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- Comment on Is thereany software/programs for posting news source to lemmy or mastodon 6 hours ago:
There are a few
I’ve been playing with LemmySchedule to schedule out posts ahead of time. This can be good if you want to sit down once and queue a number of posts to go out over the course of a few hours, or if you want to make recurring discussion threads (which work great for building up a community slowly)
There is also @bot@rss.ponder.cat, which you can set up to post from RSS feeds. This sounds closest to what you want to do from the other thread. The instructions are here: rss.ponder.cat/post/34622
There may be others out there :)
- Comment on The human hand is incredibly good at seeing what's inside your pocket 12 hours ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_localization
If someone wants to read an interesting (but complex) explanation of how it works
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- Comment on Like Trump says that the cartels have invaded Canada wouldn't they have to pass through the US, avoid checkpoint, border control on both sides and many other things? So Canada can only blame the US? 2 days ago:
www.mcgill.ca/…/you-wont-die-touching-fentanyl
…biomedcentral.com/…/s40352-021-00163-5
The second link has some history on where this idea came from
- Comment on Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content. 3 days ago:
!tech@programming.dev is decent for the more technological side
- Comment on Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content. 3 days ago:
- Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.
This is the key bit. It’s good to try and make safer online spaces. But Reddit’s automated moderation has been bad for a while, and this might get more users caught up in that
For example, I’ve seen comments tagged as abusive regardless of the context.
- someone quoting a news article
- someone making a hyperbolic joke (especially in gen-Z subs)
For the mod queue, this doesn’t affect the end user since mods can dismiss the false positives. But automated ‘scores’ won’t account for that
- Comment on Reddit could soon punish users for upvoting violent content. 3 days ago:
I think it’s a joke about dead internet theory, rather than userbase size
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
The joke comes from an increase in bot use on Reddit, and the subsequent false positive / false negatives in trying to figure out which ones are bots
Lemmy has that problem too, but it’s much smaller in scope. Mostly because there’s less a reason to try and control the narrative on this smaller platform, and also because the goals are different. Lemmy instances get no benefit from a bunch of fake engagement, and public upvotes makes it easier to catch manipulation
- Comment on If society goes completely cashless, bank robberies would no longer be a thing, which means there would no longer be "bank robbery" plots in future Movies/TV shows. 4 days ago:
I guess we’ll need a variant of this comic
- Comment on It helps to put your fears into perspective 4 days ago:
In line with this, thinking through how you’ll deal with the bad outcome can help you deal with them
For example
Me organising an event and only 1 person turning up (this would have stopped me in the past)
- being able to get to know that person better
- not ordering the food until after the event starts
- ending early, or having an alternative plan that works for smaller groups
Me failing a class and having to repeat it next year
- planning what the schedule will look like, or how that would shift your course planning
It doesn’t bounce around in your head as much afterwards, because you’ve “solved” the problem
- Comment on That would be cool if movie theatres had VR headsets that I could wear and it would provide closed caption subtitles. 5 days ago:
Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access regmovies.com
Well that’s new
This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.
I simply opened the link…
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 1 week ago:
I read it more as asking why a USB-C went with an oval shape instead of a circle
- Submitted 1 week ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on How do people doctor shop? Don't all doctors pass info on all their patients between each other? And in this day and age how do they do it.? 1 week ago:
More places seem to be switching over to a centralized/interoperable system for prescription information. In BC Canada we have
…gov.bc.ca/…/pharmanet-bc-s-drug-information-netw…
PharmaNet is a provincewide network owned and operated by the Ministry of Health. PharmaNet keeps a record of every prescription dispensed in B.C. community pharmacies and select hospital outpatient pharmacies.
In another Lemmy thread recently, someone mentioned that Australia has a national system for it. I think this might be it
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
On the surface, both of them look very similar in format. They also both advertise themselves as decentralized and different from traditional social media, arguing that they won’t face the same problems.
Mastodon uses ActivityPub, which is the widely used standard that most other fediverse platforms use. Mastodon is properly decentralized, where all the servers can interact and operate independently.
