Quicky

joined 1 year ago
[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I am. And this amounts to selective censorship.

[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don’t think there is one. The Impressia app (iOS) does though.

[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

My money’s on Chappers filling in.

[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Thing is though, There’s plenty of sources I haven’t blocked. It’s basically just the Daily Mail and a shitty red-top, so I can’t believe they only curate the sources that I’ve blocked. In which case the feed should consist of headlines from the other huge array of other news sources.

[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Cheers - this would work, but first requires whitelisting all the sources you’re happy to see news from, rather than simply not showing you news from sources you’ve blocked.

[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I mean, this is specifically mildly infuriating, and there are other positives to it.

[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Fair enough. Although I would say that the magazine aspect (which I use it for primarily) couldn’t really adhere to that. The printed publications that you’d buy in a newsagent contain printed ads. I’m not saying it’s good, but it’s not different. Paper copy or digital, you’re getting ads with whichever one you pay for.

[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Isn’t it the publications themselves that contain the ads rather than the app itself?

[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Well now I’m going to have to try it aren’t I.

[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Not sure I’d agree, as the sources are configurable, but this sort of shit is far from a great user experience.

[–] Quicky@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Apple Arcade for me

 
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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Quicky@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

I’ve just bought a new fridge and it comes with a section to hold eggs. I’ve never stored them in the fridge since salmonella isn’t really a problem here because our chickens are vaccinated. Does anybody in the UK actually refrigerate their eggs?

As an aside, I tend to decide what goes into the fridge based on where it was in the supermarket. If they don’t refrigerate it, neither do I. So for eggs, I don’t.

Secondary question - what am I gonna use the egg holder in the fridge for now, other than maybe briefly cooling my balls?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Quicky@lemmy.world to c/movies@lemmy.world
 

I was reading this list of the 50 greatest sci-fi movies of the last 50 years, and it was all fairly predictable. There’s only a couple that I’d disagree with, but there were a few that would have made the list in place of them if I were compiling it myself, and I realised my additions were less mainstream or less critically acclaimed than were on there.

What guilty-pleasure sci-fi movies would you recommend?

For starters, ones I’ve watched a bunch of times would be:

Dredd (2012)

Pandorum (2009)

Lockout (2012)

Monsters (2010)

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Quicky@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

Since hypnotherapy can be effective for a percentage of the population for various treatments, why is it not offered as a standard therapy for everyone in terms of setting them up for health benefits at a younger age? For example, some people claim to have had successful results with hypnotherapy as a smoking cessation tool. If it’s effective, why is it not offered more widely as a smoking prevention tool, or healthy eating tool, or any other pro-healthy lifestyle aid before those bad habits are formed? Preventing smoking, or suggesting healthy food habits at a young age would save the NHS (or other public healthcare provider) billions long-term if it was effective. It seems like, if hypnotherapy is generally accepted as a mechanism to treat certain conditions (which it appears to be in various quarters of traditional medicine), why is it used more as a reactive treatment rather than a proactive one?

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"Hacked" Instagram (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Quicky@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
 

My other half discovered that some dodgy person/company had managed to send instagram messages advertising handbags to all of her followers from her account. She changed her password immediately, but what could have happened here? Is it the case that a “hacker” had access to her full instagram account, or would they have used some tool that allows posting of messages via some kind of proxy without requiring access to her actual account? There was no record of other logged in devices on the security page of her account.

Update: She’s just been through her junk email folder and found a “We’ve noticed a new login” email from instagram yesterday, so I presume that means they were fully in to the account then. How they got the password is anyone’s guess, but could be any of the suggestions below. Thanks all for the responses.

 
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