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> After the twitter files I just assume the government has their grimy little fingers in every company... Yes... twitter, Yahoo emails, telephone companies... the rabbit hole is deep and well-documented. So much of it illegal and unconst
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Performed a quick search for ex-cia working at instagram and came up with a ton of hits related to general information about ex-government agents working in key positions at many tech firms. https://start.duckduckgo.com/?q=e
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> Failed with error code 1002, see logs for more info I've been seeing the same thing. I want this to work on my browser because it's wicked fast. Getting the error with LibreWolf (FF w/tweaks and a ton of extensions) with
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I think this will eventually be about the subscription model to help lessen the reliance on advertisers. Lots of companies are moving toward this. Microsoft (Office products, maybe even their OS), Google recently with Youtube, Meta's I
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> I mean, I'm not sure what you're upset about. Oops... sorry if my tone was overly aggressively. I'm usually careful about that.
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> That may be because you're blocking YouTube from using your personal data to target ads, whereas TikTok is extremely aggressive about harvesting your personal data with no opt-out. I have always gotten ads from YT (whether I opt i
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> which also means that the Youtube subscription is at best a temporary escape from ads. Exactly. Decades ago, I remember *paying* for my first cable subscription. I was shocked at the number of commercials (ads) I was bombarded with. It
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> I'm perfectly happy to pay for YouTube premium. It supports the creators that I watch and I don't see ads. When I'm on TikTok, I get ads and yet... they feel completely unobtrusive. I also find myself actually watching a
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I first saw this article in 'The Daily Mail / UK' [0] a few days ago. I thought it was dark pattern advertising for a weight loss drug... The DM article had pictures of a couple of attractive older women (skinny, the AFTER sh
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It's interesting too that if the lead character was male, all the background characters were also male. If female, background faces were female. This really didn't stand out until I came across the Elvis pic. It seemed weird that
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Article: "Sadly, despite his fame, Isaac Newton led a very lonely life." Seems like the author projecting his own limited standards. Newton could have been extremely content in his work, in his own space. Article: "his reclus
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Study of GRAIL’s Multi-Cancer Early Detection Blood Test
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> Puppy just breathed the most amazing fresh and sprightly life into it. Yes! This was it exactly. Running Puppy in RAM on my old netbook was amazing:-)
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> If it was so good why did you stop? This was maybe 14 years ago. I sold the netbook and started using Windows full time again. I was still in this middle state between using Linux and Windows - going back and forth between the two. Whe
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I love this. I ran Puppy Linux in USB mode, many years ago, for a year or two (Netbook, load to RAM, save changes to USB). It was the most comfortable I ever felt using a computer. I used my laptop's HD as a pure data drive for large f
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Thanks for this list. I uncovered a couple of Desktop FF Forks I didn't know existed : Pulse Browser and Mercury (not including Floorp, this submission). A couple of months ago it was Mullvad. I'm really happy to see developers ta
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> What's the point of stating that "it's made in Japan"? I just don't get it. What I don't get is why this is your main and only takeaway. It's such an odd and surprising reaction. When I hear, for exam
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> It's really unfortunate that the Pale Moon team are also totally unlikable, which is probably among the reasons why usage has dropped off since it was in vogue in the early-mid 2010s. I'm not sure that's the reason. Rega
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From the article: > they were drafted for a public speaking class in which the instructions were to say something hyperbolic and attention-grabbing. The witness testified he didn’t believe the statements to be true. The title makes it se
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> 2) a large, open community moderated to a high standard of civility. I tried quite a few sites when the reddit issues surfaced a few months ago. tildes.net easily passes the civility test. Great place for respectful discussion, with t
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> No one has mentioned the 2880x1920 resolution display. fyi: On their specification page[0] they list both 2880x1920 (s/b 3:2 aspect ratio) and that the screen is a 16:10 aspect ratio. I'm sure the 16:10 aspect ratio is a typo
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Thank you for the summary! I'm not heavily invested in AI (machine learning) and don't have tools to do X or Y. This saved me a lot of time and broke down the (dense) article nicely for me.
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Related: TikTok's Aging Filter [0] is having the same effect: [0] https://brunchvirals.com/entertainment/aging-filter-tiktok/
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> There’s plenty more, I’ve linked it in previous comments in my profile if you care to look. Not the person you were responding to but I went through your comments and all I did was waste my time. Really. I don't like wasting my ti
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78 comments. Only 37 points as I type this. I say this because there's clearly lots of interest (engagement: 78 comments) but people aren't happy with the results (only 37 points). The first language I typed in was English and rig
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When I saw this post, I thought the new flagging links were added to help track biases from users. For example, there might be users on this platform that will flag anything that might be critical of their fav tech company or political ideo
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This is great! Thanks so much:-) Added to my feeds.
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Side note: It's so weird for me to hear the term "google search". It's what happens when you haven't used a site directly in years. I almost have to ask myself (facetiously), is Google Search still a thing? The same
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I thought it would be a good exercise to see what was out there (give other sites a chance), so I started following suggestions others have made. This is the list I currently have compiled. https://lemmy.ml/ ( https:/&
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This would be perfect if there was an RSS link... for, I too, welcome our 8-tentacled overlords.
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