www.pcmag.com
>**EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027** >The European Parliament just caused a major headache for smartphone and tablet manufacturers. >The European Union (EU) is set to usher in a new era of smartphones with batteries that consumers can easily replace themselves. >Earlier this week, the European Parliament approved new rules(Opens in a new window) covering the design, production, and recycling of all rechargeable batteries sold within the EU. >The new rules stipulate that all electric vehicle, light means of transport (e.g. electric scooters), and rechargeable industrial batteries (above 2kWh) will need to have a compulsory carbon footprint declaration, label, and digital passport. >For "portable batteries" used in devices such as smartphones, tablets, and cameras, consumers must be able to "easily remove and replace them." This will require a drastic design rethink by manufacturers, as most phone and tablet makers currently seal the battery away and require specialist tools and knowledge to access and replace them safely. >Apple has already been forced by the European Union to change from a Lightning port to a USB-C port on iPhones, with the iPhone 15 expected to be the first to make the switch. Now it seems Apple will need to figure out how to allow access to the battery inside future iPhones, as will every other smartphone manufacturer. >The new rules also stipulate strict targets for collecting waste and recovering materials from old batteries. The percentages for each increase at set intervals between now and 2031, at which point 61% waste collection must be achieved and 95% of materials must be recovered from old portable batteries. There will also be minimum levels of recycled content used in new batteries required, but only "eight years after the entry into force of the regulation."
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Well, here's my take:
The first thing that Reddit should probably do is stop supporting video uploads. Don't delete the videos uploaded so far, but just retire that feature. The cost/benefit for video streaming and developing their own video player has got to be completely unjustifiable.
Second, coordinate with moderators of major subs and let them become ad partners. Moderators can approve ads functioning like pinned posts that are targeted to their communities, and if they do then a cut of the ad revenue is split evenly among all the moderators in a community with payment info and with an ad payment permission that is managed the same as existing permissions. This tackles two problems at once: First, you can charge a premium for ads, because you can target them to very specific self-selected interests, and second, you actually compensate the people who are doing the bulk of the work of maintaining a community. Make sure the ads are unintrusive, and make sure moderators have the final say in whether an ad is appropriate for their community. Let it work like banner ads in niche internet forums used to, before social media took over. Nobody got mad about an unintrusive banner ad for something that was actually relevant to their community.
Third, hire some community managers. (Or, if Reddit has any already, then they are severely underutilizing them.) Why was the absolutely unhinged CEO conducting an AMA, instead of dedicated community managers? There need to be people whose actual job it is to communicate with the people who use the website, especially the people who moderate and post the content, who have the necessary expertise to not come across like a complete moron in the process.
www.nzherald.co.nz
> **Auckland surgeons must now consider ethnicity in prioritising patients for operations - some are not happy** > Auckland surgeons are now being required to consider a patient’s ethnicity alongside other factors when deciding who should get an operation first. > Several surgeons say they are upset by the policy, which was introduced in Auckland in February and gave priority to Māori and Pacific Island patients - on the grounds that they have historically had unequal access to healthcare. > Health officials stress that ethnicity is just one of five factors considered in deciding when a person gets surgery, and that it is an important step in addressing poor health outcomes within Māori and Pacific populations. > Some surgeons, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the new scoring tool was medically indefensible. They said patients should be prioritised on how sick they were, how urgently they needed treatment, and how long they had been waiting for it - not on their ethnicity. > One of the surgeons said he was “disgusted” by the new ranking system. > “It’s ethically challenging to treat anyone based on race, it’s their medical condition that must establish the urgency of the treatment,” the surgeon said. > “There’s no place for elitism in medicine and the medical fraternity in this country is disturbed by these developments.” > A document on the equity adjustor which was leaked to Newstalk ZB shows two Māori patients, both aged 62 and who have been waiting more than a year, ranked above others on the list. A 36-year-old Middle Eastern patient who has been waiting almost two years has a much lower priority ranking.
www.theverge.com
>Reddit is fighting for its soul. Many users are in revolt over API pricing changes that will shut down some of the most popular third-party Reddit apps, and they’re furious at CEO Steve Huffman after last week’s AMA that made it clear the platform wouldn’t budge. Huffman has argued the changes are a business decision to force AI companies training on Reddit’s data to pony up, but they’re also wiping out some beloved Reddit apps, and thousands of subreddits have gone dark for days in protest. >On Thursday, Reddit offered me an interview with Huffman (who goes by u/spez on Reddit). I’ve already published one story from my conversation about how Reddit was apparently never designed to support third-party apps. But here is a lightly edited transcript of the entire interview — which, at times, was contentious.
9to5google.com
>In an unexpected announcement today, Google Domains is “winding down following a transition period,” with Squarespace taking over the business and assets. >Squarespace announced today that it “entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement with Google, whereby Squarespace will acquire the assets associated with the Google Domains business.” This includes “approximately 10 million domains hosted on Google Domains spread across millions of customers.” >Google cited “efforts to sharpen our focus” in selling the Google Domains registrar business, which launched in 2014 as a big proponent of HTTPS and top-level domains (TLDs) as of late. The service exited beta in 2022. >This makes sense in the context of Google trying to be more efficient with resources and is at least better than shutting down the service without a guided migration path.
Technology
YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
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I just don’t think content should be behind a paywall. I want to live in a socialist utopia where content and knowledge is free to share, copyright is a relic of the past, and art and science blossom. Blocking ads takes me 0.0001% closer to that, so I’ll take it. I don’t want to pay, because I don’t want money to exist, it’s deeper than experience vs how much it is worth.
I do think that publicly-owned and publicly-funded alternatives to platforms like YouTube and Twitch could make the internet a far better place. I'd be surprised if, at least here in the EU, where there is an ongoing attempt to actually regulate tech companies, we didn't see this happening sooner or later.
