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How would you react if Reddit joined the fediverse? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is radically public. It's designed to broadcast your content to hundreds of other peoples' computers running all manner of different software which might then rebroadcast it to yet more. The whole architecture is oriented toward spreading things far and wide, and what tools exist to restrict the audience or retract content already shared are little more than polite suggestions.

That's not a flaw, but people using it should understand how it works so they don't run into surprises.

The Dying Web | Matthias Endler in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I think the author understates how much better Chrome was than everything else from the time it launched to the time Firefox went multiprocess. It was about a five year period.

Now I think most people just see no reason to switch. Better adblocking might motivate a few.

[NLD] JetBeam E26: SFT-40 + UV + green laser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Someone could build a light this shape using two 10880 cells in parallel. Someone should.

[NLD] JetBeam E26: SFT-40 + UV + green laser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That's my objection to them. Olight is interesting here in that they offer a lifetime warranty for flashlights purchased in in United States of America, Australia, China, France, or Germany in 2023 or later which explicitly covers built-in batteries. That's surprising given that Li-ion batteries are guaranteed to wear out, but it's pretty unambiguous.

If "AI" doesn't attract customers why are companies hyping it so hard? Are they just dumb or is there another factor? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Think like a venture investor.

A small chance of huge growth via new technology can have a big payoff. They expect most companies to fail and are more worried about missing an opportunity than losing money in a single bad investment.

Nobody is quite sure where AI technology will be in ten years, but if it's big, it's going to make people who got in early very rich. It doesn't matter that it sucks now; the web sucked in 1995, but it made people who got in (and out) at the right time very rich.

Can someone ELI5 why often lights set up with a dimmer also flicker? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

That's true. Describing current regulation as the premium option was an oversimplification. For household lighting, it's usually the premium option.

Can someone ELI5 why often lights set up with a dimmer also flicker? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That's not the only way to dim an LED, just the cheapest. Variable current power regulators are the premium option.

A screw-in LED bulb combines LEDs and power regulating electronics. Some of them handle the variable input voltage a household dimmer provides gracefully, but that's more expensive.

Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's one thing to place limits on a few Chinese phones that have low market share outside China (Netflix is not available inside China), but only offering low-quality streams on the world's most popular smartphone OS would surely have a significant impact on subscription numbers. Netflix may have even signed contracts with content providers requiring them to meet certain DRM standards.

I believe the situation would be different if Google hadn't built a remote attestation system for Android. Netflix might have had to renegotiate a contract or two, but underserving a huge fraction of the market isn't viable long-term.

Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What would have happened if Google never created an attestation system for Android? Would Netflix give up such a large market?

Netflix can downgrade Chinese phones that aren't common in the west and third-party ROMs because those represent a tiny fraction of their potential customer base. I doubt they'd be inclined to do so for all of Android.

Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

could potentially lose certification of the entire android ecosystem

Certification by whom?

The Netflix app is older (2011) than Safetynet (2014?). Google probably didn't need to provide remote attestation, but making non-Google Android unusable for most people is good for their bottom line.

Request to join Reddit r/no_mans_sky in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think you're looking for [email protected], but it doesn't seem like it's very active anymore.

How crucial are banking apps? Your experience with them vs. browser banking? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Mobile check deposit is the only thing I want from my bank's app.

I'm running LineageOS with Magisk and Play Integrity Fix. That works for my bank's app, but I'm annoyed that they make me do it and gave their app a 1-star review on Google Play for it.

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EDC just came up in another community, so it's time for a pocket dump (lemmy.world)
 
  • Old leather wallet
  • Flashlight (Skilhunt H150)
  • Knife (Spyderco UKPK)
  • Pepper spray (Sabre Red, with a pocket clip from a random flashlight)
  • Phone (Pixel 4A)
  • Keys, and another flashlight (Skilhunt EK1)
  • Flash drive (Sandisk 128gb)
  • 1.38€
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The HP35R, a new heavy-duty headlamp from Fenix uses 2x21700 batteries and runs at 1200 lumens all night (www.fenixlight.com)
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Recommend a server-side email classifier (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink
 

I've been self-hosting email with Maddy for a bit, but haven't shared any of the addresses widely yet in part because I haven't set up a spam filter. I'm pleased with Maddy; there's much less to learn to get a server up and running with sane default behavior than with the email software of old.

