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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I am not a search engine engineer.

Here are some things it might be though:

It could be that the results you see first are cached on their servers, and expiring from that cache between your searches. however usually when something requested is pulled from a cache, the items lifespan in the cache is usually refreshed so it lives a bit longer.

It could be that certain they are NOT cached at all, and certain sites are rate limiting the DDG crawler hitting them and returning info to you, so DDG takes them out of the results as they cannot confirm the site is alive. I noticed reddit disappeared from the results and we all know about Reddit and their APIs here.

It could also be their ranking algorithm for results is not as deterministic as they want it to be, it could also be that way by design. Page ranking is a closely guarded trade secret, especially at big places like Google. DDG results will never match 1:1 with Google. Personally, I prefer DDGs results to Google.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While Denys can often provide good coverage on Ukraine, I suggest avoiding him, as at the outbreak of the situation in Gaza and Israel, he shared many videos of Palestinian kids and women running from artillery under the captions like "watch how the roaches scatter".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

caps lock but that toggles itself off after a single character. it's made for people who have dexterity issues and cannot hold multiple keys at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Bobby is such a good character, the actress nailed it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

High Availability.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

YT on Firefox Mobile has the added benefit of letting you swap to desktop mode and play videos with the screen off, no YT Premium needed ;)

Been doing this for years, but if too much of a hack for you, NewPipe also supports background video, and downloading video, or just the audio, which is great if you have a lot of long form audio-focused channels like music reviews, videoessay content, etc.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They make those for runners, a kind of neoprene sleeve that holds your phone on your arm either outside or inside so you can use it while you run. They're fairly easy to find.

As for pulling it off, you just have to wear it and not give a shit. that's the secret to pulling it off.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

God damn I love communist propaganda art style. there used to be a subreddit for sharing it on reddit, is there anything similar on Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Bobb fingers is also one half of the Irish musical comedy duo Rubberbandits. they've done some TV stuff and their music and wit is great.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I hate to break it to you but you don't really "own" the games on steam either. You have a license agreement with valve which they can revoke at any time, and you lose access to the games you paid for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

It's a rehash of a meme about math it's not really making thee points in earnest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's a pretty common turn-of-phrase in Ireland, I remember hearing it in the early 90s!, and it's still common to hear it from older generations too. I wouldn't equate it with reddit slang/culture at all. I wonder when it made its way to reddit?

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