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- Comment on 4 days ago:
Maybe they had trouble hitting that atom, and decided to surround with many other U-235 atom before trying the splits
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 4 days ago:
programming of physics joke
Yes
- Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? 5 days ago:
I’m happy participating as a community member, and stepping up as a mod later on if the team could use some extra help. I don’t mind either way :)
- Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? 5 days ago:
Oh on that note, would it be helpful to lock and redirect !newtopiefed@piefed.ca to that community?
- Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? 5 days ago:
I would say the main thing is being nice and letting people explore, and providing spaces/communities for people to come back and ask questions when they have them. When people bring up issues or suggest things that they want to see, we shouldn’t crap on what they prefer their online experience to be (ex. preferred algorithms, content they want to block, etc.)
Resources wise, we created this guide and I like to link these two particular pages for fediverse/lemmy. I feel that they help give a high level overview of how things work:
- Comment on Is there a ranking showing how popular different hobbies are by country? 1 week ago:
I think since hobbies are nebulous and hard to compare against each other, you would need to find a study specifically looking at that. Even then, you would only get information on the specific hobbies they looked at.
Maybe you can try looking for data for specific hobbies instead of comparing them against each other? You can probably find rates of books, music, etc.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
It’s working on my end as well!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I got the test messages I exchanged with a friend earlier, but new messages are still stuck
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Is Signal down for anyone else?
Reddit seems to be having issues as well. hah
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Signal seems to be down as well?
- Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issueswww.digitaltrends.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 217 comments
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 1 week ago:
COBOL handles the books because no one else can understand the system and it’s too much work to change after 40 years
- Comment on Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting 1 week ago:
Hanneke Faber became CEO of Logitech on December 1, 2023, after leaving her role as group president at Unilever. Since joining the Swiss peripheral manufacturer, Faber has attracted attention for her unconventional ideas about how personal technology should evolve – often with a focus on benefiting shareholders and companies first.
Faber is now best known for proposing the so-called “Forever Mouse” concept – a device with constantly evolving firmware features built on base hardware that customers would purchase only once. According to Faber, users would happily pay monthly or annual subscriptions to access these software-based upgrades. However, no concrete business plans have yet been announced to bring the idea to market.
Regarding pricing, the CEO compared the mouse to a Rolex watch and the software to Logitech’s video conferencing business. A paid subscription is possible, but Faber offered no further details.
What 😄
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
Using backticks can help
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q - Submitted 1 week ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on How do I create my own community and is it allowed on my instance? 2 weeks ago:
While Voyager has mod tools, I’m not sure if you can create a community in the app.
You might need to do the initial setup on the website: sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Seeing lemmy all over Google search results gives me hope 2 weeks ago:
Neat
I wonder how Google (and the search engines that depend on Google) decide which person/entity to feature in the snippet. At what point would Lemmy the software replace Lemmy the person?
For example, “Swift” brings up the financial organization, while “Taylor” brings up Taylor Swift
- Comment on I Tested PerfectEssayWriterAI for a Week in October—impressed! 3 weeks ago:
In addition to downvoting, please report the post so that admins can take care of it.
- Comment on If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories? 3 weeks ago:
This sounds more like a ship of Theseus style question
Is the person with amnesia still the same “person”. I assume the question would also need to enforce the type/extent of the amnesia
- Comment on Check out our new Tutorials community 3 weeks ago:
Appreciate it, thanks for sharing your work! :)
Another advantage of AkshrikaTutorials is that you’ll be free to make tutorials about anything in the future, not just Microsoft products
- Comment on Check out our new Tutorials community 3 weeks ago:
Instead of !tutorials@lemmy.zip, it would be better if you made it !mstutorials . Or else you’re going to get people posting other tutorials there
Alternatively, !akshira_tutorials if this is specifically content from your page
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Is tailscale running / logged in on those other devices? Does it auto detect the server like it did on the phone?
- Comment on A fediverse platform that lets you block whole topics, not just communities? 3 weeks ago:
Imo it might be easier to collaboratively build keyword lists. It’s tedious to tag posts manually, and it becomes impossible to do it effectively after the user base grows past a certain point. You can auto-remove any post that isn’t tagged, but a lot of people dislike that kind of filtering and only a few communities would implement something like that
- Comment on What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB? 3 weeks ago:
In case the tags don’t work from Piefed, I’ll try as well
- Comment on What happened near Spokane in BeaconDB? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a project that’s compiling a map of wifi/cell tower/bluetooth locations for location services. GPS doesn’t work well in some cases (indoors, remote locations, areas with tall buildings) and so big companies have built similar databases to get accurate location information, but those ones are proprietary / private. This project is intended to be a public / openly licensed version of that, while also
- Comment on Ants Trapped For Years in a Soviet Nuclear Bunker Survived in The Most Horrifying Way 3 weeks ago:
Wow that was a cool read, especially the ending
Although luckily for this colony, they no longer have to turn on their own: In 2016, researchers installed a wooden boardwalk (below) in the bunker, connecting the ventilation pipe to the ground. Within four months, nearly all the trapped ants had deserted the bunker floor.
Now, when any ants are unfortunate enough to fall into the dark chamber, they don’t have to resort to cannibalism. They can just calmly walk the plank, all the way home.
I wonder if the ants have an understanding of what’s down in the hole, since now they can visit without dying there. Some ants “grieve”, and this colony was confirmed to have grave areas down in the former hole colony, but maybe they have no reason to wander down there?
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? 4 weeks ago:
For sure, I’ll also edit them into the post
Example 1:
- My post: lemmy.ca/comment/19153240
- How they see it: sfba.social/…/115267196743748430
Example 2:
- My post: lemmy.ca/comment/19202083
- How they see it: mas.to/@otters_raft@lemmy.ca/115283224174559468
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Comet browser - why? 4 weeks ago:
IMO it’s partially because investors are willing to throw money at anything “AI” related, and so people are throwing everything at the wall in case something sticks
