@Gte I find myself regularly pulling up Wikipedia to get a list of OS names and the associated version.
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@siguza how many bad copies of the StackOverflow content does the world need?
@siguza interesting. Is it Google, or is it that websites are adversarial towards search engines, because the predominant business model is web-based advertising?
I _feel_ like search results were much better when the web was less sophisticated.
@cragglecat @whetstone @mmasnick I never left Twitter, but have removed all past posts and profile information. My profile photo is a Poinsettia that sits on my counter. :) There is definitely a lot more noise now, but the information, presentation and posting quality are better overall. I'm spending much less time on Twitter, but when I want to know what's going on, I pop over.
Do you remember Twitter in ca. 2008? That was when I joined and mostly it wasn't very good. That is Mastodon today.
John GordonAirPod secret powers: "go into your Control Center and add the Hearing toggle into your Control Center. Doing this will unlock the first three features that I want to bring up."
https://9to5mac.com/2023/02/10/these-are-the-top-features-that-make-airpods-worth-owning-video/
Background noises, use iPhone as a microphone, decibel readings.
@bhawthorne I think you're missing the point. Whatever you imagine Mastodon is today is not what it will be a year from now. A user base cannot expand 3-10x its previous stable size, primarily from a single source, and maintain its 'village' flavor. There was a reason Twitter has consistently been orders of magnitude more popular. Twitter, pre-Musk, was significantly better than Mastodon is today.
@liztai @peterdutoit @TheManyVoices @scotclose @whetstone @mmasnick @icecubesapp They were the primary motivator for the development of algorithmic timelines. The right cat for the right occasion.
@liztai @peterdutoit @TheManyVoices @scotclose @whetstone @mmasnick @icecubesapp
Instances are one of the more dubious aspects of Mastodon. Great idea in theory, pointless in practice.
Now I need to curate people and self-selected groups of people. If for example, WaPo, NYT, or USGov were running instances, I suppose it might make sense. Tightly focused instances. However, will people on infosec.exchange stick to infosec? Doubtful. They too will inevitably post cat pictures.
"Vant lesekonkurranse for fjerde gang"
"Won the reading contest for the 4th time."
I suspect they're running a doping program. Some sort of chewable reading steroid that turns 7-year-olds into reading crazed monsters.
https://bok365.no/artikkel/vant-lesekonkurranse-for-fjerde-gang/
When the US gets super wound up about mail, let me give you some perspective:
In downtown Oslo, we get letters delivered only every other day.
"Avg 3 letters per week. It is therefore not sustainable or financially justifiable to maintain five days of postal delivery..."
The cheapest postage is $2
By default packages are delivered to the nearest grocery store and must be picked up.
You can opt-out of junk mail by putting a note on the box.