DeadNinja

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We have all seen AI-based searches available on the web like Copilot, Perplexity, DuckAssist etc, which scour the web for information, present them in a summarized form, and also cite sources in support of the summary.

But how do they know which sources are legitimate and which are simple BS ? Do they exercise judgement while crawling, or do they have some kind of filter list around the "trustworthyness" of various web sources ?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Neither is this about an ideology per se nor is this quote my own - but I've read this somewhere -

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."

  • Robert Swan (British explorer and environmental activist)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Theseus, is that you ?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The sooner people realize that the subscribers are nothing more than super-slow-boiled frogs to them, the better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But these tariff costs are going to be paid by China just like you promised, right Don ? RIGHT ????

 

My kid got a little round box of soapy solution at the fairground with a wire loop to blow bubbles with. She was pretty excited with it for few minutes, then lost interest. Kept it on her desk when she got back home.

The next morning, she tried to blow some more bubbles with it, but the soapy solution appeared to be as dead as plain water, i.e. zero bubbles came out when she tried with the wire loop.

What kills the "bubbleness" of soapy solution over time ? The concentration of the remaining solution should've remained the same since the box was closed shut overnight.

 

Why does Google Play Protect stop me from sideloading apks (from, say, Obtainium) while almost regularly I read reports about malicious apps being available in Google Playstore itself ? Why do they allow those ?

Probably just a rant out of frustration. I ignore those alerts if I am confident about the apk I'm sideloading, lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Very well written. Definitely helps in my understanding !

 

Basically what the title says. As far as tech knowledge goes, I am probably a 3.5 or 4 out of 10. Hence the ELI5 request.

I am a Firefox browser user, both in my Android phone as well as Windows device - for the same reason as many others ditched Chrome and chose FF (degoogle and all).

Recently I came to know about Fission being offered in FF nightly. It is said that site isolation with fission is far from ready, and this is probably one of the areas where chromium beats it. I read somewhere that FF fission uses multiple processes to separate sites, but they are not really "isolated processes".

All these is surely not making me less confused about how exactly sandboxing/fission/FPI/TCP differ as far as Firefox is considered, so thought of asking this here.

Posting this in the ELI5 community might've been more "correct", but my question being specifically around Firefox, I thought the chances of getting a better answer is higher here.

Apologies if not, and thanks in advance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

As a Brit, it was probably our fault in the not too distant past.

Yep. You deserve that honor for almost every frigging nation in the Commonweath, lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I hope they make this extension available for Firefox Android too. That'd relieve me of using two browsers in my phone, one for logged-in business (excluded from VPN) and the other for general browsing (with VPN).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yanni.

Period.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

Did you say thanks ? No? Go lay your own...

 

Jerboa sorely lacks the absolute basic feature of searching for keywords in posts. It only supports searching for community names. I can't think of any other Lemmy app that does NOT support general search.

I came to know that there is an issue open in Github for over 3 years now, but no clue as to whether it is been worked on.

Totally respecting the personal times of the volunteer developers who are making Jerboa an awesome app - at the same time the lack of this basic feature stops me from calling Jerboa my favorite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Understood. Thanks for clarifying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't call a half-baked search functionality as "minor" but that's probably just me.

 
 
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