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- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 5 days ago:
This is a symptom. If police won’t do it’s job there will be some guys who will take it into their own hands. The problem is they have even less oversight than police.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 1 week ago:
And gitea is the fork of gogs, just to complete the family tree
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 week ago:
It isnt in the article, are you sure about that, do you have a source? This is news about a new build
- Comment on Raymond Chen on connecting USB to PS/2 1 week ago:
This is the original blog post this article is based on: devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250325-00/?p…
IIRC later other manufacturers copied this feature, and the final days of ps2 it was common that a “converter” was bundled with a mouse.
Wikipedia has more detail about this topic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port#Conversion_betwee…
- Comment on Can you create/moderate a community on a instance other than your own? 4 weeks ago:
Afaik reports are not federated yet, so mods from other instances won’t get report notifications, but otherwise the same tools are available for them. So possible, but limited.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 5 weeks ago:
Skype for business was not skype, it was lync, they just renamed it after the acquisition en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_for_Business
- Comment on Experience with refurbished and recertified HDDs? 5 weeks ago:
What is PT?
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on I created a new Commodore Amiga community on piefed.social 1 month ago:
instance independent link: !amiga@piefed.social
You should also post it to: !newcommunities@lemmy.world
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 1 month ago:
The have a paid sdk for businesses, not for endusers, Magic Earth is just a byproduct.
Magic Earth is free for all our end-users but we also have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners. For instance Selectric.de (a supplier for navigation solutions for ambulances and fire trucks), Smarter AI (developing ADAS systems) or Absolute Cycling (using the platform on bicycles). For more info on the SDK, you can check magiclane.com.
They also collect anonimized traffic data from users:
We send position data to our traffic provider to generate real-time traffic information. The data is anonymized on the phone, using a changing key (so it’s not linked to you), and it is deleted after 5 minutes.
Both info is from their faq: www.magicearth.com/faq-en/
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 1 month ago:
Reasoning from their FAQ:
Will Magic Earth be Open Source?
No; since it is also used commercially (we have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners), we cannot make the code public.
- Comment on Underground Music Discovery - a wide variety of lesser known music genres 1 month ago:
It’s how federation works, if you are the first from your instance you don’t see posts, after some minutes the 2 servers communicates behind the scenes, and for your second visit everything looks normal. This is per instance, so it seems you were the first from lemmy.ca to click on that community.
- Comment on MyceliumWebServer now connected to the Fediverse 1 month ago:
OP uses it here: mastodon.social/@bluebbberry/113992874321283600
Maybe there is some whitelist so it can’t reply to anyone yet?
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 1 month ago:
30 years ago we had to remember phone numbers, now ip addresses. We are going in circles.
- Comment on How to prepare a self-hosted machine I gift to remote friends - Learning Together 1 month ago:
Don’t use
.localas an internal domain it can cause problems. Use.internal, it was recently reserved for this purpose - Comment on Public / private groups invitations for signal & delta chat 1 month ago:
It’s not a problem that you have overlapping communities, just a heads up for others looking for these kind of things.
- Comment on Public / private groups invitations for signal & delta chat 1 month ago:
Instance independent link: !dcsg@lemmy.world
And we already have a very similar community: !signalgroups@moist.catsweat.com
- Comment on Copyright Office suggests AI copyright debate was settled in 1965 2 months ago:
It’s in the article, they show examples
- Comment on It is time to ban email. 2 months ago:
This is stupid. Author wants to ban a platform, because a lot of tools for it are not good, and people doesn’t want to learn. First can be solved by using and writing better email clients. For the second, you can never solve HR problems with IT solutions.
I think everyone reading this post has accidentally messed up when sending an email, right?
I don’t remember any of that, but I remember I called and messaged the wrong “John Smith” in my phonebook and in an instant messenger, because I have similarly named contacts. The platform doesn’t matter, if you are stupid enough you can mess it up anywhere.
The reasoning, that for internal communication there are far better tools is right, but the power of email is that I can send it to anyone.
- Submitted 2 months ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 1 comment
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 2 months ago:
base64 image is just text…
How do you stop someone posting base64 encoded CSAM. And as it is “censorship resistant” you can’t even remove it… It was even a problem here in Lemmy, assholes are around the internet to destroy anything.
Also cryptobros:
The captcha service can be replaced by other “anti-spam strategies”, such proof of balance of a certain cryptocurrency. For example, a subplebbit owner might require that posts be signed by users holding at least 1 ETH, or at least 1 token of his choice.
