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James R Kirk

@ Kirk @startrek.website

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  • What's going on? Why does this offtopic comment have 14 upvotes and no upvotes?

    EDIT: Dead internet theory here in full force. This post is about Lemmy. The only thing that has to do with Substack is the example post that OP highlighted to demonstrate issues with Lemmy federation. And yet the top comment (and replies to my comment) is going on as if this post is about Substack, almost as if it was written by a technology that cannot understand context.

  • People Are Becoming "Sloppers" Who Have to Ask AI Before They Do Anything

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  • When over 100,000 people are doing it more than 24 times per day on average over a six month time scale.

  • People Are Becoming "Sloppers" Who Have to Ask AI Before They Do Anything

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  • I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust

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  • From someone waking up from a coma without experience with Windows or MacOS, Linux truly is the most user friendly. It may not have been true five years ago but in my mind it is without question true now.

  • I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust

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  • I hate to admit sometimes that the Chrome experience (especially on mobile) can be a lot smoother and quicker to load, but Firefox wins every time on extensibility. But to your point yes the hate directed Firefox's way can be well, a bit much.

  • People Are Becoming "Sloppers" Who Have to Ask AI Before They Do Anything

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  • My latest "grinds my gears" is seeing people run their emails through GPT to make them sound "professional".

  • I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust

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  • I believe Firefox is completely FOSS.

    Looks like it is! I was under the apparently false impression that it was only partly.

  • I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust

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  • Well, because FOSS apps are usually the best/most user friendly option even if they're not always the most popular. If you woke up after a 30 year coma and had no prior commitments to using any particular software, there would be absolutely zero question that Linux is the best OS today.

    An OS is a complicated thing, yet the FOSS option is the safest, most user friendly, and most versatile. I'm just a little surprised there isn't a browser that checks those boxes too, since the browser is a widely used thing. But I'm guessing because Firefox exists the number of devs willing to give the time investment just isn't as many.

  • People Are Becoming "Sloppers" Who Have to Ask AI Before They Do Anything

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  • I'm not saying that nobody does this, but the idea that there is a widespread problem of people prioritizing GPT over their own cognition for a majority of their decision making has "trying to create a new moral panic" written all over it.

  • I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust

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  • I'm not under the impression that a web browser is a simple thing to build but with Linux advancing the way it has in recent years it continues to surprise me that the "best" browser out there isn't FOSS.

    Hopefully that is about to change!

  • The Simpsons creator Matt Groening urges everyone to 'delete Fox News'

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  • he didn't

  • The Simpsons creator Matt Groening urges everyone to 'delete Fox News'

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  • Is one of those people Matt fucking Groening? Because otherwise it's a stupid claim. Did Sean Hannity create the Simpsons?

  • The Simpsons creator Matt Groening urges everyone to 'delete Fox News'

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  • im not sure if youre joking but matt groening created the simpsons which is a fictional cartoon that premiered on fox broadcasting company, an entirely different company than news corp which created fox news and which existed nearly a decade before the simpsons did.

  • The Simpsons creator Matt Groening urges everyone to 'delete Fox News'

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  • 1980 - News corp created

    1989 - The Simpsons airs

    why would Matt Groening do this

  • Looking for a Desktop Environment recommendation for my Mother's new 2-1 laptop.

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  • +1 for this recommendation. Gnome is going to feel more familiar to a MacOS user and Silverblue is very resilient.

  • Wayland Will Never Be Ready For Every X11 User

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  • That alt text is just TOO real

  • Hands-On With the Minimal Phone: Week 1

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  • Pixel doesn't have eink screen though which is kind of the whole point

  • The Future is NOT Self-Hosted

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  • The LinkedIn-styled writing here is hard for me to get through, but I think the general gist is that for profit platforms are easier to onboard which I agree with. This line stands out:

    And what do we get in return? A worse experience than cloud-based services.

    I have to disagree somewhat, it's a different experience that is absolutely more difficult in many ways, but for those of us who value privacy, control over our data, and don't like ads, the trade-off is worth it. Also it goes without saying that the usability of selfhosted apps has exploded in the past few years and it will likely become less and less of an issue.

  • I love Lemmy

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  • Fortunately "groupthink" on the fediverse isn't a structural problem since nobody controls all instances and every instance has different moderation styles.