tal

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[–] tal 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, they've done this when places charge them money to index the news articles there.

It hardly seems reasonable to both mandate that they index a given piece of news media and that they pay a fee to do so.

[–] tal 1 points 1 week ago

Well, it depends on what you want it for.

I wanted specifically to find a search engine that has a subscription-based model and does not generate its income from data-mining and ads. It doesn't retain search logs. For me, it's what I had wanted for some time -- a service where I was the customer rather than the product -- so I am pretty happy with it.

It has some other features, but I generally don't care much about them other than its "Fediverse Forums" search lens, which lets one search the Threadiverse (Lemmy/mbin/piefed).

looks

It looks like they also have a Usenet archives search engine that I haven't looked at. I might look into that, as I used to use Usenet archives search engines.

I'm happy with it. Depends on what you're looking for, though.

[–] tal 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pretty much any brick-and-mortar office supply store I've seen provides copy machine and printing services. Probably faxing too, though I haven't checked.

I mean, I don't do much in paper any more, but I'm pretty sure that most people need -- even if only very occasionally -- to print things.

[–] tal 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Both the sheriff and the mother involved were women.

[–] tal 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am hoping that this is in the figurative sense. I don't think that a shootout would have improved her situation.

[–] tal 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Seaching Kagi. I used to use googles when I used Google as my search engine; now I use Kagi.

[–] tal 4 points 1 week ago

Alexey Pajitnov, who created the ubiquitous game in 1984, opens up about his failed projects and his desire to design another hit.

He prefers conversations about his canceled and ignored games, the past designs that now make him cringe, and the reality that his life’s signature achievement probably came decades ago.

The problem is that that guy created what is probably the biggest, most timeless simple video game in history. Your chances of repeating that are really low.

It's like you discover fire at 21. The chances of doing it again? Not high. You could maybe do other successful things, but it'd be nearly impossible to do something as big again.

[–] tal 50 points 1 week ago

I remember biking all over as a kid. I didn't tell my parents where I was going. Might head off into the bluffs or to the shopping center or to a friend's house or to a convenience store or along some bike trails. I sure went further than a mile.

And we didn't have cell phones or whatever back then either.

I don't feel that I was neglected.

[–] tal 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

"I was not panicking as I know the roads and know he is mature enough to walk there without incident," she says.

The sheriff disagreed.

"She kept mentioning how he could have been run over, or kidnapped or 'anything' could have happened," recalls Patterson.

Even if his mother was walking there too, it's not likely going to do much to stop a car from running him over. She'd just be some extra mass to fling.

Kidnappings -- and a number of other serious crimes -- are usually done by people who are known, not random strangers.

kagis

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/zmldiz/til_there_are_only_between_150300_kidnappings_of/

There are only between 150-300 kidnappings of children by strangers each year in the US. The other 200,000 kidnappings each year are by relatives.

Even more lopsided than I'd expected.

And as for "anything" happening, I'd imagine that "anything" could have happened at home, too.

[–] tal 21 points 1 week ago

Finally, the documents claim, White admitted that he had injured JW himself because he was angry that he was two points down in the videogame NBA2K.

I'd hate to see this guy lose a game by eight points.

[–] tal 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fucking, Austria eventually gave in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria

Despite a population of only 106 in 2020, the village has drawn attention in the English-speaking world for its former name, which was spelled the same as an inflected form of the vulgar English-language word "fuck".[1][2] Its road signs were a popular visitor attraction and were often stolen by souvenir-hunting vandals until 2005, when they were modified to be theft-resistant. A campaign to change the village's name to Fugging was rejected in 2004 but succeeded in late 2020.[3][4]

[–] tal 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

The downside of building the phone/tablet into the car, though, is that phones change more quickly than cars.

A 20 year old car can be perfectly functional. A 20 year old smarphone is insanely outdated. If the phone is built into the car, you're stuck with it.

Relative to a built-in system, I'd kind of rather just have a standard mounting point with security attachments and have the car computer be upgraded. 3DIN maybe.

I get the "phone is small" argument, but the phone is upgradeable.

And I'd definitely rather have physical controls for a lot of things.

 

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a list of countries “showing destructive behavior contrary to Russian spiritual and moral values,” with Greece and Cyprus among them.

Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin approved the publication of Kremlin’s list of the 47 countries. The list does not include European Union members Hungary and Slovakia and NATO member Turkey, according to TASS Russian news agency.

 

For some years, I just used directory-organized audio files. I used emacs's emms to control the playlist, and had it set up to have mpv play audio files.

Some years back, I used at mpd for a while, but it's really oriented towards accessing audio via metadata, which wasn't really what I wanted to do: that really entails getting correct metadata on all of an audio collection.

Then recently, I ran into beets, which is a utility to do semi-automated metadata cleanup (compute and apply ReplayGain tags, insert metadata using a variety of techniques, etc) en masse and finally got my metadata in a reasonable state, and flipped back to using mpd. I was pretty impressed with beets; it takes some setup, but runs what it can in parallel, doesn't block the process when it needs human guidance on metadata, and can be set to automatically set metadata when its confidence is above certain levels but ask below that.

Mpd is probably especially useful when one has an audio server that one controls remotely with a other devices, though I just use the thing locally. It supports a bunch of frontends; can be controlled from GUI software, from the command line, from TUI clients like ncmpc or ncmpcpp or a few others, from various emacs software packages, can keep running if you bring down your graphical environment. A lot of OSD/"bar"/"dock"/"wharf" software can display MPD information out-of-box; I'm currently using waybar in sway, which can display mpd information.

I'm not always directly at the media-serving machine, and I'm using unison to synchronize my music files to a laptop. New files or removals or whatever will get propagated in either direction. That lets me have a replicated media library accessible for disconnected use.

All of the above stuff is packaged in Debian bookworm; should be available in at least Debian-family distros out-of-box, and probably others.

Anyone else want to describe their favored music-playing setup, stuff that they've found works well for 'em? Maybe give other folks who might be looking for something similar useful ideas?

 

U.S. officials are anticipating that the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah will increase significantly in the coming days, potentially sparking an all-out war between the two sides.

American officials have long said that both Israel and Hezbollah want to avoid war. But tensions are at an all-time high following Israel’s consecutive attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon this week. The latest analysis inside the Biden administration is that it will be difficult for both sides to de-escalate, according to two senior U.S. officials familiar with the conversations.

 

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters will not issue an endorsement in the presidential election for the first time since 1996, and for only the second time since 1960.

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