BlueSky made their own standard, citing that ActivityPub wasn’t enough for what they wanted to do, and in some ways that’s true. However with their structure, a centralized relay is needed in order for different instances to interact and so people argue that it isn’t truly decentralized. BlueSky is either the only instance, or basically the only instance.
BlueSky is also a VC backed company while Mastodon is now under a nonprofit. BlueSky has its roots in crypto tech.
My personal opinion is that I really hope bluesky does what they’re promising, but I’m not expecting them to be any different than Twitter once they get a critical mass of users and the investors demand profits / infinite growth.
- Comment on Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing? 1 week ago:
If my understanding is correct
With Islam, the deity is meant to have no gender and the use of “he” has more to do with the nuances of Arabic language
With Christianity, there is more anthropomorphism and the deity is seen as a father figure in comparison to everything else
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
I may be wrong, but I think it’s because some company owns the rights to the show in Canada and doesn’t want people watching it on YouTube
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
Not commenting on Bluesky, but the others have taken steps to differentiate themselves
Mastodon was handed over to a non profit
theverge.com/…/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-…
Signal has been under a nonprofit
Being open source also means that people can fork the apps if something changes, or apps + server code in the case of a lot of fediverse software
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
Indirectly, looking up “John Oliver Mastodon” brings up this post in the top few. “John Oliver Pixelfed” has this post as the first option
So we’re not completely left out :)
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
DDG and Brave were pushed as “censorship free” alternatives, back when I was looking into covid disinformation, because the very obviously fake websites would sometimes rank higher on them
There may be more to it though
- Comment on What do you guys think of rss.ponder.cat? 1 week ago:
Someone could make a script that does that every now and then.
Check for any communities made since the last run, and add those to the list
- John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfedlemmy.ca ↗Submitted 1 week ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 247 comments
- Comment on Little Ouchies (Autism/PTSD sensory product) - Slant 3D - 18k units (6:53) 1 week ago:
I’m more of an outsider for this community / hobby, but I thought the post was neat :)
- Comment on Whats the green shape in between the three circles ? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe a triangle with concave sides?
- Comment on Browse and watch videos in FreshRSS like it's YouTube: "Youlag theme/extension" (v3.0.2) 2 weeks ago:
Did smarttube have custom feeds? I only saw playlists (where you add videos to them manually) and the ability to pin individual channels to the sidebar.
What I have in mind is an option that lets you scroll through the recent content from a group of channels (ex. cooking, travel, self hosting, tech review, etc.)
- Comment on Browse and watch videos in FreshRSS like it's YouTube: "Youlag theme/extension" (v3.0.2) 2 weeks ago:
Very cool! Have you explored Android TV at all, since that’s what I was thinking of trying this on. That way you can flip through channels without needing to deal with login on TVs. Also I don’t think YouTube supports making feeds for channel types (ex. Cooking etc.), whereas an RSS feed would make it possible
- Comment on Frizzle Sizzle! Got a perm! 2 weeks ago:
I don’t, but I should probably grab something from them with how often I reference this comic
And it is very grabby. I’ve been having to untangle its spirals as they’re tightening up
How stiff or soft is the plant? Hard to tell from the photos
- Comment on Frizzle Sizzle! Got a perm! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What if we started uploading YT videos to PeerTube? 2 weeks ago:
Generally it’s just better to ask, even if you were legally / ethically / morally in the clear.
- if someone doesn’t want it, it’s going to turn them against peertube / fediverse platforms
- they might not understand what it is, and use their platform to share those feelings
Meanwhile if someone DOES want it, letting them know will give them the option to do it themselves. It makes less work for you, and they will feel invested. If they want it and they don’t want to upload it themselves, at the very least they’ll let their viewers know that peertube is an option.
As for the legal/moral side, I still feel like there’s a reason why you shouldn’t do this but I’m not aware of what that might be.
- Comment on We are excited to announce pixeld.ca, a new Pixelfed instance run by Canadians and hosted in Canada 2 weeks ago:
Thank you! I’ve edited the post now
- We are excited to announce pixeld.ca, a new Pixelfed instance run by Canadians and hosted in Canadapixeld.ca ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 6 comments
