[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 3 weeks ago

I'm fairly sure that the price information shown on a Google Search result page is advertising that comes from a different source than the results do.

As far as I know, you could write a plugin for SearXNG to query suppliers and format the output as required.

I think that Google Shopping might be queried in the same way, but I've never looked into it deeply.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 1 month ago

I've been using Linux for almost 25 years and I've never once considered mouse or keyboard incompatibility, and that's including ADB, PS/2 and DB9 devices, let alone USB.

As far as I know, you can intercept any signal from any such HID device and map it to whatever action you want to achieve at whatever level you need it.

I'm happy to be wrong, but I'd be surprised.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 11 points 2 months ago

Well, clearly this is a credible source, even has it's own substack domain, what could possibly be suss?

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 3 months ago

Where did you get the idea that there was a diaper?

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 3 months ago

Ask your instance administrator.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 11 points 3 months ago

A bigger problem to solve is that depending on where you are, today is 06/08/2024, 08/06/2024, 2024-08-06 .. For. The. Same. Day.

So, can we please standardise on 2024-08-06 across the planet before we start considering what 1/1/1 is?

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 5 months ago

The world should be so lucky .. criminals being held to account for their crimes.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 11 points 6 months ago

If it's like any other Facebook monstrosity, the processes that "detect" such things are purely based around USA morals and values, such as they are.

In other words, show a nipple and the thing is gone. Show something racist and it's fine as long as it doesn't show a nipple.

In Australia FB doesn't care one iota about highly offensive content towards first nations people, perfectly fine with permitting the Australian equivalent of the USA "N" word, just as long as it doesn't show a nipple.

Oh, yeah, the banned nipple has to be attached to a female, preferably white caucasian. The rest seems fine, especially in an "indigenous setting".

In other words, FB only cares about its USA morality police and is perfectly fine with extracting money from everyone else, regardless of local sensitivities.

LinkedIn is the same. Not sure if that happened after Microsoft bought it, because until then it was not really a social media site, even if it did horrible things with extracting contacts from unsuspecting users who discovered that everyone in their address book had been invited, even if they were on the address book block list.

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 7 months ago

If only we could know which political leaders caught COVID so we can find those sociopaths..

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 8 months ago

What do you mean when you say "decentralized"?

AWS S3 is stored in data centres all over the planet for example.

The fediverse is stored in servers all over the planet too.

If you set up accounts on a dozen different servers, owned by different companies in different countries, that too is all over the planet.

Is it storage that you need to spread, or ownership, and if so, why?

I'm asking because each country has different laws about storage requirements and access to the data in case of .. insert random reason .. as well as different liabilities etc.

So, what are you actually asking?

[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 12 points 8 months ago

While the post you link to is new to me, thank you for sharing, the underlying issues associated with running your own instance are what has stopped me from running my own at this stage.

If the only person on your own instance is you, then none of this really matters, since you are the master of your own destiny. As I understand it, the GDPR doesn't apply.

The moment you let anyone else create an account however, there's a liability. You become exposed to whatever they say in their account on your instance and other laws start applying.

What I mean by that is as I understand it, any illegal or undesirable activity conducted by an account holder on something you control becomes a legal minefield for you. And you'll be stuck in the middle between the account holder and the world. Things like the GDPR may apply, but that likely depends on their location.

So, if your instance is just you, no need to delete it. If it's more, then I'd be thinking long and hard about who else is there with you.

Finally, consider the implications of taking money from account holders to finance your instance, now there's a financial contract between you and them.

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