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@ Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

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[He/Him, Nosist, Touch typist, Enthusiast, Superuser impostorist, keen-eyed humorist, endeavourOS shillist, kotlin useist, wonderful bastard, professinal pedant miser]Stuped person says stuped things, people boom

I have trouble with using tone in my words but not interpreting tone from others' words. Weird, isn't it?

Formerly on kbin.social and thriv.social, now on dbzer0 or piefed.social

  • TIL A "privacy-focused" ad-company owns Startpage, MapQuest

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  • oops, forgot. Pretend I said CoMaps.

  • I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

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  • check the fifth image on amazon, it's pretty small

  • TIL A "privacy-focused" ad-company owns Startpage, MapQuest

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  • OrganicMaps CoMaps is another OSM client with buzz

  • TIL A "privacy-focused" ad-company owns Startpage, MapQuest

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  • OpenStreetMaps?

  • TIL A "privacy-focused" ad-company owns Startpage, MapQuest

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  • I agree, but in a different way: No ethical consumption under capitalism 😃. My position on all companies is "take what you can get, bail when they yen grift"

  • TIL A "privacy-focused" ad-company owns Startpage, MapQuest

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  • System1 is an advertizing company that operates in the privacy niche. All I can get from all that ad copy you quoted is that they advertize 😀. I haven't heard of them doing anything other than selling ads. AdExchanger (no idea what their reliability is but the writing style is quite frank so I'll trust them) clocks System1 as a "Special-purpose acquisition company".

    The privacy community has a pretty favorable view of System1: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/?h=startpage#startpage https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2020/05/03/relisting-startpage/

  • Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want

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  • the law is that they have to recognize if a majority of workers vote to unionize in an National Labor Relations Board secret ballot, so in any case this is a formality

  • I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

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  • I didn't realize you meant the price of the base iPhone. But for one, at $500, you can get a Pixel 10a, which topped categories in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRoTOE3FqT0. Besides that you can get similar camera quality for $200 by simply buying a phone from four years ago,

  • I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

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  • No? The Oppo Find X9 Pro is $800, including tariffs. (In China, it's ¥5300 while the iPhone 17 Pro is ¥9000.) And take care that it's not just good, it's reviewed as the absolute best of the year.

  • Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows

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  • for once i'm not blaming microsoft for adware

  • I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

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  • I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

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  • I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

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  • what the article said about its successor:

    The best camera for street photography Ricoh GR IV: Ricoh GR IV

    This camera looks like a classic soap-bar-style point-and-shoot but packs a big APS-C sensor and a seriously sharp lens. But it shoots only wide-angle photos, and it lacks a viewfinder.

    The Ricoh GR IV is the Platonic ideal of a street-photography camera, especially if you like to shoot quickly and covertly. Its minimalist design won’t catch anyone’s attention, you can easily slip it into and out of a pants pocket, and its wide-angle field of view and unique Snap Focus feature let you quickly shoot from the hip. If you want to take more time with your compositions, it’s a great all-around travel camera, too.

    But skinny-jeans pocketability comes at a cost: This camera lacks an electronic viewfinder (an optical viewfinder is available separately), its rear display doesn’t tilt, and its wide-angle lens doesn’t zoom.

    If you like the idea of the Ricoh GR IV but prefer a field of view closer to that of a classic “normal” lens: Ricoh is still producing last generation’s GR IIIx. It’s almost exactly the same camera as the discontinued GR III, but with a 40mm-equivalent lens.

    Compared with the GR IV we recommend, it has a very slightly lower resolution sensor (24 megapixels), uses an older (but still effective) version of shake reduction, has a slightly different control scheme, and doesn’t include the Cinema Yellow and Cinema Green film modes. However, the overall shooting experience is quite similar.

