I think "Homeland" had a plotline with online misinformation farms at some point. That's all I can think of

For anyone curious, the preview image contains this link

The trace seems to be part of the request. It's only using digits to encode; I wonder why not at least base64

These look a lot like iOS status icons, but I'm not familiar enough to say for sure

I do lots of squats so that my butt looks nice

For real I was going to say this reads like a Google marketing AstroTurf. Just watched the linked MKBHD video and it's not unfair; definitely not "weird"

I saw this coming when GPM shutdown and podcasts migrated to Google Podcasts. The GPM podcasts were already bugged before that due to lack of attention. Very happy I bailed out for AntennaPod way back then!

I saw some ideas recently in a similar post: could try improving your skin care routine, wearing sunscreen, putting on body lotion after shower, paint nails, get ears pierced, etc. I'll try to find this other post I'm thinking of

Edit: https://lemmy.world/post/49402

Fwiw the captcha support in lemmy is probably going away soon. It needs to be reimplemented into another database table (or something like that) anyway. Given that it is too hard for many humans, too easy for many bots, and devs are slammed with work, makes more sense to delete as a first step

It took a lot of work to get PC parts to become interoperable. There's all kinds of special negotiations that happen at boot to discover the state of hardware. There are standard drivers for most peripherals

Mobile devices aren't expected to change hardware so everything is hard-coded into the ROM. No discovery protocols are supported. Standardized drivers make it hard to ship new features or squeeze every last bit of performance so no effort goes into making them

I came into this thread thinking that I want downvotes enabled, and now after reading some pretty compelling arguments I can see how disabled makes a lot of sense too. Hopefully this partial weight approach is a good balance between the two. Can always continue to iterate

I recently switched to KISS launcher; it's a bit unorthodox but I like it a lot now that I'm used to it. AntennaPod is good for podcasting too

I think it's silly to put punctuation inside quotes if they're not part of the quote, but that's what's technically correct. I put periods or whatever after the end quote instead of before. Can't think of any good examples at the moment though