If you have Plasma Integration (KDE), you can create a task for sending the link directly to Firefox without copying and pasting. Plasma Integration shows as a context menu item inside chrome, if you use KDE.

Are you depressed?

I guess so. Yeah, I am.

Do you know anyone NOT depressed?

IMHO, those who didn't gaze into the abyss, yet. For "if you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you". And the abyss is part of our reality, the dark emptiness that fills us all, both scientifically (99.9% of empty space inside any atom), esoterically (the primordial waters, Tohu Va-bohu, Nuith, Chaos, the Qlippoths, the Yin, Shakti, and so on) and philosophically (nihilism and absurdism). Everyone will gaze into the abyss someday, the light will and must gaze into darkness. She's inevitable. For She is everywhere and nowhere.

Back in the days I used to use Windows, I did use Linux as a developer sometimes, yet I was sticking to a daily usage of Windows... Until Windows 10, when Windows started to be aggressive on how it won't let me control my own machine (e.g. I couldn't disable updates the way I wanted, I couldn't run some softwares, I couldn't this and I couldn't that). Then I said "enough" and started using Linux on a daily basis, firstly Ubuntu, then I started to experiment on other Linux distros, until I finally landed on Arch Linux, as it's highly customizable and let me have full control of my own machine, not being stuck to specific DEs (I know that distros like Ubuntu allow the user to uninstall the current DE, or install other simultaneous DEs, but Arch comes without any DE from scratch). I've been using Linux on a daily basis for almost a decade now and I don't miss Windows.

It's a fairly common thing on onion websites, especially those who offer real-time interaction (e.g. some onion web-chats), they use this Transfer-Encoding: chunked method for fetching messages and content because JS is often discouraged and sometimes automatically blocked by onion-enabled navigators while surfing DW. HTML Forms with submit buttons are also used for this kind of interaction.

I was looking at the comment section from the article and the following comment made me laugh loudly, thinking on how bizarre our current world is:

So a platform that is blocking adblockers is delivering an ad piece advertising an adblocker. Ha! That's an ad I'd love to watch 😂

And how exactly one is supposedly capable of proving such thing? Let's say someone video-records themselves saying something near the microphone, so to catch the moment when the phone does suggest an ad about what was spoken, then a skeptical would say "Oh, but it doesn't prove anything because the camcorder is actually a smartphone connected to the internet", so let's say that, instead of a modern smartphone, one uses some pre-Internet camcorder (old Sony camcorders, JVC, etc), so to rule out the possibility that the recording itself would affect the results. Then the skeptical would say "It also doesn't prove anything, you could've been googled it before".

There's absolutely no way to prove, except when it starts to happen with yourself, or if someone actually manages to sneak into corp's private Git/SVN/Mercury repo containing the closed source code and point "Ha! There it is, the pesky AI module responsible for NLP and voice recognition that actually feeds ad partners with microphone data in order to increase sales and profits".

Also, don't expect any dev or ex-dev from such corps whistleblowing such thing publicly because there's something called "NDA" (Non-disclosure agreement) and people that already did this (for example, Snowden) is generally seen as "crazy" or "liars" by the majority of people (and they are promised of fines and even jail for such break of corporate secrets).

I agree that our thoughts are somehow influenced by our surroundings, except that I'm an introvert developer person with no one actually surrounding me. While I often think about philosophy, occult and esotericism (as well as scientific concepts, in a syncretic fashion; I'm passionate by all those three branches of human knowledge, the Science, the Philosophy and the Esotericism/Occult/Beliefs), it was too much of a coincidence for such app to show exactly the phrase I was thinking before, even though it was a known philosophical phrase (but philosophy is a vast field filled with many, many phrases and concepts).

Also, for those skeptical: There's something in human psychology field called "Emotional Facial Action Coding System" (EFACS). Our bodies "talk", especially our faces, and we call it "body language". There are some specialists (psychologists) that are capable of "reading" such language. Mentionable specialists are Paul Ekman (PhD) and Joe Navarro (ex-FBI and author of "What Every Body Is Talking"), as well as those within my country Vitor Santos ("Metaforando") and Ricardo Ventura ("Não Minta Pra Mim"). There are broader specialists capable of such nonverbal reading as well, such as Derren Brown, responsible for documentaries such as "The Push". Specialist humans are good at this, but AI is capable of detecting even subler movements. Have you noticed a camera always pointed to our faces (we call it the "selfie camera")? It's like having a Paul Ekman seeing your face 24/7, one that is capable of reading your nonverbal behaviors so precisely that he could actually "deduce" what exactly are you thinking.

Everybody at the comments are telling about how apps indeed monitor our microphones, but have you experience apps monitoring thoughts? Exactly, mind reading! Once I thought a specific philosophical phrase (yet I don't remember which one it was), and few minutes later a video platform recommended a deep-thought video containing such exact phrase. I didn't even say the phrase outside of my "mind's voice", let alone typing/writing it. I dunno what kind of sorcery they used, but it happened a couple of times. Fact is that the app did, somehow, "read my mind". It was this video platform only, I didn't see other apps doing the same outside of recommending/showing things spoken near the mic or written somewhere.

