I bought a $3k+ LG OLED. I intentionally never agreed to any TOS so that it would act as a dumb TV. I wanted it on the network so that I could control it through Home Assistant and Apple HomeKit so I put it in my IoT VLAN. Within a day it was trying to port scan my network! It is now fully isolated with no outgoing connections allowed.

After Apollo’s API token was invalid, I deleted my account. I know it’s a minuscule drop in the ocean for Reddit, but not matter, I’m with Lemmy and the fediverse come what may.

I’ve always been confused why Google keeps Waze and Maps completely separate. Google Maps interface with Waze crowd sourcing would be killer.

Yes, with a major caveat. An instance will search only communities that at least one user on the instance is subscribed to and only as far back as the time the first user on the instance subscribed to the community.

Too bad you are forever doomed to using Aptos since it’s impossible to change fonts.

The sci-fi type implications of this would be astounding. We would see a rapidly increasing global population with high natural resource use. On a philosophical level, is living forever a blessing or a curse?

My first GM vehicle was a C7 Chevrolet Corvette. I wanted it since it was announced in 2014 but held out until 2016 when it finally got CarPlay. I’ve since traded it in for the 2020 C8 Corvette that also has CarPlay. I bought a dongle that enables wireless CarPlay so I don’t even need to plug it in.

I absolutely love my Corvette and would be interested in buying the next generation. However, I will not consider it or any other GM vehicle if CarPlay is dropped. It is a mandatory feature for me.

Rock and stone!

I used to love Etsy for true, handmade items. Now I have to wade through a sea of drop shipped AliExpress crap.

"There are 5 games written in Rust and 50 game engines.” — Interview with Senior Rust Developer in 2023

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". — Goodhart's law

I think this could be very valuable for the community and the Lemmy devs. However, I believe to be successful, there needs to be a volunteer(s) who “sync” the community to the GitHub issues. We could automate this but that would make the situation worse. Here’s how I could imagine this working:

When a new feature or bug is posted, the mod determines if this is duplicated or not. If so, they will reply to the post with a link to the previous post and lock the current one. If it is truly new, the community can vote and comment. After a week or so, if the community supports the new feature or fixing the bug, the mod will open a new GitHub issue with a summary of the community discussion and link to the discussion.

This is a lot of work for the mods, but I believe it would really add value for both the Lemmy community and the devs.

Why not both?

In C/C++, undefined should be the meme of the little girl smiling while the house burns down behind her.

Soon 99% of all phone conversations will be chat bots talking to chat bots.

I’m sure the developer feels absolutely crushed by the increased sales.

If licking a microphone is sexual, is eating a banana on stream now obscene?

For light users, $36/mo is very expensive. However, for middle and upper management types that live, breathe, and eat PowerPoint, this is huge. If this is good enough to allow non-technical people to connect to their BI and generate charts and reports without the need of IT, it will be incredibly cheap to them. There’s a whole cottage industry of consultants for small business who do these sorts of things so having this automated will save time and cost for these businesses.

As a developer, I’m still interested in seeing what CoPilot integrated in my development environment will be able to do. My company is currently paying for ChatGPT+ at $20/mo for me. At my salary, it’s a no brainer since even an hour a month is a huge ROI. However, it’s quite manual since I have to copy paste everything. If I can get ChatGPT 4 with the full context of my project, $36/mom is a no brainer. If we can get a private version that is trained on our company code base, it will be a game changer.

I’d love to know how much AMD is paying to keep DLSS out of the game.

I can’t say this is for me. What I really need is something that will convert one flavor of regex to another. It’s really annoying to always have to look up the shortcuts and capture group syntax.

Plus an appointment is not required for those that have an iPhone with LiDAR which is probably nearly everyone who is considering purchasing this.

That was an incredibly comprehensive, well articulated, and dare I say, exhaustive essay on some important issues you raised. On top of that, creating sample documents is next level.

Privacy

I don't think the word "privacy" is a good word for the concept. I believe "user data control" or "right to be forgotten" is more appropriate for the "deletion issue". However, there are few privacy issues such as instance admins having access to private messages and the potential for a hack to expose users e-mail addresses and usernames.

