It’s fear of calcification. Lemmy is tiny, in terms of our user base.
If we don’t get fresh blood, and most importantly the rare active contributors, we’ll just get used to talking to each other, we’ll get bored or burned out and leave.
It’s fear of calcification. Lemmy is tiny, in terms of our user base.
If we don’t get fresh blood, and most importantly the rare active contributors, we’ll just get used to talking to each other, we’ll get bored or burned out and leave.
You’d be surprised.
I have a RL friend who’s on Reddit all the time, and he didn’t even hear about the shutdown, much less /r/place, or anything like lemmy. I’ve been trying to sell it to him…
Re: The “We’re elite” becomes “We’re bored talking among the same old people” or “We’re burned out”, leading to users leaving and formerly thriving communities dying.
I’ve been around long enough to see this happen on multiple forums.
Or anything the devs can do to make it not look goofy.
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It’s part of the ol’ Big Tech playbook:
If a promising emerging competitor emerges:
Image rendering attacks and download tracking are well known, so it’s not paranoid at all.
I’m not sure how extensive the spam wave was, nor how quickly the user was able to create an account, make the comments.
I doubt that the quantity in that I came across would be enough to take down a server, but that may be the point: To test lemmy’s collective defenses and response without drawing too much attention.
A common IP address or address range ban file that’s frequently updated and downloaded by each instance might be another way to boost security.
If this is actually an org attack, I’m guessing that we’ll see botnet DDOS comment and post attacks next.
It looks like some kind of fix was implemented after my post, so I can’t replicate the problem for you.
Whenever I edit one of my cross-instance posts, the language defaults to English, and I can save my edits with no issues.
Now whether the fix was on an instance basis, i.e. config changes, or in some Lemmy-system update, I can’t tell you.
edit: Maybe my issue was solved along with the fix for the default languages: https://lemmy.ml/post/13410320
I disagree that people suck.
I think that enshittification on any SM platform, whether free and open, or built for commerce, happens when companies try to exploit it for commercial gain.
Take Usenet for example: At the beginning it was great, then spammers found they could post unlimited spam across the newsgroups for free, and it became shit, barring a few groups where mods had to work very hard to weed out the spam to keep them readable, but eventually collapsed, and people moved on to the new platforms.
Reddit, was built for ads and tracking its users to start with, so the gradual creep of enshittification was no surprise there.
And now we have nation-state backed disinformation campaigns to deal with in addition to commercial spam.
I could see Lemmy and the Fediverse in general taking a similar path to Usenet, if the devs, admins, and mods aren’t vigilant about keeping bad actors out.
I like the Fediverse’s guarantor feature for adding new instances, but we’ll have to see how well it holds up under assault from spammers.
Someone just gave me a workaround for this:
Before saving the edits, select a language, other than “Undetermined”.
After doing that, my edits to the posts saved normally
Bad bot
I’m trying to say report a bug and the steps to re-create the bug.
I find the boss battles in Pixel Dingeon too difficult when I am forced into them before my character is ready.
Pathos Nethack is a better mobile dungeon crawler with no time pressure for the fixed encounters.
Oh good, then twatter can now become as successful as Truth social…
There are plenty of crops that have to be tended and harvested by hand: Most green leafy vegetables for example.
This opens those fields to dual use alongside power generation, which might reduce agricultural use of fossil fuels, and provide shade for field workers which is especially dangerous with climate change raising heat levels.
The Internet version of QVC or Home Shopping Network that previous generations used to watch.
Insider spoke to six workers in tech who recently left Austin or are trying to relocate …
Lost 3 lbs!
But I binged on food today…
Green/florescent green pee that looks like Mountain Dew can be a sign of diabetes, or consuming more sugar than your body can handle.
Check with your doctor.
I think you’re misunderstanding what the article is saying.
You’re correct that it isn’t the job of a system to detect someone’s skin color, and judge those people by it.
But the fact that AVs detect dark skinned people and short people at a lower effectiveness is a reflection of the lack of diversity in the tech staff designing and testing these systems as a whole.
They staff are designing the AVs to safely navigate in a world of people like them, but when the staff are overwhelmingly male, light skinned, young and single, and urban, and in the United States, a lot of considerations don’t even cross their minds.
Will the AVs recognize female pedestrians?
Do the sensors sense light spectrum wide enough to detect dark skinned people?
Will the AVs recognize someone with a walker or in a wheelchair, or some other mobility device?
Toddlers are small and unpredictable.
Bicyclists can fall over at any moment.
Are all these AVs being tested in cities being exposed to all the animals they might encounter in rural areas like sheep, llamas, otters, alligators and other animals who might be in the road?
How well will AVs tested in urban areas fare on twisty mountain roads that suddenly change from multi lane asphalt to narrow twisty dirt roads?
Will they recognize tractors and other farm or industrial vehicles on the road?
Will they recognize something you only encounter in a foreign country like an elephant or an orangutan or a rickshaw? Or what’s it going to do if it comes across that tomato festival in Spain?
Engineering isn’t magical: It’s the result of centuries of experimentation and recorded knowledge of what works and doesn’t work.
Releasing AVs on the entire world without testing them on every little thing they might encounter is just asking for trouble.
What’s required for safe driving without human intelligence is more mind boggling the more you think about it.
Sooo, who wants to develop the open source hookup app based on the Fediverse?