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- Comment on Not the Toll Roads Notification of Toll Evasion!! 3 days ago:
To be paid in Apple gift cards…
- Comment on Extracting and Sharing Sections of an Ancestry Tree Using Family Echo 3 days ago:
WikiTree is popular in my circles. I’m not sure if there’s a significant difference from Family Echo.
- Comment on Extracting and Sharing Sections of an Ancestry Tree Using Family Echo 4 days ago:
What is Family Echo? Why is it better than other free genealogy databases?
- Comment on Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers 5 days ago:
Are these cables just for use by Meta properties, or will they sell access to other orgs?
Apparently Google (or maybe Alphabet?) also has a bunch of undersea cables. It looks like those are for just by Google Cloud customers (and presumably) Google itself.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 5 days ago:
Seems like a pretty huge opportunity for Reddit. If the article mentioned it, I missed it.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 6 days ago:
I’m surprised they aren’t talking about subscriber subreddits. With the amount of porn/OnlyFans posts, I would have thought they could position Reddit as a friendly and familiar OF alternative.
- Comment on Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast 6 days ago:
I don’t think any comments in this thread have referred to Nazis or fascism, other than yours. Nobody here is disagreeing that those things are bad.
I used your comment as an illustration that Lemmy has a tiny Overton window: when anyone comments outside the window, they’re smacked down. Instead of asking the original commenter for clarification, your comment suggested they want Nazis on the platform. That was a good illustration of my point.
Your comments in this thread only make sense if you assume the worst about other Lemmites. Please don’t do that. If there’s ambiguity, there’s no need to assume we’re douche wagons. Maybe ask for clarification. Make a friendly joke? I dunno.
- Comment on Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast 6 days ago:
So you are saying Lemmy can’t compete because we don’t have enough Nazis?
I’m saying that comments outside of a very narrow world view on Lemmy are greeted with hostility. Like the comment I’m replying to.
This covers lots of different areas. I get downvotes and snarky comments when I say I like the wrong Lemmy client or browser. When I ask about suggestions for a ttrpg, I get a snarky comment saying I’m asking questions wrong. When the leader of the Canadian Conservative party comes up in conversation, saying he does anything effectively is met with snark and downvotes - not that he’s good, but that he’s effective at something.
I understand this is a shitty time in US politics. I don’t like the outcome either - Trump is gonna make my life worse, and I don’t live in the US. But look at your comments on this thread: they’re hostile towards people that probably agree with you. This kind of rage makes the platform unwelcoming and shitty.
- Comment on Romantic 1 week ago:
- Comment on Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast 1 week ago:
Running Sync for Lemmy against sh.itjust.works gives me an almost identical experience to Reddit.
Except for the content. Lemmy doesn’t have enough people posting and has an exceedingly narrow Overton window.
I want Lemmy to succeed, but we really need to retain users.
- Comment on Network Security Issues in RedNote. 1 week ago:
Citizen Lab is a national treasure. I really enjoy reading about what they do.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That wouldn’t stop a true ethical hacker
- Comment on The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified | Four IT professionals lay out just how destructive Elon Musk’s incursion into the U.S. government could be. 1 week ago:
tbf, those systems are now effectively haunted
- Comment on Cloudflare outage caused by botched blocking of phishing URL 1 week ago:
I guess mel isn’t going to use you for their self hosting needs either, then.
- Comment on Eyes 1 week ago:
Made of your own skull
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 2 weeks ago:
when it comes to addressing the problems we face, no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing.
The fediverse is great, but the problem is that it isn’t organizing. It isn’t mobilizing people to scare politicians and businesses into behaving better.
- Comment on Trump sows uncertainty - and Xi Jinping sees an opportunity 2 weeks ago:
Beijing has strengthened its trade agreements across Africa, South America and South East Asia. It is now the largest trading partner of more than 120 countries.
- Comment on Remember when things were shitty, but not *this* shitty? 2 weeks ago:
It was shitty, but now we know what came next, so it seems less scary than our current uncertain future.
- Comment on They just don't write good fantasy like this anymore. 1 month ago:
It says right there. Like three times. Which isn’t suspicious at all.
- Comment on 9 Things I Find Joyful About Tech in 2024 1 month ago:
Please do more than just link to your website. A quick blurb of what those nine things are would be great.
If we’re gonna build the fediverse, we need content, not just a stream of links.
- Comment on I Need TPU For My Bung Hole! 1 month ago:
- Comment on With right-wing backing, New England offshore wind opponents gain strength 1 month ago:
“I’m not a denier and I’m not an acceptor,” he says. “What’s going on with our waters? It could be a plethora of issues.”
That’s a denial.
It’s really fucking sad seeing this kind of astroturfing. Actual environmentalists toil for years and don’t get this kind of platform. Then these shit bags come along and get the red carpet treatment from media.
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 2 months ago:
Why does the guard start as some sort of mammal and then turn into an owl when it’s attacked?
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 2 months ago:
Looks like Bandcamp: npr.org/…/a-tale-of-two-ecosystems-on-bandcamp-sp…
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 2 months ago:
I am also curious.
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 2 months ago:
While she was working there, the Jamaican government banned asset transfers in response to sanctions imposed by the U.S. after the election of Michael Manley, a supporter of Fidel Castro. In order to return to the U.S., True would have had to either forfeit her pay or spend the money before she went home.[13] True, who by this time was trying to break into the music industry, chose to invest the money in recording a demo of “More, More, More”,
I love everything about this.
- Comment on Dull Men's Club: a place to share your dull life experiences. 2 months ago:
Posting in there would ruin it.
- Comment on STOP 3 months ago:
It’s gonna be really good
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 3 months ago:
But it gets the spirit right
/s
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 3 months ago:
Some examples
In this example, the speaker said, “as the um, the, her father dies not too long after he remarried….” while the program transcribes that as " It’s fine. It’s just too sensitive to tell. She does die at 65….”
In this example, the speaker said, “and after she got the telephone he began to pray” while the program transcribes that as “I feel like I’m going to fall. I feel like I’m going to fall, I feel like I’m going to fall….”
