Asklemmy

The ads, the tracking, the eavesdropping

I would love to know from the rest here - isn’t a solution to the ad creep just… not buying things? Like going for second hand / refurbished, avoiding big brands for food and drink, and just not shopping online (ffs)? Or am I being naive? Enlighten me!

Of course working under the assumption that the government cannot (yet) admit to tracking us for more sinister purposes. That’s a problem for another day.

What career do you think the person who's seen the most faces has?

what browser do you use

How do you reply to people saying "i have nothing to hide?"

Whenever i talk to people about privacy, specifically my friends when i tell them why i switched to Signal and stopped using WhatsApp, i’m always met with people saying that i’m just making no sense and “why would you care so much if you have nothing to hide? I don’t care that meta sees that stuff” and some people are just so stubborn to understand that they might even settle on the “what would a billion dollar company want from me specifically?”. It makes me mad how people refuse to even consider alternatives and open their mind a bit. What do you think?

Any similar features in popular apps or extensions that may be good to know of? This one is from uBlock Origin(in Firefox)

Any features or apps more people should know of or would benefit from?

On this one, the No Large Media Elements from ublock Origin, it is a pretty good feature. Animations or pictures larger than the selected size are replaced by a red border. Clicking it will load that image.
Or you can temporarily turn it off for the website and reload the tab. There is an option to exclude Websites too. e.g. Excluding Lemmy instances where you want to see images by default.

More info: github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#…

Remembered about this recently in a Lemmy convo. I had heard that uBo with full capabilities is now only available in Firefox.
Curious to know other apps or extensions that may have some cool features.

Does parenting get any easier?

Hey Lemmy!

I’m a dad to a two year old boy. He’s very energetic and needs quite a bit of supervision. Other than that I couldn’t wish for a better son. I’d like to preface my actual question with saying I want to be a parent and I wouldn’t change that given the possibility.

The question is, does it get any easier? I have been stuck in a loop of wake up, take care of breakfast and other preparations, go to work, go back to parenting and maybe two hours of rest after the kid falls asleep. It feels like I don’t rest enough. I will however add that I’ve struggled with depression for the better part of a decade, I’m still pretty heavily medicated and in therapy. I’m much better than I was a few years ago, but the feeling of tiredness and lack of strength to be the best parent I can is at times getting the better of me.

I’m fully aware I put myself in this situation and I’m not sure I’d be happier with no kids. I guess I’m just looking for other people’s stories of when they were in similar situations or simply some words of encouragement.

Thanks.

How do you deal with procrastination/laziness?

The kind where you know you have to do stuff, but avoid getting around due to distractions/difficulty/fear etc?

How all do you use AI/ML in life? Especially offline uses

Speech to text, Voice typing is cool.
F-droid lists opensource apps that support Whisper and Vosk models.
Futo voice is not opensource, but is source available.
It’s good for English. For my mother tongue, Malayalam, the support seems to be underdeveloped currently.
Handy seems to be good for Windows, but have not used it much.

Then for Translations: f-droid.org/packages/dev.davidv.translator/
Using Mozilla’s translation Models. A good enough offline and Open source alternative to GTranslate.

Are there other cool uses of offline ML/AI that you know?

What's something completely random that's made you laugh for years?

For me 2007 Appalachian state @ Michigan. While the game itself made me laugh since Michigan lost in the big house to a bunch of overachieving hillbilly’s.

What kept it hilarious all these years was a phone call. Back then I was a regular listener to Jim Rome on the radio for a few years. And every Friday before game day you would always have fans call in talking smack to one another.

I will never forget this call. A Michigan fan called in saying he wanted to remind app st fans that they are coming north to a more modern sophisticated society and that they should know that the urinals are not on fact drinking fountains.

That caller was mocked relentlessly for months on Jim’s show and he played it after any Michigan fan would call in. But that following Monday was like the entire show was dedicated to completely eviscerating that caller

Every college football season there is some upset that reminds of that call. In this case it was Michigan again this weekend after they had a bs 1 second put back on the clock and won with a hail mary

What's something that 15 years ago looked like it would be a problem in the future, but didn't turn out to be?

Is it possible to have a public forum without moderators?

Like, I keep seeing reddit moderators abusing their powers but rarely they suffer consequences. So I’m wondering if there’s a way to have a public forum without moderators.

Any songs in remembrance on 11/9/1973, the loss of Allende and the Chilean freedom movement he emerged from?

I remember seeing memes about the first 9/11 and thought about it after seeing a recent post. It would be good to remember that too

Any albums that remind you of the world before 9/11?

With 25th anniversary of the tragic event coming, are there any albums that remind you of the life BEFORE 9/11 happened?

How to keep up to date with tech trends among younger people?

I realize this makes me sound very old. I am a very curious person and want to continously develop and adapt.

Some trends might not be improvements, but some might be.

Why is there no bill currently in circulation equivalent to 1000 CHF in the US?

Fr. 1000 equates to $1,235 (and yes, there’s a single bill worth that) along with the second highest being Fr. 200 ($247) since the cap in USD maxes out at $100 (Fr. 81) in the US today. There were once $500, $1000, $5000 & $10,000 bills printed in 1928 but ceased reappearing since 1934, only sole collectors have them but they don’t use it for transactions (the $100,000 bill depicting Woodrow Wilson is obscure and not possible to obtain).

And yes, this bill is currently in circulation around Switzerland.

What would it be like if suddenly a $1000 bill reemerges from its older design from the 1930s tweaked with modern security features inspired by the Fr. 1000 bill stronger than ones present in the $100 bill? That’s up the Federal Reserve to decide, there’s issues dealing with counterfeit $100 bills, in which the Swiss managed to prevent by making their Fr. 1000 bill difficult as hell to counterfeit. (It’s hard enough to find one the first place).

How commonly spoken is your country’s second language? If I only spoke that language, would I be likely to make friends?

USA: Spanish. I’m learning Spanish, and I think as a whole it’s like 18% of people in the USA but I feel like you’re likely to encounter some Spanish speakers and make friends even if not everyone speaks Spanish here.

Brazil: It looks like Spanish is also the second most spoken language with 4% or English with around 5%. I’m sure you’re more likely to find people on the Internet who speak it.

French: English, apparently a quarter of the population speak it??? Not sure how likely you are to find someone in the wild speaking it, but on the Internet, a lot of people.

What else should I put on the list?

What are your favorite peertube channels?

I want to stop using youtube but have a hard time finding content on peertube.

Do you have channels/ instances you recommend?

I currently only have three instances added to my home feed

Fairtube Framatube Fun facts

Can you no longer get new apps on /e/os through the app store?

Or am I dumb?

Being Labor Day weekend in the US, will the workers ever get better rights and a 4 day work week?