For the time being, though, I know that the creators whose content I enjoy so much couldn't keep doing what they do without compensation, and the YouTube servers their content are hosted on would be taken down if they could not be paid for. So I pay for premium, content enough to know that I'm doing my fair part in keeping the videos I enjoy available and enabling the people who create them to keep creating more, even if the system under which all this occurs is much less than ideal.
store.steampowered.com
>Hello Miners, > Welcome to SEASON 04 - CRITICAL CORRUPTION ! Though we have gained great ground against the rampaging Lithophage in the past months, it remains a constant threat - and to make matters worse, reports of alarming new mutations are starting to come in. > Let’s get right into it!
Beehaw Support
ANNOUNCEMENT: defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
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If I’m reading the modlogs correctly, it looks like /u/Ruud@lemmy.world posted something homophobic?
A troll impersonating Ruud did so.
The real Ruud: https://lemmy.world/u/ruud
The banned troll: https://lemmy.world/u/ruuud
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I’m trying to register but the register button keeps circling forever.
That is likely because there is a higher number of people trying to use lemmy.ml than the website is currently able to support.
I can't make promises about its longevity, but signups should be working currently on my instance: lemmy.pineapplemachine.com
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Is there something about the Fediverse that would prevent you from moving your community off Reddit? It seems pretty clear that people will try Reddit alternatives even before their favourite subreddits have moved. Users are engaged with the communities that you have built and loyal to the 3rd party app developers and we don’t give a fuck about Reddit as an organisation.
I don't currently moderate on reddit, but I can tell you that the larger subs I used to moderate will likely not be moving to lemmy in the foreseeable future. The moderation tools currently available for lemmy are extremely limited compared to what you get with reddit and the toolbox extension. What lemmy has now is okay for smaller communities of up to maybe a few thousand subscribers, but I think the level of spam and trolling you'd see with even tens of thousands would be completely unmanageable with the tools currently available, let alone any more than that.
store.steampowered.com
> Big improvements and new features for the Steam Desktop client are now out of Beta! > Hello! We’re excited to announce that we've just shipped a new version of the Steam Client to everyone. This update includes all the new Steam Desktop features that have been tested and fine-tuned in the beta branch. Before we get into the details, we want to thank our beta testers really quick – we couldn’t have shipped without all of your invaluable feedback and bug reports!
Technology
YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
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I simply hate ads with a passion due to my experiences in marketing and will go out of my way to never watch any. Can‘t explain it much more than that. If youtube locks me out due to that, so be it. I don‘t get worked up either, I simply state my opinion on it where I please and if I‘m not wanted I leave. That‘s about it.
Why don't you pay for YouTube premium? This removes all platform ads.
Games
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That...doesn't sound like a good thing? I would like one game in my game, please. More than that, and it seems like surely things would get janky and disjointed and messy.
Lemmy
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The instance I host is small and I can't make promises about its longevity, but at least it's not currently facing load issues.
If you're interested: lemmy.pineapplemachine.com
World News
Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
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Watching this man’s trainwreck is so mind boggling. I mean just a decade ago he had every single one of us believing he was real life Tony Stark. I mean even pop culture sci fi like Star Trek mentioned him along Sagen and Einstein… He really pulled the wool over our eyes.
Hey, not every one of us. I disliked Elon Musk before it was cool. I thought he was always obviously just another obscenely wealthy self-centered guy with good PR.
Free and Open Source Software
Graphical IRC client recommendations
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The Lounge is a great IRC webclient with built-in bouncer functionality.
Seconding The Lounge. It's a great self-hosted option.
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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
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I actually do not understand the widespread hostility that people have toward this kind of thing. I watch a lot of content on YouTube, and I don't want to see ads, so I pay for premium. I watch a lot of content on Twitch, and I don't want to see ads, so I pay for turbo. Hosting a major video streaming website isn't cheap. It's not like these things are unreasonably priced. If you hate the ads so much, then why not pay for the service that the platform is offering you, and for the content that creators are providing on it? And if you don't watch often enough for ad-free viewing to be worth a few bucks a month to you, then why get so worked up about having to sit through an ad every now and then?
Gaming
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There are a lot I'd recommend, but I think the only must-play for me is Cave Story.
When I was growing up, Cave Story was like the paragon of games as art, and was a major inspiration behind me making games as a hobby and getting into software development professionally. Cave Story was made by a single talented auteur, not for profit, and released for free. And it was as good as Metroid and Mario, or maybe even better. It proved to everyone that such a thing was even possible.
I think the only indie game that could possibly compete with Cave Story for the title of "most influential" would be Minecraft. Though Minecraft should probably be disqualified from that title for having sold out to Microsoft as soon as it started to get big...
www.youtube.com
garak introduces himself but with wii music
Beehaw Support
Could we have discussion about how to approach toxic moderator behavior (in external instances)
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One thing you can do is start a community in another instance. The curent influx is great for growing communities.
Not sure how you can report this kind of community mod behavior to the instance mods
May I plug !trek@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com ?
And by the way, you can DM an instance admin by finding their profile link at the bottom of the front page sidebar, and then clicking "Send Message".
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I occasionally eat one as a “meal replacement” when I can’t get normal food.
