[-] [email protected] 186 points 3 months ago

“Users who in the past would type ‘free online file converter’ into a search engine are vulnerable, as the algorithms used for results now often include paid results, which might be scams.”

Nooo, you mean turning search engines into monetization and ad delivery engines had downsides? Who would have thought!

Fucking greed at the root of another goddamned issue...

[-] [email protected] 246 points 4 months ago

That's good and I'm genuinely glad they're trying to clarify it, but it proves yet again that their top management is out of touch with reality and their users: somebody (most likely more than one person actually) had to sign off on these changes and the message they sent out - this whole thing could have been avoided if they understood their users better (and/or if they actually cared nore about what users think).

[-] [email protected] 287 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Many in the movement, including prominent Muslim leaders, voted for Trump hoping he would bring peace to the Middle East"

How the FUCK would you hope for that? Have you been living under a rock and didn't know who Trump actually is and what he does? The Muslim ban Trump? That Trump? Bringing peace to the Middle East? Seriously?

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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/29912340

I'll need to properly ID them later since they only have tags with their Japanese names, but I'm reasonably sure the top row from the left is a Leuchtenbergia, an Obregonia and a Crassula, and the bottom row is some kind of Gymnocalycium, a Haworthia, Blosfeldia liliputiana and another Haworthia.

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I'll need to properly ID them later since they only have tags with their Japanese names, but I'm reasonably sure the top row from the left is a Leuchtenbergia, an Obregonia and a Crassula, and the bottom row is some kind of Gymnocalycium, a Haworthia, Blosfeldia liliputiana and another Haworthia.

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Really cute, and they were really cheap to boot! Here's the other one:

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Edit: I found the culprit! It is an app I've been using for years called "Notification Toggle" that has sadly been abandoned, and that seems to have a bug on Android 14 where it's icon will be stuck at 1 instead of showing the current date. I completely forgot it even had this function, because it was a default on all my phones for a looooooing time without me ever opening it or fiddling with the settings. Sad to see it abandoned, with no hope of getting this bug fixed, but what can I do...

I switched phones recently, and am very satisfied with my Xperia, but there's this one useless icon in the taskbar that annoys me a bit and that is like to hide, but I can't identify it, could someone help?

I tried SystemUI tuner, but it doesn't list it as one you can blacklist in the list of toggles, and I don't know how to find it's key to add it as a custom one. Tried turning off calendar notifications, but that's not it - it still shows. Does anyone know what it is and how to hide it? It's a minor annoyance to be sure, but it's completely useless, and I'd like it gone if possible. Thanks in advance for any help!

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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The one on the left, with beautiful curved spines, is Gymnocalycium saglionis, and the other one, with white hair around spines is Pyrrhocactus floccosus, a pretty rare one (at least in Japan). Hope they like their new home!

Sabozoom1.jpg Sabozoom2.jpg

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/25424516

They were all so purdy that I couldn't help myself. Surprisingly affordable too, even the bigger ones, which is always nice.

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They were all so purdy that I couldn't help myself. Surprisingly affordable too, even the bigger ones, which is always nice.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I posted about my grafted bois before here (I wish there was a way to share instance-agnostic links, maybe some day...), but I have an update - one of them decided recently that having another cactus forcibly implanted on top of it is not nearly enough, and he started sprouting all over the place! What a little overachiever, eh?

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The first pic is unedited, and here's the version I played with a bit, what do you think, is it too much?

Cacti-Edited-1.jpg

Here's a few more, should be clear by looking at them, but unedited version first, edited one after:

1:

Cacti-Unedited-2.jpg Cacti-Edited-2.jpg

2:

Cacti-Unedited-3.jpg Cacti-Edited-3.jpg

3:

Cacti-Unedited-4.jpg Cacti-Edited-4.jpg

I think I might have gone overboard with the Aztekiums (first pic), but other ones look kinda nice to me. Still a lot to learn though, one day I might be able to show how pretty these are in real life!

[-] [email protected] 155 points 10 months ago

So, no booting into Windows until this is fixed then? Fine by me. Hell, might actually make me uninstall it completely and free some disk space...

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The one with dark, shiny leaves is Alocasia Cuprea, and the one with pretty stems is Alocasia Zebrina. I do hope they like their new home - had a bit of mixed luck with Alocasias in the past...

Alocasia-Cuprea.jpg

Alocasia-Zebrina.jpg

[-] [email protected] 211 points 11 months ago

Next step: sue the power companies for providing electricity to the bad, nasty pirates, their landlords for allowing the egregious acts of piracy on their property, and their mothers for not raising them right... /facepalm

[-] [email protected] 210 points 1 year ago

Warning: non-transparent walls, window blinds and door locks prevent lawful interception and surveillance - how are the authorities supposed to know you're not doing something naughty in there?

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

New flowers keep opening almost every hour - glad at least these bois seem to be loving the scorching Tokyo weather, because I sure as hell am not :)

Aaaaaanyway, here's more:

Cactus-Bloom1.jpg

Cactus-Bloom2.jpg

Cactus-Bloom4.jpg

[-] [email protected] 145 points 1 year ago

The wildest part is that he's surprised that Mastodon peeps would react negatively to their posts being scrapped without consent or even notification and fed into an AI model. Like, are you for real dude? Have you spent more than 4 seconds on Mastodon and noticed their (our?) general attitude towards AI? Come the hell on...

[-] [email protected] 135 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If teachers could brainwash kids to the point of changing their sexual orientation, wouldn't all schoolchildren become well-read, polite and clean well before they turn trans or gay?

[-] [email protected] 259 points 1 year ago

Separately from that, it drives me mad how warped the idea of "consent" is in Windows (and in tech in general). "Later" is not the opposite of "Yes" goddammit!

Imagine sexual consent was similarly warped: Hey Becky, you wanna have sex? You can only answer "Yes, right now!" or "Maybe later," and I'll keep asking you FOREVER. So, what will it be?

[-] [email protected] 134 points 2 years ago

Another revolution in battery tech? Man, is it Friday already? Look how time flies...

[-] [email protected] 208 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The phrase "free speech platform" sounds like a giant, enormous dog whistle. Which is a damn shame, because I used to enjoy that place, and now I'm not sure I will anymore... Don't want to jump to conclusions, but is there ANY self-described "bastion of free speech on the internet" that is not a cesspool full of awful people? Just one?

I'm a white, heterosexual cis male in my 40s not living in the US, so this does not affect me in any way, shape or form directly, but it still feels just icky, unnecessary and tone-deaf. Guess I'll post photos of my succulents and my goofy dog just on Lemmy from now on, bummer...

[-] [email protected] 178 points 2 years ago

The solution here would be to mandate full symmetry: if you require muliple steps and confirmations to UNsubscribe or cancel, you must have the exact same steps to subscribe too. I think it would fix this problem very quickly

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