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

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.

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

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.

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”.

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

Lemmy needs two things to be successful:

1. users
2. users

and it’s already getting more and more of those.

the only thing that’s worrying me about the subreddits closing indefinitely (even though I wholeheartedly support it), is that people are going to use even more closed off, unsearchable platforms as alternatives. /r/unixporn mods say their only “official” alternative is currently their Discord “server”.

edit: the message on /r/iPhone also directs people to their Discord. sigh.

I used to play a lot of PUBG on mobile. one of the most active players in our group was a girl and she was an absolute beast. doubly so if she got her hands on an M762.

what can I say, I believe in equal opportunity

first they took our jerbs, then they took our 'obbies, what’s next, are they going to demand equal pay as well??!???!?!?!?11

no, and I hope the Fediverse will defederate from them. judging by the discussion I’ve seen so far though, it’s not likely to happen.

the team has already linked to their Gitea.

the only reason I can think of is “to spite me”.

Digg exodus, I guess. and, to a smaller extent, the 2015 Blackout.