Came here to say the same. I would not eat a candy bar under normal circumstances, but I keep some Snickers handy just for the rare occasion when what I really need is a meal's worth of calories that I can eat in under a minute, or carry with me and take up only a little space.
defector.com
> Gradually over the last decade, Reddit went from merely embarrassing but occasionally amusing, to actively harmful, to—mainly by accident—essential. As the platform that swallowed niche message boards, it became home to numerous small communities of surprisingly helpful enthusiasts, and grew into a repository of arcane knowledge about, and instantly available first-hand expertise on, a staggering number of topics, from the demographically predictable to the somewhat more surprising. And now that is all set to come to an ignominious, self-inflicted end. > The internet’s best resources are almost universally volunteer run and donation based, like Wikipedia and The Internet Archive. Every time a great resource is accidentally created by a for-profit company, it is eventually destroyed, like Flickr and Google Reader. Reddit _could_ be what Usenet was supposed to be, a hub of internet-wide discussion on every topic imaginable, if it wasn’t also a private company forced to come up with a credible plan to make hosting discussions sound in any way like a profitable venture. > We are living through the end of the useful internet. The future is informed discussion behind locked doors, in Discords and private fora, with the public-facing web increasingly filled with detritus generated by LLMs, bearing only a stylistic resemblance to useful information. Finding unbiased and independent product reviews, expert tech support, and all manner of helpful advice will now resemble the process by which one now searches for illegal sports streams or pirated journal articles. The decades of real human conversation hosted at places like Reddit will prove useful training material for the mindless bots and deceptive marketers that replace it. Found via Twitter: https://twitter.com/DefectorMedia/status/1668017737895911425
www.youtube.com
> #Techtonica is a first-person factory-building game set below the surface of an alien planet within a network of caverns teeming with bioluminescent life. Players will explore a vast network of caves beneath the surface of an alien planet as they work alone or with friends to build and optimize complex, automated factories, gather resources, establish a base of operations, and uncover the secrets buried in Techtonica. Found via !games@sh.itjust.works: https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/25262 Techtonica on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1457320/Techtonica/
>One thing that all programs on your computer have in common is a need for memory. Programs need to be loaded from your hard drive into memory before they can be run. While running, the majority of what programs do is load values from memory, do some computation on them, and then store the result back in memory. >In this post I'm going to introduce you to the basics of memory allocation. Allocators exist because it's not enough to have memory available, you need to use it effectively. We will visually explore how simple allocators work. We'll see some of the problems that they try to solve, and some of the techniques used to solve them. At the end of this post, you should know everything you need to know to write your own allocator. Found via !softwareengineering@group.lt https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/24337
> Instant Brands, the maker of kitchen appliances known for its Instant Pot cooker, filed for bankruptcy Monday after succumbing to financial headwinds made worse as consumers slowed their discretionary spending to cope with inflation. > The Illinois-based home appliance maker filed for chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston, listing more than $500 million in both assets and liabilities. Private-equity firm Cornell Capital bought the company in 2019 and combined it with Corelle Brands, another kitchenware company. > The company’s net sales decreased 21.9% in the first quarter this year compared with the same period in 2022, the seventh consecutive quarter of declining year-over-year sales, S&P Global said in a ratings downgrade of Instant Brands last week. The company ended March with roughly $95 million in liquidity and the business hasn’t been generating cash, according to the ratings report. > Instant Brands was founded in 2009 by Robert Wang, Yi Quin and three other partners in Canada before it was sold to Cornell Capital a decade later. Original link (paywalled): https://www.wsj.com/articles/instant-pots-slower-sales-tip-gadget-maker-into-bankruptcy-1ef2c7d1 Found via Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1668611912458813444 > It's the pinnacle of private equity brain to take Instant Pot, one of the the simplest, most no-drama businesses of all time, and somehow turn it into a $500 million bankruptcy
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god is being bullied by a pineapple (┬┬﹏┬┬)
Suck it up, God. Creation is a bummer anyways.
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it’s FortNITE, not FortNIGHT, so people might not find your community on the search bar.
Sorry? Of course it's spelled "FORTNITE" in the game files, and in some of the logos and promotional materials, but that's just an abbreviation to fit within the eight-character limit for MS-DOS filenames. You know how it is with Tim Sweeny and Epic MegaGames, that's where they got started and it's always on their mind. Clearly, the full unabbreviated title of the game is "Fortnight".
World News
Reddit CEO: We're Sticking With API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark
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From my perspective as a user that has been on reddit for a while, its been on a downhill slide for a long time now. The moderation mechanisms there are really becoming the downfall. Its like police or politicians, the position attracts the very qualities that would make you unsuitable for such authority.
This really is a bigger and more complicated problem than I think most people realize. I helped moderate some larger subreddits for a while, but I burned out hard and will definitely never be doing it again.
You've got the people who really did care, at some point, but all of their empathy for the people they're supposed to be serving got ground down by the insults and derision that moderators always have to put up with, until issuing bans and removing posts and comments becomes rote and they don't see the humanity or the nuance anymore.
You've got people who seemed reasonable when they applied to become a moderator, but as more trust and autonomy is afforded to them they change and become outright abusive. Presumably because it's the only thing in their life that makes them feel powerful. And if they've been around for long enough and moderated actively enough, then removing them can be a whole stressful ordeal that blows a big hole in a team's ability to keep up with the mod queue.
And you've got people who do care, and who are able to take abuse from the community without it affecting their approach to moderation. But for these people, all the drama that arises in trying to work on a team with the former two kinds of moderators becomes increasingly demotivating, until they burn out and step away.
And god forbid you try to help moderate a subreddit that actually matters. On top of everything else, you will have bad actors actively trying to infiltrate the moderation team, to bring in new moderators with a certain agenda and to push out old ones. Or you'll have those who are determined to find a way to personally profit from having a position of power in a large online community, even at the cost of the community itself. I still don't know how one keeps these people out, once they've taken an interest.
I think there are some things that can help. I've seen that, on reddit, having a top moderator who is disengaged from normal moderation but who will keep tabs and step in like a benevolent dictator to arbitrate internal disputes and ensure that there are decisive resolutions can keep larger moderation teams more stable for longer. This way the top moderator isn't so involved and won't burn out, and everyone below them on the moderator list knows that there is someone they are accountable to. (Of course, this all hinges on the top moderator being suited to this kind of role.)
