What does a British person’s home made curry taste like? I’m curious.

There’s more than one Musk!? 😱

Is this really “world news”? 😕

I mean, what’s new? We’ve known for years that companies are collecting our personal data online.

Yep 🤦🏻‍♂️

This isn’t even about AI. Regular search engines will also provide results reflecting the thing you asked for.

They can still reject the proposal. Just because they’re built upon Chromium, doesn’t mean they need to utilise or retain every feature Google adds to it.

To be honest, I think whichever approach you take is unlikely to have a significant effect on how much energy your website uses overall.

For example, servers in datacentres are very powerful and are able to run more than one thing at once. So if you were hosting your own Lemmy/Mastodon instance, there’d be no reason why you couldn’t also host a standalone website on that same server. The difference in energy usage would be negligible.

In contrast, you could argue that Lemmy is less efficient than a straightforward static website because the content of your blog posts will inevitably end up being federated to many other instances. That means multiple copies of your blog will be transferred between multiple servers and stored on multiple hard drives, etc. Whereas a static website lives in one place and doesn’t end up using so many resources.

At the end of the day, whichever you choose will likely have very little impact. So I wouldn’t worry too much about your blog’s green credentials.

I’m saying this as somebody who is pro protecting the environment, but also pro prioritising our efforts in the places they’ll have greatest impact. You’ll probably have a bigger impact by walking to the store instead of driving.

Agreed. News about X is not news about technology.

What better way to create the image of a thriving userbase, than for your userbase to literally create the image.

Who are these people that will fund a social network, with no expectations of a return on that investment, so that people can fill it up with memes and porn for free?

I do think Firefox gets a degraded experience on some websites.

For example, Google Meet supports virtual video backgrounds and 3D face filters for Chromium based browsers.

And Google Search serves up an older results page design with fewer features to Firefox users. Someone has literally had to create a Firefox addon to make it pretend to be Chrome so it gets the modern results page.

I realise these are both Google-owned websites - but I don’t think it’s accurate to say that the average user isn’t going to come up across these differences.

/s

Exactly this. In the same way I expect to be able to email the government, but I wouldn’t expect to send them a message on Facebook Messenger.

Open platforms over walled gardens.

If only there was some sort of Reddit API that we could use to retrieve & mirror content from Reddit… 🤔

Oh wait! 😅

Asking for a friend, of course…

Do you have a sauce for that Google announcement about Reddit? I’m interested!

It really does, doesn’t it!?

Do people even use Pinterest nowadays?

I’m always staggered by how regularly it appears at the top of search results.

I think the terrible microphone quality on Bluetooth headsets is down to limitations in the Bluetooth protocol itself.

For all the hype around wireless headphones, I really wish they’d fix the potato quality microphone audio. It seems so odd to me that it hasn’t been fixed by somebody yet.

🙋🏻‍♂️ Sony WH-1000XM2 owner here, and I’m equally as happy. They’re still going strong after years of heavy daily use.

Oh, good to know. For some reason I was under the impression that there was something ‘more’ to a Kbin magazine compared to a subreddit or Lemmy community. I’m sure I read about it somewhere and was sort of surprised at how flexible it seemed – but I can’t seem to find it now, so I may have imagined it!

While I haven’t spent time looking at kbin, isn’t that essentially what it does with its ‘magazines’? I believe magazines are an automatic grouping of posts by hashtag, community, keyword, etc.