The more I read about this it sounds more and more terrible.
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 2 months ago:
From the whitepaper it seems like you cannot comment at all? Or each comment is a post also, so you need a server, you need to host it to be able to reply? I don’t see a mention how an upvote/downvote system could work.
How this is even similar to reddit? From what I could find it’s much like a topic based microblogging, and it’s a very one way communication. As it’s similar to IPFS and torrent, which are also very one way communication. Seems like an interesting idea, but I don’t see why it was compared to reddit.
Personal opinion, IPFS clones are reinvented about every year, and because they sound very good on paper, but noone could figure out a legit usecase - maybe except piracy - they fail after a while. Maybe if we would become an actual InterPlanetary species with colonies on Mars they could be useful, but until I don’t really see a point trying it again and again and again…
- Comment on I made sh.itjust.works/c/ama, a place for anyone and everyone to host an AMA 2 months ago:
If you don’t want to mod, there is an active ama community: !askmeanything@lemmy.ca From the modlog it seems @frankyboi@lemmy.ca is active there.
This other one seems dead: !iama@lemmy.world
- Comment on Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech 3 months ago:
But why? I loved this logo, it’s very clever:
Or most people didn’t get the meaning of
://?Now, as I typed this I understand… Most people rarely type
https://any more. Actually I use this symbol most frequently connecting to file shares assmb://orsftp://. - Comment on Huawei’s Mate 70 smartphones will run its new Android-free OS 4 months ago:
It’s for chinese internal market only. Afaik play store is already blocked in china, so they won’t notice the lack of apps, as app selection is already limited for them. I read somewhere, that chinese have some “everything app” where they can do every online payment and services, etc, and they just had to port that few apps to this new os to become a viable alternative there.
I guess on the few international markets where you can still buy huawei phones, they will have an android based version.
- Comment on Any tips for setting up a Mac? A 15+ years Linux user needs help 4 months ago:
If they won’t pay with it, isn’t it just an email address with a password? If the laptop is company issued OP can just use their new compwny email address, than don’t use that address for anything outside work related stuff.
- Comment on From questions to discoveries: NASA’s new Earth Copilot brings Microsoft AI capabilities to democratize access to complex data 4 months ago:
It’s a marketing article with nearly zero actual facts. One screenshot about the actual product.
MS and others already use AI for drawing building countours for OpenStreetMap and OvertureMaps from aerial imagery. In osm these AI generated lines are only allowed to be imported after a human supervision and currently it’s very hit or miss. On low density areas it’s mostly good, but in dense city centers it’s unusable.
In overture maps these lines imported automatically, that’s why you can see buildings on rivers.
They don’t write about these shortcomings in the article, and how they solved AI hallucinations
- Comment on Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software 4 months ago:
They are users not developers. An academic or civil engineer who uses a CFD simulator usually has not enough programming knowledge develop such a complex application. The employer has not enough funds to pay for developers (see, they use a pirated software). Paying for developers is still more expensive than buying an already developed product.
Just look at the stage of FOSS CAD software. There are some, but they are very-very limited compared to proprietary alternatives. Most people don’t care, they just want to get the work done. Not everyone is a programmer, even if it looks like that from our lemmy bubble.
- Comment on Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software 4 months ago:
In the Register article they don’t copied from the source that the scientists were from Egypt.
Flow3D have different academic and research licenses: www.flow3d.com/academic-program/
- There is a free research license available, but it’s only for 4 months. It’s short, researches can take much linger than the.
- There is a free teaching license, but it can have limitations for using the software outside education. It may be forbidden to use outside classes, so it’s possible that they had a a teaching license, but you cannot use that for research?
- There are licenses for full departments, but it’s available for select countries only.
It’s strange that they went after these scientists. In 2nd and 3rd word countries software privacy for work is still common. Everything is cheaper, but software prices are the same as in the US, so they pay relatively more for the same tool. I found that a normal license for Flow 3D can cost USD 100k. According to a quick search civil engineers get USD 2000 yearly in Egypt.
Usually American software companies don’t really care about piracy by individuals in these countries. The rationale is that it’s better for them if they use their software without payment instead of using a software from another vendor. They go after only if bigger companies don’t pay for them, at least that’s my experience.
That’s why this story is strange to me, or at least something else is behind it.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 5 months ago:
I was in highschool in the 2000s in Europe, and msn was our default way of communication with classmates.
