It’s earned its terrible reputation over the last 15 or so years. Dunno how it got so easy to dupe the tracker, but once scammers found out, it was open season. Anything you searched for was not only there, but had hundreds or thousands of seeders…except it didn’t actually. And the content you thought you were downloading wasn’t either. Its “verified uploader” or “trusted uploader” system was only a band-aid on a gushing wound, because it was so flooded with scams that it drowned out any of the actually trustworthy content. By the time I started shifting to private trackers in 2009, I was barely visiting there anymore because I couldn’t trust it.
She turns 20 this September, and I have some very fond memories of those early years, but the name is completely mud to me now. They’d be better served just starting fresh as an exclusively private tracker using much better software and an entirely different name; I doubt anyone who knows their reputation is gonna jump on this.
I think it’s supposed to be a lemming. I imagine its name is just Lemmy, tho I call him Lem for short. Honestly though any small rodent is going to look like a rat or mouse to me (and I love animals lol.)
Your IP address is like the main office number for your computer. The ports are like internal extension numbers.
When you’re setting up a program and it’s asking you what logical port it should use, It’s asking you which extension it should be using. Just like if you were dealing with phone numbers and phone systems you have to give it a number that’s not already in use, and it probably makes sense to give it a number that is known for that type of service.
Legit, there’s something strangely satisfying in taking a cold hotdog straight from the package, slapping it onto a piece of bread with some condiments and just going down on it like a starved hedgehog.
I made a bot to repost official announcements for a game I play. Ideally, a day will come where the company makes the announcements themselves on Lemmy and my bot is no longer needed, but until then, the owner of the sub has granted me permission to use my bot.
My bot makes about one or two posts per day. Other people in this thread have mentioned certain bots making posts every couple minutes, which many people would find quite excessive.
The funny thing is that not all human endeavours actually need to be profitable for them to exist. It's perfectly fine and normal for people to be generous and provide services for the community for nothing in return and for some of those in the community to help out too.
I had an R-Zone when I was younger. It was an absolute piece of shit. My mom found it at a garage sale. We had a racing game that I remember and then I remember like some K-mart ass style fighting game too.
I don't know why others don't like them but I personally dislike them and Express because of false advertising.
They make it seem like a vpn protects you from everything online, from hackers, phishing attacks, viruses etc and provides absolute privacy no matter what. This is not what a vpn does.
I also wonder how they can get away with marketing themselves as a way to get around geoblocking. I don't personally mind this part but I assume it's a legal gray area for them so they do it until they can get away with it.
“Magazine” is the biggest offender here. That’s a very unintuitive term.
Lmao what? For people born after 2010 maybe? Magazines have been a thing for decades and anyone over 20 is going to associate "magazine" with "series of articles about a topic"
I was just thinking that. Subreddit is a dumb made up word that a corportation invented. Community and magazine are descriptors. Sublemmy or subbin are just people trying to map experiences from on platform to another, and are understandable, but I’d personally prefer to see us call them communities and magazines in the long term.
Bottom line. Subreddit. Dumb word. If you were able to learn that, you can learn “magazine”
Not necessarily? I guess it depends on what magazines you read.
A lot of the magazines I've read over the years are collections of things submitted by readers. Model Railroader magazine is a bunch of model railroads submitted by people across the US. They'll pick a few to feature, but they're all basically submitted by readership and it's fairly interactive.
Lego Magazine was the same way when I was a kid. While a lot of it was about upcoming Lego products, there was a significant section that featured Lego builds made and submitted by the community.
For newspapers, I'd absolutely agree that it implies an editorial staff and no input from readers. But magazines (to me) have always had a focus on community involvement.
IMO, it translates quite well to the web, and the fact that there's a big ol' "+" button with "add new article" as an option makes it pretty obvious that this isn't just a static read-only place.
My main hangup was "make new post" vs "make.new article". "Make new post" will make a Twitter-style short-form post in the "microblog" side; "make new article" goes as a Reddit-style self-post thread on the threads side. But once I understood that it was pretty straightforward, and I use both pretty regularly (articles for self-posts I'd normally post to Reddit, posts for little one-off thoughts or things I'd otherwise put on Twitter).
