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bamboo,

🎶 FRI-DAY NIGHT 🎶

bamboo,

Agreed, YYYY-MM-DD should be normal use

bamboo,

Wow it’s my exact birthday. Good luck figuring out my age.

bamboo,

Amarok is what converted me to Linux Desktop, especially the iPod support in 2008. For me that was the year of the Linux Desktop.

bamboo,

The EU is currently evaluating if iMessage is considered a “gatekeeper”. Killing these services now solidifies they are gatekeepers and introduces EU regulation.

bamboo,

I’d assume this will be a non issue once they implement ActivityPub. They can enable whatever account restrictions on their gitlab instance, but if I don’t want to provide this information to report a bug, then I can use another instance or self host my own, without the account restrictions.

bamboo,

They’re talking about Gitlab, not Github

bamboo,

From the Summary in the link:

The end goal of this proposal is to build interoperability features into GitLab so that it’s possible on one instance of GitLab to open a merge request to a project hosted on an other instance, merging all willing instances in a global network

bamboo,

We’re actually on the 10th Linus now, so the next one will be LinuXI

Does alien.top do anything other than mirror reddit comments?

I have just realised that alien.top seems to be mirroring reddit accounts, posts and comments, without labelling them as such. What is the point of this one way mirroring? As soon as users realise, they are going to just leave. There is no point having a discussion with a bot that cannot respond.

bamboo,

Also not a lawyer, but right to be forgotten applies to search engines to remove articles from the search index. Originally applied to news articles some guy in Spain didn’t want showing up when you google’d his name. The law doesn’t require the publisher to remove the content from their website, but instead requires search engines to remove the links in results.

So if someone’s comment was mirrored to Lemmy AND that comment was indexed by a search engine linking back to a Lemmy instance, then you still have the right to request Google or Bing or whatever to remove those links from search results via the same process.

bamboo,

Turns out the 2020 economy is worth more than a daily number of 9/11 deaths.

Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?

Like others, I came over when Reddit was banning 3rd party apps. Many communities were being started and I wanted to help. So I chose one community to form here and try and grow. And we did! There was a time a short while in the little KC Chiefs community was in the top 100 communities on Lemmy world. I knew that wouldn’t last...

bamboo,

I saw a bunch of posts from @rglullis promoting a project called fediverser which at first i thought was just like lemmit didn’t see the need for it. The main difference is that not just posts are imported into Lemmy, but also the comments. The idea is that for each reddit user who comments, that comment is added to a shadow profile in Lemmy and commented on the post. The idea being over time, the reddit users will have profiles in Lemmy already populated, that they can take ownership of, and don’t have to start from scratch finding an instance or creating an account.

Obviously everyone has their opinions of it, but maybe it’d work out for the Kerbal Space Program community, since Lemmy is more technically focused. This might remove a barrier of entry for new users joining your communities.

bamboo,

I’m not sure if the mod tools make this easier, but you could measure a community’s engagement by taking the total number of upvotes/downvotes comments for all posts, and dividing by the number of subscribers in the community. This would at least be a measurement to quantify a decline or steady state over time. Obviously perception matters, if people feel like a community is dead, they’ll leave, and it’ll be a self fulfilling prophecy.

bamboo,

Reddit states in the privacy policy that they are already sharing this information already:

How We Share Information

Much of the information on the Services is public and accessible to everyone, even without an account. By using the Services, you are directing us to share this information publicly and freely.

When you submit content (including a post, comment, or chat message) to a public part of the Services, any visitors to and users of our Services will be able to see that content, the username associated with the content, and the date and time you originally submitted the content. Reddit allows other sites to embed public Reddit content via our embed tools. Reddit also allows third parties to access public Reddit content via the Reddit API and other similar technologies.

bamboo,

Are you referring to hashicorp with recently changing license terms? IIRC the change in license was to prevent competitors (i.e. AWS) from releasing a service using the open source software from directly competing with their cloud offerings. It’s sad it had to come to it, but I think the reality of the situation is that AWS could come up with a competing cloud offering, has the built in user base, and can run the service at a loss, because they make money elsewhere.

A company like Amazon totally could afford to pay, but won’t if they don’t have to. Ultimately, I think part of the license change was in response to Amazon and AWS being a monopoly. Without the license change, their company was at risk.

bamboo,

Can’t speak for all, but at least for me (and I hope most), supporting humanitarian aid for civilians isn’t a support for terrorism. I don’t think it’s mutually exclusive to call for the release of innocent Israeli hostages and also advocate for the safety of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The situation is terrible all around, and I don’t know how it can be solved, but I can at the very least support initiatives which reduce more casualties.

