Notices by Flock of Cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 ❄️ (flockofcats@famichiki.jp)

@researchfairy 💯

Also if your password fields prevent people from pasting into them 🫠

we’ve officially passed through bear market territory into a cocaine bear market 🐻 🧐

Self-hosted SearXNG: 👍 I like it for simplicity….it is mostly just the same search results that Google buries under ads and slop. Which is not surprising since it includes Google, DDG, etc. in its meta-search.

I’d prefer to shrink the meta info on top (eg, response time), which I can probably do since I’m hosting it. Also, it shares less info with Google, DDG, etc. since it just uses their search APIs

Next DDG: better, though a bit of stuff added at the top and other random stuff, but shows a good amount of actual results

I just did a quick comparison of how search results looks on Google, DuckDuckGo, and self-hosted SearXNG

#selfhosting #searxng

First Google: 🤮 three screenshots and few actual search results

I feel like the pollen situation has really ramped up in the past few days. Dying. 😭

It’s fine. Exactly what you’d expect in terms of flavor, so I guess it is good if you are a macha fan.

Appearance-wise, kinda looks like a big bowl of weed 🌱

Trying this, for science

Many of you may be wondering, “Is the new Corn Chicken Stick at FamilyMart good?” :family_mart:

No. No, it is not.

4.5 / 10. Soft pass.

It is like if Vienna sausage were made of chicken, infused with corn flavor, and had corn kernels nestled within.

It is definitely not good, but also not totally gross. I wouldn’t choose to eat one again, but if stuck with one, I’d be like “meh”

@dansup tbh I don’t see how this is better than having pixelfed dot social as the default and retaining the ability for people to easily pick another server if they want.

It took me a sec to figure out how to log in to my customer server because enabling custom servers in the options is not intuitive

I agree that we shouldn’t expect new users to have a PhD in fediversology, but currently the implementation seems more like obfuscation than simplification

@dansup

Sounds like you need to bring in some (more?) mods 🤯

@xinjeisan @pixelfed

I think maybe the link is wrong, is this you?

https://pixelfed.social/XinJeisan

I used the “copy link” on the pixelfed profile page to get the link

My PF contains the link to masto under Website: https://famichiki.jp/@FlockOfCats

And masto contains link to PF: https://pix.famichiki.jp/flockofcats

“this investigation revealed key problems, including deference to the farm industry, eroded public health budgets, neglect for the safety of agriculture workers, and the sluggish pace of federal interventions.”

So the investigation revealed capitalism 🤗

We don’t need a government biolab to create a pandemic — we can just rely on the power of the market!

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/24/health/america-bird-flu-next-pandemic-kff-health-news/index.html

@DavidBHimself that sounds like totally hinged behavior 🙃

I told Ms FoC that I didn’t like the name kanji 斗　because it looked like 汁

She argues that they are “not at all alike” 🙄

Babe, you got eyes??

Gonna try the MOS PLANT-BASED

(Does not contain the five pungent vegetables!)

With the looming end of life of Wndows 10, it has come to my attention that most of our office computers are not specced well enough to upgrade.

It is crazy that they would expect us to upgrade a dozen of computers that work perfectly well just to run the latest version of their bloated OS, when all we need to do is run word processor, spreadsheet, and a web browser.

😤

Alleged CEO shooter Luigi Mangione has a recipe for manicotti with pesto posted on his Instagram, or as he called it, his manipesto

@Dana so jealous! I saved some seeds from some fresh jalapeños this year, so I will try grow some this year 😊

@Dana I’ll miss having a little more pickled jalepenos in my life!