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[–] lily33@lemm.ee 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Type in "Is Kamala Harris a good Democratic candidate

...and any good search engine will find results containing keywords such as "Kamala Harris", "Democratic", "candidate", and "good".

[...] you might ask if she's a "bad" Democratic candidate instead

In that case, of course the search engine will find results containing keywords such as "Kamala Harris", "Democratic", "candidate", and "bad".

So the whole premise that, "Fundamentally, that's an identical question" is just bullshit when it comes to searching. Obviously, when you put in the keyword "good", you'll find articles containing "good", and if you put in the keyword "bad", you'll find articles containing "bad" instead.

Google will find things that match the keywords that you put in. So does DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Yahoo, whatever. That is what a good search engine is supposed to do.

I can assure you, when search engines stop doing that, and instead try to give "balanced" results, according to whatever opaque criteria for "balanced" their company comes up with, that will be the real problem.

I don't like Google, and only use google when other search engines fail. But this article is BS.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

In TikTok or instagram reels, you don’t follow people you like. You just watch stuff happening.

That's actually the whole point of TikTok, what made it different when it started. An app for short videos where you follow people you like is more of a Snapchat competitor, not TikTok.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

As someone who has no knowledge of the ecosystem: Why would people who self-host wordpress care about access to wordpress.org? Isn't the point of self-hostung to use your own infrastructure?

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

I'm sure removing these maintainers would be of great help to the Ukrainian war effort...

More seriously: We need to help Ukraine more. But this doesn't do that. It just hurts a bunch of people (both the maintainers, and the people using their code) for no benefit whatsoever.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

What if you arrive early, didn't do online check-in, and have to wait for the check-in desk to open? It maybe I don't understand what you mean by "drop-off area".

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

If we wait for AI to be advanced enough to solve the problem and don't do anything in the meantime, when the time finally comes, the AI will (then, rightfully) determine that there's only one way to solve it...

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

My bet is, it'll be Saturday that goes, finally achieving a 6-day work week.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To add about the distro framgentation, and particularly:

If I run into a software I need and it specifically indicates it’s for another flavor of Linux than the one I run, how likely is it that I can get it to work on another distro without any real trouble?

You might have. Some software is distributed as a portable binary and can run on any distro. However, many installers are distro-specific (or distro family-specific, since they're made for a specific package manager). For example, a software packaged for Ubuntu as a .deb file would install fine on Ubuntu or Mint, and probably install fine on Debian, but if you want to install it on Fedora or Arch you'll have to manually re-package it.

Most distro-specific software usually ships debian or ubuntu package - so you might go with that for that reason. Or Arch/Endeavor: while you'll rarely see an official Arch package, most often someone will have already re-packaged it and put it on the AUR.

That said, for the major distros, the desktop environment makes much more difference than the distro.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm not sure where the Linux kernel part comes from, but if I open the article and search for "linux" or "kernel", there are no matches...

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Technically, "enforced pay it forward" is called credit. Your debt would then be "the amount you still have to pay forward".

Of course, this defeats both the spirit and the purpose of a pay it forward scheme.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know - but I'm willing to get the instances where people were saved weren't calls from anonymous voip numbers.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago
 

This is a meta-question about the community - but seeing how many posts here are made by L4sBot, I think it's important to know how it chooses the articles to post.

I've tried to find information about it, but I couldn't find much.

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