You’re assuming that everyone who didn’t answer the poll is for AI, not exactly a good assumption considering the poll results.
If you think you’re able to just remove skin cancer yourself, sorry but holy shit you’re delusional.
It ain’t smart to make jokes like that in the TSA line, but it still shouldn’t lead to anything like this, either. Being in a line for a security check shouldn’t absolve you of your rights as a human being.
Dark humour is half of what keeps people going in Jobs where the situation is dire. You have to let it out somehow, if you just let it bottle up you’ll explode and won’t be able to do the job anymore.
Shiftphone actually does that. Since the shift6mq (I think) they have used that same battery for just about everything. Yeah, it’s their own model, but it’s a step in the right direction.
Hot take: biometrics are often criticized for being less secure, but that ignores the deficiencies of passwords. Especially on phones, it’s very doable to look over someone’s shoulder while they’re unlocking their phone or do the same with a camera. You can’t do that with a fingerprint, at least not nearly as easily.
And yes, I understand that in the US (amongst others?) the legal situations with passwords and biometrics are different, but IMO that’s more of a legal question, and not everyone lives in the US.
Android also has an “emergency lockdown” option, which disables biometrics for unlocking your phone - or you can shut it down (worst case scenario force shut down with a long hold on the power button) to get it into a BFU state, which is much harder to crack.
Depends on where you launch it from. If you launch it from the end, that would happen. But if you were to launch it from the beginning of the loop you could give it the proper inertia for it to be able to go through the loop.
I would much rather more people enjoy it than us just keeping it to ourselves. I believe, if done properly, it has a decent amount to offer for the average user. The fediverse has the major advantage of being decentralized and open source, and I believe that should be accessible to everyone, not just the fanatics (like me, admittedly) who are ready to wade knee deep through technical details and differences in community, some of them quite toxic.
But OK “we’ll just keep it as is”, we keep the fediverse for us. Yay?
Here’s the problem with that: it then remains a niche. What happens to niches in technology? Well, there are a number of examples that I specifically would like the Fediverse not to follow.
Carrying around a replacement battery was never something most people did. They didn’t generally replace their batteries, either. That was a niche thing. At some point, manufacturers starting sealing their phones shut. After all, it was only a niche that needed replaceable batteries, so it didn’t affect many people. So we lost a part of our right to repair.
Rooting your phone was never something a majority of people did. Look what is happening to people who root their phones (read: want admin rights on devices they bought and fucking paid for): they lose their warranties, they lose their ability to use banking apps without complex workarounds that don’t always work, in some cases their hardware doesn’t work properly. Because rooting is seen as a niche thing, “it doesn’t affect as that many people, so no need to worry”. So we lost those rights. And we’re about to lose the right to install whatever apps we fucking chose.
What’s on the horizon? Age restrictions. Something major platforms may whine about a bit, but can implement just fine - they already don’t really care about your privacy anyway, and if there are fines, generally they’re small enough to just be a line item. The smaller platforms? The operators of lemmy.world? The operator of kbin.earth, my home instance? I highly doubt that they have anywhere near what’s needed for that. But the fediverse is only a niche thing, so it doesn’t affect that many people. Oh, shit, that’s us now.
It wasn’t only that - this person had come up with pronouns to match, almost like the attack helicopter meme that many found offensive, but unironically. People got banned for not using the dragon-whatever pronouns (and not just on this person’s instances). And people started scanning other people’s fediverse posts in order to pre-emptively ban people before they even posted in certain communities. It was wild.
People need to change their ideas about what the fedi/threadiverse is in relation to social media. It is an international forum of everything.
I would disagree with the everything part, but otherwise, that’s precisely the problem - you can’t expect the majority to drastically change their expectations of social media.
I believe Lemmy has the potential for a wider range of discussion and debate than Reddit, or any other social media platform I’ve been on, simply because of the defederated & community-based system.
In theory, I agree with you - and that was my very hope when I first got into the fediverse. Unfortunately, the reality has proven to be different…
The issue, as you describe, seems to be saying the wrong thing in the wrong place, which, to be honest, is similar to the real world.
Except it’s much, much worse than in the real world. I’ve been in circles with right wingers, and I am notoriously stubborn about not hiding my viewpoint (which very often clashes with that of right wingers), and even there the reaction is less crazy than on Lemmy.
For example, you can’t walk up to a group of homosexuals and try to convince them they shouldn’t be gay.
