Just griping a bit about what’s probably more of a design/branding change than anything.

I think fakespot is promising tech that we desperately need more of.

Can’t hurt to have it in their hands, hope to see more server resources ;-)

Sorry… busy day and I’m going to need a real computer for this 😅

RE Free… nothing really, just being bitter. I’m not a huge fan of a lot of the little tie-ins like Pocket, but I respect the hustle… if not the business plan.

The Amazon review thing they bought is Fakespot™, check it out if you shop on Amazon. Here the Ai nonsense is just some summaries of the reviews it digested… not inherently bad, but the whole experience is painfully slow. Still. Well worth checking out if you haven’t.

Shady dude gets a 📌 for now. Sorry. Time.

If you check out Fakespot you can’t miss it. Have yet to try the browser integration, although I have enabled it for some reason…  

You gotta love that there are benchmark for that… The company that can’t even get free, right.

I really like their Amazon reviews thing that they bought… I bet the shady dude that had all the fucking people finder sites was in charge of that cause it’s got the same kind of fucking cheesy-graphic-load-screen… basically, the only functional piece of software they had at that point cause they hadn’t touched it, and then they went an AIed it up…

Here’s a new idea, why doesn’t everybody in the fediverse post their favorite privacy enhanced Firefox rebrand:

I’m on board now. Law and Justice had the largest single share at 35% and would thus receive 55% control of parliament under Italy’s proposed system, but with 52% of the population preferring a different mix of leadership.

I’m starting to see where I went wrong here. I should have taken a closer look at the breakdown of the election they were using as an example. I just kind of assumed that “the opposition” was the (perhaps imperfectly translated) name of a single party or coalition of some kind.

Ooooookay, that’s making a lot more sense now. Kind of an apples to apple pie comparison. Thank you.

I’m not understanding this:

If this sounds strange, that’s because it is. For example, if Poland had used this electoral system in its most recent election, the outgoing Law and Justice party would still control the Polish parliament, despite receiving only 35 percent of the national vote against the opposition’s 52 percent.

If the law and justice party received 35% of the votes and the opposition received 52%, then wouldn’t “the opposition” receive the 55% control of Poland’s parliament?

Or the next Google CAPTCHA after one of the sneaker-scalpers trains their own.

Is their completely automatic online store still closed on Sundays?

Haha!

Many mysterious sources in the article, but intriguing details too. Had no idea their new cells have a powered electrolyte.

alt.binaries.warez baby! Apparently you can swim in the same river twice :-)

FIDONet, sheesh… I got warez to download ;-)

Definitely power hogs. Modern switch mode power supplies are incredibly efficient.

I never really administered anything like that myself but I had a friend who took care of some old servers ~20 years ago in college. Multiple power drops in that small room went to fuse panels rated for several hundred amps each.

Unfortunately all I know were that they were VAX mainframes and were already considered obsolete in the late 90’s ;-)

Um… Compuserve, AOL, etc. were not email clients, nor did they come first. Email already interoperated just fine, these companies by and large added compatibility/internet email gateways as it became increasingly clear they would become irrelevant without it.

Feels like they just need to keep showing me pictures of someone cracking open a gooey coco pod and this problem will fix itself.

I have thoroughly enjoyed watching Matter flop and flounder this year :-)

Literally no advantages, plus you’ve got Google on security so you know your privacy is getting invaded because it’s their damn business model.

How about if we get The SloMo Guys to film it?

I swear this headline was just a comment the last time this got posted…

HoTD ;-)