“The people that seem to be most distressed by it were the people who had not gone looking for it,” Lloyd said.

Lloyd’s his birth name but he insists we call him Captain Obvious at the office.

The British have all the good luck.

And if anyone wants to discover music, get a scrobbler for a good music network.

Do you have any that you find useful? I haven’t used one in decades.

commenting on random YouTube videos

That’s definitely not new. Comment spam has existed as long as comments have.

Stealing content is also as old as the internet. It would make sense they would use their own music if that’s what they were selling. People that sell affiliate links to stuff paste their logo and domain on the lower or upper part of stolen reels.

I don’t discover music on Youtube so I can’t speak to it’s rise in popularity but things like this get adopted widely when it’s proven to work.

I didn’t understand that, thank you for the clarification.

As one of the “insatiable Americans” the video speaks of, the video breaks down very cleanly what my inner monologue has been getting increasingly uncomfortable with in recent years but truly didn’t understand the magnitude of the problem.

My household is one of those that receive boxes daily. While a lot is household staples(toilet paper, animal food, trash bags, etc.), both my wife and I have gotten more comfortable with purchasing many things that we don’t need. We’re part of the animal that the system feeds and I feel bad about it.

I have recently attempted to try to go without purchasing unnecessary items and I no longer browse suggested or curated shopping items to try to keep from getting pulled into a thoughtless purchase. I think my next step will be to try to fill my needs perhaps by buying used in the area.

lot of YouTubers recommend it as something that looks a bit like Windows (on the surface).

Oh yeah, I forgot that was it’s schtick. Well, best of luck to them, regardless of the cause.

From Kagi:

“Kagi Search includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing as well as sources like Wikipedia, DeepL, and other APIs. We also have our own non-commercial index (Teclis), news index (TinyGem), and an AI for instant answers. Teclis and TinyGem are a result of our crawl through millions of domains, focusing primarily on non-commercial, high-quality content.”

“Our unique results combined from all of these sources help you discover the best content you can possibly find online, sometimes from the quieter places on the web.”

I don’t know if I would simplify it to “Google on the backend” as it’s compiling from multiple sources, including their own.

Any idea on what caused the spike? I used Zorin years and years ago and while nifty, didn’t have anything that met a particular need that wasn’t already satisfied by other distros. I checked their site and it looks like nothing drastic has changed.

Perhaps some popular influencer or advertisement type thing?

I use Kagi and really like it. It costs, but very little so it’s worth it to me.

If I’m reading DW correctly, the real switft OS has been around since 2011, which I don’t think predates HML but is still getting up there in age.

Filter your content to get the vibe you want.

Blocking the porn and impotently hostile makes it quite the chill platform.

Both YT music and Tidal offer a trial period, you could listen to some examples yourself since you’re the only person that can determine if the differences in sound quality are anything that you notice or care about.

It looks like it’s been overrun with AI “articles”. There’s tons of telltale stuff like this:

What Are The Most Popular Names This Year?
Great question! In America, here are the top 10 boys and girls names of 2025:

I know that they took some heat for adopting AI to generate their images but it looks like it’s gone much farther than that.

I am pretty sure the content is irrelevant to the owners as from it’s first sale in 2006, it existed primarily to be an adsense ad farm.

https://buzzlogic.com/business/the-story-of-wikihow-and-how/?admin

If they simply bought an already available tool, it’s already being used against you by other parts of the US govt. If it was developed for ICE, it will be deployed across other parts of the US govt soon.

The US car makers aren’t staring death in the face. The US people will again be forced to bail them out.

That was incredible. I love watching Drumeo’s vidoes done in this format.

Some studies disagree.

https://www.investopedia.com/age-and-financial-fraud-11714608

As does screening or answering. There’s no way around that unless you just don’t plan to ever use your phone as a phone.

When it was introduced to Android years ago, I regained a lot of my sanity. Prior to it, I was seriously considering just disabling the phone function and sending everything to rot in voicemail. I can’t remember the last time an actual spam call got through the invisible screening process.