Elon Musk could lose 99% of his wealth this month, then 99% of his remaining wealth next month and still be better off financially than 99.99% of everyone. He's not ever going to experience financial distress.

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Announcement !!Open Alpha!! RBlind - A community on Lemmy, brought to you by the moderators of the /r/blind subreddit.

Since the news broke regarding the forthcoming changes to reddit’s API and the ippact that will have on the third party apps and tools many of us rely upon the mods here at r/blind have been working on an accessible option for those who either cannot or will not be staying on reddit. As talk of alternatives like mastodon, lemmy, and the like have increased we decided that it would be best to reveal what we have been working on, hence this post. Several days ago we shared this with those of you on our Discord server and have been asking for feedback.

This project is by no means finished or polished, and is currently operating on development backend code and a beta UI to allow for access to still unreleased features that our community needs such as up/down votes displaying state changes, and nested comments, read this as there are and will be bugs and outstanding accestsibility problems. However, the advantage of this platform is we control the servers, the UI, and can fix accessibility concerns ourselves instead of relying on a for profit company or the generosity of app developers to do it for us, not that the latter is unappreciated.

So please be understanding of the above and we hope those of you who decide to join and see what we have done so far for all of us, and please report problems as you find them.

https://rblind.com/

@Helix@feddit.de and @Penguincoder@beehaw.org are good people.

TL;DR (if you can’t be bothered reading all of the below) - Fosstodon will wait and see what happens, but if Facebook’s new service introduces any issues that could negatively impact our users, we will defederate.

This is Fosstodon's official stance on the whole Facebook joining the Fediverse debacle.

And they won't collect information about the subscribers, right?

It's not great. The people running rblind.com have forked Lemmy and hope to remerge upstream at some point in the future. Their own fork has a number of outstanding issues: https://rblind.com/post/569070

This whole thing has the smell of Microsoft pulling the strings to gain more control over the bleeding edge of AI. Idealists losing out to cold capitalists seeking profit and control is something we've seen many times before.

I don’t think anyone except for employees there know

I wouldn't even bet on that. It seems that no one has a full picture of what is going on.

You're not the audience they're looking for.

Are you going to report balances in € now?

When to use a VPN

VPNs are not magical fixes for privacy and security on the internet. However, there are some specific situations where they are useful tools.

Network blocks and internet censorship. VPNs can help you access sites and services that are restricted by your local network or government. That's why downloads of VPN apps in Russia skyrocketed in 2022, after the country's invasion of Ukraine and more services became blocked. The same trend happened in Virginia and other U.S. states after they passed laws requiring photo identification for adult websites.

Piracy. Internet service providers can sometimes detect when you are pirating movies, TV shows, music, or other media and send you angry letters. You can avoid that entirely by using a VPN when you download or torrent copyrighted material. Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free... but use a VPN.

Region-locked content. This is a popular selling point for VPN companies that is actually true: VPNs can help you access online content that is officially restricted to a certain region. Switching your VPN server to a different country can change what movies and shows are available through Netflix, and UK-based VPN servers are frequently used to access BBC iPlayer content in other countries. However, this is not always reliable, as service providers will usually detect VPN servers after a while and block them.

Accessing your home network. Setting up a VPN server at home is one way to access devices on your home network (such as self-hosted security cameras, media servers, and remote desktop) without opening up more of your network to the rest of the internet.

There are other more niche use cases for VPNs, but those are the most popular ones that aren't completely made up.

6'3" 215lbs was reported. I don't believe that for a second.

https://journa.host/@w7voa/110947325004066228

It was very clearly a very small minority that cared.

At least 3 orders of magnitude too low

I don't understand your title

Is there a level of funding that would make the admins comfortable hiring a developer to work on whatever platform that Beehaw will eventually move to?

Your assumption is personal or personally guaranteed debt, but the loan was likely (based on my reading the term sheets leaked) to the new entity that was going to purchase/merge with the pre-existing Twitter. That potential negative net worth wouldn't be tied to Musk but the entity we now know as Twitter. Musk would not be in financial distress.

I feel like simply knowing that X, formerly known as Twitter, paid for neo-Nazi content and promoted it is all I need to know about their content moderation policies.

The law does seem like a generally good thing, but I doubt that anyone who would care hasn't already abandoned the platform.

I don't think so.

The submitter on /r/blind also had the following to say:

There are no plans currently to close the sub, but several mods may have to leave reddit, leaving only a couple BVI mods, the website does not have a slash, and we do have another domain that will be being set as a landing page for the reddit, lemmy, and discord of ourblind.com (that's O U R).

Mozilla is implementing Manifest V3. They plan to implement it slightly different than Chrome: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/

They have published a guide for extension developers: https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/manifest-v3-migration-guide/

More background on Manifest V3:

https://www.eff.org/am/deeplinks/2019/07/googles-plans-chrome-extensions-wont-really-help-security

https://www.eff.org/am/deeplinks/2021/11/manifest-v3-open-web-politics-sheeps-clothing

https://www.eff.org/am/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening

https://www.eff.org/am/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

This is really bad. Mostly because there's nothing to be done other than shutting down any of the affected processors until some time in the fall.

Shouldn't this be in a political community and not Technology?

Mastodon is not a one to one replacement for Twitter and doesn't intend to be. Mastodon is nothing like what many (or even most) people who use twitter want.

Mastodon has a lot of issues that it is still working out that make it a worse experience than pre-musk Twitter.

These are conserted efforts to reduce the presence of "undesirables", also known as homeless or unhoused, in the areas without public bathrooms.

Cash basis vs Accrual basis bookkeeping strikes again!

Any YouTube channel is insufficient. You need to practice.

Imagine if Verizon ‘defederated’ from T-Mobile because of a few bad actors.

People have been conditioned to never answer their phones when an unknown number calls because of a few bad actors that severely abuse the system and none of the network operators want to take responsibility for the actions of their users (and they are profiting from this lack of moderation).

Imagine if ISPs and services like Cloudflare didn't counter DDoS attacks.

The choice is between a less effective vaccine now or a more effective one later. Not an easy decision to make.

He was found guilty of exactly the crime you're concerned about for the exact reason you're concerned about.

Maybe post to https://hachyderm.io/@beehaw to spread the word outside of Beehaw.org

These situations are awful for everyone it touches. Please find comfort in those close to you.

I'd like to see those models. I don't think they're anything more than the pessimistic guesses that have been made for millennia.

"the procedure called burst wave lithotripsy uses an ultrasound wand and soundwaves to break apart the kidney stone.

Ultrasonic propulsion is then used to move the stone fragments out, potentially giving patients relief in 10 minutes or less.

This technology is also making it possible for astronauts to travel to Mars, since astronauts are at a greater risk for developing kidney stones during space travel.

It's so important to NASA, the space agency has been funding the research for the last 10 years.

"They could potentially use this technology while there, to help break a stone or push it to where they could help stay on their mission and not have to come back to land," said Harper."

In 120 years, people will likely have a better idea of what the trajectory of Bennu will be. No one currently alive needs to do anything at all about this. This is a science experiment for our lifetimes.

All I really need is the ability to do voice calls and screen shares.

Have you looked into Jitsi?

Nostr seems like it's set up to allow for unmitigated abuse.

This is an excellent introduction for those that want to try it out.

Any opinions on the culture that has developed since yesterday is premature at best.

On the technical side they had over 1 million accounts register in 24 hours. The site didn't crash. That's impressive.

I'm assuming that it will never federate with activity pub, I hope I'm correct.

Any instance or community can include paid content, but the numbers are still a bit low for that now.

If that's the case he's even more arrogant and less intelligent than I thought.