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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

scrutinize the protocol beforehand.

Sorry but that buys into the data miners' self serving myths. It implies the protocol is ok unless some failure makes it leak more information than was intended. In fact it's invasive even if it works exactly as hoped. "Tracking" is a misnomer too. It's hostile surveillance even if it's at population level. (Any nonconsensual surveillance that produces info to be used by people you don't like is hostile by definition. And it's near guaranteed that some of the buyers-advertisers, political campaigns and funders, govt agencies, whatever-will be people you don't like). So shut it down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Simplest is use /etc/hosts to set up names, if there are just a few.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, remove the thumbnail and expand the text into that space. Sorry for the confusion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The options I see there are card, small card, and list. All of these show the thumbnail. This is in 0.0.65 currently on f-droid. Is that not expected?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

It's nice as a dimmable bedside night light. I also used the Anduril flickery candle mode at a birthday event recently.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

Did you just discover this? It's a Microsoft site after all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

No a lot less, twilio is $1/mo, see also VoIP.ms and vitelity.net

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I don't care much about any of these technical intricacies regarding word matching. I want Lemmy to be a human institution, which means no bots editing people's posts beyond possible spam control. If there is a serious trolling problem featuring specific keywords in a community, I'm fine with a moderator manually kicking off some automatic action to remove a bunch of posts at the same time. But we don't need robot nannies surveilling and messing with all of our posts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Here's another example, not from here. Before celullar phones, before television, before broadcast radio and even before the telephone, there was the telegraph. Communications with it were done in Morse code, by operators tapping away on telegraph keys. Telegraph keys were typically made of brass, and people who used them all day were called "brass pounders". That profession is long since obsolete, but there are still ham radio enthusiasts who use Morse code as a hobby, and there is a group of them called the BPL, for "Brass Pounder's League". There are also people who simply try to honor the history of the venerable telegraph even though they recognize it as being a relic from the bygone era.

Anyway, where am I going. Someone started a pretty good site about telegraphy and telegraph keys, called "brasspounder.net" which was a really cool name. Unfortunately Google's algorithm seems to have classified that name as that of a porn site, because it saw the word you get if you ignore the "br" at the beginning, leaving "ass pounder". Whoops. The site ended up changing its name to telegraphy.net, which is fine but less evocative in my opinion. Oh well.

The above is an example of the so-called Scunthorpe problem. Let's see if Lemmy has that too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

This is the support community and I'm requesting that the software be fixed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's tons of memes and stuff, but I was never into that, so meh. My thing was specialized nerd groups and they are mostly not here yet. With time, maybe they will come.

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