ð is a thorn, it means “th”.

No idea about the others.

Supply and demand, more supply means lower prices.

Been seeing this pattern for a long time. The ability to turn off public reviews is so obviously exploitable.

So can a phone, or a tiny audio recorder.

Or statistics are wrong because people no longer bother to report crimes?

Saving money, mostly

Should’ve streambombed her.

Doesn’t even let me leave a review

Shame the website isn’t multilingual

We used to call software that installed things without permission a Trojan horse.

They’re going to build a great firewall of Europe just for futbol

It’s an AI program specifically to use AI models to recognise birds. If you’re against AI you should probably learn to recognise them manually.

It can run on device on your phone https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

Unfortunately it’s a lot easier and quicker to scan a book if you remove the spine, since it’s then just a bunch of pages that can be fed through an auto feeder. Proper book scanners that turn pages are slow and expensive.

I don’t like the idea of destroying books, but it’s certainly a lot less unsavoury to destroy a single copy to create a publicly available archive.

Not all, in fact probably the minority, of rare books have anything special about their binding. There’s one reference book I’ve been looking for a copy of that was only published 20 years ago in paperback, but copies regularly sell for £150+ on ebay.

Same, sousveillance is fine, it’s when it becomes surveillance it’s a problem.

Same. It feels like the internet created a lot of borderline psychopaths.

Or maybe it just revealed how many always existed.

There’s rumours he may run in the republican primary. I’d love to see it.

I think it’s the sheer size of the list that makes it comical. It’s hard to feel personally targeted when the dude had half of Lemmy blocked.

Ah yes, if you wanted a say you should’ve paid €50 to join something nobody ever told you about. How very open and community spirited.

I wonder what the Graphene owner’s calm and reasonable response to this will be?