I can’t begin to imagine how hard the past month has been for you, and truly despise any anti semitism and hate speech which has been more prominent globally. Just want to let you know that there’s at least someone who cares about Jews and also is caring about palestinians.

bamboo,

In NYC, right on red is illegal and I’d venture a guess that >98% of drivers obey this. Obviously each city will need to handle it differently, but they can’t make it illegal and then call it a day. Enforcement and change infrastructure to match the new rules of the road are necessary. In the case of lowering speed limits, traffic calming measures should be put in place with the reduction in speed limit, so that going 45mph in a 25mph zone is difficult.

bamboo,

I ended up getting a few alerts, and each time I tested negative. Then later during Omicron, I ended up getting Covid and was contacted by a contact tracer for the city. I explained to them if they give me the code for the app, I can signal that I have Covid, and they said it wasn’t worth it.

Overall I think it was an interesting idea, and the approach was pretty clever while also maintaining privacy. Really the failure was from the municipalities being out of the loop. I’m not sure if there were studies done, but I do wonder how accurate the exposure determination was, since for me it was always false positives.

bamboo,

I think there probably can be adjustments made with more research, which at the time was unrealistic, since we were in the middle of it. For the alerts to be meaningful, they should be actionable, and receiving an alert should tell the person they should take a test. If 9 times out of 10 the alert turns up a negative covid test, then it’s not really reliable, and people won’t see use in taking them seriously (aka Alarm Fatigue). Fine tuning the parameters of the alert can improve this rate, for example requiring longer durations in close proximity and/or closer distance between devices.

Of course dialing things too extreme would lead to “false negatives” which would be even harder to test for and validate, because of the nature of the recorded history on the device. Ideally there’d be 0 false negatives and 0 false positives, where every alert resulted in a positive covid test, and no positive covid test wasn’t prompted by an alert. This is obviously unrealistic, but finding a good balance would make the alerts reliable, and useful. Since this system is going away, it doesn’t really matter, but the principals of alerting are still important to consider in any system, especially where health & safety are involved.

bamboo,

It all started with:

Update - Fix has been deployed, Slack integrations are recovering

Nov 03, 2023 - 17:22 UTC

This is why you don’t release on a Friday!

bamboo,

Why not just wait to merge it Monday?

bamboo,

You’d think declined PRs would be more of a metric to deter bad PRs from happening?

bamboo,

I’d buy that for a dollar

bamboo,

Everyone knows children are used as excuses to get what you want pushed through. Just look at UK’s Online Safety Bill trying to get a backdoor to E2E messaging, claiming it’s to prevent CSAM.

bamboo,

Found the playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/1YZGWnYZD6gZliYs7mSaTE

bamboo,

How do you use this? Does the phone need to be wired in, or is there some wifi solution?

bamboo,

without any sketchy apps installed

How do you do it without an app?

bamboo,

I’m always suspicious of apps which setup a local web server to accomplish some basic task. When Zoom did this, it was a security nightmare.

Just based on the screenshots, DroidCamX sets up a local webserver on the phone, and then the video is accessible on the local network (for example: 192.168.0.17:4747/video). This means anyone on the local network can access the webcam, which in an office or school setting, might be disastrous. If a coworker were in a conference room using this app, a malicious coworker could use this to spy on the meeting surreptitiously.

However it’s implemented in the OS, a basic requirement is that there is some authentication to link the phone’s camera to the computer, and that the video is encrypted in transit, to avoid man in the middle attacks.

bamboo,

At the time, the PS3 was the cheapest bluray player out there when it launched. Also, this is andetodical, but my university had a cluster of PS3s booted into Linux to be used for Machine Learning, as it was the most affordable higher end GPUs you could get at the time. I’m surprised people think the PS3 was bad, but I guess from a business perspective, selling hardware at a loss expecting to make it up in game sales probably didn’t work out as well as execs hoped, because the PS3 had more capabilities than just playing games. I’d guess there’s a sizeable number of PS3 consoles which were purchased without ever buying a game to go along with it.

bamboo,

I’m not sure about 1password, but with Lastpass, the passwords were encrypted, but not the URLs for each site. Whoever has the lastpass vault knows what sites were associated with each account, and can start targeting accounts which look valuable.

bamboo,

Ok wise guy, tell me this, who’s on first?

bamboo,

There’s a website kalshi, where you can even bet on the weather.

bamboo,

Should have used the scene in Rebels where Vader’s on top of the tie fighter as he enters the sith temple to fight with Ezra.

bamboo,

That’s the one. He has the high ground and then throws it all away to do the superhero jump to be on Ezra’s level.

bamboo, (edited )

I understand Youtube needs to make money, it’s expensive to manage the infrastructure they provide. That being said, faulting content creators for the type of viewers they attract will just drive away content creators with a technical audience who use ad blockers. This will just incentivise creators to make generic content for the masses or leave the platform all together.

