SorteKanin

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 11 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Okay, but surely upon arriving to said address with a huge swat team and discovering nothing amiss, no panicked people, no gunfire, no anything, their first reaction is to raid the house? The US sure is a strange place.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 37 points 11 hours ago (10 children)

abusing emergency services

I don't understand - someone called the swat team on her? Why would they go to a private house with a giant swat force based solely on some anonymous tip? That makes no sense in my head.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't have my own domain for my email, I just switched to Infomaniak's domain. I then use Thunderbird with the unified inbox to view all my emails in one inbox. So I get both my gmail and infomaniak emails in Thunderbird. I didn't bother changing all of my old accounts using the gmail to use infomaniak instead - there's just so many accounts and it didn't seem worth it. Primary goal for me was to stop paying Google for drive space.

The transition was pretty easy honestly, once I sat down to do it. The largest obstacle is honestly the mental one, of getting oneself to actually commit to doing it.

Can you set up cloud backup of photos from your phone, etc?

Yes, the kDrive app can be set to automatically upload pictures you take on your phone to your kDrive. I actually like it even better than on Google, cause on Google my photos never got to Google Drive, but went to Google Photos. So I didn't automatically have them on my PC. With the kDrive app, you just choose a folder in your drive where the photos are saved, and then it saves them there, and it gets synced to your PC if you run the kDrive app there obviously.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 41 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

I switched from Google (email, cloud storage, etc.) to Infomaniak in august last year. It was european, got more cloud storage for less money and though the user experience wasn't 100% polished, it was basically 90% there. Good enough.

I couldn't be happier with my choice now - this seems like a really good move. This looks like a similar sort of setup as Mozilla the for-profit company has with the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. Good on the founder for doing this!

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 85 points 13 hours ago (28 children)

Confused european here - why?

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 1 day ago

The advice is sound I suppose (I'd prefer Rust over Go in the backend though) but the whole thing reads like AI wrote it.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Talos Principle is amazing and the sequel is super good too. Devs recently came out with a remaster of the first game too.

Outer Wilds is a masterpiece, although it's not completely chill at all times (actually can be scary but only rarely and you can disable that too). But it's a really really really good game.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 21 points 3 days ago (13 children)

Doesn't lots of package managers have the exact same problems?

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 7 points 3 days ago

The whole prompt is kind of hilarious. It's like some sort of strange pep talk.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 4 days ago

Of course they're allowed - just saying I personally do not like it.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Having a blocklist option is of course perfectly fine. Pre-filling and pre-enabling that list is not the software's job, if you ask me.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So is air cooling actually feasible but we don't do it cause it would make data centers look like nuclear reactors? Or is it just not feasible?

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Rust Koans (users.rust-lang.org)
 

I am not the author but I've been looking for a tool like this for a long time! This looks really nice! :D

 

There was recently some discussion on Feddit.dk surrounding the usage of upvotes and downvotes.

Currently in ActivityPub (the underlying protocol powering the fediverse), Lemmy sends "Like" and "Dislike" activities for upvotes and downvotes. Other threadiverse platforms (PieFed, Mbin and maybe even other non-threadiverse platforms?) do the same.

However, the "Like" and "Dislike" activities are meant for... well, "liking" and "disliking" things. They are not necessarily associated with the action of "vote this thing up so more people see it" or "vote this thing down so less people see it".

For instance, on Friendica, you can dislike a post and this sends a Dislike activity. From Friendica's point of view, such a Dislike indicates just that - the user dislikes the content. It doesn't necessarily mean "this should be shown to less users", but Lemmy will interpret the Dislike activity like that.

This leads to strange scenarios with posts that a user finds relevant and interesting (something that the user may reasonably want to upvote) but also something that the user dislikes (i.e. downvote).

As an example, imagine a post with a title like "AI is awful" (I'm sure many here has seen posts like that). A Friendica user could reasonably agree with the post and thus "Dislike" it. As in, they also find AI awful and they dislike AI, so they dislike the post, to show their disapproval of AI. The Friendica user's intent is not to hide the post from other users or make the post be shown to fewer users! They just intend to show their dislike for the topic at hand.

However Lemmy will interpret that Dislike as a downvote, and the post will thus be shown to fewer users and get ranked down in the sorting.

So is Lemmy and co. abusing the Like/Dislike activities? Should the threadiverse instead use a dedicated activity for the acts of "I think this should be shown to more users" and "I think this should be shown to fewer users"? That way, it would not be confused with the Likes and Dislikes from other platforms.

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