Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !iptv_subs
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !askelectronics
I don’t understand this. I cant even name a single community native to the instance I use. I picked one that hadn’t defederated from anyone, and I block communities as needed. Also subscriptions are a thing.
My instance has (already) decided to not block a particular instance, which in the majority I find to be divisive, at best. I keep missing the instance source in the user names, and it’s the single biggest source of bad lemmy experience....
I’m running Connect and it’s pretty great. On every post I can block instance, community, or user. For comments, you can view user, then click a link to their instance (looks like a overview/summary page) and there’s an option to block instance there.
There’s also a general settings option in the sidenav where you can type in an instance name or community to block it if you already know the name, or remove ones from your blacklist if you change your mind.
Connect has been a great experience. I only put up with the default client for like 1 day because I hated it.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !programmerhumor
Hi there, do you know if there is a way to disable laugh tracks from sitcoms? I really would like to rewatch some shows like King of Queens but I can’t bear the constant laughing in the background. Cheers
Just the Invidious instance I found on the official list a long time ago. I like them because they’re relatively local, super reliable, and unlike a lot of other instances they actually have the download feature enabled. But yeah, their domain name is a bit awkward, lol.
There are four properties in an accessibility tree object:
name
How can we refer to this thing? For instance, a link with the text “Read more” will have “Read more” as its name (find more on how names are computed in the Accessible Name and Description Computation spec).
description
How do we describe this thing, if we want to provide more description beyond the name? The description of a table could explain what kind of information the table contains.
role
What kind of thing is it? For example, is it a button, a nav bar, or a list of items?
state
Does it have a state? Examples include checked or unchecked checkbox states and collapsed or expanded states for the <summary> element.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns
At least, not at first. As the scandal heated up, EFF took an impassive stance. In a blog post, an EFF staffer named Donna Wentworth acknowledged that a contentious debate was brewing around Google’s new email service. But Wentworth took an optimistic wait-and-see attitude—and counseled EFF’s supporters to go and do likewise. “We’re still figuring that out,” she wrote of the privacy question, conceding that Google’s plans are “raising concerns about privacy” in some quarters. But mostly, she downplayed the issue, offering a “reassuring quote” from a Google executive about how the company wouldn’t keep record of keywords that appeared in emails. Keywords? That seemed very much like a moot point, given that the company had the entire emails in their possession and, according to the contract required to sign up, could do whatever it wanted with the information those emails contained. EFF continued to talk down the scandal and praised Google for being responsive to its critics, but the issue continued to snowball. A few weeks after Gmail’s official launch, California State Senator Liz Figueroa, whose district spanned a chunk of Silicon Valley, drafted a law aimed directly at Google’s emerging surveillance-based advertising business. Figueroa’s bill would have prohibited email providers like Google from reading or otherwise analyzing people’s emails for targeted ads unless they received affirmative opt-in consent from all parties involved in the conversation—a difficult-to-impossible requirement that would have effectively nipped Gmail’s business model in the bud. “Telling people that their most intimate and private email thoughts to doctors, friends, lovers, and family members are just another direct marketing commodity isn’t the way to promote e-commerce,” Figueroa explained. “At minimum, before someone’s most intimate and private thoughts are converted into a direct marketing opportunity for Google, Google should get everyone’s informed consent.”
Google saw Figueroa’s bill as a direct threat. If it passed, it would set a precedent and perhaps launch a nationwide trend to regulate other parts of the company’s growing for-profit surveillance business model. So Google did what any other huge company caught in the crosshairs of a prospective regulatory crusade does in our political system: it mounted a furious and sleazy public relations counteroffensive.
Google’s senior executives may have been fond of repeating the company’s now quaint-sounding “Don’t Be Evil” slogan, but in legislative terms, they were making evil a cottage industry. First, they assembled a team of lobbyists to influence the media and put pressure on Figueroa. Sergey Brin paid her a personal visit. Google even called in the nation’s uber-wonk, Al Gore, who had signed on as one of the company’s shadow advisers. Like some kind of cyber-age mafia don, Gore called Figueroa in for a private meeting in his suite at the San Francisco Ritz Carlton to talk some sense into her.
