I don’t think that’s the full story.

How often do you think people ask Google a question, either to the assistant or just in the search bar and get served the answer scraped directly into the search results, and never need to actually click into the article at all?

Facebook does this too.

Between that and needing to adjust ones journalism style to appease click throughs and the algorithm just to get eyes on ads, dilutes the quality of the write ups as an added problem.

I think making social media pay might be misguided, but there is definitely a problem, maybe even a form of plagiarism committed by alot of these social media giants by taking other people’s work and serving it up directly, and summarized on their own sites next to a link that many people won’t click on. It is after all in their best interest to get you to stay on the feed feeding.

Reddit is absolutely guilty of this too. It’s just that we happily do it for them and create TLDR bots and the like.

It’s absolutely fair if Google is populating their feeds with weather, news and other content from other peoples hard work, and then having the balls to serve up ads, that these websites should have a right to claim a cut of the advertising or not have the information shown.

Haha! I think I’ve convinced her that the colour doesn’t matter as much as she thinks.

Yeah. I imagine the Global’s are less of a hassle. The Chinese ROM was horrific. Got most of it to work eventually but could never get the assistant to work at all pretty much. MIUI in general I found to be a bit of a hack experience.

Good shout. Yeah I’m struggling to comprehend that people pay top tier laptop / second hand car prices for a phone. The 8 pro is basically perfect otherwise. 7 or maybe 8 vanilla could be the way to go.

Thanks. Added to my research pile!

Hard agree. Wrong place and potentially misleading for those that live under a rock.

Try this:

So everything in space, every object had to get to where it is via time. It travelled there. Everything can’t be anywhere without time as without time it wouldn’t have been able to move there. Time is a constant graph, and as it moves forward, things move around and as such, space is able to exist. This is why we consider space and time to be linked.

Now consider this: if one was to plot a graph of space and time on an x y axis to track an object, there is a point on the graph where time has to be zero, and as such space has to be zero.

This is the big bang.

It is the beginning of the graph. When time was zero, and as such so was space.

Space did not burst out from a single point that we could find out there in space, as there was no point. everything was still everywhere much like it is now, except everywhere just so happened to be so close to one another to be at the same point on the graph. When time began, it just about instantly expanded out, everywhere in every direction. There is no ‘center’ to this expansion, just like if you blow up a balloon there is no center on the surface of the balloon, it just expands everywhere, and more importantly with time we are able to quantify this.

Functionally I think it could work well, shop listings are no different from posts but with a price and a buy link.

I don’t know if it would be a good idea as a few challenges immediately come to mind:

If your site hosted products from a decentralized web, how would you guard your site against bad actors or scams?

How would you be able to monitor stock?

How would you negotiate deliveries or a unified shopping cart?

How would you instill trust in a user that a product was legit and could be backed by a return or a guarantee?

How would you make sure your site maintained a perception of quality items?

For this to work, I imagine you would have to only Federate with store fronts you were actively affiliated with, ideally in your area or under the same delivery umbrella at which point you might as well have a unified store front. The decentralized aspect would probably create alot of hiccups and distrust you wouldn’t want anywhere near money changing hands.

I think a decentralized storefront would basically look a lot like AliExpress or Amazon if you went the store route, but without any big company backing or a unified delivery service. It could also be a large, even less trustworthy and hard to manage Facebook Marketplace or Gumtree. It wouldn’t survive long.

What could work though is if you were partnered with a bunch of individual, small stores that each were making a name for themselves within a similar space. Their stores could feed products to a larger store that users could search and browse in, but be taken away from it back to the smaller store if they wished to purchase an item. I don’t think you would need Activity Pub for this, just a feed from the store with tags/thumbnails/descriptions/prices this could probably be handled with a plug in that linked their store to the larger site allowing their products to be searched.

I assume it’s the ‘swiss style’ raw rolled oats not toasted.

I have it with plain yoghurt and a bit of jam. Milk is nice too. I like the texture and it’s fantastic for your gut.

Having said that you obviously hate that, so try this:

1. Mix equal parts honey, brown sugar and coconut oil (or olive oil you could even add a dollop of butter) and heat in a saucepan until the sugar is melted. (About a 1/3 cup of each should be enough for about 3-4 cups of muesli mixture.) While you wait, put your oven on a medium to low heat like 150C.

2. Separate out the fruit bits and set aside. Combine the rest of the ingredients with the melted honey oil mix, and spread out thin on a baking tray (you may want to do batches, keep it spread thin here!

3. Bake on low for about 20-30min, stirring every 5-10min. (Don’t let it burn)

4. Once cool, break it up and add your fruit back, Voila! You have crunchy home made granola cereal! Feel free to add anything else, pecan nuts / almonds / coconut flakes - either raw or toast it with the granola at the beginning. I like banana chips. Chocolate chips are nice too. You can’t really go wrong and it’s easy as.

Note:: The only thing you want to avoid is burning it while you toast it, the burn flavour will take over the whole mix! So keep an eye on it and keep it moving.

Note:: melted sugar is like lava. Melt it on the saucepan slowly and don’t let it smoke. Keep the heat low. Don’t stir in to the muesli with your hands. Use a wooden spoon. That shit will burn.

If you’re crafty, I feel like this is something you could make out of a wooden 2x2 or a dowel stick, a jigsaw and a drill with the right bits.

Plot twist: The money to spawn comes from other people randomly. Eventually people start reporting vanishing money at the same time that people hear news of a man randomly raining money wherever he goes. This immediately sparks controversy and religion, as the country begins to destabilize and the economy grinds to a halt.

The government gets together and decides that changing the currency to a new note, so as to avoid it being conjured away and raining somewhere east of Massachusetts, is the only solution forward.

This has an unexpected blowback, as the superpower is to spawn money, not useless green paper. The rain immediately changes to the new currency.

Discovering this loophole, the government changes the currency to bowling balls in the hope to have the problem solve itself.

You now randomly hail bowling balls around you and the local bowlingalley owner is a tycoon. You killed ten pin bowling. I hope you’re happy you bastard.

Ok but what about the uncomfortable keyboard? WHAT DO WE DO???

I too have been sent here. It’s at the top of hot right now.

Seems to be a Lemmy zombie post glitch that needs to be addressed.

Morley’s for the banger hot wings.

I’ve got a pair of nice old Japanese wooden bookshelfs hooked up to a NAD amp that plays both my records and my TV/PS. That does the heavy lifting, for my office I have some good but generic over ears that get the job done. And then I have a pair of planar earbuds ‘LetShoer S12’:which are awesome bit I don’t use often because they’re quite sharp for long sessions but sound fantastic.

Marty at 88mph back to MySpace and simpler times. I miss Tom.

Sheesh it seems to have been taken over by furries.

Mulholland Drive

A strange masterpiece and artwork. Been thinking about it for a few days now.

I’d by gold. Or a bunch of second hand Land Rovers on Gumtree.

Mate just block it and move on. # You can’t stop communities from being what they want to be. It will just form somewhere else. There’s a fine line between keeping illegal stuff, harmful trolling and bots off the instance and just straight up policing free speech. At least there everyone knows where they are and can block them once.

I’d much rather that than play whackamole everytime the Donald pops up under a new banner.