Chris Remington
Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.
Bluesky: @beehaw.org
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Technology@beehaw.org•The Psychology of Choice: Would You Pick 'Luck' or 'Money'?
1·7 months agoI’m in the exact same boat as you.
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Technology@beehaw.org•How Apple’s iOS 26 and Google’s Android 16 Will Change Our Phones
11·8 months ago…no mention of iOS 26’s new call screening feature - which asks unknown callers for their name and purpose of the call and displays this on the screen before your phone starts to ring.
Nice! Thanks for pointing this out!
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•I created an open source barter facilitator application and I am wondering if it is the future of commerce
10·8 months ago…money isn’t the root of all evil…
That’s because it isn’t…to explain, many people misquote a verse from the biblical texts.
1 Timothy 6:10: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.”
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Technology@beehaw.org•A few people are ruining the internet for the rest of us
101·8 months agoThis is such an incredibly important message for us to understand. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. I can only hope that more and more people learn this.
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Technology@beehaw.org•The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
3·8 months agoThanks. I appreciate the info and effort.
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Technology@beehaw.org•The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
4·8 months agoOK. Fair enough.
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Technology@beehaw.org•The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
1·8 months agoUnfortunately, archive.is has moved behind Cloudflare, subjecting readers to having their reading habits (both the articles and the referring communities) tracked at a large scale.
How do you know this?
What about https://ghostarchive.org/?
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Technology@beehaw.org•The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
31·8 months agoWould you edit your post and add the following archive link to the body, please?
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Technology@beehaw.org•Why are newer versions of Windows considered spyware?
4·9 months agodate brokers
I believe you meant ‘data brokers’.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American
16·10 months agoHere’s an archive link of that NY Times article: https://archive.is/tXBRJ
There’s no “right” way to experience federation.
You’re doing it wrong!!! /s
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Technology@beehaw.org•Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet
9·10 months agoI would like both to be successful.
Same
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Technology@beehaw.org•Sports fans are abandoning traditional TV
1·11 months agoSee my reply above.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Sports fans are abandoning traditional TV
1·11 months agouBlock Origin blocks all ads from the streaming sites I use. YouTube, Peacock, Paramount+ and Hulu. Some movies and sports I can easily pirate with no ads.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Sports fans are abandoning traditional TV
5·11 months agoYes
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Technology@beehaw.org•Sports fans are abandoning traditional TV
3·11 months agoYes.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Sports fans are abandoning traditional TV
4·11 months agoI gave up traditional TV for ad-free streaming back in 2009 and have never looked back.
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Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•What are the "app dock" apps on your phone? Are they FOSS?
3·11 months agoPhone (proprietary); Beeper (partial-FOSS); DuckDuckGo (FOSS?); Mlem (FOSS)
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Technology@beehaw.org•The inarguable case for banning social media for teens
1·11 months agoYes. Those are good points.



























This doesn’t belong in this community (i.e. Technology). Next time post this in Ask Beehaw or Chat. Thanks.