Kbin is planned to work with more fediverse stuff at some point as well. It already supports Pixelfed (Instagram) and PeerTube (YouTube). Mobilizon (fediverse event planner) support is on the roadmap, which would let event planning appear natively as well.
So if you ran a magazine based around a TV show, you'd be able to add a Mobilizon event that corresponds to when a new episode comes out. Then that event would serve as a "megathread" for episode discussion once the episode airs. It's a pretty neat idea, since it intuitively reminds people when things are and gives the community a place to discuss.
It makes no sense to me that there are separate forums for the same topic that have the same names other than "@instance". IMO there should be a single place that is /politics which has the same posts and comments regardless of which instance you're logged into. If these instances are "federated" with each other then they should act like a single shared space. Or at least that's how it seems like it should work to me.
Hell no, I do not want this to happen because then you have lemmy tankies and exploding-head fascists all dog piling into normal discussions, saying preposterously stupid shit to spoil what you read as you scroll through the comments.
You have /r/gaming. /r/games. /r/truegaming. /r/videogames. /r/videogame. Etc.
Each community was slightly different in subtle ways, but some people were subscribed to multiple (basically identical) communities. Others self-sorted into different communities based on moderation style and community vibes.
Not to mention that your idea of how federation should work kind of ignores moderation and community preferences. Communities hosted on Beehaw are tightly moderated. There may be other communities that want something less strict. How do these two reconcile with one another? What happens if a conversation is removed on one instance but kept around on another?
If local mods only have local power, they can get quickly overwhelmed as you effectively need a mod team on every single instance. Smaller instances wouldn't necessarily have the manpower to have their own dedicated mods for literally everything.
Well, instances are all different, independent websites. As an admin, if I can't name a community whatever I want on my own website, I'm probably not participating in this ecosystem.
Plus, 1000 times more posts get posted to r/bigsub than you or anyone ever reads, and 10,000 times as many comments. It creates an environment where no one is actually discussing anything, and are just jockeying for attention.
You won't actually miss anything except for big vanity numbers by just choosing the community you like best for a topic and just... Ignoring the others.
I’d love to use FOSS exclusively, but it’s frankly impossible under certain conditions.
Acrobat is a must. Alternatives such as Evince or their back-end library can’t handle the following situations:
Formulars, such as calculating a sum based on the preceding fields.
Field formatting, such as appending .00 to a currency amount conditionally upon field unfocus.
Everything related to government forms due to the above.
Large password protected PDF files.
Besides, if anything is wrong, you’re on the hook for not using Acrobat.
Microsoft Office is a must.
OnlyOffice, WPS free as in free beer, and especially LibreOffice can’t handle anything beyond intermediate documents.
OnlyOffice and WPS struggle with more advanced features, such as forms.
LibreOffice notoriously renders Microsoft Office documents incorrectly in my experience.
Everything in LibreOffice except LibreOffice Writer feels unpolished to me, particularly LibreOffice Calc.
OnlyOffice supports only few fields.
OnlyOffice permits free form input for fields that aren’t.
Adobe is a must.
Alternatives don’t integrate as well with each other as Adobe apps.
Rendering whatever you have to import that into another app is a slow workflow, compared to Adobe Premiere that embeds Adobe After Effects sequences, for example.
Alternatives don’t support scripting sometimes. Scripting is necessary to speed up slow and error-prone manual processes.
Adobe has a rich plugin ecosystem, whereas alternatives don’t support plugins at all, or don’t have any notable plugins.
Alternatives don’t support Adobe file formats as well as Adobe.
You face similar problems to Adobe with alternatives, such as:
Inconsistent keyboard shortcuts.
Inconsistent file format support.
Overall, I’d love to, but can’t. FOSS isn’t good enough.
Formulars, such as calculating a sum based on the preceding fields.
