I usually start with DDG, but it just doesn’t have anywhere near as much of the WWW in its index as Google does, so I very often don’t find what I’m looking for and switch back to Google.
If someone has a suggestion for something better than either of them, do tell.
Alcohol damages the body, phones definitely don’t do that.
I remember being a child and early teenager before anyone I knew had mobile Internet. Many of us engaged in highly disruptive behavior, including behavior harmful to others, when bored.
Researchers believe that the students, especially younger ones, may have turned to more disruptive behavior when they no longer had access to their phones.
Yeah, no shit? Phones tend to serve as a distraction that kills boredom; disruptive behavior is frequently (maybe usually) the result of boredom.
“One conjecture is that this resembles, to some degree, withdrawal symptoms,” he said. “Students are unhappy and disruptive the moment their phones are taken away.”
They’re understandably bored and then, understandably, try to kill their boredom in other, more disruptive ways. I for one very much prefer students being on their phones (or other devices) to beating each other up, damaging property, or insulting each other in psychologically damaging ways out of boredom! No idea what about this is supposed to resemble withdrawal symptoms.
“without exaggeration”
The main question I have is this: is it going to be replaced by something better (such as federated services)?
Or will this just mean the Internet as a whole will lose lots of users? That, I think, wouldn’t be desirable. Whatever one may think of Meta, they’ve definitely done a lot to popularize the Internet as a mainstream technology, which by itself is a good thing, though if they use Meta platforms, it ought to be only the first step.
I’ve never bought VPN access, so am not sure; but don’t you need to have a bank account or even credit card to pay for VPNs anyway? How many very young people are even capable of paying for VPN access?
Does it really seem to you like the forces of freedom are winning? Not to me. :(
Hint: photo and video evidence has only been a thing for less than 200 years when photos and videos were invented. So if humanity managed without it before that, it can do so again.
There actually was a diesel ICE for some time too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICE_TD
Certainly not, just look at !brandnewsentence@lemmy.world for some examples of things unlikely to have been said ever before. (The non-federated link aggregation website has a busier version of that.)
The second one is the one they’re (at least mainly) concerned about…
A fairly well known German news site that specializes in digital policy certainly published an article https://netzpolitik.org/2026/phishing-signal-unkenntnis-allerorten/ that expressed the opinion that switching to Wire because of this is complete nonsense and pretty much everyone in the decision-making process has no idea what they’re doing.
I only buy calendars as Christmas gifts.
I know of a company where you can order custom calendars with your own photos and design and IIRC you can make those start in any months, they can be for any period of 12 consecutive months.
For technical work, AI can definitely be helpful, but as a tool, not replacement. I work in software development and have used AI to tell me why test runs were running out of memory, after a few suggestions that didn’t work, it did give me the right answer (it was a wrong and unnecessary annotation). Also things like “what is the syntax for configuring a proxy with this-or-that command”.
The thing about technical work is that no matter if the solution is made by humans or AI, you still have to, and can, verify if it actually works. If you ask AI factual questions you genuinely don’t know the answer to and have no way of verifying, it’s your own fault if they are wrong.
Yeah, not really a new or surprising realization at all.
Yup. I remember in the 2000s and early 2010s it was very widely agreed that websites that allow user generated content are a good thing and politics should advance their existence, not try to pass laws making it harder.
Nothing about the facts has changed since then. Politicians’ attitudes meanwhile…
It’s a problem for any kind of social media, not just federated.
I still remember that the first time in my life I gave any thought to RAM is when my childhood PC was upgraded from 1GB to 3GB.
I don’t do radically different things on the computer nowadays than I did back then, yet that would nowadays be unusable.
Steam says, out of those I have in my library there, Rocket League. But it’s relatively closely followed by GTA 5, which I’ve also played on a console (those hours wouldn’t be counted there), so I suspect that that’s the real answer overall. GTA 5 is just a wonderfully deep game with an entertaining story where you can almost never run out of things to explore.
It’s possible that Pokémon FireRed or Emerald has even more, that was too long ago for me to know for sure.
The headline is literally false, not just clickbaity.