I believe you are 100% correct that we need to do a much better at communicating exactly who has access to their data and what (if any) control they have over that data once it is federated. I don't believe we will ever have an guaranteed federated delete, and we need to make that crystal clear so users can proceed accordingly.

Legal

Running a self-hosted service is one thing, but running a public service raises a myriad of legal issues. In the US, children under 13 must not be allowed to have accounts (COPPA). CSAM (child pornography) is another problem that can expose admins to serious repercussions. In the US, it is not enough to delete it, it must be reported to the NCMEC. Federation will make this especially treacherous. Other issues such as criminal investigations, subpoenas, and possibly even national security letters are not a matter of "if" but "when" they will occur.

If Lemmy continues to grow, instance admins will need to be prepared for these issues. I would suggest that the public instance admins reach out to an organization like the EFF who has experience dealing with these issues. If not, I'm afraid a high profile incident may be all it takes to kill it.

Thanks for volunteering and stepping up. Modding ain’t easy, but it’s necessary.

Have a look at Star Citizen (still in development).

In development for a decade with over $580 million in development costs and no release date in sight.

I’m not sure this is possible since reactions tend to be in the context of the comment. For example, if a comment is expressing anger at an injustice, an angry emoji would probably be interpreted as “I am also angry” at the injustice and not disagreement or anger about the comment. If someone is expressing a personal loss, a sad emoji would me likely mean sympathy.

If you would like to use this project to learn Rust, go for it! However, there are utilities that will convert Lemmy’s TypeScript to Python. There are also a few Lemmy Python packages on GitHub.

I think that would only work when the number of instances is small. Two solutions to this might be:

• have instances act like relays where the home instance of a community notifies 10 instances and then each of those instances notifies 10 instances, etc.
• batch updates on a timer such that once a minute all posts, comments, boosts, etc within a minutes are buffered and sent together.

We’re all figuring this out as we go! Since the great Reddit migration, we’ve already seen our first big drama with the Beehaw defederation. Some Beehaw users disagreed and left for other instances while users of other instances liked the move and joined Beehaw. The Lemmy fediverse is what WE make it for better or for worse.

I had never thought about having wireless satellites on a Bluetooth speaker. Everything sounds amazing except for the price!

I had one decades ago as well when they first came to the US. Mine was extremely finicky to program. I had hold it very still at a fairly specific distance to my CRT. It was rare for me to be successful on my first try and it was quite slow.

I’ve got quite a few bones to pick with Amazon but canceling Prime isn’t one of them. Compared to calling a customer representative who barely speaks my language after being on hold for an eternity, Amazon is straightforward and easy.

While I am just a mere fedizen, I applaud innovative ideas! Backing those ideas up with open source code is next level contribution to the community. Thank you!

When releasing art, I recommend using a Creative Commons license such as “CC BY 4.0”. They have a license chooser you can use.

I’m impressed they spent the time and money to make a new 2600 game. I’ve watched a few interviews of the original game developers in the 80’s and the development experience was far from what modern software development is today. A developer had to make sure the game and graphics logic were done in a specific number of cycles and everything is written in 6502 assembly.

I would love a modern Wing Commander series reboot. However, with Chris Robert’s raking in the cash from Star Citizen, I’m not holding my breath.

This is great news. NVIDIA needs more competition, especially in the AI space.

Apps like Signal and iMessage allow any emoji. I don’t have a strong opinion about a limited set vs any defined in Unicode.

I would love to have this in Azure DevOps for wikis. The Mermaid support is too limiting.

I’ve always wanted to learn to code ever since my first computer: an Atari 800. In middle school I learned Turbo Pascal and then on to college. Software engineer and now software architect has been my career ever since.

After a day of meetings and coding for “the man”, I rarely have the energy to code on my own. If I do, it’s usually in pursuit of another hobby such as my home lab.

For CSAM in the US, you have to have actual knowledge to be responsible for reporting. If you view the image or it is reported, you must act. Its pretty much the same for DMCA.