The only alternative would be for creators to make their own sponsorship deals, and insert ads in the video, which diminishes the value of Youtube Premium for those who pay. If creators start put messaging in front of all their youtube videos about disabling ad blockers, it could backfire, and be an advertisement that ad blockers work on youtube, and lead to people seeking them out.

Hopefully this is all a temporary measure by Youtube until they can block the use of ad blockers, but the damage might already be done if creators stop making videos or seeking out their own sponsorships because they clearly can’t rely on Youtube.

bamboo,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaUIyvy8E8

bamboo,

This probably won’t work if the hard coded DNS is DNS over HTTPS

bamboo,

You need to use an IP address (as opposed to FQDN) for DNS because when your computer starts up, it won’t be able to resolve the FQDN to do DNS lookups.

Cloudflare DNS over TLS famously is using the IP address of 1.1.1.1: developers.cloudflare.com/…/dns-over-tls/

bamboo,

I CAN’T HEAR YOU

bamboo,

I really enjoyed it, but on first viewing remember feeling that there’s so much to wrap up, and not much time left. It almost made me uneasy and stressed because I didn’t want it to end with magically everything being resolved in the last 5 minutes. Maybe I missed it in the promotional material, but I think had I known that it ends with a To Be Continued, I’d maybe enjoy it a bit more? That’s my only nitpick with it, which says a lot about how good of a film it is.

bamboo,

The only reason I use YouTube Music is because it’s part of YouTube Premium. They just discontinued YouTube Premium Lite which allowed you to get ad free YouTube without YouTube Music. The only way they can make YouTube Music succeed and take away revenue from Spotify is if they bundle it in with ad free YouTube.

bamboo,

Damn, I also had Google Play Music family account, which got transitioned to Youtube Music, but am paying the standard $23/month 💸

bamboo,

I think the many cases of regular officials having classified documents in private residences is a more a sign of a systemic issue of how documents are classified and handled within Washington. Things are classified when they shouldn’t need to be, and sometimes you receive thousands of pages of documents you’re expected to read. With Pence/Biden handling of the classified documents, once they realized they had the documents, they went through the proper channels to disclose this and get them to the National Archives.

Trump did the opposite and it’s clear he showed he knew he had the documents and withheld that information from his lawyers and the National Archives, even going so far as to moving records around to hide where they are. This isn’t a normal situation of accidently having documents, there was clear criminal intent, which Jack Smith’s statements have shown. Treating Trump’s behavior equal to that of Biden or Pence or whoever is disingenuous.

Dealing with a criminal ex-president who is running for reelection has never happened before to the country, so there’s not an operating procedure to follow.

bamboo,

So you’re saying the issue is the president’s precedence precedent?

bamboo,

If your train has a bad conductor, it will require more power.

bamboo,

Are you going to foot the bill for the Reddit API fees?

Have you considered what you will do if Reddit cuts you off? IANAL, but it’s fairly clear from the TOS that they will likely shut you down.

Except and solely to the extent such a restriction is impermissible under applicable law, you may not, without our written agreement:

license, sell, transfer, assign, distribute, host, or otherwise commercially exploit the Services or Content;

modify, prepare derivative works of, disassemble, decompile, or reverse engineer any part of the Services or Content; or

access the Services or Content in order to build a similar or competitive website, product, or service, except as permitted under any Additional Terms (as defined below).

redditinc.com/…/user-agreement-september-25-2023

bamboo,

It’ll be easy enough for them to block fediverser/0.1.0 user-agents, so perhaps that’s not a safe default value since it’s an easy target.

I’ll be honest, I saw a previous post of yours and was sceptical, but I think based on the idea, you’ve taken the best steps to make this a reality. Having the communities be part of instances where they fit in and can be maintained by moderators who care about the subjects is a challenge, but it does set it up for longer success.

As others have pointed out, there’s still an imbalance where people don’t realize they’re replying to shadow accounts (like this for example). Maybe a good solution would be to DM someone who replies to a comment by one of the bot accounts explaining what’s going on. Maybe asking the person who commented to reach out to the user on Reddit directly, and asking them to join the Fediverse would be a good solution and would bring in the human element to the process. This would avoid you having to build that feature (and likely appear to be a spammer) which might have a higher conversion ratio.

I’m not sure if you have a plan for it, but somehow allowing the Reddit user to take over the shadow account would probably achieve your goal of getting more people to convert, and would be a benefit to niche instances looking to grow their organic members. However you do this, it should be seamless to the new member, with the minimal number of hurdles.

Good luck!

bamboo,

Just wanted you to know, I read this comment while browsing and having lunch.

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