Field formatting, such as appending .00 to a currency amount
You’re doing it wrong. PDF with embedded javascript is a nightmare and it still doesn’t make PDF equal to excel.
Better generate your documents with your favourite HTML templating engine from your DB and convert them to simple PDF in the last step.
LibreOffice notoriously renders Microsoft Office documents incorrectly in my experience.
Only had that experience with badly designed, macro ridden documents which there’s no excuse for anyway nowadays. I use a lot of print templates (various label printers) and it works flawlessly.
Also, exporting a non MS file format usually imports fine in LibreOffice, even with complex documents.
The ability to quickly edit PDF makes it the office suite of my choice.
Yeah, but if your boss or client sends you a document that doesn’t work you’re not going to tell them “Uh well this is a badly formed document and you shouldn’t embed scripts and it’s your fault that my FOSS alternative application can’t work with this”. At least I hope you’re not.
Of course I do and I expect my employees to report such incidents to IT. Such documents are common attack vectors.
In my experience, customers are not aware of failing interoperability or possible security threats and often grateful for such hints.
There’s a reason why libreoffice (and I guess other office suits aswell), evince or antivirus show a big, fat warning when opening such documents. Surely there are cases were macros are useful or necessary, but if they have to leave the company, you’re doing it wrong.
The accounting department loves you. I’m sure the government will bow down to your demands, respect your security concerns, and adopt a more secure approach swiftly.
If you must deal with an organization that doesn’t give a shit about security, then you’re SOL. We live in the real world. If you don’t submit the government forms how they want you to, they shrug and fine the shit out of you. They couldn’t care less about the security risks their workflow poses on you.
You can mitigate the risks, but you never have absolute control. While Acrobat poses a security risk, not having Acrobat poses a business risk.
We live in the real world. If you don’t submit the government forms how they want you to, they shrug and fine the shit out of you.
Then you just don’t know the law. There is no legislation that enforces Acrobat in any civilized country without alternative.
Quite the opposite: Send macroridden documents to any decently secure infrastructure and you get a big fat warning in the subject if it’s not filtered entirely. Officials LOVE to do that extra call ensuring that this document is really from you before opening it and no phishing attempt…not.
Source: working >25 years in IT, >15 years for government IT
EDIT: we got some real Adobe Acrobat Fanboy here, eh? ;-)
Having "add new post" in the header on kbin it's definitely something that will trip up people coming from Reddit. You need to add a new "article" which isn't very intuitive
Microblogs are like tweets. I think posts from people you follow on Mastodon and similar federated microblogging platforms should appear there. I wish there was the option to merge the microblog and magazine feed. I don't think having them separated is necessary on a platform like this.
It's for Mastodon compatibility. Articles are like Reddit posts and microblogs are like tweets. You can post either from Kbin. Your articles will show up as community posts on Lemmy, and your microblogs will show up as toots on Mastodon.
Invidious is just a frontend to Youtube like Teddit was a frontend for Reddit. It’s not federated, and Google can and will do everything in their power to make it suck. Just like how Reddit will now destroy Teddit next month.
Peertube is the federated option for video hosting/sharing. But of course, like everything else currently controlled by the centralized mega-corporations, there is a huge network effect hurdle that users need to overcome to get their content off of the user-hostile megacorporations (Youtube) and onto the federated alternatives (Peertube).
I see invidious/teddit/nitter/quetre/rimgo/scribe/libremdb as stop gap band-aids to temporarily give power back to the users, but in the end the owners of the content have full control over stopping these.
This is why it is so important that we promote federated networks like lemmy, mastadon, matrix, peertube, etc… Otherwise the entire internet will be a user-hostile cesspool.
The simple answer is that the "you have to be good" Christians are not the same people as the "Jesus forgives no matter what" Christians. Beliefs and doctrines vary wildly throughout Christianity, and different Christians often believe contradictory things. This isn't helped by the fact that the Bible itself, being a collection of many books by many authors, contains contradictory viewpoints. This allows believers to focus on the elements they like and ignore the ones they don't.
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