Beej Jorgensen

I’m a teacher at university and I run Arch, BTW. 😁

IA is definitely on shaky legal ground here. But as far as I’m concerned, they’re in the right.

I definitely use them a lot, but I think “very” is too strong a word. It’s pretty easy to get confident, contradictory information from them. They’re a good place to start and brainstorm, but all the information has to be verified either by running and testing the code, or by finding a human source.

It’s about time. I remember finally getting my subscription canceled what must have been 7 years ago by now. That was a happy day. And those were the “good” days of this whole thing!

I hate to do this, but AI chatbots are typically pretty good at giving examples for things like this and you can learn from it.

I have 2000 Saturn with 220,000 on it. It has been amazingly solid and low TCO.

Of course, they don’t make them anymore, so your point stands. They don’t make them like they used to.

I’m on the “OK but keep an eye on it” train, here.

Devs need feedback to know how people are using the product, and opt-out tracking is the best way to do it. In this case, it seems like my personal data is completely unidentifiable.

I was coding in the IE6 era, so I’d really prefer to not end up in a browser engine monoculture again.

Meta has had this feature for years.

On mobile:

1. Long press the Facebook icon.
2. Tap “uninstall”.

After that Facebook won’t control the political content on your feed.

SERP = Search Engine Results Pages

In case you’re like me and didn’t know.

I’m sure it was possible, but I’m also sure my car doesn’t do that.

My 25-year-old car is certainly not transmitting anything.

I just went in there to make a new account, and they want real name and salary before you can do much. (I work for a public university, so my salary is public record, but even so I just quit out. Too invasive.)

In the developer tools in the Network tab. FF sums it up at the bottom of the list when you reload (e.g. for this page “24 requests, 4.74 MB transferred”). Chrome must have something similar. Be sure to check “Disable cache” in the devtools.

My simple home page is 10 KB now. And you might not think that’s such a big deal, but it has more content than Google’s search page and that rings in at a couple MB IIRC. 😁

mpv also works well from the command line.

The author said they wanted maximum accessibility, so they didn’t opt for a particular platform’s voting system.

At least someone got the gag. No sense of humor around here. :)

Recommendation algorithms are great for discovering related information and new stuff.

I agree that open, controllable recommendation algorithms would be great. But right now using none of the currently widespread social media recommendation algorithms at all (and just matching keywords instead) makes for a less-abusive, more positive experience. IMHO.

I mean, I have a BS and MS in computer science, so you can use that as guidance as to whether or not I know what an algorithm is. :)

In this context, though, it should be clear that “The Algorithm” refers to a specific social networking algorithm that chooses the content you see in order to maximize advertising revenue.

So yes, Lemmy has algorithms that show different content based on your input, but that’s a wildly different animal. Notably, I’m the one deciding, and also they’re not trying to maximize ad revenue.

Annnnnddd… right click.