Thanks! I generally try to avoid .world comms myself when cross-posting, not because I think they’re being toxic like .ml, but just for general health and decentralization of the Lemmy-verse

But with asklemmy, it’s a bit of an odd spot, there was [email protected] I was starting to crosspost to but ya know, .ee shutdown, so they’ve moved over to [email protected] but uptake has been very slow IMO even compared to when I was starting to crosspost to the .ee version, maybe it’s a federation issue?

So now I’m trying to go for a “little bit here and a little bit there” approach lol

For .ml’s shittyasklemmy though [email protected] is my go-to

Part of ongoing boycotting/protest efforts to reduce the influence of .ml comms because of the behavior of the .ml instance admins to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate.

It would actually be of benefit to many other species (hence the meme)

Many mammals suffer from the scourge that is mosquitos just as much as we do

Even after something like ~15 years of exposure to XKCD, I still get one of 10 thousand’d

Yea, average time is something like every 5-7 years for hardware refreshes, so we’re right on time lol

Oh it’ll hit them, you can string people along with “It’s system glitches, you’ll get paid next week!” for like 2 maybe 3 weeks before people start bailing

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory since 1982

The escape lane also would allow emergency vehicles to drive up to help people having a heart attack, a car fire or some other emergency in the drive-thru lane.

The Kelemans said there was no space for police, paramedics and others responding to their daughter’s shooting to pull up to the drive-thru.

Yea those root causes should be addressed too, but it’s a pretty good law IMO since it covers emergency situations beyond that as well. It would be helpful for even things like someone having a stroke or heart attack

Lol “goat harassed”, time stamped and everything lmao

Much quicker, I think they were talking like July lol

LMAO, you’re not alone, most of my hardware is still on 1gig even though my ISP is providing 2.5gigs to my pfsense box. I upgraded the WAN port for it and then “getting around to the rest of it” for ~6 months now 🤣

I’m actually on the P9PF rn myself since release so coming up on a year

Yea the SoC has been a disappointment, not terrible, but not good either. The first couple weeks were rough for battery life until the optimizations kicked in lol

Cameras are always on the “as long as they’re there” list for me LMAO but I have quite enjoyed the optical zooming on it lolol

It’s been pretty reliable for me IMO, but I also only unfold when I’m doing something that actually benefits from it, in contrast with my Dad who got a Samsuck fold who has to unfold it ALL the time because “The front screen sucks to use” LMAO so I figure his will probably break before mine just for that

Overall, for a Google 2nd gen product, id say it’s decent and probably the best out of the options I could get on T-Mobile in the states lol but there’s absolutely room for improvement

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What? Neowin is pretty well known, that’s weird, maybe a false positive?

Anyways, it was a shortish article so I’ll just copy paste:

A few weeks ago, Mozilla announced that its Pocket and Fakespot services were getting the axe as the company focuses more on Firefox. It is a complete shutdown. Pocket, the read-it-later service Mozilla bought in 2017, will stop working on July 8, 2025. You have until October 8 to get your saved articles out before they are deleted forever. Fakespot, which helped you spot garbage product reviews, is also being sunsetted.

But the house cleaning does not stop with those two. Neowin has spotted a shutdown notice dated June 26, 2025 for Deep Fake Detector, the Firefox extension that was supposed to tell you if a piece of text was written by a human or an AI chatbot. That tool used a combination of Mozilla’s own proprietary ApolloDFT engine and open-source models like ZipPy to give you a verdict on what you were reading.

The notice says:

** Important Update: Deepfake Detector will shut down on June 26, 2025. **

On June 26, you will no longer be able to use Deepfake Detector. Thanks for supporting our journey.

This brings us to the AI tools. Following the pattern, the Orbit website was updated with a banner that announced the service would shut down by June 26. Orbit was Mozilla’s big privacy-first experiment in AI. It was a Firefox add-on that could summarize articles and answer questions about a webpage’s content without sending your data to a third party.

Orbit’s private, self-contained setup can be replaced with the new sidebar built directly into Firefox, letting you connect to third-party chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini. But, for Orbit users, this is still a huge loss, as a key feature of the service was privacy. Your prompts were handled by Mistral LLM (Mistral 7B) within Mozilla’s GCP instance and were not shared with other companies for model training.

Mozilla keeps saying these cuts are necessary. As the only major browser not owned by a tech giant, its resources are limited; hence, the need to focus its cash and engineering talent on the core Firefox browser to compete.

It’s never going to be the year of the Linux phone until there’s one that actually has specs to do the things the majority of people want

Thus far, all the Linux phones I’ve seen had laughable specs. There’s the Liberux NEXX, but it’s still at the concept stage

Well I am shocked, SHOCKED I say! Well, not that shocked.

It’s called DNS tunneling it’s typically used for data exfiltration tactics, but it’s also great if you’re desperate to punch through even the toughest paid WiFi paywalls to Google something really quick slow because you fucked something up on your phone lmao

https://dmachard.github.io/posts/0047-dns-tunneling-overview/

Piefed has gone from being rarely if ever even mentioned at all to, in just the last few days, being mentioned hundreds if not thousands of times a day in threads on virtually any topic, makes me highly suspicious.

You make interesting points, but for this specific thing, it almost certainly has to do with the .ee shutdown which was announced just a few days ago, apparently PieFed has fantastic comm transfer tooling so that’s why it’s probably been exploding in discussions since .ee has a number of large comms that are trying to figure out their next steps

The federal government does have a mechanism to activate a states national guard without a states input, but doing so activates them as Title 10 which means they basically turn into regular military personnel as opposed to a “states militia”.

But that means they are also activated with all the rules and restrictions that come with being active under Title 10, which Drump is ofc ignoring.

Iirc, the intent for the mechanism is so the federal government can use state militias as a sort of emergency reserve unit OR if a states government has become non-functional because of a disaster/emergency whatever