chris

joined 1 year ago
[–] chris@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

I heard video killed the radio star.

[–] chris@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

Turns out reading speed and retention is better with dark text on a light background. I always use automatic switching when available… Light during the day and dark at night.

Unless it’s my code editor, if someone switches my code editor to light mode I’ll murder them.

[–] chris@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

That is what I’ve heard. Like digital painting and stuff.

[–] chris@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Haven’t used Facebook in probably a decade, but as a photographer Instagram is still the most active platform I’ve tried. Vero is weird. PixelFed is pretty empty, mostly people’s snapshots. Others either cost money or aren’t really good on mobile.

[–] chris@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

DESCRIPTION Lavender is an AI system that produces lists of Palestinians to be targeted for assassination by the Israeli military "with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties", according to +972 Magazine.

Big yikes.

[–] chris@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

What?! They have very unique squiggles and bright colors! No one else is doing that.

I really don’t get the logic of redesigns like this or The Verge. Was the design team just told, “traffic is down make it look new so we can post a blog about it”?

[–] chris@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

Man, 5 years. I know nothing about building a browser, but that seems… Long.

[–] chris@lemm.ee 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is a welcome change, but took waaay too long. I switched to Bitwarden a long time ago and have no plans on changing now.

[–] chris@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago

And you can just… Turn them off. No questions asked. DuckDuckGo is a great example of how an advertising company can be both financially viable and respecting of user-choice.

Google could let users choose to opt out of seeing any ads across their network for free today and still be one of the most profitable companies in existence. A huge percentage of users wouldn’t know or care to turn ads off, another percentage actually wants them, and for advanced users they could offer more advanced, useful features for money.

But try pitching that to stakeholders and upper-management lol

[–] chris@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I genuinely spend too much time on that site, but I haven’t seen an ad in years. If that changes, then I guess I’ll have to change, too.

[–] chris@lemm.ee 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’m assuming one would still be able to switch to a local account after installation, but you really shouldn’t need to. What a shit show.

[–] chris@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Fear of the defendant should not influence sentencing. That said, pretty minimal chance of jail time for this. Two-tier system and all that.

 

I’m not super familiar with the differences between x11 and Wayland, but I’ve been experiencing some screen tearing in games with x11 that I don’t remember experiencing in the past. I’ve heard Wayland is more performant, but does that mean anything when gaming?

I am using an AMD gpu with just out-of-the-box settings. No additional drivers or tinkering.

 
 
 

I have been trying to take my digital privacy more seriously as of late, but I find myself falling into a cycle of all-or-nothing. I will do a little bit to improve my privacy and then will suddenly feel like I need to go full-on down the rabbit hole. This leads to burnout, and then I'll convince myself that it's all futile and I should just use what's most convenient.

How do you all find a balance that works for you? Or do you just change things constantly?

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