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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

History questions: which company invented JavaScript?

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They need to stop bloating the web, so that browser development stops taking billion dollar budgets.

Hacking the T2S+ Out of Fear: Get Lock-In Thermography for Free in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That is a good post and I hadn't heard of the T2S+ before. But it costs $300+ and is around 50K pixels (256x192). I see that an 160x120 FLIR Lepton module is $184 these days (Digikey). So this new stuff is competitive but not revolutionary imho. It's good that the FLIR monopoly is finally broken though. All that existed earlier other than FLIR was very low res devices.

Anyone still use "traditional" shared hosting? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

$11/m is a lot. If you just want a small site on shared hosting, try namecrane.com. For storage use Hetzner Storage Box.

#Firefox doesn't need any new features to be more attractive for users, it just needs to make CSS theming more accessible in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Main thing I want is to override site css. Who cares what the browser itself looks like.

Project update: PIR-based messaging in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, it's late here now but I'll try to look soon. I didn't realize significant improvements over Goldberg etc al were really possible. I'll try to understand that too.

Project update: PIR-based messaging in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is there another post somewhere giving a general description of what you are doing?

Project update: PIR-based messaging in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Do you have a link about your messaging app? And PIR doesn't conceal the existence of traffic, so it doesn't seem like the right thing for messaging. It's more for databases as the name implies. What exactly are you trying to do?

How to avoid "things going wrong"? (Immutable distros?) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I used proxmox and have played a little with nix and guix, but simplest is just use debian, put /home on a separate logical partition from the system partition so you can reinstall the system without clobbering user files, and as people keep saying, backup early and often.

SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If you look at the petapixel article, they complain about the speed (10mb/sec not 100) and have serious doubts about the reliability. Using this for backup or for security cameras sounds like a bad idea. It could still be good for some things like carrying your movie library on your phone, while still having a stable copy at home.

Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I've worked in security for decades and nobody has ever asked me about certifications. I know a guy with CISSP and he said it has been useful sometimes, but basically I wouldn't worry too much. Getting more involved with the security stuff where you work will give real experience which is likely more valuable.

Hacking with care in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This seems to be different and is geared towards directly looking after other humans. Hactivism as I'm used to the term, can often be technocratic.

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is there a way to not show thumbnails in the post list view? (lemmy.ml)
 

I wasn't able to find one by poking around but may have missed it. Tx.

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Censorship bot being a pain (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
19 comments fedilink
 

There is a thread in another community regarding some controversies happening in women's chess. I posted to that thread, recommending a book written by WGM Jennifer Shahade who is a multi-time US women's chess champion. I also linked to a review of the book, the url of which contained the book title.

The Open Library page about the book is here: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5849601W

it seems that the title, as chosen by the female author with considerable self-awareness, contains a word that is sometimes used as a sexist slur. You can see the title by clicking the link above. Unfortunately some kind of bot censored the title from both the post, and the review link (to chessbase.com) that I had posted. I was able to fool the bot by changing a few characters, but the bot's very existence is imho in poor taste.

We are adults here, we shouldn't have robots filtering our language. If we act sexist or abusive then humans should intervene, but not bots. Otherwise we are in an annoying semi-dystopia. The particular post I made, as far as I can tell, is completely legitimate.

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Request: redirect !flashlight to [email protected] (lemmy.ml)
 

Despite lemmy.world's current travails, its flashlight community is fairly active, while the lemmy.ml one has been dead for 2 years it looks like.

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IGNORE, ALREADY DONE. Feature request: profile setting to make default sort = new (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
3 comments fedilink
 

Down with the algorithm telling us what to read. I just want to see most recent first. Thanks.

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502 error when trying to view remote community during remote outage (lemmy.ml)
 

https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] got that error a few minutes ago when lemmy.world was having some db probs, but works now. I had thought federated posts were supposed to be copied to the local server, and anyway a raw 502 is a confusing diagnostic. This is basically a bug report.

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lemmy.world having probs (lemmy.ml)
 

Site is up, but no posts visible, main page shows error message. FYI

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Please add "block community" to post entries on front page (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
11 comments fedilink
 

The two top entries on lemmy.world sorted by hot as of a few minutes ago were a porn link on a porn community (nothing against porn per se, but I don't want to see it on the front page) and a bot post to some kind of bot link community. I see the "block user" button but I don't particularly care to see anything from those communities, so blocking the individual poster doesn't help much. I could actually visit the community in order to block it, but that sort of defeats the purpose of blocking. And I know of "Hide NSFW" but I'm not particularly anti-NSFW, I just don't want to see it unintentionally.

So it would be useful to have "block community" as an option along with "block user" in the little buttons underneath the post.

As a broader policy matter, I'd be cool with blocking NSFW from the front page altogether (it would still be available within communities of course). But I understand such a decision would want discussion for and against.

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Any chance of putting this on F-droid? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
38 comments fedilink
 

I don't use the Play store (don't want a Google account) and prefer to stay away Github because Microsoft. Thanks.

Added: Thanks for the links! Unfortunately it looks like the app requires Android 8.0+ and my phone is still on Android 7. Is that inherent to Jetpack or some other part of the app technology? It would be good to not have to keep churning to the latest shiny.

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