I gave LLMs a bit of a go but a couple of occasions wasted a bunch of time by giving incorrect answers, so my trust levels are pretty low.

My FB account exists almost solely for marketplace, which has almost total market dominance for local classifieds where I live in Australia. Recently they’ve stopped letting you send messages to sellers via the website on your phone and insist that you use the app instead. It’s probably one of the few hooks they have left to try and get people on to the platform.

It's frustrating. They have completely stomped every other marketplace in the UK. Things like Gumtree are ghost-towns in comparison.

I don't use it but my wife has sold loads of stuff that we no longer need. In that sense it's fantastic, it's made local selling very easy, but I really wish it was almost anyone but FB.

I think you can work around that messaging restriction by requesting desktop site from the mobile browser. Not saying it is not irritating, though.

Or beeper - its fully replaced messager on my phone with no issues from Facebook marketplace

100%. I refuse to have an account, which means I need to use my partners to access marketplace, and a few landcruiser groups (which is mostly buying and selling parts, or advice)

It pains me that car forums and classifieds have succumbed to Facebook. I have no other need for Facebook, but on those fronts, Facebook is king.

IH8MUD is really the king for advice. But for 2nd hand parts, or 2nd hand vehicles, in Australia, it’s Facebook groups.

I suspect this is quite popular behaviour, as I recently saw that groups can enable anonymous posts (obviously still need an account). Which I prefer to catfishing people who are genuinely helping out, and who I feel a sense of community with. I just refuse to consent to Facebook being part of that relationship.

if you use chrome/firefox you can still “request desktop site” and get messenger working without the app.

Good read that seems more relevant by the day.

Yeah I did this with all the kindle books I ever bought before switching to a Kobo. Just need to try and get my partner out of the Amazon ecosystem now.

Right? What’s next, bringing back asbestos? Should we start putting lead in everything again?

I’m an Arsenal fan living in Australia, so I often watch the games the next day because they’re on very late at night our time. Until I’ve watched the game I keep off social media to avoid spoilers, and HN is one of the few things I’m very confident in reading knowing that nothing related to Arsenal FC would ever ever get posted here. Go figure.

There’s a museum built a few years ago in regional Australia that was also designed with bushfire resistance in mind.

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-cultu...

Good articulation of some of the potential issues with an approach like this from an independent who originally supported the bill but voted against it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/27/why-iv...

Previously used mdx-deck but it’s no longer developed. Tried the Marp CLI for the first time the other day and it did the job.

The thing that I’ve seen my team use it most for is explaining blocks of code. We maintain a bunch of legacy systems that don’t get touched often and are written in stacks that our engineers aren’t completely fluent with, and it can be helpful when they’ve traced an issue to a particular function but the original intent or purpose of the code is obtuse.