Notices by Antarctic Chique (pingviini@pleroma.shunderdo.me), page 2
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@coolboymew @olmitch Yeah I had a quick websearch of the text in that screenshot and didn't find a source, but I found articles upon articles going as far back as 2017 full of insane hand-wringing and idiotic trolley-problems all related to skin-color emoji
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@smug @RedTechEngineer @coolboymew Sorry for the triple post, I hate this old-ass Pleroma install sometimes, but I can't be arsed to upgrade the old-ass Debian it sits on
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@smug @coolboymew @RedTechEngineer The free trial includes about a month's worth of searches (300) and I've made it the default search both at work and at home.
At work I regularly need to search obnoxious tech shit and really need relevant results fast (like: A Sybase ASE database server has had a strange hiccup that I've never seen before and customers want their application back online five minutes ago fast) and it's been like a time-machine to a time when Google was good.
For searching at home it's not been that much better than Duck Duck Go to make me go "shut up and take my money" yet, but so far I really like the grouping of results compared to the competition and I haven't really tried stuff like custom search lenses yet (see image).
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I'm currently doing the free trial for the Kagi search engine that @Moon posted about a couple weeks ago and even though it's been only a week I think I will have to subscribe.
Glad they just introduced a new entry level tier for five bucks a month (previously the lowest tier was ten a month) ... not happy to pay for search, but I don't think I can go back now, it's too good.
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@lain ** Knechtspartei - DIE KNECHTE
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@lain DIE KNECHTE
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@lain Wer sind im Ruhrgebiet eigentlich die (I)ndigenous in BIPoC?
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@aven @coolboymew It's not supposed to be a publicity stunt or a gotcha on logistics companies, the shipping is the artist's process to create unique pieces. The laminate glass boxes were specifically made to fit into standard shipping boxes as closely as possible so that they would crack, but not break.
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@coolboymew https://info.sonicretro.org/Preview_-_Sonic_Heroes_(Xbox_World,_May_2003) Worth reading in full
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@lain @laravista Ard Su
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@coolboymew The funniest thing is that it's just a lazy rewrite of a Vice article that contains this incredibly self-aware gem:
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@coolboymew I have looked up and read the article and I am now objectively dumber for it
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@coolboymew That one was such a riot, the interpretation was that hetero men have become way less repressed about physical intimacy when to any non-blinkered reader it just demonstrates that gay men in the UK are still incredibly deep in the closet
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@coolboymew nnnnnnnnnnnnnggggghimsorryimsorryohgodicantholditaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
GOTTA BREAK FAST
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@mangeurdenuage I've never owned an ebook-reader either. If entertainment text for normies requires unbeatable DRM in the future, I will cease to read entertainment text for normies. I hardly read any of it now already.
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@mangeurdenuage The real answer is to leave the normienet to the normies and have a net outside of that that runs on different rules, a different economic basis, significantly different content and diverging technology.
I also remember the web from 20 years ago. There was no normienet of course, instead there was the normiebox (Television), back then still a separate thing that ran on separate infrastructure. The normiebox economy was also dominated by ad-business. It also sucked ass and became worse every year.
I watched TV for maybe 2 hours per week and used the internet for > 20 hours per week. And that was an internet without Youtube, without Spotify, without Netflix, without Steam. Normies did the opposite. Normies would also make fun of "antisocial online nerds" while they themselves would just park their asses in front of the normiebox after work and turn their brains off while the nerds communicated and collaborated with people from all over the world on anything you could possibly talk about and collaborate on with a computer.
I never used a Chromium-based browser as a daily driver (*a six month streak of Vivaldi is the most).
I still have never had a Netflix account.
I had Spotify and cancelled it after two years.
I'm in my second year of Apple Music and I'm thinking about cancelling that and going back to an mp3 collection because I'm not discovering enough new exciting music to justify the ongoing cost just to replay my old favorites over and over. Apple Music is the *only* website I use that even uses the horrific HTML5 DRM crap they bullied Mozilla into implementing. Before Apple Music, Spotify was the only site that used it.
The real threat is - to the normies. It's them who the cabal wants to view more ads. It's them whose engagement they want "attested", so they can charge advertisers more money. I don't feel threatened. I never depended on the normiebox to make it through the week and I will never depend on the normienet either. The cabal doesn't care about me. It doesn't even know I'm there. It doesn't want to extinguish me or the tech I use. It only cares about the normies. We'll be fine.
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@lain I am starting to have some begrudging respect for all these people to just keep rolling and rolling with this ARG where everyone's pretending they invented Lt. Cmdr. Data from Star Trek, or are just about to
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My instance is a federation backwater, so it might be just me, but, has anybody actually seen a federated Threads post or is everybody just instance-banning ahead of time for clout?
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@lain Wasn't that the backstory of Everybody's Gone the Rapture
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@coolboymew Absolutely. I'm willing to bet money that Kevin Smith honest-to-god liked The Flash, especially since it makes a reference to Superman Lives, which he wrote and never made it into production.
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