Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction
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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.
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One big thing i hope they add is sorting by topic, so i can have a biology feed, a physics feed...
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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.
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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.
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It’s not. You have to enable autoscrolling on TikTok.
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I've got news for you: basically every app I've used so far for lemmy has infinite scroll. Currently Thunder previously Sync.
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Not sure but i support them for trying. Maybe leave a review and ask the dev to change it.
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Butt nicotine? What kind of weird stuff you into?
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Information > misinformation
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I want this, but with high quality news sources. And then sort such that topics are distributed.
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I would disagree on the "slightly more informative" part.
I have used it and in my opinion, it's "highly informative and educational". -
It's app based. I found it on Google Play.
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I think it's more "Butt as an alternative to algorithms" which I fully agree with. Butts are better than algorithms
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I have a habit of grabbing my phone and scrolling shorts if im just going to be free for less than 10mins because I don't have time to watch something longer or read a chapter of a book. If there was an app like this that actually had an algorithm so I could instead scroll wikipedia and learn something interesting I think that it would at least help scratch the itch and not make short form video content my go to.
