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- Submitted 7 hours ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on xkcd #3054: Scream Cipher 8 hours ago:
that may have been even more relevant for xkcd.com/2957/
- Submitted 9 hours ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse 15 hours ago:
I got that one several times too, and saw screenshots of it elsewhere too. Not in a while by now though.
- Comment on Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse 15 hours ago:
A few weeks ago there was a screenshot going around “I met my wife in a github issue thread”.
- Submitted 1 day ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 1 day ago:
No idea about “most people”, but I absolutely still use a laptop. In fact using my laptop is more or less my default activity when I’m at home.
- Comment on [PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess 3 days ago:
The fediverse is inherently a place where it’s a lot harder to delete anything than on non-federated platforms. It always will be because everything you post here is instantly copied to hundreds (if not thousands) of other servers. Some of them may be actively hostile and intentionally not respect deletions. Some of them may just be misconfigured or for another non-malicious reason fail to delete things.
So don’t post things on the fediverse that you think you might one day regret.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 4 days ago:
Yes, but then you can have malicious servers sending fake numbers without other server operators being able to check whether this is at all plausible.
(It’s still possible for malicious servers to send fake votes, but server operators can see which users they are stated to originate from, then block that server if that looks like it’s doing that. At least that is my understanding.)
- Submitted 4 days ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 4 days ago:
Yes, after all other servers need this information in order to prevent double voting, you can’t just have servers sending each other information “somebody upvoted this” and also tell when servers are allowing users to vote more than once.
So upvotes and downvotes aren’t actually private, never have been, some servers may display them publicly even if most don’t.
- Comment on What does this open source software notice mean? 4 days ago:
and is saying that it somehow means Facebook owns it
owns what?
It does mean that Facebook owns the copyright to a software component that TikTok (apparently) also uses. They licensed it under a free and open source software license, so anybody (including TikTok, including you, including me) can download it and use it as part of their own software. It does not mean Facebook owns TikTok, nor that Facebook owns any other piece of software this is used in.
If you want to see more examples of similar notices: if you are using Firefox, enter about:license into your URL bar. If you are using Chrome, enter chrome://credits there. You’ll find that these browsers, like many pieces of software nowadays, rely heavily on open source components developed by third parties.
- Submitted 1 week ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 1 week ago:
Literally anybody who thought about the idea for more than ten seconds already realized this a long time ago; apparently this blog post needed to be written for the people who didn’t do even that…
- Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse 1 week ago:
probably, I remember something along those lines
- Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse 1 week ago:
In the early-to-mid 2010s Tumblr was mainly associated with “social justice” types of people, it seems to have become a lot less relevant at some point in the late 2010s.
- Submitted 1 week ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Content curation in the Fediverse is better! 1 week ago:
I think you’ve just (perhaps independently) discovered the (in my mind very important) idea that moderation is different from censorship. I think the fediverse structure implements that distinction a lot better than most other platforms nowadays do.
- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 1 week ago:
nonexistent really
The trick is: drink as much water (by volume) as you’ve had alcoholic beverages before going to sleep.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on What are the possible ways a computer can kill you? 2 weeks ago:
Now that so many things we use every day have computers in them, many causes of death are related to computers.
Many modern cars (especially electric cars) are basically computers that drive; cars kill many people. The same applies to planes. Software bugs in medical software might cause you to receive improper care, which could kill you. Computers might control a lock which might lock you in a room until you die of dehydration or starvation.
- Comment on Looking for a free speech Lemmy instance 2 weeks ago:
The instance you are imagining will inevitably be inundated with the output of spambots. You don’t want a completely unmoderated instance because it will just not be an enjoyable place (even for you! even for people who have no problem with getting exposed to “hate speech”!) to hang out on.
I think lemm.ee defederates from very little, that is the closest I know of, but I see that that’s already where you are, so I can’t help you much more than that.
- Comment on xkcd #3047: Rotary Tool 2 weeks ago:
He’s made typos a few times in the past too: explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?search=typo&title=…
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 32 comments
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 2 weeks ago:
Me too. More than once on a language learning subreddit for my first language: “I asked ChatGPT whether this was correct grammar in German, it said no, but I read this counterexample”, then everyone correctly responded “why the fuck are you asking ChatGPT about this”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I remember in the 2000s there was something on Mozilla’s own website that said something like “we do not support or endorse icons that say that a website is best viewed in Firefox; we believe the web is best viewed with any standards-conforming browser”. Not sure if that is still there somewhere. So that is a fairly authoritative answer as to “ethical”; in any case now that all widely-used web browser engines are FOSS, why would you want to push people to any of them?!
It would probably be possible by testing the software more extensively in Firefox.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 4 comments
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- Comment on Ubuntu Devs Debate Moving from IRC to Matrix 4 weeks ago:
fediverse groups, of course that would require structuring the software in a way that resembles mailing lists instead of reddit