And here’s where EFF showed its true colors. The group published a string of blog posts and communiqués that attacked Figueroa and her bill, painting her staff as ignorant and out of their depth. Leading the publicity charge was Wentworth, who, as it turned out, would jump ship the following year for a “strategic communications” position at Google. She called the proposed legislation “poorly conceived” and “anti-Gmail” (apparently already a self-evident epithet in EFF circles). She also trotted out an influential roster of EFF experts who argued that regulating Google wouldn’t remedy privacy issues online. What was really needed, these tech savants insisted, was a renewed initiative to strengthen and pass laws that restricted the government from spying on us. In other words, EFF had no problem with corporate surveillance: companies like Google were our friends and protectors. The government—that was the bad hombre here. Focus on it.
I don’t know whether it is illegal for someone to open a letter addressed to you or not, in the country you live, but this is pretty important. If the information presented here is accurate, this is not simply EFF focusing on the government, its EFF actively resisting similar rules to be applied on e-mail as those applied on regular mail. Would anyone use any of the non-electronic mail service providers or courier services if it was a given that for each piece of mail sent, there would be exactly one open and read, shared with multiple other parties besides the sender and receiver?
It seems to me that this is the whole point of this (quite long, but interesting) article and this instance probably illustrates it better than any other chosen to discuss in the article.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !programmer_humor
Hijacking this because I have exactly the same complaints.
It says to change instances, but with no clue how to easily do that.
it just means signup again on a different domain name
That is not an easy way to solve that problem. Possibly there isn’t an easy one. It was enough difficult to get this account, I don’t see why I need several. I don’t want to have five different accounts with five different signon passwords etc. and the apps I’ve found so far all only support one sign on method, and none are very reliable.
Also, a lot of the posts are weird. Political.
I browse by Subscribed, I’m always surprised how many people browse All
That’s the default unfortunately. It’s often difficult to reset it to Subscribed again and Subscribed again and Subscribed again every time I click on anything interesting. I see the All stuff all too often, even if it’s just in passing.
When I end up on the front page, some days it’s the same stuff I read hours before.
sort by Top 6 Hours
I wish that worked. Probably does if you’re subscribed to much. But the turnover is just so tiny I guess.
Man I miss all the cat subs full of pics of cats. I didn’t realise how they buffered the more doomy posts until they went away.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !infinityforlemmy
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !mildlyprivates, !awwnverts, !beebutts, !cattorneys_at_paw
Another thought is the two parts of locking it down.
How much local configuration would it take to make it so that Lemmy doesn’t show any posts to someone not logged in (since you know that if its on the web even under a really funky hard to type name… someone will find it)? Do you want your vacation planning available to everyone (“I won’t be home from September 15th through the 23rd, so Cousin Dave is going to stop by each day to walk the dog…”)
The other part is specifically against fediverse (which would be the reason for Lemmy rather than some other system) for such a private community. It again gets hard to lock down… not so much a “what gets out” but also a “what gets in”. … oh, Aunt Jane and Uncle John have subscribed to swingers that’s hosted on a nswf instance and that’s not about playground equipment. Meanwhile Aunt Dorthy wants you to do something to prevent Cousin Charlie from seeing all that “stuff” in /all before Carlie accidentally calls him Uncle Long John at a family gathering. … and now you’re going through pics and finding pictures of your aunt and uncle that you really didn’t want to see (and you’re going to be going vegan before you want to think about that turkey baster next Thanksgiving).
And while these are solvable problems… it’s a question of do you want to solve them?
Simpler solutions will work better that you expand into other things as the need arises.
When I mean “specific,” I mean things like something dedicated to a certain genre, a certain video game, to gaming suggestions, to asking whether you should buy a certain game… anything that isn’t just one catch-all for any video gaming topic. So I’m not including the various !games@instance or !gaming@instance links....
