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We have all seen AI-based searches available on the web like Copilot, Perplexity, DuckAssist etc, which scour the web for information, present them in a summarized form, and also cite sources in support of the summary.

But how do they know which sources are legitimate and which are simple BS ? Do they exercise judgement while crawling, or do they have some kind of filter list around the "trustworthyness" of various web sources ?

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My kid got a little round box of soapy solution at the fairground with a wire loop to blow bubbles with. She was pretty excited with it for few minutes, then lost interest. Kept it on her desk when she got back home.

The next morning, she tried to blow some more bubbles with it, but the soapy solution appeared to be as dead as plain water, i.e. zero bubbles came out when she tried with the wire loop.

What kills the "bubbleness" of soapy solution over time ? The concentration of the remaining solution should've remained the same since the box was closed shut overnight.

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submitted 3 months ago by DeadNinja@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

Why does Google Play Protect stop me from sideloading apks (from, say, Obtainium) while almost regularly I read reports about malicious apps being available in Google Playstore itself ? Why do they allow those ?

Probably just a rant out of frustration. I ignore those alerts if I am confident about the apk I'm sideloading, lol.

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submitted 3 months ago by DeadNinja@lemmy.world to c/firefox@lemmy.world

Basically what the title says. As far as tech knowledge goes, I am probably a 3.5 or 4 out of 10. Hence the ELI5 request.

I am a Firefox browser user, both in my Android phone as well as Windows device - for the same reason as many others ditched Chrome and chose FF (degoogle and all).

Recently I came to know about Fission being offered in FF nightly. It is said that site isolation with fission is far from ready, and this is probably one of the areas where chromium beats it. I read somewhere that FF fission uses multiple processes to separate sites, but they are not really "isolated processes".

All these is surely not making me less confused about how exactly sandboxing/fission/FPI/TCP differ as far as Firefox is considered, so thought of asking this here.

Posting this in the ELI5 community might've been more "correct", but my question being specifically around Firefox, I thought the chances of getting a better answer is higher here.

Apologies if not, and thanks in advance.

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submitted 4 months ago by DeadNinja@lemmy.world to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml

Jerboa sorely lacks the absolute basic feature of searching for keywords in posts. It only supports searching for community names. I can't think of any other Lemmy app that does NOT support general search.

I came to know that there is an issue open in Github for over 3 years now, but no clue as to whether it is been worked on.

Totally respecting the personal times of the volunteer developers who are making Jerboa an awesome app - at the same time the lack of this basic feature stops me from calling Jerboa my favorite.

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[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 68 points 2 years ago

Btw our heads are very slowly 3-D printing our hairs...

[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 129 points 2 years ago

Excuse me - if I bought your product and paid for it, in what universe am I not investing into you, and instead you are investing into me??

HP is a steaming pile of shit.

[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago

ABP has that stinky practice of marking ads as "acceptable" (basically those companies pay ABP to be on their "allowlist").

As has already been mentioned - stop using ABP, and use uBO instead. It's a lifesaver.

[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 145 points 2 years ago

They were sold to ZippoApps, who specializes in adding crapware to apps.

What else would we expect anyway...

[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago

Tesla should recall Musk, for good.

[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 147 points 2 years ago

I don't exactly recall when or where I heard/read this quote, but man it is dope

  • "it should not be a concern when people pirate your content, it should be when people don't even want to pirate your content"
[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 98 points 2 years ago

That lawsuit simply says : "acquire me, acquire me, O Holy Musk, acquire me..."

[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago

This is how my love for uBlock Origin grows day by day...

[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 72 points 2 years ago

The legendary ones show a "BREACH" at the target systems, in Red Bold Times New Roman font size 150.

[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 74 points 2 years ago

Reputation is a perishable commodity. It is very hard to replenish it once gone.

Xwitter and Reddit understood it the hard way. Even if Unity goes back to exactly where they were before this ruckus - people will think twice before trusting them again.

[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 96 points 2 years ago

Reddit, Xwitter, Unity..what next in the queue of "let me fuck myself" ?

[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 161 points 2 years ago

Firefox is the way to go.

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