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- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 4 days ago:
Is the communications holofilter ready?
Engage the overlay. Put them on screen. Commander Sisko disguised as Kobheerian Captain Viterian (Norman Large) by the USS Defiant’s Holofilter
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 5 days ago:
Or, you know, just block domains that use Microsoft email
I’m guessing you probably don’t realize how many organizations host their email with Microsoft.
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 5 days ago:
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 5 days ago:
i agree reactions can be useful, but adding them to email the way Microsoft has is obnoxious for recipients using any client other than theirs. and, i think this is probably their intention: receiving an email reaction in a client that doesn’t render it as a reaction feels wrong and MS probably hopes this will encourage some people to switch to using Outlook.
the right way to add reactions to email would be to make it opt-in (and also not a vendor-specific header but instead something which aims to become a standard): clients should only allow reactions to messages which contain a header specifically signaling that the sender supports receiving them.
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 5 days ago:
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- YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" headerneilzone.co.uk ↗Submitted 6 days ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 83 comments
- You can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" headerneilzone.co.uk ↗Submitted 6 days ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 1 week ago:
Deep Space Nine?
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 week ago:
their fishing rods are invisible for you? including the hook and line? that must be rough. how do you avoid getting caught when you can’t even see them?
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
I have in fact read 1984. (As an aside, I highly recommend reading Isaac Asimov’s review of it…)
Anyway, FYI:
Obesity and hunger often go hand in hand
What Is the Hunger-Obesity Paradox?
etc etc 🙄
- Comment on I'd like to control my air-purifier with one of those power-socket-timer-switch thingies – Is there a way to "auto-press" those non-mechanical buttons? 1 week ago:
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
tell me you didn’t click either link without telling me you didn’t click either link 🤷
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 1 week ago:
Malnutrition perhaps, but nobody in the world’s richest, fattest country - where the fattest people are the poorest ones - is dealing with “hunger”. I wish we could just abstain from manipulative Orwellian language.
The USDA differentiates food insecurity from hunger, and both exist in the United States. See www.ers.usda.gov/…/definitions-of-food-security and en.wikipedia.org/…/Food_insecurity_and_hunger_in_…
- The ELIZA effect: "extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program" can "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people"en.wikipedia.org ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on The most valuable advertising keywords could be "ublock origin" 3 weeks ago:
Note that I am, despite your assertion, using the full uBlock Origin, not the Google-friendly uBlock Origin Lite
Seeing your screenshot I was curious how that works, so I spent a minute searching and found this post from June 2024 where Vivaldi says:
We will keep Manifest v2 for as long as it’s still available in Chromium. We expect to drop support in June 2025, but we may maintain it longer or be forced to drop support for it sooner, depending on the precise nature of the changes to the code.
In my quick search I didn’t find anything more recent about their schedule for dropping it, so I guess (assuming your software is up-to-date?) they haven’t dropped it yet but presumably will do soon.
But in any case, Vivaldi is proprietary/closed-source, so, I recommend against using it.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on NASA will say goodbye to the International Space Station in 2030 − and welcome in the age of commercial space stations 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile the Tiangong space station began construction in 2021 and has been continuously crewed since June 2022. It currently has capacity for six people, and via UNOOSA-organized cooperation has plans to host experiments from 17 countries including Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Spain. The first non-Chinese person to travel there will likely be from Pakistan. (The US would be welcome too but Congress currently prohibits NASA from participating.)
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 4 weeks ago:
Sure it’s possible, but you can’t actually do it. Because you need a dedicated programer
I try to avoid recommending proprietary software but FYI the multimedia authoring tool formerly known as FutureSplash Animator which you presumably knew as Adobe Flash Professional (or perhaps Macromedia Flash before that) in fact lives on today as Adobe Animate and it can now target HTML5/SVG/WebGL/etc.
There are also many free/libre open source alternatives to it.
