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- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 7 hours 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 7 hours 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 1 day 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 months ago:
I was in highschool in the 2000s in Europe, and msn was our default way of communication with classmates.
- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 2 months ago:
My recommendations would be something like this: (I’m just a random user, so it’s just my point of view)
- Shut down the fully inactive instances. Noone will even even notice it
- Merge the semi active communities to a handful of instances, like sports and technology… . I’ve seen active communities move instances, it would be possible, take a look how !europe@feddit.de migrated to !europe@feddit.org. Give enough time for subscribers to notice and subscribe to the new one.
- Allow registration of moderators on these instances, so they can work around the current limitations of moderation tools. Maybe an invite only solution or something like this.
- You could find help more easily if you look for admins for 3-4 instances instead of for 18 instances.
This would be useful for you and other admins, because you would have to admin much less number of instances. They would be still considered small instances, compared to big one, so you still not at the “too big to fail” level. For users it would help community discovery, there are overlap between followers of similar topics, e.g. I have friends who follow both European football and NBA at the same time, I read both selfhosting related topics and about general tech support, etc…
- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 2 months ago:
I don’t like this kind of community/user instance because 2 instances have to deal with the same problem. E.g. a rogue user can troll on most community instances until they are banned by their user instance.
The instance fragmentatios is not as big issue as it’s quite easy to create new accounts. There was a thread about this some days ago here, I also use different accounts on different instances for different topics.
- Comment on Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances 2 months ago:
If a moderator is from a different instance, can they effectively moderate? So isn’t it a problem if all moderators would be from different instances?
I remember after the exodus community discovery in Lemmy was hard, and it made sense to create instances like these. But nowadays with Lemmy Explorer and with multiple community promo communities I think it’s not really hard to find the topics you are interested in.
- Comment on Google Cache Is Now Fully Dead. 3 months ago:
PR open since February: github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle/pull/1481
- Comment on Huawei's revamped Android competitor is launching with support for 10,000 apps. 3 months ago:
Harmony Os exists because of the US trade embargoes, they would put Google Play Services on their phone if they could. I don’t know if Lemmy is blocked in China (I guess it is), so if you could write that comment it means you are not even the target audience.
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 3 months ago:
No it’s an RDP (Remote desktop) client
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 3 months ago:
If you would read the article you would know that the title is perfectly correct, as currently it’s only available to Win, other platforms are just planned.
It’s an RDP client you can connect to pcs on the network or vms on azure
- Comment on Recommend a KVM or Switch 3 months ago:
Use WSL on the laptop for ssh, that’s actually a VM. VM separation should work correctly, or we have a much bigger problem. Just reset WSL, everything should be wiped related to the ssh sessions. Work IT would maybe allow that.
- Comment on Recommend a KVM or Switch 3 months ago:
One of them is a laptop, why ssh to the server isn’t an option? Set up tmux on the server so it always connects to the same session, so you can just continue where you left last time. If you need desktop support, rdp in gnome works really well.
E.g if you connect with this command, and tmux is installed on the server, it will start a new session named “main”. If a session with that name exists it will connect to that:
ssh -t pi@192.168.1.2 tmux new-session -A -s mainAdd something to .bashrc on the server to always do the same if you work on that phisically:
if command -v tmux &> /dev/null && [ -n "$PS1" ] && [[ ! "$TERM" =~ screen ]] && [[ ! "$TERM" =~ tmux ]] && [ -z "$TMUX" ]; then tmux new-session fi
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance. 3 months ago:
Was it even a goal? Mastodon can be used for internal communication, e.g. social.kernel.org is only for linux developers, and I know a local university where they have a defederated mastodon instance where every student automatically got registered.
If they just needed it for posting news maybe simply having a profile on one of the big instances would be enough. I see they had only 270 users.
- Comment on Music related weekly promotion thread for active communities 3 months ago:
!idm@lemm.ee
- Comment on Is this an accurate diagram? 4 months ago:
It’s a strange diagram but shows what you have to know. If you ever seen different keyed m.2 cards, you should understand this. The important thing is the location of the keys, the notch. All m.2 cards has an ‘up’ and ‘down’ side, it shows only the ‘up’ side. You have to look inside the receptor to see the pins, that’s why it shows both sides, it’s not possible to see one side only on the receptor as they are in a plastic casing. Usually you can’t see the pins on the mobo, only the key.
