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- Comment on Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp 2 days ago:
I agree, rather I was surprised that threads grew big enough for people to be trying to migrate away from it.
In my area / friend circles, I don’t know anyone that continued to use Threads after the initial launch. However, there are people using Mastodon, Bluesky, and Twitter
- Comment on If you want to stay anonymous and still participate in society, learning to code is more important than ever given the rise of ID verification 2 days ago:
I think if someone is interested in the topic, then they will be better equipped to navigate tech products if they’ve learned about what’s going on under the hood. Same as health/science education for navigating pop science, or mechanical knowledge for navigating scammy car mechanics.
I agree on some of the other points though. I would not use any of the random chat apps that these new accounts have been posting
- Comment on Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp 2 days ago:
The tooltip explanation for the handles should help, since that’s a very common point of confusion.
- Comment on Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp 2 days ago:
especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to X or Threads.
People use Facebook Threads? That sounds like saying “especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to Reddit or New Digg.”
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I think it would be nice as an opt-in feature in the user settings
- Comment on If you are born in disputed territory claimed by two *jus soli* countries, you could be born with birthright citizenship in both countries! 3 days ago:
You also need to factor in countries with mutually exclusive citizenships
- Comment on Why you running if you got nothing to hide ? 3 days ago:
Lol, so it has come full circle then
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 3 days ago:
Interestingly, mine was still enabled from the last time I must have toggled that setting.
If they do screw around, they could just train on everything without asking anyone
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 3 days ago:
No problem :)
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 days ago:
Even for the classes with excellent profs, sometimes I’d have to do the thing above.
If I had midterms or an important project in one class, I might have to skip the prereading / review for another class. After that, I’d get to class and not understand much of it. Then I’d catch up the best I could during weekends, reading breaks, or just during finals season.
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 3 days ago:
Do you fall under the affected group? Maybe it’s only listed for those who do
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 4 days ago:
Date
As of April 24 you’ll be feeding the Octocat unless you opt out
Scope
The code locker’s revised policy applies to Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ customers, as of April 24. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users are exempt thanks to the terms of their contracts. Students and teachers who access Copilot will also be spared.
To opt out:
Those affected have the option to opt out in accordance with “established industry practices” – meaning according to US norms as opposed to European norms where opt-in is commonly required. To opt out, GitHub users should visit [github.com/settings/copilot/features] and disable “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training” under the Privacy heading.
- Comment on Why you running if you got nothing to hide ? 4 days ago:
I can’t tell if this is the original or bonehurtingjuice 😄
- Comment on Iran Propaganda is very entertaining to follow 4 days ago:
Since voting history is visible here, I’ve considered tagging the users to call them out directly.
I also think of this
- Comment on Iran Propaganda is very entertaining to follow 4 days ago:
Why would someone downvote this question. If you care about the difference, you shouldn’t downvote someone that’s wanting to learn…
As for the question: Nitter is a proxy service that lets people view content without giving Twitter anything, and avoiding any tracking, analytics, etc. Also some networks have blocked Twitter outright, and so they won’t see your content unless it is proxied.
Similar tech exists for other sites too.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 6 days ago:
We’re still working on publishing the results of the census we ran a few months ago (sample size of around 600, where most users were from our Lemmy/Piefed instances)
Here is the graph for the phone question with our mostly cleaned data:
- Comment on It's not coming back. 6 days ago:
Wow, dude…
- Comment on New service in Japan to allow mobile users to use other carriers’ networks during outages 6 days ago:
Both factors are related, I couldn’t find the article I was looking for but this one touches on it too. There’s a section for cell phones specifically
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galápagos_syndrome
The term “Galápagos syndrome” was originally coined to refer to Japanese 3G mobile phones, which had developed a large number of specialized features that were widely adopted in the Japanese market, but were unsuccessful abroad.[6][7] While the original usage of the term was to describe highly advanced phones that were incompatible outside of Japanese networks, as the mobile phone industry underwent drastic changes globally, the term was used to emphasize the associated anxiety about how the development of Japanese mobile phones and those in the worldwide economy went along different paths.
When a technology advances quickly and gets adopted in the local region (ex. Japan), it can be difficult to change when other parts of the world move forward with a different standard. The opposite also happens, where a region is slow to change and then haphazardly moves forward when the benefits are proven elsewhere. American payment systems for example
- Comment on If I were to throw a live flightless bird as hard as I can, would it be safe and unharmed provided I threw it forward or up, and I held it as gently as I could during the throw? 6 days ago:
Sanctuary / rescue workers might do a gentle toss with some animals if it fits in with their training / recovery.
- Comment on Like a Soulslike bonfire 1 week ago:
Meese can mean death, geese is all but guaranteed
- Comment on Like a Soulslike bonfire 1 week ago:
Nope, dance fights up here in Canada tend to attract polar bears
- Comment on Spicy spicy 1 week ago:
Its like this toy but with coins
- Comment on Like a Soulslike bonfire 1 week ago:
I’m having a hard time picturing this 😄
Snapping, like Westside Story?
- Comment on Like a Soulslike bonfire 1 week ago:
Our public school bathrooms were as nice or nicer than the left image.
Park bathrooms however…
- Comment on I haven't seen this one yet 1 week ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
We have a breakdown here
- Comment on I haven't seen this one yet 1 week ago:
I think the images should be flipped in this one
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That’s my bad, I didn’t mean to say the post belongs elsewhere. I’ll edit the comment
- Comment on meat honey 1 week ago:
This one probably needs a NSFW filter, for “I was eating” reasons 😅
- Comment on The next Gen gaming eggsperience 1 week ago:
Wow the artwork is beautiful
