• @BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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      Most “apps” are just http web hooks to a regular website backend with extra tracking telemetry. So a website working as a PWA should be enough for everyone.

      I hate how everything has to be a fucking app, because it doesn’t need to be.

      • @AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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        451 month ago

        If phone OSes made it so there’s less friction to save a web page as an icon on your desktop it would help to resolve that issue I think.

        • Dampyr 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
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          301 month ago

          I think that’s only partly true as companies, especially big ones, want the telemetry and control of a native app instead of just a web page

          • @Hazor@lemmy.world
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            21 month ago

            They also want the ability to make you agree to a TOS with an arbitration clause so you can’t sue them when your wife dies because they screwed up her food.

        • @flames5123@lemmy.world
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          71 month ago

          It’s so easy, even on iOS. Just tap share and add to Home Screen. It’s probably just as easy on android.

          • 𝕮𝕬𝕭𝕭𝕬𝕲𝕰
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            21 month ago

            It’s very easy.

            Chrome let’s you do “install” websites to home screen, Firefox allows saving shortcuts to home screen.

            The annoying thing is that you can’t save them to the app drawer (at least on vanilla android), so if you have a clean home screen you have to sacrifice that.

          • @AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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            11 month ago

            Yep, you’re 100% right. Not sure why I thought it was high friction. I feel like I confused trying to put an icon for an image on my home screen (gym app’s sign in QR code) with sending a web page to the home screen.

    • MrSilkworm
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      401 month ago

      On android:

      1. Open link in Firefox.
      2. Tap the three dots.
      3. Tap “add to start screen”

      There’s your app!

    • melroy
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      211 month ago

      I’m still scrolling. Will it ever stop???

      help me.

  • @lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1041 month ago

    endless feed

    to fight algorithm addiction

    endless

    feed

    to fight algorithm addiction

    Uuuuuh that’s not the way to fight an addiction, right? Who is this person working for, exactly?

      • @Anivia@feddit.org
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        101 month ago

        Well, there has to be some kind of algorithm. Even picking a random Wikipedia article technically is an algorithm, just not one that adapts to the user

        • @Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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          81 month ago

          True, but outside CS the word has come to refer to a certain brand of complex heuristics or ML inference.

        • @fox2263@lemmy.world
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          21 month ago

          An algorithm usually involves lots of complex calculations and weights. Picking a number from a pool of numbers at random is as simple as it gets.

          • @b_n@sh.itjust.works
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            21 month ago

            In comsci, there are no real random numbers. They are all seeded psuedo-random number algorithms. (Unless you integrate with some third party random as a service setup)

            • @fox2263@lemmy.world
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              31 month ago

              Yes but the common interpretation of “the algorithm” is that of the social media and YouTube style one. Recommending items of interest etc but easily manipulated by bad actors.

              Wiki random is about as opposite to that as possible.

              • @b_n@sh.itjust.works
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                11 month ago

                The modern interpretation, sure.

                And agreed, “random, you might like this” is not as random as “here is a page on red food colouring”

            • @weker01@sh.itjust.works
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              21 month ago

              That’s a common misconception. You can measure a lot of ambient noise and extract entropy. Like time between inputs or how long it took an HDD to seek.

              Most modern PC CPUs even have dedicated hardware for generating random numbers from electrical ambient noise. I don’t trust them however.

              • @b_n@sh.itjust.works
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                11 month ago

                That’s why I said seeded. Seeded from noise. The random number generator (function) is still an algorithm…

        • @blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
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          11 month ago

          Right, but in the context of social media feeds, “algorithm” always refers to an algorithm for personalised content.

      • Higgs boson
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        Ironically, my overly chatty doctor was ranting about how methadone is a racket and they string people along for years instead of titrating them off. He prescribes Suboxone, apparently.

  • @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    641 month ago

    This is pretty awesome. I do see the need to be able to add categories of interest. Like follow history, the arts, etc. Cool regardless.

    • misterdoctor
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      321 month ago

      “I have had plenty of people message me and even make issues on my GitHub asking for some insane crazy WikiTok algorithm,” Gemal told Ars. “And I had to put my foot down and say something along the lines that we’re already ruled by ruthless, opaque algorithms in our everyday life; why can’t we just have one little corner in the world without them?”

      The developer seems staunchly anti-algorithm but I feel like some sort of filter system would work well. I know nothing about development but the same level of randomosity (it’s a word don’t look it up) but for specific topics would be amazing.

  • @58008@lemmy.world
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    401 month ago

    Would be cool if the official Wikipedia mobile app integrated this functionality! It does have a ‘random articles’ card, but it’s nothing like this.

    Not sure ‘addiction’ is being defeated here, though 😆 Like if I’m addicted to sausages, giving me bacon instead isn’t really solving the root of the issue. The issue being those sexy, sexy pigs.

    • Jolteon
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      291 month ago

      The addiction isn’t being defeated, it’s just being redirected from something worthless to something useful. Well, at least less useless.

  • @GluWu@lemm.ee
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    401 month ago

    Saw this posted in a ADHD com a few days back. Every comment was just like “oh no…”. I opened it and like 20 minutes later realized, oh no. I can and have spent many entire days just reading Wikipedia and following linked subjects. So much so I run out in areas. I can’t handle a lot of visual and audio stimulation, short form content is such a nightmare for me, can’t watch it. But give me pages of the most dense info and I’m hooked. I just need the option to download every paper referenced from every Wikipedia page I visit.

  • @RedFrank24@lemmy.world
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    381 month ago

    Does it fight algorithm addiction or does it just utilise existing algorithm addiction to give you something slightly more informative?

  • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️
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    381 month ago

    That’s actually really cool. I like that the dev has expressed that he doesn’t want to make the algorithm addictive and just keep it random 😅

  • /home/pineapplelover
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    241 month ago

    Everyday I read wikipedia and everyday, I learn something new. Fucking love this free resource

  • @HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
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    241 month ago

    As someone who loved the random article feature and will sometimes peruse Wikipedia at random, this is extremely fascinating to me.

  • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    211 month ago

    My God my general but shallow knowledge of many things will grow more powerful