LainTrain

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[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

This would be so good. As someone who fully switched to Firefox on Android I hate that chrome webview is a thing.

Closest without rooting is to "uninstall updates" to the chrome app in the menu which makes it "APK Stub" instead of Chrome, ans then disabling Android Webview.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's arbitrary but something like SELECT * FROM posts WHERE datePosted < ( currentDay() - 7) ORDER BY upvotes; doesn't feel like an algorithm as it is now used in common parlance to me.

A simple quantitative analysis of an existing metric and (upvotes in the above super simplified example) is just not really the same thing in practice as say: multiple linear regression of hidden backend engagement metrics gathered through things like cursor movements to pick a suggested video that is predicted to optimize the best for watch time and CTR from a list of videos on a balance of personalized and generalized (through tracking trends amongst demographics) favourites topics and other qualities classified and categorised by a whole other black box involving all sorts of classifier models from text to images and so on.

Idk, I didn't take algorithms in CS at uni, so this is just a layman's two cents. I'm happy to be explained to why this isn't a valid perspective.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Nah. Algorithms, especially personalized as a way of sorting a feed are just a shite idea. Maybe one of the iOS apps will add something like that but if anything is being different is a selling point. I got two friends on fedi by telling them that "it has no algorithm" which is a simplification of course but you get the gist. It also really hits home that this is not a corporate product.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Nah. The different character of the communities and their history makes them unique and special, hiding that for broad appeal is unnecessary.

No need to muddy the waters with weird client-side obfuscations, one big one almost always wins and the other gets reposts, while subscribing to both is trivial if one wishes

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

We had this as the firewall in our school! I remember bypassing it in so many ways with Google DNS and whatnot.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

TL:DR: Apple operates in Russia and removes anti-war based relatively good guy non-state-funded anti-Putin podcasts that Russian government doesn't like within Russia. Afaik.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago

We cannot win by changing the fediverse into something like what we left behind because it will no longer be the fediverse we know and love, all we have is the good fight of educating people on why it is better and ourselves as an example - a city on a hill to which others may flock if they see the shine, and it may not be a fight we can win but it is the only fight worth fighting.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I love Canis Canem Edit!

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 week ago

Nothing magical about it, it's just federation, that's not what I was referencing in my comment - my interest was more about a potential culture clash - despite what the hordes of retards replying above seems to want to frame it as.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 week ago

Yeah I don't mind em too on Mastodon because poor twitter design philosophy makes things hard to search and filter. Not on here though. Blocked.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Of course it does, everyone finds reading difficult the first time they do it. Try it again when you've had some rest and you may realize that your interpretation isn't correct or what was meant at all. I just find it weird that people on mastodon would interact with Lemmy, not that they could.

Your confidence in your ignorance is what's wrong with the world today. Blocked.

 

Hey y'all

So I've been a big anti-Wayland shill around here but decided to finally give it a shot, I installed Debian 12 with GNOME, and can't seem to get Plank working.

Without the Plank dock, GNOME is unusable, and KDE refuses to autostart Guake (does not save the setting in autostart), and when it works it seems broken (stuck to the left side of the screen).

These are fundamental apps to me for any decent Linux laptop use. What gives? Is there an alternative?

 

Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?

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