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ikt··on DuckDuckGo was down
I duno how this isn't getting more views tbh

Ecosia and Duckduckgo and Bing are down, there's at least 5% of the search engine market (the non-google part) down at the moment

ikt··on Equinox.space
ty!
ikt··on Equinox.space
this is amazing

anyone have a solution for turning the power generator on? I matched the squares with the tetris style symbols on the power generator but then nothing happened :S

ikt··on Tell HN: We should snapshot a mostly AI output free version of the web
good lord that is a horribly designed website, the OP that that person is linking to:

https://infosec.exchange/@bhawthorne/111601578642616056

:

How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites?

Last night I wanted to roast some hazelnuts, and I could not remember the temperature I used last time. So I searched on DuckDuckGo. Every website that I could find was machine-generated with different temps listed. One site had three separate methods listed that were essentially differently worded versions of the same thing. With different temperatures.

So I pulled my copy of Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook off the shelf and looked it up there.

I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past.

ikt··on Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death in $27B fraud case
> The article was posted to an American news outlet

The Guardian is British no?

ikt··on Boeing chief must have engineering background, Emirates boss says
maximising profits to the point your company goes broke is generally seen as bad business and thus bad for capitalism

im not quite sure where it says in the rules of capitalism to extract all available value out of a good product until it is no longer good

ikt··on Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu
Feel free to ask Apple how they feel about the EU right now, I'm not sure you'll get a positive response
ikt··on A woman named "Steve" – IT pioneer, entrepreneur, philanthropist (2019)
that's funny, I literally thought it was just that, it'd be like a company being called programmers
ikt··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
You could have literally done the test yourself as I did only a day ago but instead link me to some Youtuber who according to Wikipedia:

> In 2023, The New York Times described Pool's podcast as "extreme right-wing", and Pool himself as "right-wing" and a "provocateur".

ikt··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
> You can't get this thing to generate any white people at all, no matter how explicitly or implicitly you ask

You sure about that mate?

https://imgur.com/IV4yUos

ikt··on How to make a better default Firefox UI
> this literally cannot be explained by anything except user hostility

Really?

It literally says why it was changed:

it was a special behavior only implemented for Linux, it was not consistent with Firefox on other OSes, and with other browsers on Linux itself. The prefs were causing broken edge cases complicate to handle, taking into account all the possible pref combinations (for example under certain combinations it was not possible to select a word), and having to execute more tests for them. Not removing the prefs would have not saved many resources, since we still need to maintain them.

ikt··on The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
Even better, use Spotify to discover artists then buy their music! It's not mutually exclusive!
ikt··on The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
Sure did

https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/

So their profit is $6.6 million; the band may as well be working at a 7-Eleven.

ikt··on Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
next question: why are people still using putty
ikt··on EU coal and gas collapse as wind and solar ascend
> A 50KWh capacity battery will last a very energy efficient house < 5 days.

With solar panels that can fill it up daily (eg. blackstart)?

ikt··on Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching top; X falls to #36
I wonder if the internet is splitting in two, those you interact with and those you doomscroll?
ikt··on Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching top; X falls to #36
> I like mastodon, but it has been described as going to a quiet restaurant only to be handed a meat cleaver and an oven.

I like how a non-algo'd website is now basically being described as a massive pain

ikt··on I used to not worry about climate change. Now I do [video]
> I'm tired of being told that it's my fault the world is screwed up.

It's not your fault specifically though, it's our fault.

I'm fortunate that I'm in Australia, so my parents now have a hybrid car, a heat pump hot water and solar panels.

I have an EV, electric hot water, solar and home battery but... it was only 2 years ago I was renting, I had no solar panels, gas hot water, petrol car, and no home battery.

I did my best to reduce my electricity usage + paying extra to use the 'green power' option, my car was the smallest/most efficient I could get, I got a motorcycle to reduce the amount of oil use for daily trips to work.

My point of view is that you can only do what is in your capacity to do, and so long as you can say that to yourself you're good, we need more people like you.

ikt··on Czech republic sets IPv4 end date
> Two years till it becomes illegal to offer something on IPv4 for the general public and not offer it on IPv6

Why? Is there any pressing need for ipv6 only connectivity that you'd make ipv4 only illegal?

ikt··on What's that touchscreen in my room?
That's what immediately stood out to me, why the hell would you order it from Amazon instead of literally driving 5 minutes down the road to pick one up from any electronics or hardware store? what a horribly inefficient way to do things
ikt··on YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled
The interesting thing is that they removed that option in the latest version
ikt··on Gas pumps freeze at Calgary gas stations [video]
Weirdly makes me happier with how Australia is progressing, a real 'it could be worse' situation
ikt··on Duolingo Cuts 10% of Contractors as It Uses More AI to Create App Content
to learn another language it's critical you use it as often as possible, in an ideal world you want to completely swap out your native language for the one you're learning, that's the reason for the streak, to keep you engaged in the target language to help you learn, it's not like a snapchat streak which is completely pointless
ikt··on With revenue declining, Mozilla CEO gets a 20% raise
> if Elon Musk

This isn't a fair comparison to most companies as Musk has made Tesla largely about him, can you think of many other companies where if the CEO left a 75 billion dollar stock drop would happen?

ikt··on First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation
> which ended up increasing German CO2 output.

That's temporary, soon that will go back down again

ikt··on EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation
> With Tesla and SpaceX printing money

Are they printing money?

ikt··on 'Weird Al' Roasts Spotify's Artist Payout System in Year-End Wrapped Video
it's not possible to calculate exact payout because the payout is 70% of every dollar spotify generates so that obviously fluctuates day to day, then you have ad tier vs premium tier and then i read that the payout goes through another calculation based on what total percentage of streams you have out of the total and then depending on the label how much they pass on
ikt··on 'Weird Al' Roasts Spotify's Artist Payout System in Year-End Wrapped Video
From a different article:

Not 3 cents, a third of one penny per stream. By that metric, Weird Al would have earned a little more than $12, more like $350,000 but his point stands.

https://gizmodo.com/weird-al-spotify-wrapped-artist-pay-1851...

ikt··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
> Or being forced to use Teams and Azure, due to my company CEO getting the licenses for free out of his Excel spend? :-))

The pain is real :(

"You use Windows because it is the only OS you know. I use Windows because it is the only OS you know."

ikt··on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
no need to go that extreme, the fix is to just update ublock orgins filters

Go into ublock origin addon > click filter lists > purge all caches then update now

all done

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