But even so, once a community grows past a certain point, I think it's just not viable to run it off the backs of volunteers anymore.
toothandclaw.itch.io
> A worker from Area 51 leaks Top Secret files and a Tape to a Private Investigator. > A PSX Style adventure game based on accounts of Alien Abductions. Intended to be played in one sitting. > average playtime is 20-25 mins Spotted via https://twitter.com/DanInFiction/status/1667981357253906434 I haven't played it myself, but I may have to! It looks very interesting
www.vice.com
> Last week, Iran’s military unveiled what it called “the first product of the quantum processing algorithm” of the Imam Khomeini Naval University of Nowshahr. During a ceremony at the university, the Islamic Republic’s military revealed a bit of electronics sealed under glass. It appeared to be a common development board, available widely online for around $600. > According to multiple state-linked news agencies in Iran, the computer will help Iran detect disturbances on the surface of water using algorithms. Iranian Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari showed off the board during the ceremony and spoke of Iran’s recent breakthroughs in the world of quantum technology. > The touted quantum device appears to be a development board manufactured by a company called Diligent. The brand “ZedBoard” appears clearly in pictures. According to the company’s website, the ZedBoard has everything the beginning developer needs to get started working in Android, Linux, and Windows. It does not appear to come with any of the advanced qubits that make up a quantum computer, and suggested uses include "video processing, reconfigurable computing, motor control, software acceleration," among others. > It’s impossible to know if Iran has figured out how to use off-the-shelf dev boards to make quantum algorithms, but it’s not likely. True quantum devices are experimental pieces of equipment that don't typically resemble circuit boards of the kind you'd find in a home desktop, although researchers have reported being able to simulate some quantum processes on classical computers. Even if Iran is merely claiming that the device was manufactured with the help of quantum algorithms, they may not have been needed—the device is still a ZedBoard that anyone can buy, without any visible modifications. > This isn’t the first time Iran has shown off tech with a less than credible pedigree. In 2020, the Iranian Army revealed a device it claimed could detect COVID and AIDS. It appeared to be similar to another device that was previously sold as a bomb detector.
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Simple question: Will you go back to Reddit and other centralized social media platforms, if Reddit step back from the API changes? The benefits of Reddit are obvisiouly, it has million of users and even small communitys have thousands of users.
Most likely yes, I'll be sticking around. Something I very much appreciate about lemmy as an advantage over the big social media sites is that lemmy is set up such that you can be reasonably sure that there are many more human users than bots. On reddit you can mostly avoid the bots by sticking to the smaller subs, but I think lemmy may be able to grow larger than that and still avoid being overrun by propaganda and marketing bots due to the prevalence of manual approval for newly registered users.
I'm definitely hoping to see even more features that emphasize this advantage of lemmy. I'd like to try contributing some code for this myself, at a time when things feel more stable (i.e. no huge sweeping changes in the pipeline, like the HTTP client is now) and I can find some time for it.
For example...
One obvious improvement would be to add an invite system, where new user registration occurs via reputable users sending invite links to people they know.
And I envision a feature where one instance may mark some of the instances it federates with as low trust. Users on the instance would have the option not to see content posted by the low-trust instance's users, or the option to have their content explicitly marked in the UI. This could be used, for one thing, to still federate with larger instances that are less stringent about disallowing bot accounts, but provide a means to view only content where there is a higher degree of confidence that it was posted by a human, or to at least clearly mark low-confidence content.
Linux
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I currently have Kubuntu on my most-used Linux machine but, since a friend recommended it to me, I've been considering hopping to KDE Neon when I have some time to learn a new distro. (I've tried GNOME and I don't really care for it, but KDE Plasma fits like a glove.) I'm not extremely experienced with desktop Linux, so I'd love to hear about others' experiences with either distro and how they might compare.
apnews.com
>WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81. >Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8 a.m., she said. A cause of death was not immediately known. Ted Kaczynski's most notable work, his manifesto titled _Industrial Society and Its Future_, can be read in full here: https://unabombermanifesto.com/
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Absolutely. There were any number of ways to approach this problem of sustainability from reddit's end. I get it, reddit costs money to run. I think most people won't cry foul over a few ads. I'll be happy as long as I can adblock them or pay a fair price to not see them. But for it all to work out, reddit would have to be run by rational, intelligent people. The sort who would give a reasonable notice period before major changes, and who wouldn't talk provably-false trash about the people they're screwing over.
I doubt whether this will be the dramatic sudden end of reddit. But I think it is definitely a sign that reddit's heyday is over, and it doesn't have much longer before it fades into obscurity.
techcrunch.com
Link to the Reddit AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/ > Reddit’s unpopular decision to revise its API pricing in a move that’s forcing third-party apps out of business has taken a weird turn. In an AMA hosted today by Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, aka u/spez on the internet forum site, the exec doubled down on accusations against the developer behind the well-liked third-party app Apollo, which the company had previously accused of operating inefficiently and not being a good “API” user. > Despite community backlash — which includes a site-wide protest from thousands of communities known as subreddits — Huffman’s AMA confirmed the company has no plans to revise its coming API changes. What’s more, Huffman continued his accusations against Apollo, calling out the developer, Christian Selig’s, “behavior and communications” as being “all over the place” and saying he couldn’t see Reddit working with the developer further. > Other third-party apps are also closing down, including Sync, RIF and Reddplant, to name a few. > But Huffman seemingly has an ax to grind with Selig in particular, first accusing the developer of extortion, per Selig’s extensive post on the situation between himself and Reddit.
Asklemmy
Former Reddit Moderators, what kind of moderation tools do you think are missing from Lemmy?
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The #1 thing missing is user notes. In my experience, being able to attach notes to users that are shared among moderators is essential, even for smaller teams or smaller communities.
As the number of things that need to be moderated grows larger, being able to maintain a list of pre-written removal messages will also help a lot.
