dparticiple

joined 1 year ago

Thank you for saving me a click. Undersea data center operation and seawater cooling is not new; Microsoft has been pursuing such efforts for a decade or so now, under the auspices of Project Natick: https://natick.research.microsoft.com/

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Perhaps a second wave will be incoming, per this post about a coming Reddit paywall for some content: https://sh.itjust.works/post/32792815

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Kagi user chiming in here. Have been incredibly happy with the service in terms of search quality and overall usefulness since subscribing. Feels like Google in the early, early days (I was there) before they lost their soul. Their changelog page is instructive; -- https://kagi.com/changelog

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, of course! Thanks for jogging my memory. Despite the growth in users, many of the communities on Lemmy remind me of the old days of BBSes and web foraa. Hopefully the Fediverse will maintain its friendliness and usefulness as it expands.

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Is that correlated with students getting out of school for the summer and joining, or a different event? I have noticed a lower quality of conversation in a number of communities recently.

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

My pleasure. I agree!

 

Eternal September or the September that never ended was a cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet Service Providers began offering Usenet access to many new users.

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Hi HellsBelle,

Firstly, sorry for my overly snarky response. I know that the "don't change the headline" rule was strictly enforced in many subreddits, but I wasn't aware that this applied here as well. Is this a rule for this particular community or the entire Lemmy instance it's on? Would you be kind enough to share a pointer to the rule list?

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

You don't have to repeat the clickbait headline. Write your own!

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, very likely. I'm a literalist at heart, which is often at odds with posts of this nature. Thank you.

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 86 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

The screenshot shown references nothing about a payment plan or a 69% APR. What am I missing?

[–] dparticiple@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you, Slatlun. It's a pet peeve of mine. I read somewhere that not rewriting article headlines is a holdover from some subreddits who prohibited the practice.

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