and it would seem off balance with the wider bottom of the shelf.

aasatru,
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I do some woodcarving now and then of smaller stuff like knives and cups, but I live in cities and move around a lot, so it's not all that convenient to get into proper woodworking. I did create a couple of outdoor benches once (that a friend still has on his balcony around a decade later), but they're more sturdy than they are good looking!

I recently moved into a more spacious unfurnished apartment and started a three-year contract with work, and my partner and I have been discussing maybe building some furniture for it. Nothing yet though - so far just making it liveable has been the priority. :)

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Beautiful! And thank you for the description of the progress - it's inspiring, even though I'm far away from attempting anything like that myself at the moment.

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True! I'm also lucky enough to come from the countryside with a father who is an avid tool collector, so whenever I'm on holiday back home I have a lot of things available, including a lathe and a band saw. I really should make more active use of it, even though I live too far away for it to be practical to build anything big.

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I guess the rules of the instance you're posting from always apply, in addition to the rules of the instance you're posting in. If you're posting stuff that's not tolerated by your instance it will probably kick you out, no matter which communities you post in. :)

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I guess nobody ever argued indigenous wisdom wasn't wise, we just found it way too difficult to monetize.

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A dominant market position will do that to you, it seems.

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