And as lemmy continues to grow, it will be very important to have something that works like automod that can be configured on either a per-instance or a per-community level. Especially something that can do filtering and auto-reporting. There are a lot of cases where you don't want to outright forbid a certain kind of content, but you do always want to bring human attention to it.
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I am also partial to "lemmings"
_Sometimes there's a song which, well, it's the right song for its time and place. It fits right in there._ --- **Abide** is a three-hour playlist inspired by The Big Lebowski. From big hits to obscure indies, and a few tracks from the movie itself, you'll find all sorts in here. The music is selected to guide the listener on a little journey, one that might leave you at once more enlightened and more relaxed. Here it is on YouTube, for the optimal listening experience: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLctb6mfrKRICA-oB7VtI37T9VPtprFaaT _Here's a similar playlist on Spotify. Compromises were made, due to some tracks being available only on YouTube, so this is not the optimal listening experience. But it's here anyway, in case YouTube just won't do: [Link](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6IuWD43cXlbLdndnNwhPw1)_ --- **Track Listing** 01\. Bob Dylan - The Man in Me 02\. Santana - Oye Como Va 03\. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord 04\. Los Lonely Boys - Heaven 05\. Mulatu Astatke - Yèkèrmo Sèw (A Man of Experience and Wisdom) 06\. The First Edition - Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) 07\. King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind 08\. America - A Horse with No Name 09\. Santana - Black Magic Woman 10\. Dobie Gray - Drift Away 11\. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Back Door 12\. Neil Young - Heart of Gold 13\. The Who - Eminence Front 14\. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Covered by Pomplamoose 15\. Bob Willis - Tumbling Tumbleweeds 16\. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb 17\. Sigrid - Everybody Knows 18\. Kazumi Totaka - Main Theme, Animal Crossing: Wild World OST - Covered by Mohmega 19\. Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song 20\. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down on the Corner 21\. Damien Rice - Coconut Skins 22\. Santana - Smooth 23\. Santana - Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen 24\. Booker T & the M.G.'s - Behave Yourself 25\. The Who - Baba O'Riley 26\. The Homeless Gospel Choir - Why? 27\. Listener - Wooden Heart 28\. Kansas - Dust in the Wind 29\. Frank Sinatra - That's Life 30\. Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky 31\. Bruce Hornsy & The Noisemakers - Prarie Dog Town 32\. Santana - She's Not There 33\. Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home 34\. Shinobu Nagata - The Roost, Animal Crossing: New Horizons OST 35\. Booker T & the M.G.'s - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 36\. Bob Dylan - Knockin' on Heaven's Door 37\. Damien Rice - Older Chests 38\. Bruce Hornsby - Listen to the Silence 39\. Sugar Ray - Someday - Covered by Down We Go 40\. Moby - God Moving Over the Face of the Waters 41\. Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Lucky Man 42\. Townes Van Zandt - Dead Flowers
Linus Tech Tips
Shitposting
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More importantly, where's our Christmas album remaster?
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Very entertaining, though tragically this clip from just after you released your own video could have been a fun one to end on...
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i don’t think we need bigger instances, i think we need more instances, and a better, streamlined process for finding instances
For one thing, it might be nice if individual instances could assign tags or categories, and if pages like join-lemmy.org/instances could allow users to browse the list of instances with a given tag. Then prospective users could choose a tag that best represents their interests, and have an easy list of instances related to that tag.
> This theme of this talk is about the intersection of game engines and programming languages - I've spent my career building both, usually with one influencing the other extensively. > I’m going to start with a whirlwind tour of past engine and language designs that may be interesting, then moving toward my latest engine where we see how the scripting language taking on a different role changes everything, mixed with other fun topics such as type inference, resource & memory management, performance, serialization, debugging, refactoring and.. raytracing?
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Scrolling through the linked instances and noticed Lemmygrad was banned? Is it their politics or are they just annoying or smth.
The lemmy.ml instance federates with lemmygrad.ml, the collection of Marxist communities. It blocks lemmygrad.com, which currently redirects to the forum of choice for President Donald J. Trump. The latter does not seem to be hosted using lemmy and I think could not be federated with in any case? But presumably this was once the domain of a similarly-minded lemmy instance.
Some instances other than lemmy.ml do block lemmygrad.ml. Besides being a place for Marxist communities, the instance is also home to some very radical and very hostile users. I haven't been around long enough to really know the situation for myself, but I have seen mentions of lemmygrad.ml communities engaging in brigading in the past.
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Jetline Marvel: "Climate change activists spray a Cessna Citation business jet with orange paint at Sylt Airport, Germany"
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but aerosols/paint damage the environment
I don't know what kind of paint they used, but environmentally-friendly kinds do exist.
Even if it wasn't, I doubt that it could have done anywhere near as much damage as if the jet were to continue flying as normal.
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It feels like user accounts need to be abstracted away from instances somehow. Federation means it’s almost meaningless which instance you register with, and as integration between instances and other Fediverse apps gets better it will just become more and more meaningless. It should be possible to just “Join Lemmy” and have the servers behind the scenes handle spreading the load. You should be able to login to Lemmy from Beehaw.org or Lemmy.ml or any other Lemmy instance. The way it works at the moment is kind of like content is global but accounts aren’t and it feels like it should be the other way around?
User accounts can be independent of anyone else's instance. You just have to host your own.
But it's always going to be much more convenient to register your account on someone else's instance, than to set up your own. Even if instance setup was made to be as effortless as possible, and single-user instances were made to be as lightweight as possible, say you download and run a single binary onto your computer that runs a lemmy instance and everything is automatic from there, most people still wouldn't want to do that.
The idea that you should be able to log in to your account from any instance is...less practical than you might think.
