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techt@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Texas father rescues kidnapped 15-year-old daughter after tracking her phone’s location
7·5 days agoThe bloodthirsty pursuit of vengeance masquerading as “justice”.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat)English
20·6 days agoI’ll try to give an out-of-the-loop answer to this, if that helps. Concerning “AI” tools, I think the chunk of people who don’t want it included in the browser on any level come in one or both of two forms. One is a moral opposition – for example, a pro-environmental or pro-artist stance. I don’t think those need much explanation, but feel free to say otherwise.
The other is in my opinion is in response to exhaustion. Pro-“AI” features have proven themselves to be untrustworthy at nearly every turn with thoughtless or downright irresponsible implementations. A worthwhile use-case is the exception rather than the norm and It’s tiring to have to constantly check if this time I want it on or not. As a result of opt-in-by-default changes to privacy policies or account settings, my trust in any site or app publishing an “AI” implementation has been broken and it’s nice to have options I don’t have to worry about wherever I can get them. I found it irritatingly tone-deaf that Mozilla wasn’t considering a kill-switch with their first swing at this.
If it seems unreasonable or hard-to-understand, I think taking a step back and looking at the broader software industry rather than just Mozilla will help.
techt@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Texas sues TV makers for taking screenshots of what people watch
17·6 days agoThey projected so hard I thought I was three days in at a French Film Festival
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: The pulled *60 Minutes* CECOT segment aired in Canada and is available online
5·11 days agoHuh, TIL something new
techt@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to MetacriticEnglish
5·13 days agoDamn, those Steam reviews are awful
techt@lemmy.worldOPto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is there a name for the vocal technique used for characters like Sméagol?
5·13 days agoI’m not sure – when I hear “vocal fry” I think of that open-throated low engagement of the vocal cords that makes a deeper sounding rapid popping noise. Were you referring to the same?
techt@lemmy.worldto
World News@quokk.au•Russia preparing to occupy Baltic states by 2027
2·14 days agoWell, now I’m curious too.
So according to Wildlife Informer, snails move roughly 1ft/hr, which is around 51.2 meters per week. I got some driving directions from a grocery store on the northern part of Ukraine’s east border (Продуктовый магазин «Смак», Bachivs’k, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine, 41411) to a crossing on the west border (Starovoitove Yahodyn Customs, Volyns’ka oblast, Ukraine) and that trip by road is about 850km. Because snails don’t follow roads, this introduces unspecified error. With those assumptions and numbers, that means it would take a snail around 16,602 weeks to cross Ukraine, or ~45.5 years.
So yeah, it was a hyperbolic joke.
techt@lemmy.worldto
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•League Of Legends 2 is Real and It’s Reportedly Coming in 2027English
4·14 days agoI agree with the statement but the logic behind it is just… silly. You said in LoL you can spend 90% of the game typing and it makes no difference, and then in the next sentence that being down a player is bad and makes the enemy actively stronger.
Rather, the reason for the difference in toxicity is that the individual player has a far greater impact on the game in LoL (for better and for worse) than HotS primarily due to exp sharing in HotS. This attracts the toxic individualist players to LoL and makes it easier to blame a single person for things going wrong. HotS has a much bigger safety net for when you make mistakes or are significantly worse than the rest of your team.
I don’t think it has anything to do with the level of activity or how much time is available to type; both games can keep the conscientious player busy 100% of the time.
Can I interest you in the Broomshakalaka?
techt@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•US demands access to tourists' social media historiesEnglish
10·24 days agoNews feed with a comment section
This is the explanation for why:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v883-self-signed-certificate/
techt@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Latest Windows 11 Update Gets Rid of the Start Menu and ExplorerEnglish
6·29 days agoThe fact that the explorer can regularly completely freeze up nowadays or flat out crash is actually insane.
This was literally the trigger for my very first Linux experience, it’s fucking asinine that something so fundamental to the UX could perform so poorly for such an extended period of time.
I love having to reboot the explorer.exe process in task manager because my taskbar search stops working.
techt@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and fundingEnglish
4·1 month agoI know you meant “spotlight” but that typo made me chuckle
Is that the same thing as an IPO?
techt@lemmy.worldOPto
SteamOS and (unofficial) SteamOS hardware@lemmy.world•How do BIOS updates work for non-Valve devices running SteamOS?English
3·1 month agoYeah, this was what I came away with as well. Not too bad, Steam makes it pretty easy to start from a clean slate, but flashing a new OS just to update the BIOS is still cumbersome. Thanks!
techt@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•DAE name their characters by their official name?English
7·1 month agoMy character in any game is named Tav now
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News@lemmy.world•Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
4·1 month agoSeconding Thursday boots; I love the fit and style. I wanted a leather daily driver I wouldn’t feel too bad about getting some damage on. Hurt a lot for awhile, but no regrets obviously.






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