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by jrnichols 3y ago
fun hobby photography is a reason I've been considering a Pixelfed instance. I like that idea.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
FlingUp would be smart to address the potential flood of NSFW material before it gets out of hand. OnlyFans spammers have completely overrun a lot of the subs on Reddit, and I'm sure they're looking for the next reddit already.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
This problem became much worse when Covid-19 came around too. Still to this day, there is a mod that will auto ban you from like 30 different subs including /r/pics and others if you so much as make a comment in a sub that they co
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I did read the thread and I understand it. The fact that they were able to narrow it down to one building with only 30 people means that it is definitely not many would consider to be anonymous. From a news article in the thread: “We start
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by jrnichols 3y ago
Something else will come up, until the endless quest for advertising revenue catches up and ruins that as well.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
This whole time we've been told that this is totally anonymous. Now we are seeing that it can most definitely be used to track people. Interesting.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
it didn't fail, people just found something more shiny. what scared me off usenet was the reality that very very illegal porn was flooding into otherwise normal groups. the relentless onslaught of spammers & scammers was never endi
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by jrnichols 3y ago
> Does someone really sit on their couch, put on a massive headset, and scroll through their vacation photos? I would, yes. > Does someone watch an entire 2+ hour movie with a sweaty headset strapped to them (and plugged into a socket
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by jrnichols 3y ago
> What is the hard thing about building an open, user-friendly Reddit alternative? One already exists in Lemmy. I suspect a big hurdle is dealing with all of the laws & regulations that exist in the United States. I've already s
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by jrnichols 3y ago
number of users is one thing. how many actively use it is another probably more useful metric.
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by jrnichols 3y ago
I'd love to see "people search" websites like Spokeo/etc be forced to delete everything about me. once I find a website, make an account so I can get my information deleted, another 3 sites have popped up. I think even o
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by jrnichols 4y ago
same here. I had a raq3 for a little while and a Cobalt Qube (2? I think? it was a MIPS unit) and they were a lot of fun. I was sad when Sun bought up Cobalt, though. the units were discontinued soon after.
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by jrnichols 4y ago
California law supposedly allows this but I haven't had much luck. Very recent experience was with wifi on American Airlines. I was taking a bunch of flights in a 30 day period, so I signed up for the wifi subscription. Very easy to do
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by jrnichols 4y ago
I wonder if this is a franchise thing. I've moved states more than once and Planet Fitness has been one of the easier things to deal with cancelling. Done this a few times in different states. You should be able to go into any location
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by jrnichols 4y ago
maybe it's because I'm a bit older, but I noticed that too. also noticed that "counterculture" went extremely far off into covid-19 hysteria and has never come back. Seeing anime cons demanding proof of vaccination and s
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by jrnichols 4y ago
agreed. he has been and continues to be way over the top about it, continues citing fringe/extreme "sources" and still has "the pandemic is not over" as a headline. he's one that covid hysteria absolutely brok
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by jrnichols 4y ago
If you're ever in the Dallas/Ft Worth area.. National Videogame Museum! https://nvmusa.org there are also several Free Play arcade locations (they restore & maintain the original hardware) along with Arcade 92 up i
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by jrnichols 4y ago
I find this too. with Apple News+ I think I read more magazines than I ever have before. They've been a good experience.
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by jrnichols 4y ago
Edge isn't my default browser (Mac user here) but my experience has been the same. It's amazing how bad most of my Google results have become. Was pleasantly surprised by Bing results recently. DuckDuckGo is my #2 now. I never tho
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by jrnichols 4y ago
" Just this week I had huge problems with an expected email not reaching either of my gmail or outlook inboxes. It just never came, despite the sender insisting they sent it." That's been the opposite problem for me. I can se
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by jrnichols 4y ago
"...get a blue badge, get extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you, and get direct access to customer support" How about not having my account locked for 7/14/30 days for sharing a meme that I f
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by jrnichols 4y ago
I still enjoy self hosting, and part of the challenge now is "how can I do it without having a loud power hungry server?" I did it with the pi3 for a few years, but expanded into Proxmox and a small form factor Dell box with a new
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by jrnichols 4y ago
I wish they could donate it to the National Videogame Museum: http://nvmusa.org That museum is awesome and has a decent visitor stream, so it's nice to see there's interest in the old games.
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by jrnichols 4y ago
Actual paper in hand print magazines, no. traditional "print magazines" in digital form, yes. I love the magazines in Apple News. I still read Macworld, Wired and others. I think I read more magazines now because of Apple News. I
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by jrnichols 4y ago
I gave this a try and thought it was really cool. thank you!
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by jrnichols 4y ago
I'm not super familiar with chatGPT but how well does this address the issue of outdated blog posts and ancient reddit/forum posts?
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by jrnichols 4y ago
I agree. After reading this article, that was the first thing I thought of. Copy protection mechanisms like these were downright obnoxious and it's no surprise that customers get sick of them and go with the cracked/pirated versio
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by jrnichols 4y ago
I have a TLD that ends in .fyi and I self host. I pass 100% of the tools on mxtoolbox, yet email going to gmail and Google Workspaces or whatever it is sometimes never gets delivered. I can see it being accepted by Gmail but that's it.
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by jrnichols 4y ago
Apple discontinued the Airport units, yes. but they still work. I have one here right now. No, Apple did not drop support for YouTube playback. Google/YouTube stopped developing the app for the older versions. This was 100% on Google,
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by jrnichols 4y ago
> someone is being held at gunpoint and told to hand over their phone and password. The article doesn't say that happened, though. It just says "My brother got his iPhone stolen at gunpoint." If the victim had been made t

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