Ideally, I'd like to go beyond just spam filtering and have something with arbitrary categories like newsletters and password resets. I would prefer that it learn categories when I move messages to IMAP folders from a mail client. Maddy can feed messages into arbitrary programs and pick a destination folder based on their output.

Web searches turn up a ton of classification programs, most of which seem to be more interested in playing accuracy golf with well-known corpora than expanding functionality beyond simple spam filtering.

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Please stop blocking VPNs for established accounts (lemmy.world)
 

I often use a commercial VPN service, which I suspect is not rare among Lemmy users. Most of the time, I'm able to post to lemmy.world, but on occasion I am not. The default web UI provides zero feedback, just a spinning submit button forever, but if I look in the browser dev tools, I can see it's being blocked.

I understand that some limitations are necessary to prevent spam and other abuse, however this is a very blunt instrument. The fact that I have a 10 month old account with consistent activity should outweigh any IP address reputation issues.

Perhaps the VPN limitations could be narrowed in scope to cover only account creation and posts from young accounts.

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Anduril firmware adds dark mode (github.com)
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What RSS readers should I recommend to others? (lemmy.world)
 

If I want to quickly pitch "you should follow X, Y, and Z using RSS because [problems with social media]" to people who have never heard of RSS, what readers should I recommend?

I want at least web (not self-hosted), Android, and iOS options. Native apps for Mac and Windows would be nice as well. Linux users probably already know what RSS is.

There absolutely must be a free option good for at least 25 feeds because unfamiliar tech is a hard enough sell without having to pay. I'll grudgingly accept ads if that's the tradeoff for something beginner-friendly.

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Image uploads blocked by Cloudflare (lemmy.world)
 

When I attempt to upload images to lemmy.world via the desktop web UI, I get the following error message:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Looking at network traffic in dev tools, I see that I'm getting a 403 page from Cloudflare saying:

Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access lemmy.world Why have I been blocked? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks....

I also get error messages when trying to upload images using Connect and Sync on an Android device. I successfully uploaded images in the past.

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2000 subscriber giveaway (lemmy.world)
 

We just hit 2000 subscribers! I’d like to thank everyone for showing up here to create a new community, and what better way than giving stuff away?

I’m giving away the Nitecore MH10 v2 I reviewed. I can ship it anywhere in the USA or EU, but EU winners will have to wait until mid September. This is a basic, beginner-friendly flashlight that can accept almost all 18650 and 21700 batteries.

To enter, leave a top-level comment on this post before midnight UTC on Sunday, August 27, 2023. Only accounts that have posted or commented on /c/flashlight prior to this being posted are eligible to win.

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Kaidomain has 3000K high-CRI SFT40s (kaidomain.com)
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Today's knife and light (lemmy.world)
 
  • Skilhunt M150 v2 (519A swap)
  • Kershaw Launch 5
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Webpack hashing problems after Mastodon server update (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
 

I just updated my Mastodon server to the latest version due to a security vulnerability. I got a 500 page and error:0308010C:digital envelope routines::unsupported in the logs from mastodon-web.

I could reproduce by running bin/webpack from the command line. Some searching led me to try Node 16 LTS, but then I get an apparently blank page when I load the site and call to eval() blocked by CSP in the browser console.

The API works normally; this only affects the website.

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Does the hard-use folder I want exist? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
4 comments fedilink
 

I want a folding knife that can get away with most most of the things I know better than to do with a folding knife. That leads to specific criteria:

  • Price: under $100, lower is better. I might break it.
  • Lock: crossbar, backlock, compression, or something similarly strong. Not liner/frame/button. I might want to trust the lock more than is prudent.
  • Steel: tough stainless like AEB-L, 14C28N, or Nitro-V. I might baton through salt-driftwood with it and put it away wet. See toughness chart.
  • Blade: Ideally 3.25-2.5" (85-90mm) and a tip that isn't dainty. I might pry with it.
  • Pivot: washers, not bearings. I might get mud in it.
  • I dislike thumbstuds, but will accept them if they're not in the cutting path.
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