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kadu , 11 months ago to technology in BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance

Twitter’s moderation barely works. Regardless, I still don’t understand what your point is.

If you post on Twitter, get public replies and report a troll… How’s that different on Mastodon?

kadu , 11 months ago to technology in BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance

People can reply to posts on Twitter, and yet they have official Twitter accounts.

kadu , 11 months ago to technology in BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance

But I’m specifically wondering about Mastodon vs Twitter, not Lemmy.

Don’t let students create accounts - just let your official accounts from the staff federate from your instance, and people can follow them from other public moderated instances.

A Lemmy instance for university students would turn chaotic in about 4 seconds haha

kadu , 11 months ago to technology in BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance

Lemmy is just a UI frontend for the Activity Pub protocol. It’s tuned for Reddit-like link aggregation, sure, but anything on the Fediverse can be accessed by Lemmy, in one way or another.

Case in point - you can actually follow Mastodon profiles on Lemmy. The profile itself gets displayed as a community, and each publication becomes a post. The limitation is that comments and upvotes you make into the posts don’t propagate back to Mastodon, they live as ghost metrics that only Lemmy users using your instance can see. Regardless, you can most definitely follow BBC on Lemmy.

kadu , 11 months ago to technology in BBC starts experimenting with the Fediverse, running its own Mastodon instance

I’m honestly surprised more Universities and governments aren’t also hosting their own instances.

Here where I live most universities have their own mail server, dedicated (and open and free) mirrors for popular Linux distros, their own RSS feeds with podcasts and open access to their publications, open source tools replicated, and so on. But most still rely on Instagram and Twitter for public-facing announcements… Why? Imagine having to use tax money to pay for a Twitter blue license.

kadu , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to technology in Call of Duty bans more than 14,000 cheaters in 24 hours

During all my time ever playing online games, from MMOs to FPS to board games, no matter what time period or developer… Whenever someone claimed they were “falsely banned” they actually cheated or traded accounts. Every single time.

EDIT: Ah yes, if you reply to this comment where I say I do not trust these claims by making the same claim, I’m certainly going to believe you!

kadu , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to askandroid in Android phone with alternative to iPhone’s camera

iPhone cameras are indeed tuned to offer a color calibration that matches what most people will call good, and iOS specifically affords the camera app certain control over resource allocation that allows it to more consistently capture good pictures - quickly opening the app and snapping a picture of your pet doing something funny will often result in a good picture, even if the phone had barely a second to snap it.

That being said… iPhone photos do lose to some flagship Android devices in blind tests, and more often than not, if you tried an Android flagship’s camera and didn’t have a good result some setting was probanly off or you just need to compare it in a different environment. For instance, I have a Galaxy S23 and my fiance is got an iPhone 14:

If I take a picture of my orange cat in the sun right now, and she does the same, my picture will consistently look better - not a contest.

However, we both went to an augmented reality Van Gogh exhibition that was a very challenging scene: a gigantic room filled with people and projectors, with the dark ambient being the canvas for several projected moving colorful pieces. In that case, her pictures looked a lot better - my S23 got really stressed trying to balance the lights and would take over 5 seconds to snap a picture, while her iPhone would handle it like any other photo.

Ultimately, there’s no perfect camera on any phone. People’s subjectivity also matters - some swear that modding Google’s Gcam into their phones provide better quality, but when I tried it, I really preferred the native camera over this mod.

EDIT: One important thing though, running custom ROMs like Lineage will very often destroy picture quality on Android.

kadu , 11 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Does .999… = 1?

This is an artifact of the notation system being used (base 10).

There’s no difference between the object 0.999… and 1. They’re two ways of writing the same thing.

kadu , 11 months ago to steamdeck in How much do you use your deck? Was it a good purchase?

My Steam Deck is my favorite tech purchase ever.

It beats every console, handheld, TV, smartphone, headphones, PC component… You name it. I’m happy with how much I use it, how well it works, how games run on it, how it makes me actually finish games instead of just collecting a gigantic backlog.

kadu , 11 months ago to piracy in There are always two sides to every story

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kadu , 11 months ago to technology in X tells advertisers to spend $1,000 per month or risk losing verification status

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kadu , 11 months ago to technology in Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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kadu , 11 months ago to technology in Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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kadu , 11 months ago to technology in Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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kadu , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to technology in Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible

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