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Deadman , (edited ) to technology
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How do I use this account on lemmy and vice-versa?
Is the upvote of lemmy the same as favorite of mastodon? (they do not sync) if not then what metric are these two uniquely gauged?
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bamboo ,

Neat, I don’t see your comment though in Mastodon. I assume only first and second level threaded comments are sync’d? I’m not too familiar with Mastodon, so maybe this is expected?

anamethatisnt ,

If you follow the OP link you should see our comment chain now. Federation isn’t realtime. :)

sj_zero , to fediverse

Link aggregators have a problem on the fediverse. The approach is server-centric, which has positives, but it also has major negatives.

The server-centric approach is where a community belongs to a certain server and everything in the world revolves around that server.

The problem is that it's a centralized formula that centralizes power in a the hands of a whichever servers attract the most users, and potentially breaks up what might be a broader community, and makes for a central point of failure.

Right now, if [email protected] and [email protected] talk on [email protected] then a lot of things can happen to break that communication. if c.com defederates b.com then the communication will not happen. If c.com breaks then the communication will not happen. If c.com shuts down then the communication will not happen. If c.com's instance gets taken over by management that doesn't want person1 and person2 to talk, then the communication will not happen.

Another problem is that [email protected] and [email protected] might never meet, because they might be on [email protected] and [email protected]. This means that a community that could reach critical mass to be a common meeting place would not because it's split into a bunch of smaller communities.

Mastodon has servers going up and down all the time, and part of the reason it's able to continue functioning as a decentralized network is that as long as you're following people on a wide variety of servers then one server going down will stop some users from talking but not all of them so the system can continue to operate as a whole. By contrast, I'm posting this to one server, and it may be seen by people on a wide variety of servers, but if the one server I'm posting this to goes down the community is destroyed.

There are a few ways to solve the problem...

one method could work as something like a specific "federated network community". There would be a local community, and the local community would federate (via local mods, I presume) with communities on other instances creating a specific metacommunity of communities on many instances that could federate with other activitypub enabled communities, and if any of the federated communities go down the local community remains. If any servers posed problems they could cease being followed, and in the worst case a community could defederate totally from a server (at a community level rather than a server level) In that case, [email protected] and [email protected] could be automatically linked up once both connect to [email protected] (I'm thinking automatic linking could be a feature mods could turn off and on for highly curated communities), and if c.com shuts down or defederates with one of the two, [email protected] and [email protected] would continue to be able to talk through their federated network.

Another method would be something more like hashtags for root stories, but I don't know how server-server links would be accomplished under a platform like lemmy, kbin, or lotide. I don't know how hashtags migrate on mastodon type software and how that migrates. In that case, it might be something like peertube where a network is established by admins (or users, I don't know) connecting to other servers manually.

Finally, I think you could implement the metacommunity without changing the entire fediverse by having the software auto-aggregate metacommunities. You could create a metacommunity community1 on a.com that would then automatically aggregate all posts on communities called community1 on all known servers. The potential downside of this is you could end up with a lot of noise with 100 posts of the same story, I haven't thought much about how you could handle duplicates so you could participate but wouldn't have 100 similar posts. In this case with respect to how to handle new posts, each metacommunity would be a local community and new individual posts would be posted locally and federated to users on other metacommunities. If metacommunities of this sort became the norm, then the duplicates problem may be solved organically because individuals using metacommunities would see the posts on other metacommunities and wouldn't bother reposting the same story, much like how people see a story and don't repost in individual communities.

One big problem is scaling, doing something like this would definitely be a non-trivial in terms of load per community. Right now if one person signs up to one community, they get a lot of posts from one server. Under a metacommunity idea like this, if one person signs up to one community, they get a lot of posts from many, many servers. lemmy.world has 5967 total instances connected to it, and 2155 instances running lemmy, lotide, kbin, mbin, or friendica that could contain similar types of community, that's a lot of communities to follow for the equivalent of one single community, especially if some of the communities in the metacommunity have a lot of traffic in that community. You'd have to look at every known server to first see if it exists and second if it has a community appropriate for the metacommunity, and the metacommunity would have to routinely scan for dead hosts to remove from the metacommunity and live hosts that may start to see an appropriate metacommunity has been created.

