brbposting

joined 1 year ago
[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

Instead of a flat five years across the board, length of time could be variable based on assets and political connectedness

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Getting good at queries, I'm down for that, thanks 🙂

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

That ALT symbol’s a cruel prank on the blind :’(

Wait screen readers wouldn’t see it nvm

Oh Bing

Search is hard

Good call though, I’ve done comparisons and it’s very Bingy though not 1:1 - search operators behave differently IIRC (quotation marks)

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh so you want me to spend an extra fraction of a second to avoid an absolute privacy nightmare that could follow me around for the rest of my life?! (including potential price discrimination stealing e.g. a better retirement from me)

😉 thanks for testing!

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Good question, something I wondered about after I posted.

Nope - OK, you know what helps?

Searching via the DDG site and then tapping images. Apparently I typed “reavers gif !ddgi” to save the tap and it does a hidden spelling correction to “reverse”?!

One mystery solved!

Edit: annotation in a dark font due to iOS 18 Markup bug, sorry it’s hard to see there in the upper right

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And it’s different now! Reminded of how DDG rearranges search results when opening a result link, then hitting back, but much more extreme.

sprawling profile

Using a fresh [cookie-isolated] private tab for every search and going through iCloud Private Relay… I still have no doubt they still manage it. Sigh. Those “am I unique?” browser fingerprinting tests still show I’m unique, perhaps due to having an extension or two installed on Safari? Creepy.


OK, I feel better now. On searxng.site, I disabled all engines except for Google and I’m getting results similar to in my OP.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You’re right :) Dumb little joke about the show I shoehorned in.

For context, DuckDuckGo is my default search engine. I do at least a dozen searches every day. Approximately 90% of the time, I use a bang (!g) to punch out to Google and receive results I perceive to be of higher quality 99% of the time. I am absolutely elated when I hit the back button because DDG had a better result in the top 3.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It decided not to do a hidden autocorrect to reverse this time:

(Same everything (new private tab), just zoomed out.)

Hmm!

 

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Two horizontally stitched screenshots comparing a search for “Reavers GIF” on DuckDuckGo and Google in Safari iOS (private tabs). DDG presented zero Firefly/Serenity relevant results while Google found them exclusively.

Hopefully a privacy-focused yet fast instance for US West Coast cheapskates who probably should pony up for Kagi, buttttttttttt

SearXNG Instances list on SearX.space

The reason I use Safari! So good.

Feels private, I’ve only read their layman explanation of how it works.

A small smirk with eyes averted is much more appropriate.

(Smirk’s just a bit of an expected reaction given the odd design)

 

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A user asks Bing/Copilot chat to summarize an invented article:

[User]
summarize

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/29/us/dinosaurs-found-roaming-playground.html

Copilot

The article from The New York Times reports a surprising and amusing incident where life-sized dinosaur replicas were found roaming a playground in a small town. These realistic models, part of a local museum's exhibit, were accidentally released due to a security malfunction. The sight of dinosaurs in the playground caused quite a stir among the residents, especially the children, who were both thrilled and startled. The museum has since apologized and retrieved the dinosaurs, ensuring such an incident won't happen again. The event has sparked a lot of local interest and laughter, turning into a memorable story for the community[1].

Note this is problematic for a number of reasons including someone who wants to summarize a real article/thread won’t be informed an accurate summary may be impossible.

 

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Four stitched screenshots of an iOS 18 home screen. The icons are themed in the style of a “NookPhone“ from the video game Animal Crossing.

Source

Translated:

&:

Reference, apparently: NookPhone


I’d like to try heavily theming my home screen, paradoxically while keeping icons quite recognizable.

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Taylor & the end times (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by brbposting@sh.itjust.works to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 

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Taylor Swift on the red carpet with this text superimposed:

As the bulbs flash, I can't help but think of cyberwar - When the arcing death of electric transformers will light the night, leaving our nation in darkness.

  • Taylor Swift

Edit:
Credit: Swift on Security

 

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The image contains a cheese pizza, with one single slice flipped over. The accompanying text includes:

  1. A tweet from "spence" stating: "pizza tip: always flip a lucky"

  2. A reply from "Carrier Technician" saying: "Looks awful"

  3. A follow-up tweet from "spence": "if you died nothing in my life would change"

The timestamps show the follow-up was posted at 4:54 PM on September 5, 2024, and notes it has 99 views.

 

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A screenshot of a YouTube video embedded in a news article where YouTube is throwing the error “Sign in to confirm you're not a bot. This helps protect our community.” Stitched below is a screen grab from Avengers Endgame where Captain America says, “no, I don't think I will.”

 

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“David Attenborough” (a soundalike voice) explains the Cybertruck's parasitic relationship with flatbed trailers; transcript:

Here we see the Cybertruck has formed a peculiar symbiotic relationship with the larger flatbed trailer species. Evolutionarily disadvantaged, the Cybertruck has come up with a clever way to transport itself long distances.

By attaching itself to the flatbed trailer, the Cybertruck can reliably move about without risking injury to its fragile exoskeleton or internal organs. What the flatbed trailer gets in return for this kindness, science has yet to discover.

Source

I wondered who had made the video and found myself on Reddit, in r/CyberStuck, where the video was originally posted. The creator of the fake Attenborough video, who has since deleted the post, explains in the comments that they wrote the script and edited the video, and for source material, they used "a bunch of Cybertruck fanboys on YouTube, Whistlindiesel, and also the lovely people on this fair subreddit."

boingboing.net

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by brbposting@sh.itjust.works to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

Source: @royalarmouriesmuseum on that ByteDance-owned site

Edit 2: OK it’s not this guy but I’ll leave it as it was; original edit below:

credit to Jonathan:

Jonathan Steven Ferguson is a British firearm historian and author who is currently the Keeper of Firearms and Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, England.

Thanks @ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone :)

 

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A hand holding a blue dotted bingo dauber over a red bingo card with numbers arranged in a grid. The text above the image says "Transgender Illegal Aliens in Prison #Debate2024".

 

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Horizontally stitched screenshots showing a Google Meet call on the iPhone where the microphone mute icon is highlighted in active mute status while the lock screen displays a mute icon which is not selected and inactive.

Always been this way for months. ~~IIRC, the lock screen mute button is nonfunctional.~~ Mute functionality detailed here.

Latest Versions: iOS 17.6.1, Google Meet 260.0

I should report this bug to Google and not Apple, right?

 

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Four-panel comic featuring characters from the popular comic "Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson, and a cow from “The Far Side” by Gary Larson.

Panel 1: "WHAT JOKE WOULD YOU LIKE TONIGHT? WE CAN READ ANYTHING EXCEPT..." "COW TOOLS?"

Panel 2: "NO! NO COW TOOLS TONIGHT! WE'VE READ THAT JOKE A MILLION TIMES!" "I WANT COW TOOLS!"

Panel 3: "LOOK, YOU KNOW HOW THE JOKE GOES! YOU'VE MEMORIZED THE WHOLE THING! IT'S THE SAME JOKE EVERY DAY!" "I WANT COW TOOLS!"

Panel 4: (No text, just an image showing the characters and a cow)


Reference

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Protected bean talk rule (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by brbposting@sh.itjust.works to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

Why?

Edit: OK, Wiki’s “Bean” page has faced vandalism for over a decade.

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