The technical reasons why are hard to boil down into an easy explanation. But the very short version is that everything comes with pros and cons. Doing it this way makes it a little less convenient for users, and a little harder to make a good UX for. Doing it another way could make it more convenient, at the cost of making it very easy for a bad actor to do things like post fake content under another user's name, or could add inconvenience somewhere else, like making it so that users have to manage a private key instead of or in addition to their username and password.
I do think there's room for improvement, but I think the overall idea of logging in and interacting with content specifically via the instance you're registered with is ultimately very unlikely to change.
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My two most frequent listens are a combined playlist of the SimCity 3 and SimCity 4 soundtracks, and The Yes Album. If it's not those, it's almost certainly progressive rock of some kind. Nothing else comes close for productivity music for me.
Though really, these days I find myself working with a twitch stream in the background more often than with a playlist on.
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You got yourself a new sub. Thank you for sharing!
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Does the gmail SMTP server have a limit on how many emails can be sent per day?
I think it does, yes. The kinsta.com link says the limit is 500 per day. If you're expecting a higher volume than that, or if the unpredictability of relying on a free Google service for anything is not acceptable, then you would probably want to pay for an inbox service.
But if you're running a small instance and just need the occasional email to go through without a lot of effort or fees, then it ought to be fine.
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I keep getting logged out every time I visit another sub-lemmy page? I’m trying to subscribe from the button but then I get taken to their site and logged out. Logging in takes forever as well. When I copy and paste the ! Link into the feddit.uk search I get no results as well.
I'm really not sure, but it sounds like these could be issues related to feddit.uk? I suggest asking about this on a community there, or messaging an admin of that instance.
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> Coming to PlayStation 5 and PC in 2024! https://babystepsgame.com > Play as Nate, an unemployed failson with nothing going for him, until one day he discovers a power he never knew he had… putting one foot in front of the other. > Explore a world shrouded in mist, one step at a time. Hike the serene mountains by placing each footstep yourself, in original physics-based gameplay from the minds behind Ape Out and Getting Over It. Take in the sights, fall in love with the local fauna, and try to find meaning in a wasted life. > Get ready to fall for Nate, in Baby Steps, a literal walking simulator.
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Currently yes. If you wanted to be in full control of which instances you can see, then you will need to administrate your own instance.
Hopefully this will change in the future!
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Kagi. Yes, it’s paid and the pricing structure is really meh, but:
Huh. I hadn't heard of this one before, but I think I'm going to have to try it out.
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In the meantime there’s nothing stopping community mods from making pinned posts or sidebar links or whatever (I assume)
Well... Hopefully in the near future the UX for linking to communities can be improved, since right now the way things work makes it a pretty crappy user experience for anyone on an instance that hasn't synced that community yet.
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Hah, that’s what…four rival gamedev communities now? At least 😄
No need to compete! I'm self-hosting my own instance in any case, so I thought I might as well make communities for things I'm interested in. I've also subbed to every other gamedev community I've come across so far...
It would be really neat if there were a lemmy feature to easily co-promote related communities, maybe even give users an easy way to see them all in one feed.
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If email isn't working, then you'll have to turn off email verification in your instance's settings before anyone is able to log in without encountering that spinner.
To get email to work, you'll need to provide SMTP credentials in lemmy.hjson on the server you're using to host lemmy. An example SMTP configuration is shown in the docs here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/configuration.html
You may also have to restart lemmy after you update the configuration, in order for it to take effect. (I do this on my server via docker-compose restart.)
When I set up lemmy on my server with lemmy-ansible, the config file was initially set up with a valid-looking SMTP config. But when emails weren't working I looked more closely, and it turned out that there is something broken with the SMTP service that lemmy is integrated with by default. It seems that you will need to provide your own credentials.
I'm using an SMTP service provided by a web hosting service I pay for, but you can also use gmail in a pinch: https://kinsta.com/blog/gmail-smtp-server/
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Hm, that's surprising. I didn't expect mobile Chrome to work like that when copying links. Try copying and pasting the link text instead, e.g. !news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com? But be aware that it can take a moment for the sync to happen and anything to show up, as well.
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If you access them like regular links you wont be able to sub to them since your account is in another instance.
That's actually not true! If you format the links like this: /c/news@lemmy.pineapplemachine.com, like I did, then anyone who clicks on them will be brought to the community on the same instance they're viewing the post from. (At least, assuming that the community has been searched for and synced on the instance already.)
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> We are pleased to announce Star Trek: Infinite, a new game developed with the team at Nimble Giant Entertainment. Bringing the captivating fantasy of the Star Trek universe into an experience not before had. Follow our social media accounts and save the date for June 16th, Picard Day, where we will make a full reveal of Star Trek: Infinite. So this seems to be more or less Stellaris, but Star Trek? They've certainly got my attention
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> ISTANBUL – The Turkish authorities on Tuesday seized and jailed a 16-year-old boy for drawing a moustache on an election campaign poster showing re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, media reports said. > Several media outlets close to the opposition, including daily newspapers BirGun, Cumhuriyet and private TV station Halk TV, said the youth from the south-eastern town of Mersin was accused of defacing the poster near his home with a pen, scribbling “a Hitler moustache and writing insulting comments”. > He was arrested after he was identified through CCTV camera footage, media reports said. > The authorities interviewed him at his home, where he reportedly “admitted drawing the moustache” while denying writing the accompanying comments. > Taken before the public prosecutor, he was found to have “insulted the president” and was jailed at a nearby youth facility, according to Halk TV. > Mr Erdogan extended his 20-year rule over Turkey after winning the May 28 second round of the presidential election to embark on a new five-year term. > According to the Justice Ministry, “insulting the president” is one of the most common crimes in Turkey, resulting in 16,753 convictions in 2022. AFP
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> Get ready for Sonic Superstars, arriving Fall 2023! > Sonic and friends are back with an all-new look! Join Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy Rose on an adventure that takes "classic" to another level. Team up with friends, master new powers from the Chaos Emeralds, and speed through all brand-new zones on your way to take down Dr. Eggman (and co)!
