Chris Remington
Volunteer amateur systems administrator for Beehaw. Stay-at-home dad. Outdoor enthusiast.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships
7·19 days agoWould you, please, explain why you are considering switching from iOS to Android?
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Technology@beehaw.org•Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel
3·2 months agoI used to love that software!
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Technology@beehaw.org•Meta might be secretly scanning your phone's camera roll - how to check and turn it off
91·3 months agoThe general public truly are lazy consumer idiots, aren’t they?
Yes, of course they are!
I agree. I grew up using hard copy encyclopedias at libraries. It is incredible now to have all of this at our fingertips at home.
Can you give an example of an article with an error that you tried to correct?
This was 6 years ago so I cannot recall precisely which pages. However, I just skimmed over about 15 pages that I thought would be riddled with errors. To my surprise, I only found one instance where there was a ‘citation needed’ mark and could find no major errors…maybe a few little splitting hairs examples but nothing serious.
So, it appears that improvements have been made over the past 6 years. On the other hand, I only looked over roughly 15 pages.
Probably the same caution would be true for any encyclopedia. Namely, these can be pretty good starting points but not for serious scholarly research.
My self and others in this field tried for about 6 months to no avail. We gave up…they didn’t want to hear it.
I have studied academic biblical scholarship for over 30 years. All of Wikipedia’s biblical pages are riddled with errors. IMO, Wikipedia is a decent starting point but that would be it.
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Technology@beehaw.org•The Psychology of Choice: Would You Pick 'Luck' or 'Money'?
1·4 months agoThis doesn’t belong in this community (i.e. Technology). Next time post this in Ask Beehaw or Chat. Thanks.
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Technology@beehaw.org•The Psychology of Choice: Would You Pick 'Luck' or 'Money'?
1·4 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
11·4 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
10·4 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
101·4 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
3·5 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
4·5 months agoOK. Fair enough.
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Technology@beehaw.org•The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
1·5 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
31·5 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?
4·5 months agodate brokers
I believe you meant ‘data brokers’.
















I agree that you may be having this personal experience. On the other hand, I am not and have been using iOS for many years. The difference could be that I intentionally stay very informed about iOS.
I, personally, will not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
However, if you believe that you will have better experiences using Android, then please make the switch.
Back in 2007 (After many years of making a career out of using Microsoft/Windows products) I started using Linux and MacOS/iOS exclusively and have never looked back.
I have very little experience and/or knowledge of Android. So, I can’t comment on that.