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  • Bean Alternatives

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  • I’m using it right now; the experience is generally positive. The only things that I miss when in Blorp that I have access to elsewhere are:

    (a) compact view - I tend to be on public transport a lot when using my phone and am therefore prone to shoulder-surfing; would be good if images could be small so as to avoid potential embarrassment

    (b) profile information - if there was some way of viewing more detailed user info (eg account age) without leaving the app to view the user source

    Everything else about Blorp works really well - the UI is generally minimalist and lightweight, it feels very efficient and free of bloat, it can handle multiple user accounts and it doesn’t come with huge numbers of features that are nice but not really needed (eg multiple app icons).

    If any of (a) or (b) are user-error, please let me know.

    Thank you for your work on this.

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  • Currently using a mixture of Voyager, Mlem and Blorp - one will win in time.

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  • Blorp also seems to have a desktop app

  • Bean Alternatives

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  • I also paid for Bean; I found it that good. Have dowloaded Voyager; will play with MLEM as well. Thank you for the suggestion.

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  • That's still good. If Voyager is Apollo-like I will try that. Thanks!

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  • You... can use Apollo (formerly Reddit) to access Lemmy? How?

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  • Is anyone else worried about the apple vision pro?

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  • People will rip off the headsets if the ads are too intrusive and annoying. Which is why they’ll either be dead subtle, or they’ll offer you paid ways to avoid them.

    I don’t think there’ll be mass adoption of this either way, mainly because it’s an expensive gadget coming at a time when folks on median incomes are feeling the pinch.

  • BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content

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  • The pure ChatGPT output would probably be garbage. The dataset will be full of all manner of sources (together with their inherent biases) together with spin, untruths and outright parody and it’s not apparent that there is any kind of curation or quality assurance on the dataset (please correct me if I’m wrong).

    I don’t think it’s a good tool for extracting factual information from. It does seem to be good at synthesising prose and helping with writing ideas.

    I am quite interested in things like this where the output from a “knowledge engine” is paired with something like ChatGPT - but it would be for eg writing a science paper rather than news.

  • BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content

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  • Exactly. The data harvest has had years in the making.

  • You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?

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  • “And he brought me into a vast farmland of our own Midwest And as we descended, cries of impending doom rose from the soil One thousand, nay, a million voices full of fear And terror possessed me then And I begged, "Angel of the Lord, what are these tortured screams?" And the angel said unto me "These are the cries of the carrots, the cries of the carrots! You see, Reverend Maynard Tomorrow is harvest day and to them, it is the Holocaust" And I sprang from my slumber, drenched in sweat Like the tears of one million terrified brothers and roared "Hear me now, I have seen the light! They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers!"”

    Disgustipated - Tool

  • You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?

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  • I thought Domino as depicted in Deadpool 2 was pretty cool. Just lucky enough.

  • You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?

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  • Will you be able to get a seat at Dorsia’s?

  • You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?

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  • I mean that sounds like a curse. Endless screaming. Where others may see a cute bunny munching on some grass, or a bee buzzing around a flower, all you will hear are shrieks of pain and abject terror.

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    What is a story from the internet that will remain in your mind forever?

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  • Remember hearing it the first time. There’s a recording here.

  • Realtalk on vaping cannabis vape refill thingies

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  • Yes and no; for reasons that are beyond me the door has been left somewhat open on that one:

    “Vitamin-E acetate (VEA) is found in counterfeit cartridges and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of EVALI patients. Other reports implicated the presence of aromatic/volatile hydrocarbons and oils consisting of medium-chain triglycerides (MCT oil), including terpenes and mineral oil in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) containing counterfeit vaping products. These compounds are involved in oxidative stress and inflammatory responses in the lung. Here, we provide the perspectives on the recent case reports on EVALI, etiology, and discuss pulmonary toxicity as well as the mechanisms underlying EVALI susceptibility and lung pathophysiology.”

    But the cutting agent certainly seems to have been pretty bad.

  • Realtalk on vaping cannabis vape refill thingies

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  • Wikipedia has this article on vaping-associated lung injury.

  • 85% Of Car Drivers Break 20mph Speed Limits, Reveals U.K.’s Department For Transport

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  • If you’re out there, need to be in a car and for whatever reason find it hard to keep the car at 20mph - do what I do and use the speed limiter function (if you have one). Works a charm.

    With or without the tech aid though, there’s no excuse.

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  • I’d love to learn how to get started with IRC and Matrix.

  • Why is everything going to shit?

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  • Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net) has a number of stories now on the concept of “enshittification”. Basically businesses start off being good to customers but eventually get to a point where, if they’re dominant the drive for endless profit results in them turning to squeezing suppliers, customers, everyone.

    Tech enables new forms of exploitation.