I'm sure there are other solutions, but I'm just thinking of how things work within my current understanding.

Of course, for some people, the problem is one they don't want solved because it isn't a problem in their view (and that's a legit view even if it's one I'm not really amenable to). Some people prefer smaller communities, or want tighter control over their communities. For servers or communities that don't want to be brought into a metacommunity, it seems like some sort of flag to opt-out (or opt-in as the case may be) should be designed in -- I'm thinking something in the community description like a textflag NOMC or YESMC that server software would be designed to respect.

With respect to moderation, It seems to me that you could have a variety of strategies -- you could have a sort of default accept all moderation where if one instance moderates a post other instances take on the same action, or whitelist moderation where if one instance or one set of moderators on a whitelist take an action then other instances take the same action, or a sort of republican moderation where if a certain number of instances take an action then other instances take the same action, and probably an option for individual metacommunities to only accept moderation from the local community the original post came from. I suspect you'd want a choice in the matter per metacommunity instance on a server.

onlinepersona ,

I think that was resolved in getaether.net, but unfortunately, development stalled and the lone maintainer isn’t active anymore. He only hosts the entry servers, but that’s it.

You could look at his solution, but honestly, fragmentation is part of federated networks. If it were distributed networks/P2P, like Aether, then fragmentation could possibly be much less of an issue as users would all be on the same network and posting to a community would send it to all peers, that hosts it for all others.

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asimpleman ,

Just wanted to congratulate you for this really well thought out post.

neilhimself , to random
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This may answer many questions about Dead Boy Detectives:
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/dead-boy-detectives-cast-netflix
“Who amongst us can honestly say that if we were hanging around the Earth as a ghost we wouldn’t want to start a detective agency?”

Wraithe ,
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@neilhimself Wait, are these the same “Dead Boy Detectives” that showed up in ???

neilhimself OP ,
@neilhimself@mastodon.social avatar

@Wraithe that they are. It was a "back door pilot".

dragnucs , to nostupidquestions
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What do you call the plastic or metallic bowl used to take a bath without a shower? @nostupidquestions @nostupidquestions @whatisthisthing

It is a hand held device used to get water from the bucket, a tub, or a bigger tank to poor it on oneself. It could look like a bug mug or a pan, maybe without a handle.

dragnucs OP ,
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@perviouslyiner @variants Yes, a jug. Or more likely a Dipper. Just found it moments ago.

Mouselemming ,

Another word is ladle, but that’s usually cooking, like to serve out soup. Most places in Europe have enough clean hot running water that people shower, or climb into the tub and wash there.

timnitGebru , to random
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I think it is helpful to read other cases of genocide denial if you want to help yourself figure out what to engage with and what not to engage with. The talking points are exactly the same. All genocides work the same. It was hard to engage with friends and extended family members saying these things during and I sure am not going to entertain that from others now.

"No we're not talking about the population its just this group we're calling animals"

cleantecher ,
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@boud @timnitGebru @seanfobbe @academicchatter

thanks. that is what i meant. there has to be some place to get this information.

much appretaited

cleantecher ,
@cleantecher@mastodon.social avatar

@boud @timnitGebru @seanfobbe @academicchatter

super dumb q. (about this platform) does one have to join communities or does one try to get invited to join communities?

herhandsmyhands , to random
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FCC to restore and also, hey, to protect our online activity from scrapping--be it for training without our consent, or for even more nefarious purposes.

