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  2. Comment on Photographers what are you shooting with? in ~hobbies

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    /offtopic: Curious what photographers stopping by this thread would recommend as the cheapest possible option that takes noticeably better photos than a phone camera.

    /offtopic: Curious what photographers stopping by this thread would recommend as the cheapest possible option that takes noticeably better photos than a phone camera.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Linux mini computers in ~comp

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    +1 to this. DigitalOcean provides droplets from $4 a month. It is significantly simpler than having to port forward, ensure you have a static IP, call your ISP, etc.

    +1 to this. DigitalOcean provides droplets from $4 a month. It is significantly simpler than having to port forward, ensure you have a static IP, call your ISP, etc.

  4. Comment on Neeva.com is shutting down in ~tech

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    That is really interesting. I'm also running a personal SearXNG instance and have pretty bad latency, somewhere around ~5 seconds on average. It was bad enough that I had to increase the timeout...

    That is really interesting. I'm also running a personal SearXNG instance and have pretty bad latency, somewhere around ~5 seconds on average. It was bad enough that I had to increase the timeout cap. I guess that's just my poor upload speed and several layers of indirection then?

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Another update to Kagi plans - More searches and unlimited AI interactions for subscribers in ~tech

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    Try it out for a month. It's $10 billed monthly (actually, looks like a free 100 searches and $5 for 300 searches / month) and they don't do any dark pattern around billing, so you can subscribe...

    Try it out for a month. It's $10 billed monthly (actually, looks like a free 100 searches and $5 for 300 searches / month) and they don't do any dark pattern around billing, so you can subscribe and immediately unsubscribe so it doesn't renew.

    I found the boost/block feature to be the main feature: for every website, you can block/lower/raise/pin it in the relative search rankings. Combined with already pretty good spam protection, this entirely eliminated spam results in search.

    edit: oh, also, another thing is aside from finding it very useful, i like supporting a company that takes something historically entirely funded by ads and also necessary to internet discovery and takes out the treat-the-user-as-a-product part.

    5 votes

  6. Comment on Another update to Kagi plans - More searches and unlimited AI interactions for subscribers in ~tech

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    Hmm. I'm still about 500 over on average, and 1.5¢ a search is pretty steep... but I'm really quite inclined to switch back and lean on bangs now.

    Hmm. I'm still about 500 over on average, and 1.5¢ a search is pretty steep... but I'm really quite inclined to switch back and lean on bangs now.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on What are we in the golden age of? in ~talk

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    I'd perhaps disagree: I think it was about as easy for lies to go around, and to stay in a bubble, back when it was hard for anything to go around. Certainly though for faking information.

    I'd perhaps disagree: I think it was about as easy for lies to go around, and to stay in a bubble, back when it was hard for anything to go around. Certainly though for faking information.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on What are we in the golden age of? in ~talk

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    Information. All that one could hope to know and more is freely accessible and available on the internet. This is a new phenomenon and was not the case even a decade back. Wikipedia did not exist...

    Information. All that one could hope to know and more is freely accessible and available on the internet.

    This is a new phenomenon and was not the case even a decade back. Wikipedia did not exist to the same level of comprehensiveness it exists as now, Sci-Hub launched 2011, Library Genesis (now: Anna's Archive) really took off around 2013 or 2014. Libraries began to shift into eBooks around 2010. Scientific papers were digitized early, granted (arXiv was 1991), but still only a few decades ago.

    I find it remarkable that in order to know something one only needs to sit down and learn it. Individuals all throughout history would have killed for access to what the internet provides today, and yet, people broadly do not appreciate or even oppose this access. It's a damn shame that so much knowledge has to be scurried around illegal channels thanks to universally broken copyright systems - but nonetheless, accessible it is.

    10 votes

  9. Comment on YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers in ~tech

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    When things like EasyList and SponsorBlock exist, I can't imagine how they'd win the adblocking arms race.

    When things like EasyList and SponsorBlock exist, I can't imagine how they'd win the adblocking arms race.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Pokemon Pride Team: A commissioned artwork in ~creative

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    That's some very beautiful art and an incredibly cute gift.

    That's some very beautiful art and an incredibly cute gift.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on I beat Breath of the Wild 100% in a single day in ~games

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    Normally I wouldn't post general speedruns: but this video does an excellent job showcasing and explaining a large variety of fun BOTW glitches currently present and commonly used among...

    Normally I wouldn't post general speedruns: but this video does an excellent job showcasing and explaining a large variety of fun BOTW glitches currently present and commonly used among speedrunners, even in the first few minutes.

    5 votes

  13. Comment on Are we Wayland yet? in ~tech

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    Somewhat tangential, but the X.Org foundation (also responsible for Wayland) joined the Fediverse recently.

    Somewhat tangential, but the X.Org foundation (also responsible for Wayland) joined the Fediverse recently.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on BreezeWiki makes wiki pages on Fandom readable in ~tech

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    BreezeWiki is nice. A cool little thing they do is to try to redirect you to independent wikis when possible, ex. https://breezewiki.com/pokemon/wiki/Bulbasaur.

    BreezeWiki is nice. A cool little thing they do is to try to redirect you to independent wikis when possible, ex. https://breezewiki.com/pokemon/wiki/Bulbasaur.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on i.reddit.com (aka .compact) appears to be gone in ~tech

  17. Comment on Framework announces 13th generation Intel update for laptops, new AMD options, and a 16-inch model with modular, upgradeable graphics and keyboards in ~tech

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    I know a couple of people who have been holding out for an AMD option, they'll be thrilled. The 16 inch model looks really interesting. I'm excited to see what kinds of things people build off of it.

    I know a couple of people who have been holding out for an AMD option, they'll be thrilled.

    The 16 inch model looks really interesting. I'm excited to see what kinds of things people build off of it.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Update to Kagi Search pricing in ~tech

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    Ah, I haven't written them yet! The feature of Kagi that I use the most is the boost/block domains function, so I'm going to try my hand at importing my blocked domains a la uBlock filters. Also...

    Ah, I haven't written them yet! The feature of Kagi that I use the most is the boost/block domains function, so I'm going to try my hand at importing my blocked domains a la uBlock filters.

    Also probably some CSS tweaks.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on GPT-4 announced in ~tech

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    Did this not already exist?

    Did this not already exist?

    1 vote