some people might want to avoid Feddly due to their approach to protests: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/110113208809822962

considering how its been working for years

so were third party reddit clients.

it’s entirely grammatically correct

eeeehhhhhhhhhhhhh. the a/an rule is based on the first sound (phone?) of the word, not the spelling. hence “an hour”, for example, where the H is silent, but “a heist” where it’s voiced.

now if only they could give up on Chat Control :/

https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues

basically every thing on https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/, one by one. I just reached the point when I decided to hop to another distro at the next reformat.

EndeavourOS with Plasma. migrated from Manjaro after one too many questionable decision on their side.

friendly reminder that Luddites weren’t opposed to technology, just wary of its misuse and how it was going to benefit the people higher up rather than the workers.

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

make sure to also check the “don’t bother” section that includes LocalCDN, Privacy Badger, and a few more popular choices.

interesting they went with Chromium on desktop when their Android browser uses (or at least used to use) Gecko.

Google actually pulls results from web pages.

you know how some smartphone keyboards predict the next word that you’re going to use, and you can form a comprehensible sentence that sometimes even makes sense by simply tapping the next word on the prediction bar over and over? that’s what those language models do. they don’t actually search for anything, they just create sequences of words that sound probable.

a “search engine” that hallucinates results, including but not limited to non-existent court cases.

there’s a browser addon that lets you solve Recaptcha with one click:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captcha-solver/

it automatically switches to the alternative accessibility option, which is based on typing in words that you hear, and uses speech recognition software to solve it. I’m fairly sure it could be automated quite easily.

Basedonia

usually once you get into a hobby or a field that’s interesting for you, you’ll just stumble upon them. either someone from a community will recommend a website directly, or you’ll notice that people link to a particular website often when discussing things, or it gets mentioned in a Youtube video about the topic, or it’ll simply pop up in your search results. you can find bunch of interesting stuff by, well, being interested in stuff.

I usually find that adding a website/blog that I visit frequently (i.e. find interesting) to my RSS reader works pretty well.

…how are we supposed to figure out what you find “interesting”?

apparently some Mastodon admins got contacted by Meta and met with them after signing an NDA. I’m quite surprised how many Masto admins want to “just wait and see, maybe it’s not gonna be that bad”.

it’s not “an anonymous Google search”, just a regular Google search results page. they got rid of encrypted.google years ago.

people kept saying similar stuff about Mastodon, and yet, miraculously, its user base somehow keeps growing.