My dyslexia initially read that as “plump and dumb” which is also accurate.

Curious if this going to affect google results in Searx. Not sure how it works (scraping page, API, etc)

Not that, specifically, though it might be indirectly?

I’m basing it off of one of Gyles Brandreth’s yarns where he described how he dealt with abusive constituents when he was a MP.

Dear sir or madam:

Some crackpot has written me an abusive letter, and they’ve signed your name at the bottom. […]

Whether he came up with that or adapted it from something prior, I don’t know.

Standard reply:

Dear sir or madam:

Some crackpot has written me an abusive message, and it seems they used your account to send it. I’m replying to you as a courtesy in case you wish to take action against this lunatic.

So you’re stereotyping a country of 341 million people based off of your personal interactions with a few of them on the internet?

We’re not a monoculture, bud. How would you feel if I asked “Why does it seem like Europeans have become so judgmental and preachy in the past years?”

I’m not making excuses for Judge Merchan, but it’s easy to say what you’re saying when you’re not personally dealing with a guy who can and will send an angry mob of violent nutjobs to your house. Something to keep in mind.

Switched to Fossify Gallery not too long ago. It’s plain, simple, and just works.

Full disclosure: I have no idea what I’m talking about when it comes to “big money”

Would, say, transferring my 401(k) to a Roth IRA safeguard it against this kind of crap? “Roth IRAs are better” is something I’ve heard people with money say lol.

You can probably already order them or at least have them custom made.

I’m guessing we won’t see those much, if at all, because the people who would want to use them typically aren’t jerks who would deface public and private property with stickers.

Maybe will be better received at [email protected] ?

Doing lower power for longer has far more impact on even heating

This! It took me forever to suppress my impatience enough to learn that, but it’s been life changing.

Sorry, I’m not a regular poster so I don’t know how to make a FOSS version of a YouTube link.

IMO, just drop the canonical YT link and let people handle it themselves (some Lemmy frontends will rewrite them to Piped/Invidious based on preference, some use browser plugins to redirect them, there’s an annoying bot that auto replies with Piped links, etc).

I’ve always found it annoying to have to deal with links to some random Piped/Invidious instances that are overloaded, slow, unreliable, and/or halfway around the world from where I am. A direct YT link is much easier to automatically re-write to use my local/preferred Invidious instance than having to know about every possible Invidious/Piped instance in the wild in order to detect them.

True, but even then each state isn’t even a mono-culture. I’m as guilty as any when it comes to stereotyping states (particularly Florida via “Florida Man”) but I’m trying to get out of that mindset myself lol.

Nah. I just chow down on Firefox 3-4 times a week lol

Same. I’ve only had fast food once since 2020, and the experience was like yours: gross and expensive.

Before I went WFH, I ate FF pretty regularly. Mostly because it was, well, fast and offered a variety (there’s at least 8 or 9 places within walking distance of my office).

My job only gives a half hour for lunch. I used to pack a lunch, but that gets tedious after a while and takes extra time out of my morning to prepare. Then if I want to heat it up, there’s always a line to use the microwaves or to get to the refrigerator in the break room. By the time my packed lunch is prepared, I’ve got just enough time to wolf it down and head back to my desk.

Going out for FF at least let me take a walk, get some fresh air, and gave me a variety over the handful of things (or leftovers) I would pack from home.

If I ever have to RTO, that’s the aspect I’d be most upset about.

The US is not a mono-culture and most of us (unfortunately not all of them voted) are against most of the things we as a country are ridiculed over.

I swear, replace “US” or “Americans” in some of the stuff Europeans are posting/commenting with any other country, and those would sound xenophobic AF. But somehow, because 'Murica, it gets a pass.

[email protected] needs to make a comeback. Nothing’s been posted there for at least a year.

Steve Buscemi was a firefighter in NYC and assisted on 9/11.

I run my own instance and have a long list of user agents I flat out block, and that includes all known AI scraper bots.

That only prevents them from scraping from my instance, though, and they can easily scrape my content from any other instance I’ve interacted with.

Basically I just accept it as one of the many, many things that sucks about the internet in 2024, yell “Serenity Now!” at the sky, and carry on with my day.

I do wish, though, that other instances would block these LLM scraping bots but I’m not going to avoid any that don’t.

If you come across anything cool and want to share, there’s https://midwest.social/c/loops