… and yet here we are ?

Nonsense. Your metaphor is not analogous.

Sophisticated tech firms do extensive analysis with reference groups, A/B testing, et cetera.

Guaranteed, they’ve found that they get better engagement with their product through these AI results.

This might shock you but a group of 14 year olds complaining on Lemmy is not an indicative sample of opinions.

My point is, it seems like moat people disagree with you given that search providers put this stuff in their results.

That’s true, but I think people still appreciate it… like it’s accurate enough, enough of the time, for people to find it helpful.

I like kagi more than ddg. It’s not free but meh.

Ugh. Do you really want that though? They do have a store don’t they? Just no one wants to use it.

Debian has had a browseable catalog since forever but it’s still waaay better to just go to a third party’s website and see how they say to install whatever thing.

I feel like most commenters here would think “no one wants the stupid ai response”, but obviously some people like it or they wouldn’t do it. I think if your searches are more general kind of “can I catch chicken pox from chickens” type questions it might be helpful ?

Dude. When you’re looking at whatever search just right click in the url bar and there will be an option to add that search engine. Then in settings you can make it your default if you wish.

The reason I don’t use SearXNG is because the public instances always seem to be slow and or broken.

is my instinct here outdated/inapplicable?

Yes.

It’s so cheap to send SMS messages, and you don’t pay for undeliverable messages, so they can just send to random numbers.

They also receive deliverability responses for each number. So they know whether a phone received the message whether or not you reply.

Finally, if you reply STOP you’re unlikely to fit their demographic very well anyway. As in… they’re not trying to reach the type of people who will actively try to avoid receiving these messages.

That said, there’s probably no point replying STOP because most firms just wont honor it in the long term. As in they might not message you for the remainder of that particular messaging project (campaign), but they’ll just start a new campaign tomorrow with a new sender and no “STOP” requests.

I think this is a misconception.

In the 90s it may have been true - windows was focused on user experience on the desktop. Pre- internet, security just wasn’t relevant.

Even in that era though, Linux was running on servers in universities et cetera managing many users.

I guess this is where the reputation arose.

These days I don’t think either is inherently more secure than another in a general sense.

For specific uses cases one might be more “reliable” than another just because it’s used more and therefore has more people looking at it. For example, the vast majority of Web servers are in a Linux environment, but the vast majority of on premise email servers would be Windows.

What I’m saying is, in 2024 the general security of each platform is going to be comparable, and only a very small component in your chain of reliability. Like if you develop a threat model, and write policies, and maintain behaviours in practice, the underlying security provided by the environment isn’t really that relevant.

Nice. These look great.

Do you know if it will turn off entirely if the temp is low enough? Or they just idle away at 300rpm or so.

oh man. This is perfect. Thankyou.

I was actually looking at these on amazon but I mistakenly thought that the term “temperature controlled” included in the product name was just SEO bullshit, referring to the mobo controlling the temperature.

I see now that these ones do it themselves.

This is the way.

perfect!

acinfinity is probably overkill for me but honestly very tempting.

I did see that thermostat pwm board on amazon. When you say a “standard 12v power adapter” do you mean as in… like a transformer plug with 12v output and the right amperage?

I’m open to whatever solutions might be available, and these guys look like they make awesome fans, but I think I need something much less awesome and more integrated.

Basically, I just need a 120mm PC fan, supply it with the right voltage, and thermostat.

This. It’s not just a switch to be flipped.

What’s done is done. From day 1 after the referendum it was obvious to everyone that the UK would spend the next 50 years trying to mitigate the impact of that ridiculous decision. Hotting the “rejoin” button is not necessarily a short cut to the end.

Well it’s made a lot of people feel satisfied that they’ve done their bit and had their say.

sweet. thanks.

INPUT will need to be DOCKER-USER in your script but otherwise I’ll see how it goes.

ok. I hadn’t thought about that.

Are there alternatives? Or is an IPv6 block list not practically possible?

Thank you. I was looking at something like this.

I guess I was asking whether there’s a package or project which kinda creates this rule and keeps the ipset list updated.

If I create a rule like that, then next time I’m playing around with this I’m not going to be able to figure out what I’ve done.

It’s this, but they’re not targeting GIMP.

Their SEO goons just see what searches contain photoshop and try to create content that will match. In this case they found “photoshop vs gimp”. I doubt that whoever wrote this had ever heard of GIMP.