You can see a similar diagram on wikipedia, both sides of receptor, top side if card:
The offset you were writing about doesn’t matter, iz actually helps. You can’t accidentally insert the card upside down. The location of notches also help with this, as not all possible notches used yet, but in the future it could change.
These connectors are really small. The receptor is similar how sodimm connector works, but smaller. Are you also afraid about inserting a ram in an laptop? It’s basically the same.
Read more about the connector in wikipedia, I’m really happy this slowly replaces sata, msata, mpcie and even pcie in current pcs.
- Comment on Is this an accurate diagram? 4 months ago:
You are right. That other user has no idea what they write about, as they confessed in another comment.
- Comment on Is this an accurate diagram? 4 months ago:
You seem to love spreading misinformation on the web. Why are you commenting 4 times if you are not familiar with the topic?
This is an m.2 connector. You have to secure it with a screw on the other side. It’s nearly impossible to mess it up.
Apple frequently uses proprietary connectors, I don’t know which one you are reffering to. I won’t guess because I’m not very familiar with all apple connectors.
You don’t have to comment on a topic if you are not familiar with. Please stop.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
How this photo related to the fediverse? c/lostlemmings?
- Comment on Follow-up post of my storage question from yesterday: Are there ANY storage extension options on my mainboard? 4 months ago:
It’s a Fujitsu W26361 There isn’t a lot of info about it on the net, all the links are rotten.
You have a sata port. You have to use an external power supply for that. Or maybe one of the pins next to it can supply the required voltage, you can use a multimeter to figure it out if you are brave. If you are not you can split the power of the other sata ssd or buy something like this:
You also have an mPCIe or mSATA port. It’s impossible to tell the difference from a photo, because they use the same connector.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#Mini-SATA_(mSAT…
Without any more knowledge I would guess it’s an mPCIe. Having 2 sata ports and an mSATA next to it would be strange, they could use the mPCIe for a 3G modem, it would make more sense in a thin client like this.
If it’s an mPCIe you can buy a sata expansion there and even connect up to 4 sata drives. Looks like something like this:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/f9/d2/2bf9d2eb08223b7267876bbaf2d39a21.png
You can convert it to normal PCIe or m.2, the possibilities are endless:
https://www.adt.link/Uploads/image/R6/3D/R65SF.png
If it’s not mPCIe but mSATA, you can buy mSATA SSD there, they are really rare nowadays. Or you can buy an mSATA to SATA port:
https://alexnld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PC0181L_1.jpg
- Comment on Google Chrome will let you send money to your favourite website 4 months ago:
In other words: Google selected a non standard tag again. It’s a W3C draft, but not a standard yet: webmonetization.org/specification/
Google is not following standards, and than W3C has no other way just accept the standard, as it’s already implemented by the majority of browsers… Whose decision is which standard to accept? Google or W3C? Will Google remove the tag if the W3C selects a different tag as standard? Or the internet is just another Alphabet Inc product line?
- Comment on Microsoft Ruined Windows 4 months ago:
18 minutes video about how windows is bad, posted to literally the biggest linux circlejerk forum of the interwebs. Oh a misleading ad trying to sell the same thing as haveibeenpwned, classic.
Nowadays if someone is annoyed by these things can switch to Linux, nearly all games work ootb, hardware acceleration and drm is also working in browsers. For a home user, competitive gaming is the only thing which is not on par with windows.
For company environments where they use software which is windows only, group policy is there, sysadmins can lock down computers that it basically looks like a kiosk with only the few programs the employee need, no notifications, no ai bullshit, these annoyances only affect home users.
- Comment on Dynamic IP - Self hosting 5 months ago:
Other free services I had good experiences with:
- Comment on Tasks.md: 2.4.0 released 5 months ago:
Caldav is a protocol to sync tasks and calendar events. Kanban is a way to sort/display tasks. The to things are orthogonal.
I used nextcloud deck, a kanban board. Lo and behold, it uses calendar tasks under the hood, and you can sync them with caldav. Obviously you loose some features from the kanban board, but it’s a perfect middleground if you are nit a heavy kanban user.
