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- Comment on TikTok wants to be YouTube now, tests 60-minute video uploads 5 months ago:
Also Telegram is growing shadier day by day. Signal is the way to go.
- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 6 months ago:
If you don't have any luck dumpster diving it might be worth checking if any of your local supermarkets (or even bakeries) are using Too Good to Go. They decide how much to put in the package, but a generous place will give you a bunch of food for very little money.
- Comment on [Retro Dodo]Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites 7 months ago:
Indeed, thanks!
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 7 months ago:
I'm sure you're aware of it already but WineHQ provides a good overview over which software runs well under WINE. :)
- Comment on President Biden is now posting into the fediverse 7 months ago:
You go to @potus and follow him from there. :)
- Comment on [Retro Dodo]Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites 7 months ago:
What a sad faith for a website named after the glorious Dodo.
- Comment on President Biden is now posting into the fediverse 7 months ago:
But Twitter used to have a monopoly, and it doesn't any more.
I can now follow an official white house account directly from Kbin, whereas yesterday i would have to sign up for either Twitter or Threads. That makes a difference. :)
- Comment on Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative 8 months ago:
Then again, why would a fan page want to open for contributions from outside of that fan page? Why would the Star Wars wiki federate edits with the Startrek wiki? On which page of the wiki would this make sense?
I just don't get it.
- Comment on Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative 8 months ago:
I'm not sure I see the benefit of this. The point that Wikipedia might eventually become corrupted is made moot by the permissive licensing of the information there. The main challenge of the Wiki format is with fact checking and ensuring quality, which is only made more complicated by having a federated platform.
ActivityPub is great for creating the social web. The added benefit of ActivityPub for non-social services is not obvious to me at all.
That said, it's a cool proof of concept, and I'm sure it can be useful for certain types of federated content management - I just don't see how it could ever make sense as a Wikipedia alternative.
- Comment on Is HTTPS a scam? 9 months ago:
Yeah, there's ways around it for sure, so it's not the end of the world.
I'm not super technical though, so as my hosting provider uses Google for HTTPS authentication I'll just reluctantly stick with that for now. Of course I could have found a different provider, but I found it a somewhat difficult market to navigate. I'm enough of a rookie that part of me is just happy things seem to be working - when I set up the website a few months ago I kind of assumed HTTPS was some black magic stuff that I would never manage to implement.
- Comment on Is HTTPS a scam? 9 months ago:
And http still works in any browser I know of.
I kind of get your frustration though. I set up my personal website precisely to get away from big platforms; yet my HTTPS is validated by Google. It feels like a defeat still having them involved in the process.
- Comment on How Mastodon made friends with Meta 9 months ago:
I guess for now it's misleading more than anything, as they say it's the smallest of the three major federated platforms. That's hardly precise as neither Threads nor Bluesky is federated yet.
Bluesky should federate at the end of the month though, and a bridge to activitypub is already ready. Interesting times ahead.
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
That wouldn't really solve anything though, as long as they're still out and about in society. So if we follow this argument basically where we end up is prison for life.
If we are to release people we have to give them a real chance go get their life right. Releasing people from prison only to cripple them and make sure they can never live a normal life is not likely to solve any problems.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 9 months ago:
While this is seems a bit incompetent, it is easier for them to make technology less available than to fix the underlying issues here. They might set out to do both, but solving the underlying issues will take more time.
At least they're trying to do the right thing, and they're making an effort to deal with a problem that affects real people. Good on them.
- Comment on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash 9 months ago:
One of my main motivations for cancelling my Spotify subscription was their insistence on capitalising on podcasts. They have a perfectly fine business model with music, why do they need to ruin podcasts?
- Comment on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash 9 months ago:
"Was it good for you too?"
"...oh"
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
Of course - there's a huge difference between a "real photo" and "objective reality", and there always has been. In the same way an impressionistic painting might capture reality accurately while not really looking like it that much.
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
It's not even a true statement. "A real picture of a pipe" has never once in history been interpreted as "my golly - there's an actual goddamn pipe trapped inside this piece of paper". We know it's a goddamn representation.
The "real" part refers to how it's a product of mechanically capturing the light that was reflected off an actual pipe at some moment in time. You could have a real picture with adjusted colours, and of course with digital photography it's more complicated as the camera will try to figure out what the colours should be.
Still, everyone knows exactly what you mean when you say a real picture. Imposing a 3D model over the moon to make it more detailed, for example, constitutes "not a real picture". Pretending this is some impossible philosophical dilemma is just a corporate exercise in doublespeak.
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
What absolute hogwash.
- Comment on are people still all riled up about beehaw? 9 months ago:
I think a lot of the "conflict" was based on people expecting the threadiverse to be user owned Reddit, without understanding how the Fediverse operates. As people start understanding the nature of how this place works, one would expect them to also calm down a bit about different communities having different moderation strategies.
Then again, it's the internet. Some people are not exactly keen to understand.
- Comment on are people still all riled up about beehaw? 9 months ago:
A few will still slip through, but fewer, presumably. Which is the whole point. Content moderation does have an impact on content and in turn the user experience.
- Comment on Vivaldi explains why they will not embed LLM functionality in their browser 9 months ago:
Same. Which is to say I have it installed and boot it along with GNOME Web every time I need to check that my shitty web programming work outside of Gecko. Which is thankfully rare.
- Comment on Reviving !harrypotter@literature.cafe 10 months ago:
Even when you click it without opening in a new tab/window?
- Comment on Reviving !harrypotter@literature.cafe 10 months ago:
You should just need to write
!harrypotter@literature.cafein the comment box, and the link is generated automatically. If it doesn't work for you maybe it's a bug in mbin. :) - Comment on Reviving !harrypotter@literature.cafe 10 months ago:
Kbin needs to be aware of the community first, so my first link didn't work properly because of that. After interacting with the community once the
!community@example.comformat works just fine. :)I subscribed from Kbin.social now, so future posts should be visible from there. :)
- Comment on Reviving !harrypotter@literature.cafe 10 months ago:
Kbin users could try this link. :)
- Comment on Reviving !harrypotter@literature.cafe 10 months ago:
I think !harrypotter should work from kbin as well - not sure how you produced your linkss. :)
- Comment on What are the practical benefits of the fediverse? 10 months ago:
Oops, yes - there's a bug in Kbin where links to local communities don't work properly. I kind of assumed it would appear correctly when viewed from other instances, turns out that's not the case. :)
- Comment on What are the practical benefits of the fediverse? 10 months ago:
On the contrary, a bunch of scattered communities create one large user base. The people you see in this thread all come from a bunch of different websites and services. You'll see users from startrek.website discussing woodworking in communities hosted by lemmy.ca.
- Comment on What are the practical benefits of the fediverse? 10 months ago:
All subreddits are run by Reddit; if Reddit decides to overrun it with ads, require you to use their app, make content impossible to enjoy, or incorporate some awful AI bullshit, nobody can really do anything about it.
Over here, you are in charge of your own user experience. You're reading this content from dbzer0; I'm using an entirely different application called kbin. We have completely different user experiences, and some users might be banned on my server but not on yours (or vice versa).
Others might get different user experiences through apps or front-ends such as Old Lemmy or more experimental stuff.
As for the communities, they are indeed at the mercy of whoever runs a particular server. If the lemmy.world admins go a bit crazy, users might for example respond by jumping ship to !fediverse.