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- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification 5 days ago:
Is this how they plan to make money too? Demand 15 bucks to be verified, 2k/year to be a verification issuer? This is going to be fun to watch.
- Comment on BlogOnLemmy - I made my Blog using Lemmy's API 1 week ago:
A blog entry on how it works and what it does at a high level could be nice. I’m not sure what I’m looking at, but there must be some API call to Lemmy and it’s probably happening on the server due to CORS; not sure how this would work just in the browser if the Lemmy instance has CORS setup…
- Comment on Your next phone could have a 10km Bluetooth connection 1 week ago:
Bluetooth barely works when my phone is in my pocket and my headset on my head. Make that work first before imagining users with a 10km long neck.
- Comment on Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 1 week ago:
And yet, Adobe keeps making money. Someone’s paying for it and it isn’t non artists…
- Comment on Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028 1 week ago:
First we make fun of China, then we vote for money hungry politicians with a penchant for power, give in to surveillance because “it’s free!”, and tada, we’re all becoming China (the EU is trying to introduce a backdoor into stuff again, buying surveillance tech, and thinks it’s falling behind due to a lack of AI investments, and having populism take over countries). Maybe China is just the crab of societies?
- Comment on Hundreds of Video Game Workers Join New Union as Trump Attacks Labor Rights 1 week ago:
Take everybody in the union, make a new studio that is union run, ???, profit and happiness.
If a large group of game devs, artists, and so on decided to leave their jobs outright instead of threatening to, the next time they come to the bargaining table, the company will know not to duck with them. Leave, join a union, ask if they want to hire you back under a union contract. They say no? Move on.
And if they created a studio, they would probably have a bunch of talent and it would be worker owned.
- Comment on Framework “temporarily pausing” some laptop sales because of new tariffs 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t Framework a US company? I wonder how many companies in the US will go bust due to tariffs.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 2 weeks ago:
“I have nothing to hide”, until you’re unjustly hauled into a police station and beaten senseless because of a misinterpreted joke you made on WhatsApp with your friends.
People will not value their privacy until it’s too late. Some people only learn by making mistakes…
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. 2 weeks ago:
Anything to replace workers or make them cheaper. He great thing is that the decision makers don’t understand what they’re talking about.
- Comment on Lemmy vote aggregation idea 2 weeks ago:
the idea boils down to either outside instances aggregating votes made on their side and sending final voting result on a scale -1/0/1 or alternatively this aggregation could be done by the hosting community
Could you provide an example calculation? I’m not getting it. Do you want to map values from one range to another e.g [-1000,1000] to [-1,1]? Will each instance have its own mapping?
Also, computationally, I’m not sure how this is going to work iteratively. From what I understand, activitypub sends events either singular or batched to other servers e.g User X votes up, that’s an event sent, User Y votes down, that’s another event sent. If I’m not mistaken, lemmy doesn’t store the events it receives so reconstituting a vote tally isn’t possible.
I kinda get where you’re coming from, but I’m not sure it’s the right solution.
- Comment on Linkwarden (v2.10.0) - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages, articles, and documents (tons of new features!) 🚀 2 weeks ago:
How does this compare to Notion? Can it be used as a knowledge management system? I ask because I see highlights and notes.
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 weeks ago:
Post it on the fediverse. TikTok isn’t the only platform out there. And if you think TikTok is a necessary evil, you’re part of the problem.
- Comment on Open-Source is Just That. 2 weeks ago:
100% agree with this dude. On the web, there are so many people who think them being a user of opensource is somehow a gift to the maintainer/developer. It is a damn privilege to be able to use something someone is providing for free and open sourced. Be respectful to the devs and maintainers, unless they aren’t nice to you, or stay silent. Please.
There was another post a while back, I think it was titled “maintainers don’t owe you a goddamn thing” and that statement is also true.
I wish github did more for devs and allowed to bad and report people from projects entirely. I also find it disgusting how people dogpile on github e.g when a dev uses the “wrong” license, disagrees to merge a PR, commits the crime of not writing secure code, when users disagree with something a dev said on another channel and so much more. And they think it’s justified.
Harassing devs became so normalised that it got a state actor (probably) into an a critical open source project, which nearly led to the infection of millions of computers. Look up Jia Tan, SSH and I think xz (or whatever the name was).
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 3 weeks ago:
Now suddenly privacy is important. Fuck everybody else though.
- Comment on SuperTuxKart switches to open source Godot engine 3 weeks ago:
That’s good news! They may get more devs that way. Godot is pretty popular at the moment.
- Comment on Enshitification of CrowdSec 5 weeks ago:
As an example: a company starts a free tier offering with no promises. It can sustain that because there are enough free users that convert into paying users - enough to sustain the free tier. But times change and the cost of free tier users surpasses that of paying users. Should the company continue providing the same level of service for free tier users?
Also, what other term than entitlement would you use for somebody gets something for free, is not promised that it will stay free forever, the free offering is cancelled or limited, and the user starts complaining?
