I like both the piped bot and the tldr bot for the same reason: I don’t need to visit a horribly bloated, ads and scripts ridden web site, which most news sites are. So I take the bot as a really good service. Also consider that without it I’d say most will just read the title and may make conclusions based on that. I’d say that’s a bigger advantage than the downsides you mention.

(Yes I use adblocks and stuff. Most news sites are still a drag to visit and difficult to read.)

I think the bot is fine in principle. The YouTube web site is fucking terrible and it’s nice to introduce people who don’t use automatic redirects or 3rd party clients to an alternative.

My problem is that it would offer only piped.video links. We don’t know how long the piped.video instance will work, but well that’s the case for any instance. Ideally a bot would provide at least two links - piped and invidious, and maybe cycle or randomly choose instances. Perhaps under a spoiler tag.

Of course it’s up to community mods to choose, but I think bots like this or the tldr bot provide value even if they can cause that “Reddit moment”.

(I didn’t expect to use this picture twice in one day…)

Who said anything about striking?

Sometimes we skip bans and go directly to cutting off limbs with a lightsaber

I mean, I don’t have anything against this quote as it’s directly from the films, but I can’t guarantee some of my generals won’t get a bit trigger-happy haha

Not just with itself, also with other elements. Say, you won’t find pure iron in the wild either, because normally it reacts with oxygen so well.

But yea oxygen needs to pair with something because its outer electron shell is incomplete. So pairing with another oxygen atom is likely, but also with whatever else is available - nitrogen, iron, whatever.

Most elements are found in molecules really, with the exception of noble gasses like Helium. And some are less reactive than others.

Well since they’re constant by tracking every device at all times and all the other devices and networks as well, might as well put that to good use.

I find it amusing how nobody noticed when Valve changed their name to Valve Corporation ages ago, and people keep referring to it as Valve Software.

I’d still prefer to use Sumatra just because how lightweight it is compared to modern browsers, plus no fucking telemetry

the brand’s engineers made it next to impossible to open the frame that contains all the parts

VanMoof’s creators fancied their company to be like Apple — creating unique products that would spawn its own ecosystem

Well there we go, nothing to add that.

The attack in space angle was probably just to convince some manager.

The survival in Siberia is completely valid. US retrieves their astronauts in the ocean, but Soviet Russia didn’t/doesn’t have such a worldwide navy, so Siberia it is. It could take days for the cosmonauts to be recovered, so it was expected they might need to defend themselves against wildlife or even hunt.

Well outside of F-droid (for some reason) is OpenBoard with gesture typing

Convenience and marketing will always win at the end. We’re heading that way anyway. People use Apple Pay and Google pay and don’t think for a second what it means. Other forms of ID are going that way too. People want ecosystems without having to lift a finger. Just let big brother take care of everything.

What, you want to talk privately? Use cash? What do you have to hide?

Actually someone told me they don’t do that stupid Schrödinger’s ink like HP, and this is just shipping ink at regular intervals. Maybe we’re safe for the time being.

Certain search engine company was a badly managed, bureaucratic slog of an ads-driven soulless corporation for way longer than people think.

Well I said they advertise, not that they are.

Looks like you won this round. Congrats. Would you like to choose a pic for next weekend’s caption contest?

Lemmy.ml actively asked people to sign up elsewhere. They have a small server and aren’t meant to be a general instance.

Lemmy.world is run by people who have one of the larger Mastodon servers, and actively advertises to be open and neutral.

Actually I can lol, but I won’t. Took me a while to figure out the connection to SW, I gotta admit.