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- Comment on Whats going on in YSK? 1 week ago:
It seems to be one person that’s doing it manually?
- Comment on Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data 1 week ago:
I think the website is old, and the blurry bits were a prediction
The new cycle is expected to start late in 2019 or in 2020, with solar maximum to be reached between 2023 and 2026 and the maximum (smoothed) sunspot number in the 95 to 130 range.
A different color and a legend would have been nicer imo
- Comment on Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data 1 week ago:
Appreciate the write-up, thanks!
- Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control datawww.bbc.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Stick 1 week ago:
- Comment on Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement 2 weeks ago:
You mentioned being annoyed at Plausible. What did you not like about it?
I haven’t tried Plausible, but it seemed popular
- Comment on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like they joined a very large group chat as a member
The FBI, the documents show, gained access to conversations in a “courtwatch” Signal group that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at three New York federal immigration courts. The US government has repeatedly been accused of violating immigrants’ due process rights at those courts.
- Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? 2 weeks ago:
Hi Sarah,
Sorry for the delay in getting to this. We really appreciate the feedback! We’re currently working on an update to our site, and will continue to incorporate feedback over time.
We’ve iterated over these pages a few times, and while there is definitely more that we can do to improve it, I feel that we need a few different guides for each target demographic or use case. Ideally, someone will find their way to the appropriate resource, depending on the level of detail or transparency that they are looking for. The goal of the two guide pages above were mainly to explain what it is that our non-profit is doing, and how it differs from traditional social media. A lot of alternative social media platforms advertise transparency and a positive user experience, and so the guide pages above were intended for people who want an explanation on how the Fediverse can actually deliver on those promises.
Right now, the page we have for users that simply want to sign up for a platform is here: fedecan.ca/en/guide/fedecan/our-platforms
We can certainly improve the flow for users that want to get to that page, and the page itself. We haven’t prioritized that aspect, since we figured that users who are learning about one of the platforms might be going to it directly, instead of through our non-profit’s site.
Would you have some suggestions on what a page like that should include, or what you would like to see in the guides instead?
I have students who can help you with this stuff for free. If you’re interested, DM me.
We’d love the help and feedback, especially if it’s something that would complement their studies! Thank you for offering :)
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 3 weeks ago:
While I don’t have a direct answer, I know that my university had some courses dedicated to similar topics
www.students.cs.ubc.ca/~cs-311/…/goals.html
www.cs.ubc.ca/course-section/cpsc-411-201-2020w
www.cs.ubc.ca/~rxg/cpsc509-spring-2024/
The second one is described as
The goal of this course is to give students experience designing, implementing, and extending programming languages. Students will start from a machine language, the x86-64 CPU instruction set with Linux system calls (x64), and incrementally build a compiler for a subset of Racket to this machine language. In the process, students will practice building, extending, and maintaining a complex piece of software, and practice creating, enforcing, and exploiting abstractions formalized in programming languages.
The course assumes familiarity with basic functional programming in Racket, and some simple imperative programming in assembly.
Those links might give you something to search off of?
And what’s the purpose of developing more languages anyway?
At some level, I think it’s this:
- Comment on PdfDing Update: Signatures, dedicated website + docs 3 weeks ago:
Looks good!
I have one suggestion, the white text on bright green on the website is hard to read. Maybe you can pick different colors, or put borders around the characters.
- Comment on Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap 4 weeks ago:
It looks like Social is the platform that released v1, and the other ones are still in various stages of development.
docs.bonfirenetworks.org/flavours.html#what-is-a-…
My understanding is that “Bonfire Social” is very similar to Mastodon, with their own way of implementing certain features, and the other features in their funding campaign are still in development
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap 4 weeks ago:
They launched v1.0 for platform similar to and interoperable with Mastodon, and they’re doing a funding campaign for what projects they will work on next.
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap 4 weeks ago:
Also they have some art for those that participate:
The code is a commons, so art is offered as a reward. This campaign includes a limited‑run, hand screen‑printed artwork by Rocco Lombardi, the artist behind Bonfire’s icon and other illustrations.
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- Comment on What would community moderators want in an automod for the Fediverse? 5 weeks ago:
For context, this is what reddit’s limited automod is like
www.reddit.com/r/…/full-documentation/
I’m sure we can do better. For example, being able to use variables
- Comment on 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 month 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 month ago:
It’s working on my end as well!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I got the test messages I exchanged with a friend earlier, but new messages are still stuck
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Using backticks can help
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q