When the public comment period opens, for your own interest, comment--the vultures will, by the thousands, using bots/AI, so we need to show up and make sure our voices are heard, and our interests protected.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/fcc-moves-ahead-with-title-ii-net-neutrality-rules-in-3-2-party-line-vote/

weilawei , (edited )
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@herhandsmyhands @JiSe @romancelandia They fought real hard to put copyright above first sale and private property rights. they literally passed a law to eliminate 1st sale doctrine: the DMCA.

now that the situation they made is hampering them from committing theft (in their own words!) they suddenly have a change of heart. allegedly.

"you wouldn't steal a... would you?"

they sure af would.

weirdwriter ,

@RubyJones @herhandsmyhands @romancelandia Agreed. I just literally have no patience for these kinds of things. It really baffles me that a lot will even say it enhances productivity! I can’t remember the author now, but it was an erotica writer that did use LLMs and she was super proud of the fact. I haven’t read one of her books ever since because I simply don’t want to pay for generated content. How is This so difficult for others to comprehend?

jonny , to piracy
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The concentration of the webtech nerds from r/piracy at @piracy is a sight to behold. Brings a tear to my eye. May a thousand Gazelles bloom from it

three ,

fuck this is a gay post lmfao

drwankingstein ,

i didn’t even realize you could cross post between them

qkall , to retrogaming
@qkall@mastodon.social avatar

Okay - I got Kodi set up on my with the internet archive game launcher... and I just re-re-remembered that my beloved won't work with it... I have no idea why I keep forgetting this.

I'm looking for 4 cheap bt controllers but the market is flooded... any ?

@retrogaming

qkall OP ,
@qkall@mastodon.social avatar

@JokeDeity

...I loved the duke

JokeDeity ,

Ha ha, to each their own, for me it was one of the worst controllers I’ve ever used, and using the SC reminded me a lot of it and I also never could get comfortable with the trackpads regardless of how much I tried to force myself to use it in different genres of games. I’m glad you enjoyed them though! Maybe look for a larger controller if there more comfortable to you while you’re on your hunt.

Wander , to fediverse
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Federated wireguard network idea
Any feedback welcome.

Let's keep things stupidly simple and simply hash the domain name to get a unique IPv6 ULA prefix.

Then we would need a stupidly simple backend application to automatically fetch pubkeys and endpoints from DNS and make a request to add each others as peers.

Et voilà, you got a worldwide federated wireguard network resolving private ULA addresses. Sort of an internet on top of the internet .

The DNS entries with the public IPv4 / IPv6 addresses could even be delegated to other domains / endpoints which would act as reverse proxy (either routing or nesting tunnels) for further privacy.

Maybe my approach is too naïve and there are flaws I haven't considered, so don't be afraid to comment.

Exact use cases? Idk, but it sounds nifty.

cc: @fediverse

fenwickrysen ,

Here’s how TOR works. It’s amazing.

youtu.be/QRYzre4bf7I?si=gY1e4tORIoxwuRTx

And here’s how Onion hidden services work…

youtu.be/lVcbq_a5N9I?si=PuJwHP0rEPKFkCBb

TOR lets journalists do their job safely from dangerous places, lets whistle-blowers report things we should know, and lets people in oppressive regimes see the rest of the Internet that their government blocks. It’s an amazing tool.

PipedLinkBot ,

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/QRYzre4bf7I?si=gY1e4tORIoxwuRTx

piped.video/lVcbq_a5N9I?si=PuJwHP0rEPKFkCBb

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

realcaseyrollins , to moviesandtv

From what I've seen from Euphoria, the cinematography is really good, but between the gratuitous nudity, and S02 sucking, I don't want to watch it. Are there any shows that were shot in a similar way?

triptrapper ,

The neon aesthetic seems like a newer trend (a trend that I love) and I see it most on these HBO shows that tend to have nudity. It’s not new and it’s not neon, but Breaking Bad has some incredibly creative cinematography, especially in the later seasons.

realcaseyrollins OP ,

Weird that the neon and the nudity tend to go together.

Do most HBO shows have nudity? I know that Game Of Thrones has its reputation but I didn't hear about The Last Of Us having any nudity, Succession had basically no nudity and I really enjoyed the HBO Film Bad Education, which also had no nudity.

