@otter@lemmy.ca

otter

@otter@lemmy.ca

I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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otter, (edited )

What are you talking about?

Ah the term I was looking for was “clean room”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

See the bit about examples and IBM. While you could probably look, the easiest way to defend against a giant tech company’s legal team is to do the clean room setup

The Irish government wants to pass a law that could see you or your loved ones jailed for possession of memes, cartoons or any content that could be deemed "hateful".

The Bill includes no definition of hate and is wide open to abuse by bad actors. Defend free speech – say no to this legislation, and any legislation of is kind… Anywhere!...

otter, (edited )

Cleaned and redirected link

nitter.net/FreeSpeechIre/…/1746854766032846910

Still, the news link below is probably a better source. I don’t know what ‘FreeSpeechIre’ is

otter,

https://media.tenor.com/J1rRpEhoDzAAAAAM/street-fighter.gif

otter,

To expand, their policies were harmful and we’re still dealing with the consequences of them

  • “trickle-down” policies, which widened income inequality and increased national debt
  • initial inaction during the AIDS crisis made the epidemic and stigma a lot worse. It’s only recently that we’re starting to effectively deal with the illness
  • “War on Drugs” got worse under Reagan, with mass incarceration that disproportionately affected minority communities. Also the “Just Say No” campaign oversimplified the issue instead of addressing the underlying causes. Again, we’re only now starting to shift those policies into something that’s more productive
otter, (edited )

Same with Reddit, FB Messenger, Instagram, TikTok… Some of them are harder to spot, like how Reddit now goes reddit.com/r/example/s/8913y4h93

Would be nice if social networks and messengers would automatically strip these parameters.

I started using URLCheck on Android and SO MANY links have some kind of tracker that you can drop and not lose any functionality. Things like Signal (and even Lemmy/Mastodon) could do something similar and throw up a little warning when it encounters a known tracker, then offer to clean the URL for you.

Another advantage is that the clean URLs are a lot more descriptive

otter,

Fleming did not provide Bond’s date of birth, but John Pearson’s fictional biography of Bond, James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, gives Bond a birth date on 11 November 1920,[13] while a study by John Griswold puts the date at 11 November 1921

Huh, learned something too!

otter, (edited )

Maybe not during the surgery, but it’s pretty normal to do some review before a surgery that hasn’t been done recently.

In the past they’d skim the books, but videos provide additional insight nowadays. A lot of those videos are published on YouTube

So it feels weird, but it’s not. You’re (most likely) in great hands

otter,

This one got an audible laugh, it’s so simple but so good

otter,

Looks like they tried to get rid of it 10 years ago then brought it back

www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-21719848

otter, (edited )

People pirate Photoshop, isn’t that subscription based?

I’m not familiar with clip studio paint

otter, (edited )

Oh also @Thisfox

Instead of Telegram, consider one of these, it’s easier to switch to the good one now than to try and switch again later.

www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication

Signal works great for my family

otter,

This is the privacy community, and they were discussing the privacy aspect.

The concern isn’t about getting your chats leaked, there’s no incentive to just give away data that is collected. The concern is usually about a malicious group (company, government, criminals) abusing the data that they can get their hands on.

otter, (edited )

Found the original! You can edit your post to swap it in with a link to the artist:

www.1111comics.me/comic/lost-in-space/

Lost in space - Sat, Apr 5, 2014, by 1111comics

otter,

Just to add on, the Do not redeem sir was probably a reference to a viral Kitboga video where a giftcard scammer gets very… agitated with the prank

Low effort posts

Ask Lemmy is a place to ask thought provoking questions. The mods have been lenient with some of the recent posts on the basis that they must provoke thought for some people, but after seeing two posts essentially saying “what do you think of my stick?”, I believe we can raise the bar a bit on what kind of thoughts we want...

otter, (edited )

Repetitive meme posts can get annoying, and mods should intervene in some cases, but I’d prefer if the rules were more open. It’s hard to determine what is “low effort” and “thought-provoking”, and Lemmy is small so further limiting content isn’t that productive

Was this the post? lemmy.ca/post/9681692

I think people using this community are looking for something similar to AskReddit, and it’s totally ok if you want to be different from that since the Fediverse allows for more communities to be made.

Personally, (and you don’t need to run the community like this), I’m looking for a community for open-ended and discussion provoking questions, not necessarily thought-provoking questions. The stick one was fun and lead to fun discussion

otter,

Donations or grants would probably be best. I’m sure there are community grants available for doing public good.

I’ve also seen some open source things sell merch, where you buy a hat or something with a particular logo. It’s still donating with extra steps, but it’s a little different

Our instance admin broke it down recently, and it’s actually not too expensive to run. Without wasting money on engagement, growth, data collection, marketing, etc, it’s not actually that expensive to run social media platforms I guess

Z-Library Blog: "Unprecedented seizure of our domains with books on rare languages" (z-library.se)

Today we are forced to share some sad news - yesterday many of our domains were seized again. We should highlight that the majority of the seized domains were not mirrors of the Z-Library website. Instead, they were separate sub-projects, containing only books in rare languages of the world, and their blocking is perplexing. For...

otter,

Instead, they were separate sub-projects, containing only books in rare languages of the world

All of this is a priceless heritage, contributing to the preservation and study of world cultures, and serving as important material for researchers in linguistics, anthropology, and history.

I’d be curious to take a look once it comes back up

otter,

Riddle from Reddit 9 years ago:

A man went out drinking all night. He came home and before going to sleep he turned off the light. He awoke the next morning and went outside, and there were dead people all around. What happened? Yes or no questions please :) Good luck!

otter, (edited )

Also I’d rather there was a separate option for additional privacy than it be the default.

People who want the extra privacy can usually figure out what they need and how to get it. The average person will just switch back to chrome when websites break. They wont be able to figure out which settings to toggle off in order to fix the site

Keep Firefox useful for most people while also building more privacy friendly features.

If it’s something people SHOULD be using, have a popup explaining it and let people decide

otter, (edited )

Could be familiarity? I saw an article go by recently about how projects that aren’t on GitHub suffer from lack of contributions. Although that matters more for smaller projects, Mozilla is a beast and could probably pull people off GitHub if it wanted to.

Also if anyone should be trying to build up an alternative to GitHub, it should be Mozilla

otter,

There was a Lemmy post with a video about how things have changed, which I even commented on, but I can’t find anymore.

What I remember was that yes they did address most of the concerns. There were some issues still (unrelated to data collection iirc), and there’s one other fork that’s being maintained if you don’t want that

Edit: I think the was the video, I don’t want to watch it again but I’ll link my TLDW if I find it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=QfmDn1IaDmY

otter,

Who’s the artist for this one?

I love it, would like to read more but the name is a little blurry

otter,

Reminds me of the joke

A man was driving down the road with twenty penguins in the back seat. The police stop him and say that he can’t drive around with the penguins in the car and should take them to the zoo. The man agrees and drives off.

The next day the same man is driving down the road with twenty penguins in the back and again. He is stopped by the same police officer who says, “Hey! I though I told you to take those to the zoo.”

The man replies “I did. Today I’m taking them to the movies.”

otter,

I assume once you email, they’ll stop it from happening every few uploads

otter,

Why though

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