cybirdman

cybirdman , 6 months ago to technology in Unity bans VLC from Unity Store.

Is that even possible? How do you know who downvotes you?

cybirdman , 8 months ago to nostupidquestions in Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?

I think it’s the same as any other platform. Right now the content in small communities is limited, but over time once there is a sizable amount of content that newcomers can get referred from or go through, Lemmy as a whole will get more traction. Since the Reddit exodus happened I definitely feel like Lemmy has grown a lot and I’m here for the long run.

cybirdman , 8 months ago to asklemmy in What is everyone's cross platform frontend framework of choice

I really recommend nativewind to solve pretty much every gripe I have with styling react native, if you still want to give it a chance. Expo for instant cross platform updates by just publishing updated JavaScript (no more publishing updatdes in app store and play store!) Also, yup and Formik for form validation and react query for API calls. With these minimal libraries react native becomes a beast.

cybirdman , 8 months ago to programmerhumor in Find yourself

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cybirdman , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to worldnews in Rishi Sunak considers banning cigarettes for next generation

It’s very easy to compare this to The Prohibition but the reality is alcohol is much more popular than tobacco. For someone who doesn’t drink, understanding the appeal of drinking in a social setting is way easier. With this law I don’t think there is a need for a black market of tobacco like there was with alcohol as it will still be available to purchase, just more controlled. The effect will be a reduction in exposure in younger generations that simply won’t find the need to start smoking. This works and in my province of Quebec since laws have been getting stricter the only people that still smoke are poor or raised by heavy smoker parents.

cybirdman , 10 months ago to technology in Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn

It’s ridiculous that they would rather throw out all this product instead of just buying the domain back and serve a simple website. Goes to show how little the brand controls about their business.

cybirdman , 10 months ago to technology in Google debuts a new way to watermark AI-generated images

Yea actually, that has a good “taste your own medecine” vibe

cybirdman , 10 months ago to technology in Google debuts a new way to watermark AI-generated images

TBF, I don’t think the purpose of this watermark is to prevent bad people for passing AI as real. It would be a welcome side-effect but that’s not why google wants this. Ultimately this is supposed to prevent AI training data from being contaminated with other AI generated content. You could imagine if the data set for training contains a million images generated with previous models having mangled fingers and crooked eyes, it would be hard to train a good AI out of that. Garbage in, garbage out.

cybirdman , 11 months ago to programmerhumor in Frontend vs backend

As far as I understand, they were offering free hosting and bad actors took advantage. They didn’t want to start charging so they closed down. Like giving out candies on Halloween and one asshole takes the whole bowl. No candies for you kid, sorry.

cybirdman , 11 months ago to programmerhumor in Frontend vs backend

RIP txti.es

cybirdman , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in why is there a weird carpeted step in my closet?

If it’s anything like my house, they probably carpeted it because they were too lazy to plaster and paint

cybirdman , 11 months ago to nostupidquestions in why is there a weird carpeted step in my closet?

Could it be hiding pipes? Is there a sink or bath behind this closet?

cybirdman , 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in Seeing this made me feel so cozy in my little instance. 😆

Maybe that was their game with the federation stuff. “Hey we didn’t start this, we were just following suit on this open source project”. Anyway this logic wouldn’t fly in any court, they can’t have a copyright on text-based social media. They can only own their branding. Musk is just throwing a hissy fit again

cybirdman , 1 year ago to fediverse in Why Defederating from Facebook/Meta is So Important

Well said, I’m definitely going to switch to an instance that defederates meta if mine does not. I don’t want us to get drowned in corporate nonsense. I am so happy to see Lemmy succeed and hope this wont affect us like it did XMPP

cybirdman , 1 year ago to fediverse in Why Defederating from Facebook/Meta is So Important

I think one of the ways we could combat as well as defederating them from instances is provide such a good user experience to consume content on the fediverse that threads - or whatever else - becomes just a shittier, ad-ridden version of what we use.

Look at Reddit for example, if they didn’t have the power to remove our access to APIs, third party apps would still provide the best experience. Can any of the features Reddit provides that third party apps don’t justify the number of ads thrown in your face? Nope.

Same here, if we focus on improving the experience of a Lemmy or kbin user and ignore whatever meta is doing, nothing is stopping us from becoming just the better way of consuming all fediverse content. Then if threads were to drop federation, we would still have the upper hand.

The only thing that might hurt us in the end is if we start giving in and host communities on their instance. But if we don’t, and keep our ground, we can have the best of both worlds. See their content without their ads, and keep control of our own content, without their rules.