Let’s go, already!

How you can help: If you run a website and can filter traffic by user agent, get a list of the known AI scrapers agent strings and selectively redirect their requests to pre-generated AI slop. Regular visitors will see the content and the LLM scraper bots will scrape their own slop and, hopefully, train on it.

www.creedthoughts.gov.www\creedthoughts

I love that some insecure person spun up a brand new account on an open-reg instance just to downvote you 😆

Your comment is 1 hour old, that account is 54 minutes old (as of this writing)

Would do no good to disclose the username (admins can already see it if they want to do anything about it), and yes, it fits the pattern of the vote manipulation accounts mentioned here

Technically true, and niche devices with QWERTY keyboard like the ones from PlanetCom still exist. But they don’t really benefit from economies of scale, are prohibitively expensive, and are usually at least a generation behind in hardware.

Plus Apple started, and Samsung joined, the “thinness wars” that got us to where we are today. Slide out keyboards were definitely a casualty of that, and I still hold some hope, albeit slim, that those could still make a comeback.

It’s been a while, but I think that’s mostly how mine worked. You had to launch it from within Windows Mobile, but after that, only Android was running the device. Android booted from the SD card and basically kicked Windows mobile out of memory and took over from there. AFAIK, WM wasn’t still in the background, at least on the Froyo build for it. I want to say that’s the case since the TP2 didn’t have much RAM, and Android ran way too well to be sharing memory with Windows Mobile lol.

Regardless, my interest in building and running custom ROMs was born the day I did that lol.

I blame Apple (and then Samsung for copying Apple) for stealing this form factor from us.

Didn’t have that one, but I did have the HTC TouchPro2 that came with Windows Mobile but was able to shoehorn a functional version of Android “Froyo” on it. Peak smartphone form factor limited by the technology of its time. Shame.

We have very similar device requirements lol. Though I can’t speak much for the camera portion (I’m not a shutterbug and deal with whatever).

I just upgraded my trusty workhorse OP3 to a OP Nord N200. It’s a few years old, but that usually helps since the custom ROM support is more mature.

OnePlus is usually pretty easy to unlock as long as you get an OEM model (e.g. not one branded / sold by a carrier). Been a while, but if you buy an OEM one, I think you can just unlock it without having to request an unlock code. I had to jump through hoops to convert this T-Mobile carrier model Nord into a global version, but after that I was able to unlock the bootloader with just the fastboot command (e.g. didn’t have to request and flash the cust_unlock.bin. Was still carrier-locked to T-Mob, but that’s who I use, so no biggie.

Similar to what you’re seeing with ASUS, Motorola used to be, but I think their unlocking policy has gone downhill as of late. Haven’t messed with their hardware for a while.

I haven’t used Nothing Phone at all, but they were contenders (and still are) when I was looking for a successor to my OP3.

Same assessment of Fairphone: ideologically pure, but other issues ruled them out for me.

Maybe crosspost to !selfhosted@lemmy.world and/or !selfhosting@slrpnk.net since this is in the ballpark of what we talk about there.

Good question, and I’m not sure of the actual, lexicographic answer.

All I can say is there’s typically an implicit negative connotation when using the form “those people” regardless of intent. Usually it’s used that way when stereotyping or otherwise making a blanket statement about a group, so even benign uses of the phrase tend to sound hostile.

My guess is that “those persons” sounds more specific.

https://midwest.social/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan&userId=647363

In before “they’re just writing that off their own taxes” or "they’re already going to donate it and you’re just reimbursing them.

Most of the ones near me just ask if you want to “round up” or make a static donation amount. I’m guessing the coupon book is nothing more than the coupons they’d send out in the weekly paper. Having received similar coupon books as “welcome aboard” gifts, most of those deals aren’t even all that good. Plus, they likely expire, so it puts a time rush on using them and draws in business.

“If everything’s above board that store really just acting like an agent,” said [Laurie Styron, Executive Director, CharityWatch]. “They’re really just taking your money and at some point in the future passing it on to the charity if they’re filing their taxes correctly. It actually doesn’t have any impact on that store’s taxes,” she said.

• https://www.charitywatch.org/charity-donating-articles/store-check-out-charity-donations
• https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/who-gets-tax-benefit-those-checkout-donations-0
• https://www.click2houston.com/consumer/2022/12/19/4-things-to-know-about-charity-donations-at-the-checkout/

I’d have got 100%, but I misread the date on the first one.

Yeah, it is ridiculous. When I check out at the grocery store, I don’t think the cashier is an extra hard worker because they’re standing. I just think corporate is a bunch of d-bags for pointlessly making them stand.

I refuse to use the self-checkouts because they treat you like a thief and are extremely frustrating. Will keep that rant to myself, but it’s a doozy lol.

Among other reasons Aldi is pretty great, they let their cashiers sit.

Ah, okay. I haven’t really messed with Jerboa for a good while since it still seems to have issues with AOSP keyboard (last I checked in on that bug, anyway).

I was thinking of implementing a non-standard way of doing it in Tesseract (basically it would lookup the user’s instance admins and send a DM). Perhaps that’s what Jerboa is doing?

Shame, I was hoping there was an API feature for that now.

“Help us, Obi-wan Cholesterol. You’re our only hope.”

Me too.

If he lives to be 150, he might actually start to see some real consequences finally catch up.

Why isn’t the music industry bankrupting his campaign like he was some grandma who’s grandkids downloaded a song from Napster while they were visiting?

“At the same time though it must be wild to have a president candidate pick it up and run with it.”

Which is why I worry we may see more of this. Attention-seeking hateful people realizing they can get the ultimate retweets.