Thanks everyone for your replies. I guess the days of believing online reviews are at an end then. I wonder what emerges from this. Presumably some kind of mutually assured trust scores to direct our searches to places we believe. I think Klout tried to do something like this a few years ago.

I wonder which was which

You eat bats?

Love those big metallic blue bumble bees, Xylocopa violacea - the violet carpenter bee

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylocopa_violacea

Why is it not symmetrical though?

Agreed, this belongs in “quite interesting”

Got to rule 14 but Malaysia as the country made it impossible to get the Roman numerals to multiply to 35

Qwant

Isn’t this the plot of Watchmen?

Thank fucking god for that, is it not enough that we have to go to work every day? People also want us to give up our soul while we do it?

Wasn’t this called black ice in Neuromancer? Security systems that actively tried to harm the hacker?

Wold, an area of high, open lands, esp. in the UK

Holy mother of pixels

Por que no los dos?

I see you’ve read Neal Stephenson

Does anyone have a link to a list of who? Want to see if my MP is on there

Butlerian jihad incoming?

The Simpsons is still being made?

I’m on a pixel 8 with 256 similar to your other reply. Graphene is supporting back to early pixels and has weekly updates so I don’t think phone age makes a support difference, I just went with the newest reconditioned one I could afford.

I use signal, Lemmy (Thunder), NewPipe (for YouTube), Aegis auth, banking apps (but check forums on specific banks).

Losing Google Pay made me feel like a peasant for a while, I now have a case that carries cards and feel fine.

I switched from Vanadium to Iron Fox because I like the extensions, uBlock and Consent-O-Matic.

Fuck’s sake, it had just started to properly settle down and get good