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Cake day: June 8th, 2023
  • ram@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per monthEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Totally valid. For me the killer feature is being able to change the weights for various sites, making it so websites with content that’s not useful to me or I don’t like don’t appear[1], pinning websites that I consider best-of-class for their relevant searches[2], and prioritizing websites I do like, but aren’t always the best answer[3].

    They also have a “Lenses” feature that lets you make your own search lens (like I have one for Lemmy-only results), but I’ve not really had much use for those.

    1. e.g. apple.com, facebook, nypost, quora ↩︎

    2. e.g. wikipedia, the ffxiv wiki ↩︎

    3. e.g. opencritic, speedrun.com, cbc, w3schools, github ↩︎

  • ram@lemmy.catoFirefox@lemmy.ml•Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study findsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So I’m just thinking about how this would work, in a perfectly non-competitive world:

    There’d need to be some Browser Standards Association to implement and suggest browsers to add to a list of “certified browsers”, with transparent requirements to be included to ensure low quality or outdated browsers aren’t included. The OS would need to implement that entire list in a randomized format. There’d preferably be some sort of built-in pros/cons list of the browser, I suppose these could be put together by a combination of the BSA and the competing browsers.
    But these pros/cons won’t be understandable or significant to 95% of people.

    The BSA would also want to ensure there’s diversity not just in browser and companies (like Opera getting 3 fucking entries), but would also want to ensure there’s a variety of browser engines (preferably not just chromium and webkit).

  • ram@lemmy.catoGaming@beehaw.org•Looking for games with unique core mechanicsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    • Majora’s Mask: a 3-day timeloop where everything resets when you go back

    • Katamari: A giant ball gets rolled around and collects stuff forever

    • Baba Is You: Movable text is rules to the game

    • Untitled Goose Game: You have to piss people off the right way

    • Billie Bust Up[unreleased]: Musicals tell you upcoming platforming challenges

    • Celeste: every time you die you quickly reset on the same “page”/small tile of map

    • Splatoon: you shoot at the ground to go faster, hide, and/or win

    • Odama: real-time tactical wargame pinball

    • Golf Story: Golf-based fetch quests

    • Astral Chain: asynchronously control a companion in combat

    • Okami: paint skills on-screen in combat

    • Astro Bears: Snake but in 3D

    • Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime: Up to 4 players pilot parts of a ship together

    • Pokemon Ranger: draw circles around monsters to catch them

    • Viva Pinata: breed pinatas to create new species

    • Spore: create and evolve a creature

  • ram@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Why are people hyped about RSS regaining relevance?English
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    1 year ago

    Opening paragraph on Wikipedia explains it pretty well

    RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication)[2] is a web feed[3] that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator, which constantly monitor sites for new content, removing the need for the user to manually check them. News aggregators (or “RSS readers”) can be built into a browser, installed on a desktop computer, or installed on a mobile device.