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Hey buddy are you food, have you got food? Rinse repeat.

Or, ahhhh go away. Run for the hills.

Or, what's with the lack of fur, what a freak.

Re:Substack Notes Launched on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @04:59PM (#35531474)
It feels like a wasteland. But then the tech accounts all left for mastodon. All I am left with is weird cycle rage cringe. That I try so desperately to not interact with.
Re:Substack Notes Launched on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @04:54PM (#35531411)
I use ddg everyday and I hate it. I resort to Google shortly after. Not personalised so I guess I am missing out on decent returns.
Re:Codeberg – Fast Open Source Alternative to GitHub on Friday April 07, 2023 @09:26AM (#35481343)
I don't know how deep copilot delves, and if it has access to all repos, but I am not comfortable with that. I am not even comfortable with a major player such as MS having access to intellectual gold.
Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:26PM (#33496715)
Did they? Alive and kicking in the UK.
Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:24PM (#33496694)
I have no clue which previous server I signed up to. And looking through themed servers I found one with an interest, but it's hardly my only interest and was met with welcome text saying post something interesting.
Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:20PM (#33496649)
It's where the people are. I don't use Facebook in the main, but there is a local neighborhood group that I feel I have to subscribe to.

You don't always get to pick the venue.

Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:10PM (#33496545)
Discoverability and onboarding and authentication is hard.

I remember the fluffy days of Facebook, where almost in an instant there was a wildfire of 'you might know' suggestions, from harvested addressbooks and cross referencing.

I found, and find discoverability hard on Twitter. My follow list rarely gets bumped and I am pretty clueless as to who and what is in it. I have to make an effort to grow the list.

Tweet reach may be massaged by favs, comments and retweets. Not totally sure how this is different in Mastodon.

Are we talking timeline/search promotion?

I remember email round robins pre Facebook and you did add people if you recognised them.

Directory services just got pulled as they were harvested by spammers. Not that I think this would help. You need some nudging.

If I read an article and the author had an easy lookupable and addable feed, I might note it.

Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? on Sunday November 06, 2022 @02:23PM (#33496078)
Why can't it get enough reach?

What if each news outlet ran their own server? Or would this feel like bondage with people wishing for multiple personas/autonomy?

Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? on Sunday November 06, 2022 @02:21PM (#33496049)
Is this a good explainer? There is a barrier to most tech. I remember joining a server and not going much further a few years back.

Seen lots of people saying this is me I think on Mastodon.

Re:Cleaning a Spoon Is Complex on Sunday October 09, 2022 @05:50PM (#33145666)
Re:Cleaning a Spoon Is Complex on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:11AM (#33141233)
I just lick it clean and put it back in the drawer.
Ukraine shows how fragile and dangerous the reliance on reactors is. If the world can't behave responsibility.

The long term costs of nuclear are just crap. You would be better investing in battery tech to store renewable energy.

Re:What's the cheapest domain you can register for 10 years? on Sunday September 11, 2022 @11:16AM (#32800318)
You might divide that namespace greatly. The one higher up the pyramid still isn't paying 100,000 whatevera a year. In the main the vast majority of users don't give a rat's arse about the domain. But they do have trust issues. Webs of trust can ease this. And relieve you from the scam world of vanity TLDs and overpriced digital number plates.
Re:Why I built a dictionary app on Monday August 01, 2022 @06:24AM (#32304039)
So I read this as, I got a dataset to query and got it running locally via sqllite. But it was a limited dataset so I want to write my own dictionary.

A - aardvark...

Yeah bad example, most wiring is visible in the house. But water pipes outside. You have a point. Weirdly cut an old buried feeder out the ground today.

The untidy assortment of cabling under the living room floor sends shivers through my spine even though that's hidden. I once was a cable guy.

Re:Facebook’s Retirement Plan on Thursday May 05, 2022 @10:49AM (#31274079)
I use marketplace. It's buggy on mobile, didn't work for a year or so, there are scammers on there. I saw a flood of dodgey adverts over the last week. Reported, persisted. I still use of for marketplace and a forum.
At least overhead lines are honest. I find the buried infrastructure harder to level in my brain.
The vast swathes of unused land now won't necessarily be the case in the future.

Incorporating solar into housing, like roof tiles seems like a no brainer. Energy stores like reservoirs, or flywheel tech or something else could help plug gaps.

Then there is the whole question of energy needs. Zero energy housing. And micro generation could help.

In the UK our housing and agriculture sector, uses a huge amount of energy for not a lot of gain. Given a modern country and opportunity learn from others' mistakes.

Re:Oggify: Download Songs Directly from Spotify on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @05:50AM (#31081243)
I now just record the bit stream from digital out to mini disk from good quality streams! Lol.
Re:Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus) on Thursday April 14, 2022 @04:13PM (#31032671)
My old moan would be multi file copy to something like usb. In the end I discovered, if I create a folder on the desktop, copied items, and then copied the folder. The process was far less painful. Or just drop to the CLI and rsync. But cherry picking files to copy is a drag.

Common use case though.

Re:The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @03:18PM (#30619441)
I put my s7 face down in snow and it took 24hrs or so to accept a charger. Thought the port was dead. Wireless charging could be good in that regard.
Re:The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @10:18AM (#30615350)
Jack removal makes sense, if going for a dust and waterproof soap bar.

My Samsung is supposedly waterproof, but moans if I do much as breathe in the charge hole.

Re:The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010) on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @10:15AM (#30615302)
On my droid about 2.5gb of garbage of a software.

And yet it almost works on Google assistant, with hardly any installation.

I too get lost from playlist and search/song wandering, but Apple isn't unique in this regard.

Re:Aldus PageMaker (Version 4.2) on Sunday February 27, 2022 @09:51PM (#30495772)
These days you could dump your content, and get an ai to template it.
Re:PHP – The Right Way on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:42PM (#30305373)
I still haven't worked out how to phar.

Is this problematic for archive distribution?

Re:IBM Plex Typeface (2018) on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:41PM (#30305357)
Fairy snuff, I'm happy to get a typeface explainer but this may as well be spooned prunes. https://youtu.be/y6Gma6iNhxU
Re:IBM Plex Typeface (2018) on Friday February 11, 2022 @11:14AM (#30303121)
What a load of old claptrap.

Just show me some samples.

Re:PHP – The Right Way on Monday February 07, 2022 @04:26AM (#30242315)
There is 'use as'.

But it is infuriating having to namespace your code when a folder name/heirarchy could do.

This has been fixed!

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