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meejle

@ meejle @lemmy.world

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⚠️ I follow and comment on NSFW stuff.

I'm a 36m British writer, designer, gaymer, lefty snowflake, and AuDHDer. I never shut up about Ace Attorney, and I collect Tamagotchis. Trying to learn Japanese, currently N4-ish. Ask for my Slowly ID!

Also trying PieFed: @meejle@piefed.world

  • Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn

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  • Surprised the UK age verification selfies haven't been used to extort people yet. It'd be so easy (and is such an obvious reason why the law is bullshit).

    SecurAge🛡️"Log in with Google to verify your age."

    "Sorry, we weren't able to verify you using your Google Account. Please take a selfie for verification."

    "Now give us £1000, or we'll send your picture and details of the porn you were trying to access to everyone in your contacts."

  • The State of Consumer AI: AI’s Consumer Tipping Point Has Arrived - Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay for it.

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  • I think also the fact that AI subscriptions are generally quite expensive, when compared with other online subscriptions.

    Copilot Pro: £19.00/monthChatGPT Plus: £18.99/monthGemini: £18.99/monthClaude Pro: £15.00/month

    Compared to (just off the top of my head):

    Microsoft 365 Personal: £8.49/monthGoogle Play Pass: £4.99/monthAdobe Photography Plan (Photoshop, Lightroom, and 20GB cloud storage): £9.98/monthApple Arcade: £6.99/monthPlayStation Plus Premium (top tier): £13.49/monthAmazon Prime: £8.99/month

    And it has a free offering, so there's not even a pressing reason to upgrade for most people. 🤔

  • No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites

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  • I'd love it if you did that! Thanks!

  • No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites

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  • I think it'll happen, but I don't think it's happening yet.

    The unease is already there ("the internet used to be a place"/"why isn't the internet fun any more?" sentiments and #OldWeb #SlowWeb hashtags), but I don't think people are ready to do anything about it.

    I'm only one guy, with a small internet following, but I recently had a go at launching a small "Gaymers" webring (well, a simplified version of one). I promoted it on my socials, I laid out why I think it's a good idea, I paid to "Blaze" it on Tumblr – I even emailed some like-minded creators directly.

    I rewrote the webpage multiple times, to try to make it more persuasive and more concise. I added a contact form in case people felt uncomfortable emailing me. I loosened the rules to allow commercial websites, as long as they were still independent. I worked hard on the widget and incorporated feedback (made it respect prefers-reduced-motion and made a static version for sites where animation would feel out of place).

    I got some good feedback; lots of people said it was interesting, and a good idea. But literally no one joined or expressed any interest in joining. 🤷‍♂️

    I'm going to have one more go at promoting it next time I've got money to spare, but I'll most likely end up quietly deleting it along with any evidence it existed, because a webring of one is fucking embarrassing. 💀

    I guess if you build it, they will not necessarily come lmao

  • What are your favorite games that you never see mentioned anywhere?

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  • I'm currently playing to a T, by the Katamari creator.

    Not remotely similar, and hard to recommend to most people tbh... but it has the same joyful silliness that just makes me smile, somehow.

  • What are your favorite games that you never see mentioned anywhere?

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  • Honestly, Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective.

    The remaster got some attention, but it still feels pretty niche for a game made by the Ace Attorney guy. I never felt like it got its "moment" in the same way as, say, Blue Prince.

    And yet, from the moment the 15-year-old announcement trailer dropped, I knew it was going to be in "top 5 of all time" territory for me. 😍

  • Microsoft Tests Removing Its Name From Bing Search Box

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  • They know they already have a Bing logo they could use, right? 🤔

    Not that this is out of character for Microsoft. Office became Office 365, which became Microsoft 365… unless you search for it online, because then all three names show up.

    Likewise, Bing Chat became Copilot… but then the main Office launcher became Microsoft 365 Copilot, so there are two Copilot apps on people's PCs and it's not immediately clear what the difference is. (This joins the two OneNote apps and two Outlook apps.)

    And, they finally finished retiring the MSN brand and changed everything over to "Microsoft Start" (not to be confused with the iconic "Start" button 😬)… only to make a new MSN logo and change it all back.

    Meanwhile, there's a Bing app for Android that has an almost identical feature set to Edge, but different branding and a different UI. There's also an MSN app, which… has almost an identical feature set as the other two apps, but a slightly different UI to the Bing app. 😭

  • What are you best decluttering tips?

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  • Use the Poop Method

    "If this object had poop on it, would I wash it, or throw it away?"

  • Billionaire Sunjay Kapur has died after swallowing a bee at a polo match

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  • Poor bee 😔

  • Welcome to the web we lost

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  • I've been thinking a lot about webrings lately. Now that Google is basically cutting off traffic from the indie web.

    I feel like everyone's kinda having the same idea at the same time, which gives me some hope, but... it's difficult enough to find a ring to join, that I think most people will give up?

    I don't know what I think the solution is. Centralising it and having a big, user-friendly "webring platform" is just inviting more enshittification. But the handful of webring directories I've found are really lacking.

    Does anyone have any suggestions? Or, does anyone want to team up and make, like, a Gaymers Webring? (That's pretty much what I'm looking for.)

    ETA: I've built one. DM me if you're interested!

  • Welcome to the web we lost

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  • This is probably a bit "I'm 14 and this is deep", but I was thinking the other day about how "pull down to refresh" is weirdly similar to pulling a slot machine handle. 😬

    I don't think that was ever part of its design (didn't the Tweetie dev invent it?), but still.

  • Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads

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  • Why would anyone opt in 😭

    Is this just so they can wait a few months and say, "Not enough people were discovering this Great Feature, so we're enabling it by default"?

    I've already been getting the itch to leave Samsung and try something different. I'm keeping my eye on the upcoming Nothing Phone 3, if it's genuinely a "flagship" for £800 I might jump ship.

  • [UK] Live facial recognition cameras may become ‘commonplace’ as police use soars

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  • Drink once if they ban face coverings because of this.

    Drink twice if they somehow link it to hijabs and burqas in a skewed bid to "win back Reform voters".

    Down your drink if they fuck up and do it around the time of the next pandemic.

  • Hundreds of Thousands Told Not To Drink Alcohol in 3 States

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  • Yeah, this seems to be the latest 'format'. I've been seeing a lot of "Thousands of Britons ordered not to open their windows on Monday"

  • Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US

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  • Grok wouldn't fuck up the spelling so badly

  • How can children be introduced to digital technology and the internet in a playful way? At what age is this appropriate? And how can this be done without exposing children to all the negative aspects?

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  • I don't know if it can (or should) be done without the negative aspects. The internet is really dangerous.

    Children can be introduced to baking in a playful way, but still need to be taught how to do it safely. You wouldn't try to do it without mentioning that the oven is hot, or that they shouldn't play with knives.

  • Apple sued over abandoning CSAM detection for iCloud | TechCrunch

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  • I'm amazed it's taken so long... I think I'm on my third Android phone since they first announced it and I said "fuck no".

  • TIL antiperspirant works better if applied at night before bed

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  • I use Sure Men Invisible Ice Fresh. https://www.boots.com/sure-men-invisible-ice-fresh-antiperspirant-aerosol-200ml-10324663

    It's an antiperspirant and contains aluminium, but doesn't leave any gross powder or stickiness, and my bf and I never get stains on our clothes. (I have experienced all of those things with other antiperspirants, so I'm not some sort of weird edge case).

    Not trying to "um, actually" you, just wondering if you know what the difference is with this product. 😃