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> The Rivals have been pushed back for the moment, but only just in time for a brand new threat to rear its ugly head. An insidious lithophage, a sickness of the very rock beneath our feet, has struck Hoxxes. > Nicknamed the ROCKPOX, this planetary pathogen is spreading through the caves, infecting the rock and even directly affecting the local fauna. Even the hardy Dwarves can feel its insidious grasp. > Prepare for PLAGUEFALL! > Coming November 3rd, 2022 to Steam. > Coming November 17th, 2022 to consoles and Windows Store.
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Remnant: From the Ashes was easily among the best co-op experiences I had in recent years. I'm looking forward to this sequel! > New to Remnant 2? Don’t worry, Founder Ford will get you up to speed so you can get out there and save what’s left of humanity before it’s too late. > Take on deadly creatures and god-like bosses with two other friends to stop an evil from destroying reality itself and stave off humanity’s extinction. > Releasing Summer 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
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I didn't spot coverage of this story on more major news sites. This Indian source seemed less editorialized than others: > Environmental activists break into Sylt Airport in Germany and spray an orange color on a Cessna Citation corporate plane. > It appears that the aircraft operator will incur higher costs. On one of the Twitter accounts, a video of some of the activists painting an airplane with orange paint is shared. The engine is fortunate to be covered while they are painting it.
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> OH MY GOD I'd heard about Windows 11 calling a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English because of really lazy translating but it's ACTUALLY HERE ON MY PC like not even in beta this is actually happening right now in publicly available Windows Screenshot of tweet: 
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Found via https://twitter.com/nirbheek/status/1666563969514090496 > Using AlphaDev, we have discovered fixed and variable sort algorithms from scratch that are both new and more efficient than the state-of-the-art human benchmarks. The fixed sort solutions for sort 3, sort 4 and sort 5 discovered by AlphaDev have been integrated into the standard sort function in the LLVM standard C++ library. This library is used by several million users including universities and numerous international companies. In addition, we analyse the new algorithm discoveries, compare AlphaDev to stochastic search optimization approaches and apply AlphaDev to further domains to showcase the generality of the approach.
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> From the Metaverse to AI, tech giants continue lure us with false promises of "the next big thing." This week, Adam is joined by Dan Olson, a perceptive YouTube personality known for deconstructing narratives and the modern tech landscape. Together, they unravel the reasons behind this technological hype cycle and discuss potential pathways to break free from its grip. Find Dan's channel at Folding Ideas.
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> NYC ranked first among major cities for the worst air quality worldwide today, according to IQAir, a Swiss air monitoring company. > The smoke from ferocious Canadian wildfires cast a sickly pall over much of the eastern United States today, worsening air quality for millions of people. The air was acrid, skylines looked orange and municipal officials told people to stay indoors. The National Weather Service does not expect things will get much better tomorrow. > About 98 million people in parts of 18 states from New Hampshire to South Carolina were under air quality alerts this morning for both wildfire smoke and ozone. > “This is a historic event. We’ve gone back to our smoke data and not seen anything of the same magnitude and size on the East Coast,” Burke said. And for New York City, “it’s by far the worst in the last 18 years.” > Wednesday — once data is analyzed — could be the worst day of smoke in the U.S. in nearly two decades, Burke said.
This was originally posted to lemmy.pineapplemachine.com: https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5781 --- Lemmy is federated and decentralized and that means that we can all coexist regardless of our differing political opinions. I think it's important to preface this by saying that I am not offended by or concerned with anyone's politics, and I'm certainly not here to argue with anyone about them. My concern is that users are being banned and content is being removed on lemmy.ml citing a rule that is not publicly stated anywhere that I have seen. Moderators of lemmy.ml are removing posts and comments which are critical of the Chinese government and are banning their authors. This came to my attention because of how lemmy user bans are federated just like everything else, and I was confused about why my instance had logged a lemmy.ml user ban citing "orientalism" as the reason for the ban. [Screenshot of my own instance's modlog, as viewed by an admin](https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/pictrs/image/81e3aa97-9fa0-4045-b27a-76d7f8a304e8.png) I noticed that the banned user had recently commented on a post in !worldnews@lemmy.ml that had been removed with the reason "Orientalist article". [Screenshot of banned user's history on lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/pictrs/image/c3ac484c-6ae3-490a-82a7-1ae866286d48.png) [Screenshot of lemmy.ml modlog](https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/pictrs/image/6be9f59a-1a6b-41fc-9642-7c3127559c84.png) Here's the article that was removed, titled "China may face succession crisis". It was published by axios.com, which mediabiasfactcheck describes as having "a slight to moderate liberal bias" and gives its second-highest ranking for factual reporting. The article writes unfavorably of Chinese President Xi Jinping. https://www.axios.com/2023/06/06/china-may-face-succession-crisis https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/axios/ I had not remembered seeing anything in lemmy.ml's rules that would suggest that "orientalism"—meaning, as I understand it, the depiction or discussion of Asian cultures by people in Western ones—was against the rules. So I checked, and I found that there was not. Not on the instance's front page, and not in !worldnews@lemmy.ml. [Screenshot of instance rules for lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/pictrs/image/b539fafa-ba1a-43f6-aa37-d954e908c809.png) [Screenshot of community rules for !worldnews@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/pictrs/image/9a5a8a2d-cfac-4658-8ef5-77a885079756.png) There is a stated rule against xenophobia, but I think that xenophobia is not widely understood to include Westerners writing critically of the actions of an Asian government. This is where I went from confused to concerned. Lemmy instances have public moderation logs, which I think is a very positive thing about the platform. So I looked more closely at lemmy.ml's moderation log. Please note that moderation logs are also federated. It's hard to be 100% sure which instance a mod action is