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by shmeeed 9mo ago
An anecdote about printers: I was just trying out Linux Mint from a live USB when out of nowhere appeared a popup that a Brother printer was ready for use. Turned out my significant other had switched on the WiFi printer in the other room.
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
I didn't downvote, but it might have to do with the fact that you appear to be just inventing numbers like 2.5%. If Steam Decks are only used for gaming, why would they make up for 1.38% of the Statcounter numbers?
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
>The problem is that people do not realize that devices like Steam Deck are also considered Linux desktop devices in those numbers. Are people even browsing on Steam Decks? Because everybody in this thread seems to be referring to stats
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
Probably. But part of it might also be something else entirely. I'm not saying it is, but how's anybody to tell? Statcounter is just not a good way to research Linux market share. Unfortunately, what they lack in statistics, they
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
Statcounter isn't just "not fully accurate", it's a hot dump of analytics garbage, at least for this purpose. Take your time to reflect on these diagrams - what's happening there? What's the 55% "unknown&q
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
BT can be a shitshow on any OS. Some combinations work flawlessly, some don't. It's not even the OS' fault IMHO, but the device manufacturers'. My Bose headphones have the same problems under both Windows 10 and Linux.
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
>Google is still the best search engine. YouTube is still the best video site. And both products are arguably worse than they were ten years ago.
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
The (Open)AI example was to illustrate the fact that companies can lie about their long-term plans or just change them whenever. They routinely do. And everybody who believed yesteryear's mission statement will then wind up feeling pre
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
The IMF usually only gets involved in policy when countries borrow money from them. So far, France has not had to request such aid.
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
From the comments, I get the feeling that Kagi's customers are just a particularly paranoid bunch. ;) Anybody is free to cancel their subscription the moment Kagi turns out a malicious actor. And then... go back to Google, I guess?
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
I get the point, we've all been burnt. But if you're not trusting anybody anyway, why would explicity in a non-binding blog post / press release soothe you? We're in the middle of an AI bubble propping up the whole frigg
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
I don't see how it's conductive to the underlying big stakes discussion if we start condemning Kagi over this omission instead of assuming good faith. It's just distracting from the real issue at hand that is Google's mo
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
FWIW, it's the same for me on FF Android.
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
Meanwhile, top comments are having visions about the emergence of Einstein-level insights. There's a disconnect somewhere that I can't quite put my finger on. Am I just lacking imagination?
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
>Another state-level predictor of accidental fall death rates is wintry weather: eight of the 10 states with the highest age-adjusted rates are notably snowy. >Wisconsin, Maine, Vermont, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Iowa, New Hampshire, a
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
Just pointing out, this clip could have been done with AI just as well.
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
I appreciate you making the post not about AI.
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by shmeeed 9mo ago
You can do the same with A4, of course. Metric and imperial pirates will have to battle it out.
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by shmeeed 10mo ago
Android and iOS don't show because it's filtered for desktop.
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by shmeeed 10mo ago
Whoa. At around 21:30 he mentions Raph Koster. I'm 99.9% sure I read that name for the first time in my life... yesterday over at the Digital Antiquarian's blog in a story of how Ultima Online came to be. Baader-Meinhof phenomen
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by shmeeed 10mo ago
I don't really like linking to X, but there's also this "comprehensive" snapshot involving several more sources (which might be self-selecting in their own ways...): https://x.com/LundukeJournal/sta
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by shmeeed 10mo ago
Cloudflare is a better alternative: https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&loc=&dt=5...
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by shmeeed 10mo ago
PSA: Statcounter data is garbage, please stop referring to them. This data is based on their own tracking solution customers, which is only about 0.3-0.6% of all websites (none of the big ones) and therefore highly self-selected. Note that
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by shmeeed 10mo ago
Now here's someone who did their homework. Thank you.
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by shmeeed 10mo ago
And I can make music with my mouth. Cheap
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by shmeeed 10mo ago
You could catch a bad case of algorithm poisoning if you're not careful
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by shmeeed 10mo ago
I like this thinking about other people's time as opportunity cost. I do that a lot and always encourage others to keep it in mind, too. An example: a few years ago, there was a recurring unnecessary traffic congestion on my commute be
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by shmeeed 10mo ago
https://mastodon.social/@oec@infosec.exchange/11474011506716... https://mastodon.social/@oec@infosec.exchange/11483544044249...
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by shmeeed 10mo ago
Holy hell, I had missed that post
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by shmeeed 10mo ago
Me and some friends used to attend the CCC some 15-20 years ago. Back then, we just showed up at the entrance on the first day and bought our tickets there. This year we were toying with the idea of going for a revival. But man, did we unde

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