This is really nice. I notice that if I load the page for my city, then use “settings” to change the units on that page, then reload the page, the reloaded page is still in the old units. But that’s pretty minor.

I’m more interested in an API for this than in the web UI anyway, since I might like to use it as a widget.

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They’ve also broken the plugin API more times than I can remember. Wonder if they’ll do it again with this redesign.

Bah just fix the browser first. Give a way to disable audio for given sites. Fix the regression that made it impossible to turn off JavaScript on a page that was already loaded. Give a way to edit bookmark URLs from the toolbar bookmark widget. Make about:processes show why “Firefox” (rather than a specific tab) sometimes gobbled the whole CPU. Etc etc.

I don’t see a plus. It says “FreeOTP version 2.0.6 (48) © 2013-2023 - Red Hat Inc, et al”. But I think I’ve gotten updates more recently than 2023.

omg this is literally about salad dressing. The photo looks AI too.

I’m using FreeOTP from F-droid and imho it suffices if you’re going to use a phone app at all. The ability to back up OTP keys in principle defeats the concept of 2FA but it’s hard to live without, once you have enough keys. The thing about retain last N backups is hard to enforce without special arrangements in your backup scheme.

I’m unfamiliar with the Zavikon Island Bridge but if the renaming doesn’t work out, the original Tacoma Narrows bridge could be another good candidate.

Customers in Europe can pre-order the €649 phone by making a €99 down payment, with the balance due before the phone ships in September. But only 1,000 units will be available as part of this “limited batch.”

There are some Lemmy instances without downvoting, but none without upvoting. That affects what gets posted. Also it doesn’t matter much what an individual instance does, since a lively community has users from lots of instances contributing. That’s the point of federation, I thought.

For algorithms, anything that isn’t a straightforward scrutable way of presenting user content is bad, IMO. Algorithms that promote engagement, monetization, and sycophants are bad.

I would say scrutability in itself doesn’t automatically make an algorithm good. “Demote everything that doesn’t support Trump” is perfectly scrutable but leads to a skewed discussion.

In fact I would say any content boosting algorithm at all leads to skew and what you call sycophancy. That includes upvotes/downvotes that affect what posts users see first. So I would get rid of all that stuff and just show purely chronologically.

I haven’t noticed much difference between instances either, though I haven’t been on many. I moved from lemmy.world to lemmy.ml because .ml has a bit less censorship (e.g. .ml lets me subscribe to !covid@hexbear.net). They are otherwise about the same, as far as I can tell.

What are you saying here? Lemmy has algorithms too, and while it has some good points, it’s disappointing in lots of ways too.

Added: the article is mostly about Mastodon which is more pleasant than Twitter because it lets you listen to just your own selected coterie, also not entirely good.

Mostly we want them to make the browser itself not suck before worrying about cosmetics.

Ah yes, a Chap Foey Rider production.

https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0671653598/0671653598___9.htm

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Might be interesting but with the same sources of funding we could also have our own space program. It would be really cool to have interplanetary missions and maybe even interstellar ones. People don’t always realize that the United Federation of Planets began as a fediverse project! Why stop with a newsroom once enough imaginary resources can be deployed?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/34d5bfb5-d8bb-4a60-be40-b0734bd100e6.jpeg

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I have found gitit easy to install and use though not all that featureful. It uses git as a backing store and there is an apt package for it (apt install gitit).

He is getting used to it I guess. “Sir” is a pretty big demotion from “your royal highness”.