Imagine fucking up so badly you have an xkcd made about you.

I can absolutely imagine sitting around with mates and deciding to order a delivered candy bar just to see if they would do it.

Yeah cause my work computer limits onedrive storage to like 100mb and downloads is one if the only places where I have write access and it doesn’t go to onedrive.

I love that he’s like “I co founded Netscape and Mozilla, now I run a dance club and pizzeria”.

Dude’s living the dream.

I think PieFed has only recently got an API for apps to connect to, hence the surge.

Holy crap, I hadn’t considered that we have the technology to create articles on the fly based on search terms.

That could be a serious weapon of war - you get your site to the top through SEO, then show each user personalised propoganda. You show googlebot the genuine page but adjust the page based on what you know about the user.

Kagi does seem to cut out a lot of blogspam. I think Google is incentivised to send people to these sites with adwords ads on them.

Haha in NZ you get a message from all sorts, king, prime minister, minister for seniors, local MP, amd for many places, the mayor of where you live.

The list is here on the page about applying under “Who the messages are from”. You do have to apply (normally a family member will apply on their behalf), the king doesn’t magically know where you live 100 years after you were born.

Temu Voldemort Peter Dutton

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I am not either - anymore 😆. I have been running Nextcloud for years, but this was the push I needed to bring everyone on my OneDrive plan onto Nextcloud instead.

OneDrive: we are putting up the price of our family plan significantly.

Also one drive: look at all the new AI stuff we have added to your plan

(Also OneDrive: yes your 6 person plan is for sharing but you can’t share the new stuff we’ve added to your sharing plan)

In NZ you could get a Queen letter too (now it’s from the king). I wonder if it’s available across the Commonwealth.

To give credit to the people trying to make good search, the internet is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago.

Over that time the ad driven internet has encouraged low quality, high volume websites full of articles designed around common search terms.

It started before AI, but now you can drum up an article in seconds it has got much worse.

AI is driving more searches

This is hilarious. People are searching more because they aren’t getting results they need from AI, which drives ad revenue so Google’s doing great!

Yeah that’s why I called it out. It seemed like it was an important part.

There probably isn’t an actual reason why you couldn’t connect it to a wall plug in a way that replicates this setup even if a bit hacky. E.g. short cable then attach the unit to the top of the plug. It’s not that heavy and may attach fine without coming out of the wall.

How far away is the Home Assistant Voice Preview from what you’re looking for?

It doesn’t plug directly into the wall but instead uses a USB C cable (that you provide). Other than this, mine can answer questions, search the internet, turn things on and off, play music via Spotify, Jellyfin, etc. Tell me about the state of stuff in Home Assistant (temps in rooms, how the solar is doing, what’s on my shopping list and can add things, etc).

It requires you already have Home Assistant set up but it is a pretty good experience so long as you’re willing to do some amount of tinkering to make it your own.

Like other comments say it’s not general public ready but it’s pretty close and costs $69.

Can we get a meme about calling it main, effectively master but not granting it the title of master? That’s where I thought this one was going.

Is it? With the advent of cloud storage, it seems that is the easiest way. Any cloud storage, any OS, its the concept of cloud storage that solves this problem.

I want my mother to be able to upload videos of the kids and watch videos others have posted. Friendica fails at this first hurdle, it’s simply not user friendly enough to do that.

I have been waiting years for something to come along that can do this well.

Around two years ago reddit effectively banned most third party apps. That was when Lemmy went from a handful of instances with 1000 or less active users (mostly those banned from reddit), to tens of thousands of users and hundreds of instances in a short space of time.

People here are saying there are dozens of people here who came from reddit, but I’d guess it’s dozens of thousands, a pretty decent proportion of active users.

This article says it did it by disguising itself as a web crawler. So can I just set my user agent to googlebot and paywalls will disappear?