I can only speak for myself, but I like to keep posted when important people and organizations are opening accounts on the Fediverse. :)
It's funny that Kagi included "fediverse forums" functionality in their search before they decided to join Mastodon - one would think the search functionality required a bit more.
Mastodon posts tend to get funky when they federate, because Mastodon has this (annoying) norm of starting posts with mentions. So OP mentioned the community on the first line, which became the first part of the title - @fediverse. Second, it mentions Kagi as a tag instead of name, which gives the @kagihq. And then comes the first sentence as the rest of the title.
It's a great example of Lemmy/Mastodon interoperability working, but not being quite there yet.
I subscribed to the lower tier for a while, but I kept running out of searches early on every month, and the price of the higher tier is just not excusable. So I found myself adding the !ddg bang most of the time to avoid spending my Kagi quota.
And as good as Kagi is, it's still primarily a meta search engine, organizing results from the dominant actors. So it's not like the price is justified by them having to crawl the entire web themselves. Their own crawler, Teclis, is currently small web only and can probably best be described as an interesting project.
Instead of making search cheaper or more affordable, they spend subscription money on creating AI services and various other non-search distractions. Maybe that's good for some people, but I don't want that shit. I just want a good search engine at a justifiable price. And for that, sadly, Kagi fell short.
Wall-E had people ordering liquid fast food on their iPads and having it immediately delivered by drone. So fast food on a space station, but not a conventional restaurant experience i guess.
I'm pretty sure we can convince a significant portion of the MAGA crowd to vote third party, by informing them it's impossible for Trump to win without a large turnout for third parties. 🤔
It seems it's easier to deal with the firmware from a Windows machine, so I'll deal with that back in the office next week.
If that doesn't help I'll take it out of the case again and see what's up. I don't have a soldering iron yet, but if it's an obvious problem this might be what pushes me over the edge. :)
Pundits are a fucking plague on society. They're all just trying to push some worthless agenda, either political or personal, and will write any bullshit that gets them on print. It does not need to align with reality at all.
At this point, what's the point of pretending Walz is a gamble? He's pretty much universally loved and all attacks on him so far are failing.
What's the point of pretending the Democratic convention was not a success? Comparing it to the Republican one is like comparing a world class ballet dancer to an old demented man shitting himself.
What's the point on reporting on tiny variations of 0.2 percentage points that are well outside of any statistical significance? The author is a statistician, and should know better.
Well, it's expensive technology to develop, and there's no other business model behind it than surveillance. So I think it's fair to expect the surveillance part of it to be difficult to neutralise.
I don't currently run /e/OS on mine - for now I've just disabled the Google app instead. But it's a solid option, and last time I used it my banking apps and everything worked with no problem.
I guess we could compare it to ageing. People clearly get more fragile when they get older, and more likely to die from all causes. The common flu or falling in the stairs suddenly pose huge risks once you're 90.
Smoking has a similar effect on you as ageing, except that it's reversible.
I can't help but to read this as "guess the omitted variable". There's just no way of controlling for everything that might explain this, and it's obviously not the grandparents' time in educational institutions in itself that does the trick.
Thankfully, one of the authors summarized it well:
This opens up a myriad of possible explanations and will need to be replicated.
It's easy to imagine ways this effect makes perfect sense, especially if it's small. So the question kind of becomes what they have managed to successfully control for.
It seems you're right - the title field from Friendica doesn't federate well to PieFed. So I probably misinterpreted the confusion about the title. :)
@rimu@piefed.social