Yeah, almost free. Nowadays there are LLMs (Google's Gemini ahem) recommending people "to eat their daily rocks to be healthy". Now I see exactly where the AI got these absurdity from. lol

Don't forget Bing's Copilot. IIRC, Bing also brings an AI-generated "summary" whenever you use Bing search.

It's not an apple nor a McChicken. It's just organized photon waves vibrating at three main electromagnetic ranges, emitted from and towards bunch of quarks and gluons clumped together forming "things" (protons and neutrons) that forms bigger "things" (atoms) that forms even bigger "things" (molecules) forming even bigger things that don't really exists, such as my "smartphone screen" and the "retinal cones and rods" inside my "eyes". The spoon doesn't exist, neither does the McChicken, let alone the apple, or "you", or "me". Wake up.

Occult and esoteric books in general, such as "The Kybalion" (Hermeticism), "The Book of the Dead" (Egyptian), "Liber AL vel Legis" (by Aleister Crowley, Thelema), as well as grimoires (such as the "Book of Saint Cyprian"). While there are tons of movies and TV Series that directly adapts biblical stories, I feel that there are so few (if there's any) cinematographic works adapting esoteric, occult, pagan books (from belief systems such as Gnosticism, Wicca, Rosicrucianism, Hermeticism, Luciferianism, Thelema, Goëtia, and so on). I even tried to ask AIs to list movies and TV series adapting such books, and every single listed movie (such as The Matrix) is not a direct adaptation. They don't even mention these books (in best cases, The Matrix merely alludes to hermetic principles such as "the Universe is Mental" (i.e. the scene between Neo and the kid that says that "the spoon doesn't exist").

Also, do you think it’s possible that this way of doing things will come to the computer, with ARM hoping to gain a good share of the market and all?

Judging by the way Raspberry Pi works, as an ARM SoC computer, it's already this way: no visible BIOS nor UEFI, just the Operating System being loaded from the SD Card. Technically, you need something to load the OS (i.e. initialize the mmcblk device, request reading of the partition scheme, request reading the files inside the first FAT32 partition, and so on) so there's technically a "BIOS" (Basic Input/Output System), although not a visible one, let alone an interactable one.

I am a new Lemmy user (and new to this fediverse, although I have more fediverse experience from other decentralized platforms such as Matrix). I've been liking Lemmy, for the pupose it's thought for, a thread-focused platform (while Mastodon, for example, is post-focused, microblogging). For starters, no advertisements nor sponsorship nor tracking (yet my adblock is active everytime anyways). Possibility of integrating multiple kinds of platforms through ActivityPub (Mastodon, Pleroma, etc). Open and accessible API. Definitely, not only Lemmy is way better than Reddit, but the fediverse is way better than any mainstream social network.

Although Google indeed is the greatest indexer of the World Wide Web, unfortunately, the SEO and the AI makes it so hard to find something, for example, from before 2000s, such as BBS List archives, old blogosphere and personal webpages from that time, simply because they had no modern SEO nor AI keywords at that time. These old content are entirely free from AI-generated slop, (almost) free from dis- and mis-informations (because, at the time of BBS and Gopher, the Internet was still being born, and books were the main source of knowledge), so old content is sine qua non for one that's seeking real knowledge.

Aside from SearXNG, I didn't know about these search engines until your recommendation. Thanks to Wiby and Marginalia, I found old rich content (old BBS list conversations, for example) that I was looking for, regarding studies on the occult and esotericism. Thank you so much!

I'm not sure about the LinkedIn's situation in other countries but, in the country I live in, except for those jobs who have the "Easy Apply", most of the jobs from LinkedIn redirect LinkedIn's users to third-party platforms (such as "Gupy", a HR platform used by many brazilian corps). For every single job one wishes to apply, Gupy will require them to fill all their information again and again. It's infuriating for those who're seeking a job...

The "Easy Apply" also doesn't really help. Several jobs aren't jobs at all, but designed to fill HR's "talent pools". Not to mention the AI-based filtering that HRs are using to select candidates based on "secret keywords", without previous interviewing of such candidate. "Human" resources, as they call themselves. LinkedIn is just an echo chamber for such HRs.

Lastly, I also deactivated my LinkedIn profile ("Hibernated" it), yet I keep receiving those emails ("Your account is still hibernating")...

It's interesting to see a new browser engine aside from Gecko and Chromium, especially with all the conundrum surrounding the Manifest v2 support.

I usually use Huggingface as there are both open-source and free generative model spaces. Also, by paying cents per hour, you can clone a space and config it as you will, so you can, for example, disable security filtering (although it depends on the model).