A lot of those links will not work, because they have the order of the instance and community name swapped. It's !communityName@instanceName, not !instanceName@communityName. If you want what I've got so far in a more horizontal format like what you posted, here you go. I will not be updating this format, except maybe at the end after everyone's stopped submitting communities.
Not saying this resentfully, honestly curious. What need does reposting my post as a comment with the instance names that I had in parentheses removed fulfill, what benefit is gained? I put the instance names there for communities that have the same name or close to it, and/or cover the same thing, so that you can tell the various same-name links apart. If it does something useful, I'll be happy to repost this when no more links are submitted with the instance names taken off. Is this kind of like what some people used to do on Reddit, reposting the post as a comment because otherwise mobile users would be unable to copy/paste the content?
Link communies. When two communies are linked they act like one with multiple names distributed on multiple instances. This would solve the dublicate communities on different instance problem.
Does anyone have any good advice on variable naming? Here’s some of my rules I try to live by:
camelCase
use prefixes
prefixes should be one word followed by an underscore.
10 character limit or 3 word limit, not counting the prefix
functions should be prefixed with the file in which they’re defined, ie utils_FooBar
file names should be one word
Start Bools with is
Don’t use not in bool names.
This has farther-reaching implications that will keep you from making confusing code most of the time (I’m sure this will be controversial, but it works no matter what they say)
start output with _
Globals should be g_VARIABLENAME
use the least amount of words possible
but being too verbose can draw attention - use this to aide in readability
calc_ImportantValueThatWillDecideTheUsersView is better than calc_SumYears if the variable is more important than the others.
Even the greatest variable names are not replacements for documentation
Even the most readable code is not replacement for documentation.
Force yourself to love documentation.
Edit: I realize I was speaking about function-naming with the prefix stuff.
For variables, I still use prefixes, but for variable type. Even if you define the variables as types, it’s still incredibly useful. For instance,
a string is s_MyName,
enumerable is e_MyType,
A number is int or double or whatever i_MyAge or d_MyWeight
This might be obvious for custom objects, but I’d still do it like this p_Person or per_Person.
The most immediate, and annoying character trait I noticed was the habitual need Danes have to tell other people how wonderful Denmark is,
Yeah Britts do exactly the same, so 👉👈 lol
Danish people are by nature in awe of authority
This is simply not true. For instance US intelligence complain about our lack of it, together with lack of strong ideology which makes hiring agents in Denmark harder.
IMO this can be roughly translated to it’s hard to find truly fanatic Danes. The “loose living” part is also contrary to your original claim that we are intolerant.
The food variety and quality was nothing like as good as in the UK.
Oh my god, 🤣🤣🤣 that’s just insane coming from a Brit. Yes you can get decent food in UK, but that’s all from foreign kitchens. You can keep your Marmite. For Christ sake man???
The public infrastructure was inadequate, and oh so slow.
My god, what is this clown on?? Denmark has one of the most developed infrastructures of the world, We have 4 independent forms of public transportation. We have world class public IT, where almost everything to do with public services can be done online. What is he babbling about?
Monopoly was the name of the game in business. No competition whatsoever. Danish produce and Danish produce only was the rule of things.
Name just 1 example where that’s the case. Denmark is a capitalist country like the rest of Europe. Almost all kinds of produce can be had as either danish or foreign, in UK they may have higher overweight of foreign produce, because the country isn’t able to feed itself like Denmark can. But the foreign options are clearly here if you want them. Incidentally UK used to be the greatest importer of Danish produce for decades by far. But the declining UK economy may have changed that.
The sheer cost of living in the place was/is at least 2-3 times that of the UK,
Another lie, yes it’s more expensive, but not nearly as much as claimed, and by the stats the higher wages more than compensates, so we have the equivalent of USD 10000 better purchasing power on an average wage. This guy is just completely lost.
everyone was asking me so proudly if I felt lucky to be living in Denmark.
