ToxicWaste
@ToxicWaste@lemm.ee
- Comment on 2024-07-18 lemm.ee downtime 3 months ago:
no need to apologise. still a better response time, than some of the professionals I work with ;-)
- Comment on viruses 5 months ago:
While technically phages are viruses, i think it is important to label them as phages.
Typically a virus does not look like a robot. The by now rather well known SARS-CoV-2, with its spherical shape is a more common depiction of a virus: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus
Bacteriophage look like little robots and from the view of a bacterium - they probably are the equivalent of a terminator: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage
- Comment on The choice is yours 6 months ago:
(/) brings you killed mice (x)
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
It really seems like we are looking at two sides of the same coin.
The coin has already ben tossed. Let’s see on which side it will land - I certainly hope it is the one you described.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I hear you. During the reddit exodus i left without having an alternative and stumbled upon lemmy much later. So i am fine going back to not having social media. However, a social network only survives if there is enough content. And if we are honest, lemmy barely has enough content.
Ill give you an example: I like climbing and there is !climbing@lemmy.ml with roughly 2 posts a month and !climbing@sh.itjust.works with less. I am happy to see something about my hobby twice a month. But all my friends still are on reddit, because two posts a month are not enough to them.
If you click on my profile, you will find 4 posts. I am a natural lurker, like most people on the internet, i read, vote and maybe comment. These posts, i made them because i wanted to add some content to this platform. While facebook is federated, there will be much more content. We can see theirs, they can see ours. Sounds like a win-win, right? But it may also make lemmings dependent on facebook content. If there is always more than enough content to endlessly scroll, I don’t need to upload my stuff to the network. However, if facebook pulls the plug after a long time, that leaves barely any content here and lemmy is basically dead.
I would probably still be around: Angrily clicking on some link about random big corpo, once a month smiling because someone shared a picture doing the same hobby as i. But for sure there are still people on old XMPP instances, while motivated dev’s reinvented XMPP: Matrix
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
from ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-ne… :
In 2013, Google realised that most XMPP interactions were between Google Talk users anyway. They didn’t care about respecting a protocol they were not 100% in control. So they pulled the plug and announced they would not be federated anymore.
Basically keep people from using all the other platforms. Then stop supporting them. Similar like .docx never quite works in the open document editors. At least i refuse to believe that OSS devs are less skilled and motivated.
- Comment on Portal Paradox 10 months ago:
Just came here to check whether someone already posted the minutephysics video.
I think their explanation is rather good for passing portals through themselves. The box doesn’t add much to the equation: it is just physical objects smashed into eachother…
- Comment on Portal Paradox 10 months ago:
- Comment on I have to pay extra to remove ads from Prime Video 10 months ago:
And every mast!
- Comment on Northern star gang 10 months ago:
Spend 2.50$ for a physical compass
- Comment on Another example of shrink flation... oh, my beer... 10 months ago:
What is 440ml to begin with? A propper beer in a can is 500ml, a propper beer in a bottle is 330ml or 500ml. Everything else is a scam.
- Comment on Don't do the forbidden math 11 months ago:
The forbidden math is used to summon demons: f-droid.org/…/com.quaap.computationaldemonology/
- Comment on And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere 1 year ago:
While listening to Spotify using a custom APK, which enables premium features: I support this message!
- Comment on Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks? 1 year ago:
Only cheap locks with a huge design flaw can be picked using a comb. The lock picking lawyer explains in many videos, how this is a very old exploit and easily can be defended against.
However, locks like that sadly still exist. So it is important to choose a reputable manufacturer - be it for classic locks or digital ones. However I will say, that digital locks usually have a classical backup. So that gives an attacker just one mor option to defeat the lock.
- Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse 1 year ago:
That different instances handle issues differently is inevitable. Just from a legal standpoint they will HAVE to enforce different laws, depending on where they operate from.
However you have a point in the community helping out. I don’t know what the application process is, but you might want to look into it. If you can just take over looking into some of these reports, it will help reduce this 3-digit load on admins.
- Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse 1 year ago:
I have to say that an invite based signup system makes my toenails curl backwards. IMO this will let instances die out slowly. I didn’t know anyone using lemmy and just stumbled upon it. ppl like me wont ever be able to join an instance if it is invite only.
Don’t misunderstand me: I do understand how critical it is for the operators of instances to protect themselves. Lemmy is a rather young project and still needs better admin tools. However, there are some good discussions happening on GitHub. Untill the operators and admins have the tooling to protect themselves, I see disabling img upload as preferable. It also took reddit some time to allow uploading images, instead of linking them.