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ominouslemon @ ominouslemon @lemmy.world
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BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance

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  • When I see this shit I lose all hope in the Fediverse's success

    • BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance

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  • ...to make the fediverse useless, yes

    • For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic

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  • Microwaves are just quicker and more convenient. That's their whole selling point

    • For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic

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  • Yep. In-vitro studies are often unreliable. I remember a company that made natural extracts from plants claiming that their extracts killed coronavirus: they had put some coronavirus cells in a vat in contact with the their extract and it killed them.

    • Sea of Stars has completed development and gone gold!

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  • Did not know about this, but it looks great! Wishlisting it

    • The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter

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  • Still, lots of people care about the NYT and Fox News. And I mean LOTS of them

    • The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter

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  • That was the idea. Now it's pretty much a ghost town, though. It never had a real breakthrough

    • Do our phones listen to our conversations? The answer is complicated.

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  • You know, I used to be very skeptical about this whole thing, like you are. But this is not the first report of this type I see, and I'm not so sure about it being a coincidence anymore

    • Do our phones listen to our conversations? The answer is complicated.

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  • one of the test participants, who talked repeatedly about Volvo, did report that they were bombarded by advertising for the brand. This person did not even own a car, nor had they searched the Internet to buy a Volvo or any other kind of car.

    • What is your favorite technology? What makes your like it like that?

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  • Wrong discussion

    • Google alert failed to warn people of Turkey earthquake

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    • Why do people call it DM?

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  • Matrix is not part of the Fediverse

    • Why is the Connect Lemmy app trying to track me? (Answered: It isn't)

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  • As a browser? Firefox. The answer is always just Firefox. It's not perfect by any means, but it's the best in terms of privacy and ethics. It's not shady like Brave is, it's not Chromium-based like any other browser, and Mozilla is actively engaged in making the web a better place.

    I've had the chance to discuss numerous times with people about other browsers, and I honestly don't get why they always look elsewhere, when Firefox exists.

    P.s.: sorry about the tirade, I obviously don't have anything against you. It's just that Firefox has existed for 21 years and it has been consistently user-focused and privacy-centric and I really don't understand why people don't just use it - maybe because it's not as new and thus does not look as attractive as other browsers

    • Catholic abbot told to cover cross at Western Wall - The abbot was told that the cross worn at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City was "really big and inappropriate for this place."

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  • IDK if that's really news. I went to the Wall with my (christian) family like 15 years ago and my mother, who was wearing a tiny cross necklace, was asked to hide it

    • Brave's aggressive marketing

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  • I reeeeeaally don't want to go into that, but no: masks have been proven to be effective, if worn correctly, even non-n95 ones. It's not a mystery that, if something is in the way of your spit, you're not going to infect as many people. As for the whole outbreak origin debate, scientists went back and forth between the "wet market" theory and the "lab escape" theory. The last research I've seen was pretty confident in the "wet market" theory. No Fauci involved there.

    • Brave's aggressive marketing

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  • There are controversies around Brave itself and also its CEO, Brendan Eich (also inventor of JavaScript and also former Mozilla CEO).

    • Brave was altering search results by adding crypto redirects to links. Source.
    • Eich was forced to resign from Mozilla CEO because he made donations against gay marriage. Also, he basically is a covid conspiracy theorist. Source

    You might not care about a company's CEO behavior, as long as they do a good job. I usually do not. In this case, I can't help but feel that the whole project is kinda shady.

    • Brave's aggressive marketing

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  • They just don't know any better. And when you tell them about Brave's history, they just don't listen

    • Xbox wins, FTC loses again

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  • I don't know what to think about this acquisition. What I do know is that the FTC should pick their battles in a different way. There are at least a couple of other tech companies (Google, Amazon) that should be broken up because they're monopolies and I don't know why nobody at the FTC seems to be looking at them.

    • What is your new years resolution?

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  • Being more like myself and stop desperately trying to appeal to other people. You'd think that's easy, but noooope. Especially considering the fact that, after years of behaving like other people expect you to behave, you start forgetting who you really are.

    • Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM

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  • with LineageOS from day 1

    Same here! I had been living with degoogled ROMs since 2013-ish and I bought the OP5T with the specific intention of using Lineage from day 1.

    Nowadays I struggle to find a potential successor: I need a headphone jack (so no Fairphone, unfortunately) and that makes it waaay more difficult. Sony Xperias are probably my best shot