That sounds weird, I’ve never heard that from any of my foreign friends. I’ve never heard it anywhere else for that matter. It would be more normal to ask whether he likes it here. Maybe if he plans staying, those I’ve heard. I generally just say I hope they like it here. Then they don’t have to answer, but can if they feel like. I think most people in most countries want foreigners to like their country.
Then there is the much vaunted Danish Medical System. Again according to Danes the best in the world.
Yeah that’s shit, and yes quality is declining steadily and has for years. In fact not unlike the UK unfortunately. I still think ours is a bit better, there have been horrendous stories from UK after COVID.
costs of prescription medicine and Dental care, even on the back of this public health service are out of control.
Yes medicine is expensive to start up, the public contribution increases if you need medicine over longer periods of time. This system sucks, and the politicians lied about it, when they made it. Dental care is even worse, it’s insanely expensive, many people go to Sweden, Germany or Poland to have their teeth done. So yes on these 2 points we can definitely do better. There have been some slight improvements for young people after school where they have free dentist. I guess it’s for the young, because it 's cheap, but of course they say it’s to give them a good start. This is certainly micro steps, where nothing has been done for 30 years.
and was appalled and shocked at the levels of Marxist/Feminist views being foisted on the young people.
Oh boy 😜 they must be pretty bad at it, because I don’t see that Marxist feminist society he seems to be so scared of. My guess is he’s a conservative religious nut, that believes he will benefit once the conservatives have given everything to the 1%
The history of their country prior to the end of WWII is just not taught at all,
This is taught in public school, but not in a nationalistic way they often do in other more authoritarian countries.
Almost all the teachers were female (of a sort)
Yeah I’m beginning to see where this is going. It’s probably true most teachers are women, so what? Most nurses are too.
Almost every lecture I attended was weighted heavily towards a European future, and very few were not heavily biased in that direction.
Yeah, I think public opinion is pro EU in UK too now. After Brexit one of our strongest anti EU parties have actually changed their policies, and now want Denmark to stay. Brexit was mostly in the interest of the Russians, who were a strong influence in the Brexit election, but the British government very conveniently refused to even investigate it. It’s funny how NOT cooperating with your neighbors fail to yield any benefits?
OK I think I’ll stop here, the guy is clearly not very smart, and basically wrong about 90% of what he is saying.
He complains that Danes claim Denmark is one of the best countries to live in. By most measurements it is, and by most measurements Denmark beats UK. But anyone is of course free to prefer whatever country they want. If you are happy about and prefer the country you live in that’s great.
The best lemmy instance (i.imgflip.com)
Are there any IPTV providers that accept gift cards (Amazon, Best Buy, etc.) as a form of payment?
Looking for a service for live sports, but payment methods are always limited.
[SOLVED] Is there a community here for help with technical audio/video issues? I'm having trouble with my DSLR. Details in the post.
SOLVED:...
Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy (lemmy.world)
Client that supports blocking instances?
My instance has (already) decided to not block a particular instance, which in the majority I find to be divisive, at best. I keep missing the instance source in the user names, and it’s the single biggest source of bad lemmy experience....
A way to disable laugh tracks?
Hi there, do you know if there is a way to disable laugh tracks from sitcoms? I really would like to rewatch some shows like King of Queens but I can’t bear the constant laughing in the background. Cheers
Markdown everywhere (lemmy.world)
How many people actually dropped Reddit for Lemmy?
It is possible to estimate?
All EFF’d Up | Yasha Levine (thebaffler.com)
Fine (lemmy.world)
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List of specific video game communities on the Threadiverse, feel free to comment with more
When I mean “specific,” I mean things like something dedicated to a certain genre, a certain video game, to gaming suggestions, to asking whether you should buy a certain game… anything that isn’t just one catch-all for any video gaming topic. So I’m not including the various !games@instance or !gaming@instance links....
If there is one thing you can change about Lemmy, what would it be?
do as i say... (lemmy.ca)
Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries (www.theverge.com)