I've generally thought that HBO's penchant for nudity is a bit overblown, but I could be wrong.

CatHat , to random
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I get really sick of newly "hatched" auts.

REALLY sick of hearing about how you have the experience to make value judgements about the experience of being diagnosed as a child.

I get that the diagnosis is a revelation.
And it is. I agree .
But i want to puke remembering how that "privilege" was used to justify telling kids "IF you manage to prove that you are able to emulate a person you can be awarded honorary adult status"

Otherwise you count as something between a child and an animal

CatHat OP ,
@CatHat@mstdn.party avatar

Now im going to address the reason i made this thread

The phrase
"Aspie Supremacy"

First off
The concept of subtypes was CREATED to force "useful" autistic kids to compete for the privilege of being allowed to survive.
The fucked up messaging designed to make us desperate to prove we are NOT useless was built in on PURPOSE.
And that message ALSO is reinforced by ableist thinking in general.
Diagnosis or no, internalized ableism ISN'T avoidable

CatHat OP ,
@CatHat@mstdn.party avatar

And here's the part which adult dx people are NOT going to like.

If there WAS a hierarchy within the autistic community based solely on being autistic.
The privileged category would be people who masked well enough to reach adulthood without being outed.

If You were diagnosed as being autistic without needing much support before autism was recognized as a SPECTRUM...
Most white people would have been labeled either high functioning or aspies

zak , (edited ) to technology
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Magic Earth is an alternative to Waze and Google Maps with crowdsourced traffic and road hazard information

As part of a , I've been hoping to find an alternative to and Maps - a navigation app that can tell me about slowdowns, hazards, and speed traps based on reports from other users. Today, I learned about Magic Earth.

It's proprietary, but not from FAANG or a company subject to the government of China, Russia, or Five Eyes countries. It collects minimal user data and has a good privacy policy. There are versions for both Android and iOS, and the Android version works without Google services.

https://www.magicearth.com/

@technology

Zerfallen ,

Gonna give it a shot, but I’m sure i already tried some time ago. So desperate to get away from Google Maps.

TheProtector0034 , (edited )

I would say just buy TomTom Go, only 20 euros a year and no Google BS. Or if you really don’t want to pay use Amigo, it’s also from TomTom with the same life traffic etc.

jpittman , to linux

Whats the best solution for remote controlling Gnome linux workstation from macOS on a local network? @linux

abraham_linksys ,

I…don’t remember posting this. Sorry dude, drunk me decided he didn’t like your question. I had a lovely night too this was just me being a dick on the train for no reason.

Anyway hopefully someone else was helpful lol

danielfgom ,
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Rustdesk, Anydesk, TeamViewer or VNC.

computingnature , to random
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Make your next discovery using , a visualization method for large-scale neural data in . Paper now out: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.25.550571v1 (CLICK ON THE GIF)

gif of neural activity re-sorted by Rastermap algorithm

manisha ,
@manisha@neuromatch.social avatar

wow, this happened within a day of announcing this project! thank you for sharing this @kevinbolding

Congratulations and thank you @computingnature for sharing both the source code for and previous

So stoked and look forward to this becoming the norm where scientists don't have to keep reinventing the wheel in their own labs

@academicchatter @academicsunite

kevinbolding ,
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@manisha @computingnature @academicchatter @academicsunite ah well this didn’t happen in a day. there was some example Matlab code that had been made available previously. glad it’s gotten a more formal grounding/distribution framework though now.

CoolerPseudonym , to random
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So there’s a broad movement to defederate firefish.social?? https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/110787687668679908

w8emv ,
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@CoolerPseudonym

my first email address had a MULTICS and a MAILNET and an ARPA in it, and a couple of % signs sprinkled around for maximum confusion, and it took a number of years of hard work and mailer science to simplify that into a .edu address that you would recognize today.

CoolerPseudonym OP ,
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@w8emv I am almost totally unfamiliar with this particular history

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