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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd like to thank my supporters...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think so, it abbreviates it to 1k.
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm deaf⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
oh, thanks for the explanation
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm deaf⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
got it! why no bananas though? they are good
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm deaf⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I can’t? maybe it’s an American thing?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just doing my part 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
let me add my contribution to this meme:

Image

image description: a luxurious inside view of a private jet, in which another jet is flying inside.
the text above it reads, “Taylor swift yendo al baño de su jet.”
lit: Taylor swift going to her jet’s bathroom.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Firefox already has that as a built-in feature on desktop version.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Doppler effect?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FLOSS communities right now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
my problem with it(apart from the fact that it’s not libre) is that the chats aren’t end to end encrypted
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average website visit in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
quality meme, shitty reality
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we added a social component like "Stories" to this calculator app?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t. but adding a “feature”(I call it bloat) that doesn’t even work properly instead of, say, making search better might be a more sensible thing.
but as a commentor suspects, they might’ve added this because of black history month
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we added a social component like "Stories" to this calculator app?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
you’re right. perhaps a better example would be YouTube suggesting videos by colour?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Quora Died⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
for those who have no choice but to quickly look for an answer on quora, there’s an alternative frontend that makes quora bearable.

@UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works, @magic_lobster_party@kbin.social
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we added a social component like "Stories" to this calculator app?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
CEOs changed the game completely after one of them played spiderman 2.
warning: the story might change the way you think how some developers are treated across the world.
for a full documentary, see this YouTube video(in German, but you can turn on the subtitles)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT support work be like⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
or just sync the file using syncthing or plain old rsync?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT support work be like⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
average keepass enjoyer
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
yeah, least thing I would want is my PC becoming another use and throw mobile phone(it’s already happening with mac and hp’s elitebook).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
can’t say about rest of the population but when I read about some great people, I feel there’s too much to learn and too little time.
and it happens every single day.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
yeah, but I didn’t want more brain damage sifting through accounts over there lol. but still, when you have a 100 million mau, there are going to be a ton of bots, especially when there are next to no moderators.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I do however have real faith in the main developer of lemmy, considering his ideology, which is incompatible with bigtech values.

you can even see it from his own profile.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
sorry, I didn’t follow the legal definition of what’s PII in the comment.

with meta, just the IP address and one visit is enough to personally identify you though. they have testified before that they have profiles on users who haven’t signed up with any of their (dis)services at all.
and threads explicitly states in their privacy policy that they use pixels and web beacons, which they use for this purpose.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
please take a look at the replies under zuck’s own post in threads.net and determine if that’s the type of content you want.

for those who don’t want to visit, majority of the commentators are bots. some advertising crypto, and others asking for money.

even if you think you can individually block those accounts, keep in mind the size of threads compared to fediverse.
for Lemmy: monthly active users are barely 150K, while for threads it’s 100 million. there’s no chance you can control that inflow of bots.

and if it still doesn’t convince you, you can read threads’ privacy policy, which states that they’ll gather all that pii if you interact with their content.

most of the internet is already bigtech, I don’t want Lemmy to become another arm of it. though I have faith in my instance maintainer and dessalines, the dev.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manager: This task only takes 30 minutes. Why did it take you the whole day?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
[conventional commits] (www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/) will save you.
or maybe commitizen if you’d like not to write them by hand.
and maybe commit and tag version, which will create changelogs for you of you follow semver
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Facebook would still dominate. it’s over 2 billion. granted others would become even smaller. reddit being one tenth of its size in the picture.

this graph also excludes weibo and qq.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
yeah, there are quite a number of people who have multiple accounts. almost everyone I know does. same goes for whatsapp and instagram. it’s still a massive number nonetheless
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I was reading the Wikipedia page linked just an hour ago.
and I was surprised to see over a billion daily users on Facebook. I used to think at best that’d be in millions.

I understand now that what do people mean when they day social media’s amplification of a certain message can have great impact. I used to take it lightly, partly because I an totally detached to any of these big platforms.

and being on Lemmy is a wholly different experience.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
it’s almost always a soft delete, that is, change active field in database to false, coupled with their terms of service that state vaguely how they start the deletion process which could take months and how they may still keep certain data for legitimate purposes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish there were more articles about tech not tech biz⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
wow, that’s a really big and cool list. I’ve imported it all. thanks!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish there were more articles about tech not tech biz⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
my list:
share yours now :)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
image transcription:

Afterwards I found a chatroom thread among Cambridge computer scientists, one of whom had also been told that unless he could pin down the moment of theft no one would look at the footage. He said he had tried to explain sorting algorithms to police - he was a computer scientist, after all. You don’t watch the whole thing, he said. You use a binary search. You fast forward to halfway, see if the bike is there and, if it is, zoom to three quarters of the way through. But if it wasn’t there at the halfway mark, you rewind to a quarter of the way through. It’s very quick. In fact, he had pointed out, if the CCTV footage stretched back to the dawn of humanity it would probably have only taken an hour to find the moment of theft. This argument didn’t go down well.