- MODPOD: The collapse of IETF's protections for dissent - new rules will go into effect unless enough people hear what's happening and file objections by October 7 (in any timezone, so 18 hours remain)blog.cr.yp.to ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 weeks ago:
i’ve gotten some cooked mp3s before. i don’t know if they got that way through steaming or what but i did need to uncook them before i eventually burned them 🤔
- Comment on proof of wormholes 1 month ago:
Tylenol is Acetaminophen
… which is what most of the world calls paracetamol.
- Comment on Foolproof advice 1 month ago:
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also: username checks out
- He crossed 26 miles in a kayak made from mushrooms – and lived to tell the talewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to mycology@mander.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 2 months ago:
Thanks for pointing this out. Looking closer I see that this is not a publication I want to send traffic to, for a variety of reasons.
I edited the post to link to MIT instead, and added a note in the post body explaining.
- MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Declinepublichealthpolicyjournal.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 154 comments
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 months ago:
with BlueSky I’d have to account for the data volume of all users on the platform as a whole, bringing the data volume way up to tens of terabytes
I think this is a common misconception based on some critics’ incorrect assumptions and back-of-the-envelope math. See the atproto overview for the different components involved, and then this post (from a BlueSky employee) “A Full-Network Relay for $34 a Month” for some numbers.
If I understand correctly, to run a “full nework relay” does mean to consume all of the text posts from all known servers, but not necessarily all of the media, and not necessarily to keep data you aren’t interested in for any long period of time.
Also, you can run your own PDS and/or App Views without running your own relay at all. And, you can also use multiple other people’s relays.
Disclaimer: I’m not an atproto expert, and I haven’t set any of this up myself.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 months ago:
The blog post also says this:
There is one other thing which Bluesky gets right, and which the present-day fediverse does not. This is that Bluesky uses content-addressed content, so that content can survive if a node goes down. In this way (well, also allegedly with identity, but I will critique that part because it has several problems), Bluesky achieves its “credible exit” (Bluesky’s own term, by the way) in that the main node or individual hosts could go down, posts can continue to be referenced. This is possible to also do on the fediverse, but is not done presently; today, a fediverse user has to worry a lot about a node going down. indeed I intentionally fought for and left open the possibility within ActivityPub of adding content-addressed posts, and several years ago I wrote a demo of how to combine content addressing with ActivityPub. But nonetheless, even though such a thing is spec-compatible with ActivityPub, content-addressing is not done today on ActivityPub, and is done on Bluesky.
My comment should have been clearer; what I meant when i said it is more “decentralized architecturally” I was referring to the data model part of the architecture as opposed to the physical server infrastructure currently operating it. The latter is obviously quite centralized still, but the former is designed for resilience against nodes unexpectedly (and permanently) failing.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 months ago:
ok, but, does ActivityPub have portable identity and/or content addressability yet, so that when some of those servers (which are often hobbyist-run and/or tenuously funded) inevitably cease operating their users can continue on a different server? 👀
It’s a rhetorical question, and the answer is no.
otoh, atproto’s PLC DID method is also not really decentralized… but at least the rest of their system is actually substantially more decentralized architecturally than AP is.
To anyone interested in reading a very informative in-depth discussion of this topic, I recommend the blog post How decentralized is Bluesky really? by ActivityPub co-author Christine Lemmer-Webber (followed by this and this).
- Comment on Implementing Portable User Identities with DIDs 2 months ago:
i looked into other services with did got an llm to put those ideas in the required format for the issue. Can you please point out the hallucinations in the issue so i can go and fix them
No. Asking other people to read (and now also to correct!) your LLM slop is extremely inconsiderate. Please don’t do that again.
- Comment on 🦈🦈🦈 2 months ago:
here is the full res version of the image, via the author’s 2019 twitter thread… where there was also this important update two years later:
this other post “A Marine Biologist Ranks Shark Emojis” covers some of the same and also some other ones