  • I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

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  • what's your price point? did you consider the article's "disposable film camera" suggestion? the article mentions some high-end compact cameras at $1500 and links their review of point-and-shoots, which includes "The best camera for capturing distant subjects: Panasonic Lumix FZ80D, $435 from Best Buy"

  • I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

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  • the article does address the "distinct look" part:

    If you want noisy or blown-out photos on purpose, plenty of apps can fake it for you.

    here's a photo from their review linked there:

  • I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

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  • the point is that 2000s digital cameras are even more mediocre (except the high-end kind it mentions at the end that aren’t seeing a revival)

  • I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

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  • i don't think the amount we think about what we just did changes depending on the weight that's in your hand, as you stare off into the scenery and hit the shutter

  • I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

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  • could you elaborate?

  • I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

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  • the iPhone has all of that built-in, except actual aperture settings which i'll grant you. it's also much cheaper to buy an app once than a digital camera

    edit: why does basically the same comment about Android have infinity more upvotes lol

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    I Reviewed Late-2000s Digital Cameras. Allow Me to Remind You Why We All Switched to iPhones.

    www.nytimes.com /wirecutter/reviews/iphone-camera-vs-old-school-point-and-shoot/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court

    dpa-international.com /economics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260715-930-389143/
  • Opensource @programming.dev
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    ‘guix substitute‘ and ‘guix pull‘ Vulnerabilities

    guix.gnu.org /en/blog/2026/guix-substitute-pull-vulnerabilities/
  • Linux @programming.dev
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    ‘guix substitute‘ and ‘guix pull‘ Vulnerabilities

    guix.gnu.org /en/blog/2026/guix-substitute-pull-vulnerabilities/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    ‘guix substitute‘ and ‘guix pull‘ Vulnerabilities

    guix.gnu.org /en/blog/2026/guix-substitute-pull-vulnerabilities/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    NY lawmakers want limits on shackling pregnant people after Brooklyn courtroom birth

    gothamist.com /news/ny-lawmakers-want-limits-on-shackling-pregnant-people-after-brooklyn-courtroom-birth
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    2025-12-11: Porn Is Being Injected Into Government Websites Via Malicious PDFs

    www.404media.co /porn-is-being-injected-into-government-websites-via-malicious-pdfs/
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    Americans, when did you first become aware that "judgement" is spelt "judgment"?

  • Opensource @programming.dev
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    A little help from Santa's helpers by kryksyh · Pull Request #10115 · audacity/audacity

    github.com /audacity/audacity/pull/10115
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    ‘It is not me, it is him’: Democrat elected official asks folks not to mistake his Republican twin brother for him

    fox59.com /news/politics/it-is-not-me-it-is-him-democrat-elected-official-asks-folks-not-to-mistake-his-republican-twin-brother-for-him/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    Sperm donor with cancer-causing gene fathered nearly 200 children

    metro.co.uk /2025/12/10/sperm-donor-cancer-causing-gene-fathered-nearly-200-children-25350557
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    J.D. Vance, Not That One, Gets 2 Years in Prison for Threatening the Vice President

    www.nytimes.com /2025/11/18/us/jd-vance-threats-michigan.html
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.

    www.nytimes.com /2025/11/21/world/cryptography-group-lost-election-results.html
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    Support for community-wide banners coming to Mbin 1.8.5

    github.com /MbinOrg/mbin/pull/1759
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    A Michigan elected official is married to a neo-Nazi. Some constituents have a problem with that.

    www.mlive.com /news/2025/10/a-michigan-elected-official-is-married-to-a-neo-nazi-some-constituents-have-a-problem-with-that.html
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    TIL the World Wide Web Consortium changed their logo on 1 October

    www.w3.org /press-releases/2025/new-logo/
  • News @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    Inside Luigi Mangione’s Missing Months

    www.nytimes.com /2025/10/21/us/luigi-mangione-asia-trip.html
  • politics @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    She Despised Charlie Kirk. He Resolved to Make People Like Her Pay.

    www.nytimes.com /2025/10/12/us/charlie-kirk-civil-war.html
  • Tech @programming.dev
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your Enemy

    byroot.github.io /opensource/ruby/2025/10/09/dear-rubyists.html
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
    Aatube @kbin.melroy.org

    “People Do Evil Things”: Pacific Palisades Fire Suspect Arrested By Feds

    deadline.com /2025/10/palisades-fire-arrest-1236573310/