Ugh, enough with the James Kirk already. This show has such a nerd hard-on, they’re contradicting the original series just to crowbar very specific pet TOS elements in.

1. In “The menagerie”, pt 1, Kirk explicitly states he only met Pike the once when he was made Fleet Captain.

2. In “Arena”, Kirk first meets “a creature apparently called a Gorn”. He has no idea what they are, nor does Spock, McCoy, Chapel or anybody else who (according to SNW) met them before bother to give him advice.

Not that it matters, it’s clearly a completely different species from the alligator Xenomorphs in the current show.

Twice already they’ve concocted absurd time paradoxes so that Kirk could become vErY iMpOrTaNt to SNW crew without breaking canon, but by now they don’t seem to care anymore.

I’m at a point where I’m watching current Star trek once only for the occasional, non-TOS related character moments, and then never again. I could live with the Disco Klingons, but this is utter bullshit.

Same thing happened to me. If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they’re blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.

Here? Blocking just means you don’t see the troll, but they can continue to inflict all kinds of havoc on your post scores. Ironically, “karma” isn’t a thing on Lemmy like it is on Reddit, but votes are still used to rank your posts.

I guess there are a hundred great folk on here for every preteen edgelord, but that kind of nonsense really spoils the fun of this platform. Sorry to see you get downvoted for a perfectly reasonable post.

I’ve only used Newpipe, and I’m quite happy with it. Saved me so many commercials, tracking, and probably rage baiting recommendations as well. TBH I just turn off recommendations and comments, I’m only there to watch the videos.

Anubis makes your browser solve a challenge to verify you’re not a LLM crawler scraping content. It shouldn’t have the effects that OP describes.

“Criticize”? How dare you! 😂 It was only intended as light ribbing as far as I’m concerned, I fully acknowledge the “foolish” part.

You mean worse?

TBF, that should be the conclusion in all contexts where “AI” are cconcerned.

It looks like it’s a Webfinger implementation to parse the ActivityPub user URI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750312

The @user@instance.tld format has become a convention across most if not all ActivityPub platforms. In the end the software will look up https://instance.tld/user anyway.

“Federated” — why? My immediate questions are: What purpose does federation serve in this context? How are song lyrics like Mastodon updates or Peertube videos?

Federation is great for some purposes, but not for all.

Your statistical uniqueness will be added to our empirical material

The survey is anonymous

I dunno, maybe they thought that cut both ways? 🤷

Sure, I was being slightly facetious to make a point about the issues that Peertube solves. IMHO the most valuable part of Youtube is the one Peertube replaces — videos.

The Youtube advertising that people seem to make money off is the part I already do my damnedest to avoid with third party apps and front ends. Peertube solves that as well.

Really? And here I thought they were all video platforms. Youtube advertising is just an added layer of enshittification.

Those custom ROMs can extend the life and support cycle for phones a good while after the manufacturers declare them dead, yeah.

I will say that Pixels are the best supported on some custom ROMs, but LineageOS is developed and maintained for dozens if not hundreds more.

Ugh, “I’ve got nothing to hide” 🙄

My answer has been for a long time, “then take a stroll down main street naked, and tell your deepest secrets to strangers”. Of course you have something to hide, otherwise you’re a soulless shell of a person.

I started degoogling because of Google’s more and more transparent business plan of data surveillance. I’m not comfortable with “paying with my information” because of the uncountable (and frankly unimaginable) ways that information can be applied by third parties without my knowledge.

“AI” is one example which wasn’t even on the chart when I started degoogling, but we can all be certain that Google and partners use any language sample available on Gmail and G drive to train theirs. This is the company that casually registered private WiFi networks in the course of mapping their Maps street view. They’ll harvest everything they can.

At heart, I don’t trust corporate mega-monopolies to take care of our best interests as online citizens, and as a European I’m super sceptical of becoming subject to less safe legislation (US, Chinese or whatever) that doesn’t offer me protections that I have or expect at home.

By not using Google (or Meta, or Amazon, or X) I can deliberately pick and choose individual services — or host them for myself — rather than hedge everything on the benevolence of one corporation that doesn’t give a shit about their users.

Ideally, yeah, you should. It’s a privacy shitshow.

The question is, will it break some of your apps and do you have an alternative? My first go to is always microG that spoofs google play services for apps that (think/claim they) need it to run.

Usually, installing microG requires 1) that you’re able to install system apps. You can probably do that if you can uninstall google services. Or, 2) that you can flash a custom ROM on your device — I know of a few ROMs that come with microG baked in:

• LineageOS for microG
• CalyxOS
• iodéOS
• /e/os
• OmniROM

Unfortunately, not all devices can be rooted or bootloader unlocked — thanks manufacturers! — so depending on your make and model you may be SOL in terms of that kind of control over your phone.

Everyone is saying that the bootloader can not be unlocked. However I see the option in the developer options of my phone

They’re two different things, sorry.

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Of the three mentioned, maybe Qwant? I’m wary of any search engine that implements “AI”, so DDG is out. Startpage — I can’t provide a source, but I seem to recall there were misgivings to them in the past.