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Why YSK: Information should be free and open for all...

The developer wrote a good post on Reddit, which I will mainly quote here:...

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/1418762...

Why YSK: Doing so can change your feed and experience drastically....

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Why YSK: Online platforms, particularly some very prominent offenders, may artificially spike prices before creating “discounts”. Whether this is intentional or the result of third party sellers fighting amongst themselves, I cannot say. Either way, don’t blindly purchase something because of a deal (camelcamelcamel is...

A good post about the kinds of arguments people use online, including tactics which are about the argument itself or some of the people involved in the argument, as opposed to being about the argument’s supposed topic....

I was waiting until I saw something show up in my feed to verify and I just saw it....

There’s been an add-on called Privacy Pass for a few years now. This plugin gives you 30 passes for CF and 5 passes for hCaptcha when you solve one. For example, once you solve 1 captcha for Cloudflare, you will not see 30 captchas again! It will automatically pass....

I know a lot of lurkers like me out there are browsing, but there’s quite a bit of engagement capitol on the federated instances. If you find an interesting topic and the right community, you get a lot of feedback. There’s not much hate being thrown out there either.

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Why YSK: because, one, Facebook/Meta is a huge player in the tech industry and it’s totally unacceptable that they are continuing to be allowed to operate like this, I’m trying to raise awareness because most people have some idea that Facebook is bad, but few know the details on how and why and to what extent they’re so...

Why YSK: I’ve seen several commenters asking if there were specific bots such as RemindMe...

Why YSK: after yesterday’s security incident many instances have reset the session tokens which your browser remembers. This is causing issues....

Why YSK: It's cleaner, cheaper and more convenient than toilet paper

Welcome to YSK, a community aiming to be one of the most useful out there....

As more people flock over to the fediverse from reddit, twitter and other centralised proprietary networks it is important that you keep your e-mail and other important accounts safe from hijacking attempts. Since anyone can simply spin up an instance and host users and communities it is important that you don’t divulge your...

Why YSK: Because fandom's website is complete garbage, it's filled with ads, has a horrible UI and has auto playing videos for no reason. For some reason a lot of game wikis still use that website.

Everyone got logged out after the recent site hack. For me, when I tried logging in once things were back up, it would tell me I logged in, but I’d actually stay logged out....

If you are an Admin of a Lemmy instance, please use it to help secure your account!

I couldn’t log in after last night’s hacker shenanigans. Deleting site cookies fixed the problem.

The Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is predicting a geomagnetic storm for Wednesday and Thursday of this week (July 12th & 13th). Strong northern lights may be visible between 10 PM and 2 AM in parts of the northern US, especially from points of high elevation, clear views of the northern horizon and...

Healthy gums don’t bleed, and are not painful to floss at all....