- Comment on Enshitification of CrowdSec 5 weeks ago:
Is this dude complaining that an offering he pays absolutely nothing for is reducing how much free stuff they give out? Seems quite entitled… like the people demanding opensource devs implement something and never contributing back.
- Comment on Socially self-hosting source code with Tangled on Bluesky. 1 month ago:
Forgejo was too slow…
- Comment on As Bangladesh’s factories turn to surveillance and automation, garment workers feel the pressure. 1 month ago:
Don’t we have enough clothes on the planet to clothe every person here? What the fuck do we need to produce anymore? Buy second hand and we should be set.
Also, how is surveillance going to help? Seems like a useless expense.
- Comment on Anyone get these messages? 1 month ago:
Nope. I’d report and block them. Looks like spam to me.
- Comment on Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code. 1 month ago:
Is this the future of Rewrite in Rust? 🤣 I wonder how it’ll do with something like the linux kernel. It’s quite modular, so it could theoretically be pointed at the code, module by module, and put into a rust module with tests.
- Comment on New form of crystal storage stores terabytes of data per square millimeter 1 month ago:
There have been multiple crystals like these. I hope they hit the market within the next decade - even if they are write-once. I’d like to have storage that holds data for decades so that I don’t have to worry about constantly backing up and swapping out disks.
- Comment on Not only is Substack right-wing broligarchy garbage, it's way more expensive than Ghost 1 month ago:
There’s nothing really wrong with substack. People just like to shit on anything that doesn’t pass whatever purity test they happen to use.
This is big problem in left-wing communities. They just can’t get along and demand purity in anything they do - except themselves. Left wingers will happily and harshly defend their use of whatever capitalist product they themselves use with a bunch of excuses that fan make your head spin. Apple users a great example thereof. They will disparage so many other products and companies but somehow Apple is their baby and immune to criticism.
- Comment on Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature 1 month ago:
The eternal problem of open source: people will happily pay for proprietary software and services, complain that open source isn’t ready. Then when it is, they will not donate a single cent to continue development but instead create passive aggressive posts and issues demanding features or shitting on the project.
- Comment on Apple strikes deal with Indonesia, secures future market access for iPhones. 1 month ago:
The 2017 regulation requires that 40% of smartphones sold in Indonesia use domestically sourced components. The policy is part of Indonesia’s push to boost domestic manufacturing and reduce reliance on imports.
Europe, take note
- Comment on Microsoft finalizes its EU sovereign cloud project 1 month ago:
Fuck off. Nobody really believes that, and of they do, they are clueless. Microsoft can be forced by the US government to turn over data on any client: that means on nearly any government on the planet. The EU better give up their US addiction before it gets terminal.
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 1 month ago:
It’s called Web Monetisation. It’s a standard that’s in development. In short, you, the user, can donate/pay money on any website that follows the standard. No patreon, no PayPal, no VISA, no yada yada.
Setup: You install an extension or use a compatible browser, create a wallet with a web payment provider, login / connect with the extension / browser.
Example operation: while browsing you happen upon a website (Lemmy.world for example) or web page (tilvids.com/u/thelinuxexperiment or one of the video pages), the “tip” button is made available, you hit it and 1£ is queued to be sent to the website or person on the webpage. At your leisure, you accept the transaction.
This can be implemented any number of ways e.g statistics are collected (locally) about which websites you visited with web monetisation active, at the end of the month, you are shown a breakdown of that activity. Say 10% peertube, 30% Lemmy, 40% mastodon, and a smattering of other softwares. You say “I want 10£ to be split across the different softwares with a minimum of 1£ per transaction”. Or anything else you can come up with.
That’s it. The website operator doesn’t need you to have PayPal, or patreon, or some special bank. You have a " wallet", you decide how the money is transfered and to whom, and you’re done.
- Comment on I add two docker containers via CLI and suddenly I can't ssh into my machine or access any local container.... what happened?? 1 month ago:
Are you trolling or is this the first time asking for help?
Imagine if someone told their car didn’t work, you asked what they did, and they said “turned the key in the ignition twice and it doesn’t start”. Would that be enough information for you?
As @just_another_person@lemmy.world said: post configs! What is your OS, what commands did you enter, what are the contents of your yml files, which containers are running, which images are you using, etc. Nobody can help you otherwise.
Add the information to the original post.
- Comment on What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet? 1 month ago:
His point of using IPv6 as proof of ossification is partially correct. The major problem with IPv6 is that it’s friggin unreadable to developers. 1::abdc:124 and a bunch of other things just make it difficult to read and parse.
It’s probably obvious that I have not come in contact with it much, but why weren’t dots used instead of colons? IP addresses with double the length or with hexadecimal characters would’ve been OK. Unless there’s a technical reason not to do so…
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin is dead, HP is buying the carcass. 2 months ago:
But what happens to the pins Humane sold? Well, they are about to become ewaste.
Companies should be forced to pay for disposal in those cases.