That’s not the kind of thing I’m talking about. Of course something like that would go over like a lead balloon - in that case also because that’s borderline in factual in its assumptions. A better comparison would be a conversation naturally wondering to the risks of anal sex if not done carefully and being chastised and banned for that.
Even if he was, he was in no place to take it into his own hands to address (especially in a secretive way).
I neither said nor implied that, in fact I said quite the opposite…
If you see a lot of toxicity where you browse, maybe your chosen community just isn’t a healthy one.
And that’s exactly the problem. More work. More digging. More research. People come to these sites to have fun and often don’t have the patience nor the interest to filter through all the communities.
This may be unpopular to say here, but the fediverse needs to be less toxic for the average user. I’m probably going to be downvoted to hell for this, but here goes: the whole tesseract situation was a clusterfuck and the dev is a jackass, but in one regard he is right - there is a toxicity problem. I mean, let’s look at it:
Lemmy’s main dev is what many would refer to as a tankie. He regularly spreads misinformation, supporting fascist governments, so long as they claim to be socialist or communist - and don’t belong to the west. Anything the West does is, by definition, evil.
Lemmy’s flagship instance is lemmy.ml. An instance where many communities have a “be nice” rule, but say anything against the (similarly aligned) group think and you’ll be ridiculed, insulted, and banned. Meanwhile, some pretty insane calls for violence stay up. And lemmy.ml isn’t even the worst in that corner of the fediverse.
There are many other instances that aren’t great, either. Wander into an instance and accidentally say something absolutely factual that someone doesn’t like - ban, because some thin skinned mod sees it as derogatory. Remember the whole dragonfucker saga? Yeah, that’s very off-putting to your average user.
Look, I’m no stranger to Reddit group think, I’ve had it turn on me, and trust me, it’s no fun. Hell, I’ve had it on Facebook back when that was still a thing (yeah, I’m dating myself here). But it was nothing on what I’ve seen on here. I’ve been able to avoid it here (or, sometimes I’ve purposefully wandered into it in an attempt to disrupt an echo chamber, but then I knew exactly what I was getting into and expected as much), but what I saw happening to others - holy shit. I mean, to be fair, the instance I’m on is an instance that very rarely defederates, which I like because I like seeing different viewpoints including ones with which I vehemently disagree with (although the viewpoints are very unbalanced, that does have to be said). But it’s a hell of a lot more fun to not have to keep your guard up all the time.
So, you might argue, be careful which instance you chose. OK, so I chose an instance like Lemmy.world, which as far as Lemmy goes, is definitely more on the normal side of things. But then, who are they federated with? The next rabbit hole. And how do you know which ones have less crazies? Experience. And as a saying goes, experience is what you needed just before you got it. Then many people suggest putting together blocklist and what not. Another rabbit hole. Put briefly: it involves work, a lot of it. People aren’t on Reddit to work (for the most part), they’re there to have fun. If you need to put in so much work, at some point it’s not fun anymore. And that’s what’s off-putting for the typical user.
What can be done to make it more palatable for normal users? I honestly don’t know. I see it as a chicken and egg problem. We need more “normal” people to drown out the crazies, but then the “normal” people won’t come because of the crazies. Maybe Piefed is better in that regard - although I’ve heard there were/are?tesseract-style problems there, as well - I just haven’t had the nerve to go down yet another rabbit hole to figure out what’s actually going on. Which brings us back to square one - that’s already gone way, way too far for the average user. And I can’t exactly blame them. I’m “only” here because I care about open source and decentralisation. And I insist on staying here on matter of principle. But I can’t in good faith recommend it to anyone I know IRL.
Anyway, sorry for the long rant. Maybe someone has some better ideas.
What happened to him? Haven’t heard or seen anything about him in ages.
yt-dlp has an option to list everything it downloads in an archive file (so that when a video is downloaded once it isn’t downloaded again), and also has an option to download playlists. That way, it should be possible to set up the command to do what you want.
The goal is to create a more secure version of the program. Since (safe) rust eliminates entire classes of security relevant bugs, a rust version has the potential to be much more secure that the C version. And since rust can eliminate entire classes of bugs, we can put more energy into finding bugs like the ones presented in the article.
The weaker license is unfortunate, though.
Honestly, I want to like Kodi, but even this first screenshot looks much better than anything I’ve been able to muster together in Kodi.
How about this: it’s awful in both places. Just because another country started doing it as well doesn’t excuse anything, it means they’re now both doing something unacceptable.
I know Gravitybox used to have one, but that project seems kind of dead, unfortunately, which is why I was looking for something else.
Spam and SEO have been big things for way longer than 10 years.