actually associated with, looking at these logs. The previously mentioned user ban and post removal were, I think, definitely actions taken by lemmy.ml moderators. My own instance's mod log identifies the banning moderator as a lemmy.ml admin, and the removed post was submitted to a lemmy.ml community. I've done my best to verify that all of the following removals were really done by lemmy.ml moderators, but I can't be absolutely certain. Please forgive me if any of them were actually made on other instances that do have an explicitly stated rule against orientalism. > Removed Comment Ah yes. Being against China's racist genocide is racist. China, the imperialist ethno-state, is clearly innocent. by @CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org > reason: Orientalism [Screenshot of lemmy.ml modlog](https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/pictrs/image/2c779f63-b231-4cec-8774-d999c8e26677.png) > Removed Comment Lol. Thinking some countries have better governments than others is supremacist? Whatever, dude. By the way. If there *are* any countries with decent governments, I don't know of them. But like. If there were decent countries, they wouldn't behave like China. by @balerion@beehaw.org > reason: Orientalism [Screenshot of lemmy.ml modlog](https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/pictrs/image/2232fd34-b6f4-4958-a683-9ca549989922.png) These following moderator actions did not specifically cite orientalism, but did not seem to be breaking any of the instance's or community's explicitly stated rules. > Banned @0x815@feddit.de reason: Only makes anti russia and anti china, crosspostst from reddit. 2nd temp ban > expires: 9d ago [Screenshot of lemmy.ml modlog](https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/pictrs/image/ba863eac-59a9-48b1-bc0e-801adebf5d37.png) > Removed Comment Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Tibet are all Colonies of China, which it treats as Colonial Territories, by - Forcibly destroying the local culture. Forcefully extracting to harm of the locals. Genocide, abuse, kidnapping, rape. But there is no point in engaging to you. You are a liar. You know you are. When you deny genocides, you put yourself on the same side as the fascists and reactionaries of the past. by @CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org > reason: Rule 1 and 2 [Screenshot of lemmy.ml modlog](https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/pictrs/image/a0e242b1-9a9a-4f66-8361-2f4b9d5a1a17.png) I have no affection for the Chinese government and I do not call myself a communist. I would not enforce a rule against orientalism on my own instance. But I think that lemmy.ml's moderators are entitled to enforce whatever rules they please. It's only that, as the largest single lemmy instance so far, I believe that they have an obligation to _disclose_ these rules, and an obligation to not ban users or remove content for failing to follow unobvious and unstated rules. I'd like to raise some awareness about this, and I'd like to openly ask the moderators of lemmy.ml to state the rules that they intend to enforce clearly and explicitly. I will be very clear and state it again: I am not asking for anyone to change their opinions or to not enforce a rule that they believe in. That is the great thing about lemmy, that we can coexist in this federated community even when we don't share the same opinions. What I am asking is for lemmy.ml's rules to be clearly stated, because I think it does not reflect well on the broader community if the predominant instance moderates its users and content according to rules that are not being explicitly disclosed.
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> In this GDC 2018 talk, Spiderweb Software's Jeff Vogel presents a retrospective on his company's history and how they've managed to stay in the game-making business since 1994.
My log (accessed via `docker-compose logs -f lemmy` has gotten _very_ noisy since my instance has been federating with several others. It makes it harder to troubleshoot odd behavior and I'm concerned that it's going to quickly fill up my server's disk with logs. What can I do to improve this?
www.theverge.com
> Microsoft just gave itself a full-screen ad in search results by faking an AI interaction. This “search result” is juicing Microsoft’s own product instead of respecting its users’ intent. > We recently worried out loud whether Google’s new Search Generative Experience would prioritize ads over actual answers, but it looks like we won’t have to wait to see how brazen these companies can get. Unless there’s strong pushback, I would expect the ads to win whenever it’s profitable or convenient. Spotted via https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/3259
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> For the second time in just one month, Google's search engine has allowed an AI-generated fake of a famous artist's work to rise to the top of its search results. > Earlier this May, we reported that when Google users searched for the iconic American realist artist "Edward Hopper," the search engine's top result was an AI-generated knockoff in the style of the American painter. Google fixed the issue — but not before the phony Hopper had become the featured image in its overview of the artist and his work. > Now, just a few weeks later, it's happened again with a different artist. Google the Dutch baroque master "Johannes Vermeer" — no mention of AI, no mention of a specific painting — and you'll be met with an AI-produced rendition of the painter's classic "Girl with a Pearl Earring" as the top result. > And yes, just like the fake Hopper, the AI-generated Vermeer — first spotted by a sharp-eyed art fan — currently sits as the featured image in the Google overview. Here's what it looks like:
I haven't banned anyone, and as far as I know none of the other users on my instance currently have moderation privileges. So why am I seeing two users in a "banned" list when I visit my instance settings page? What horrible, unforgivable things did these users have to do for my instance to ban them seemingly of its own accord..? (I have manually unbanned these users since taking the screenshot, since I didn't see any reason why they should have been banned in the first place.)
arstechnica.com
Crossposted from https://lemmy.ml/post/1157495?scrollToComments=true
>Indeed, if memory serves (it's been a while since I read about this)... > >The fly-by-wire flight software for the Saab Gripen (a lightweight >fighter) went a step further. It disallowed both subroutine calls and >backward branches, except for the one at the bottom of the main loop. >Control flow went forward only. Sometimes one piece of code had to leave >a note for a later piece telling it what to do, but this worked out well >for testing: all data was allocated statically, and monitoring those >variables gave a clear picture of most everything the software was doing. >The software did only the bare essentials, and of course, they were >serious about thorough ground testing. > >No bug has ever been found in the "released for flight" versions of that >code. > > Henry Spencer > henry@spsystems.net
github.com
Discovered via @cmuratori on Twitter... https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1665838497918509057
