ericjmorey

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What do you want to have in a Lemmy instance? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks, I hate it.

What do you want to have in a Lemmy instance? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

When did that get added? That's great!

Thanks for pointing that out.

But the buttons being too close is still annoying. That's only one example of buttons being too close too. A moderator can ban someone from a community and accidentally appoint that someone as a moderator. And confirmation messages for uncommon actions is just good UX too.

I think there's also a weird and inconsistent mix of buttons shown by default and hidden under a dropdown menu. There are many added clicks to do a lot of things for no gain.

What do you want to have in a Lemmy instance? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You may not have noticed:

What do you want to have in a Lemmy instance? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

No one is ever satisfied with moderation.

What do you want to have in a Lemmy instance? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The ability to ignore votes from other instances using an allow list. The ability to ignore votes in communities from unsubscribed accounts.

I see that your not talking about a Lemmy instance but a ui of a Lemmy instance. I think the biggest improvement from a UI perspective is button placement and confirmation messages for actions.

For instance, separate the delete post button from the edit post button and have a confirmation message for deleting a post so mistaken button presses aren't permanently unrecoverable.

What do you want to have in a Lemmy instance? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

a list of the most recent comments+posts in the community

Are the the moderator views not what you're asking for here?

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

It shouldn't. I'm not sure what I can do to change it.

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I've got bad news for you about cars being sold over the last 15 years.

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For $24 a month I can keep you safe from the worst ones.

Is Privacy Worth It? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

For those that are questioning what the point of the lengthy article is because the title doesn't help much, here's the explanation:

Imagine it this way: let’s say every time you stepped outside your front door, you decided you want to be safe, so you dressed head-to-toe in full combat gear, complete with bulky full-body kevlar, a helmet, safety glasses, steel-toed boots, and gloves. I can stop the scenario here: even for those of us living in the roughest places, that’s a silly visual because it’s overkill. To be a little detailed, it also goes back to that word I used: “you want to be safe.” Safe from what? The sun? Then just put on some sunscreen and a hat. The cold? Put on a jacket. Danger? Keep your eyes up, headphones out (or low), and be aware of your surroundings.

Yet, many of us do the equivalent of overdressing in our digital lives because, as I said, we don’t always see it right away. Most people can instantly tell when they might be putting on too many items of clothing. Even something as simple as a jacket – when you feel the weight and restriction of movement – makes you pause enough to go “how cold is it really outside?” With the digital world, it can be much harder to notice the added weight, at least for a while. This makes it easier to overdress and not notice for a long time – or to dress up in full armor except for going barefoot (like I said, inconsistent action). In the past, I’ve compared some of the easier cybersecurity strategies with locking your front door: it’s technically inconvenient but we accept that inconvenience because the dramatic increase in security and safety outweighs it. This is comparable to things like using a password manager and 2FA or making the upfront switching cost to another service.

...

Once [people] understand the concept, they quickly start to realize where they can safely dial back to something less stressful without risking themselves and where they should instead focus more attention to improve. You don’t need the entire suit of body armor, you just need to put on a jacket.

Would Lemmy Benefit from Implementing Polls? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

My first exposure to that interchangable use in the Lemmy lexicon. Now I Know!

Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I had a phone die in me

The phone being inside you is probably why it died 😂

But on a serious note, I haven't switched to passkeys because I don't have a clear mental model of how to recover from losing both my phone and computer at the same time.

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Fedify: ActivityPub server framework (fedify.dev)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14845042

Fedify is an ActivityPub server framework in TypeScript & JavaScript. It aims to eliminate the complexity and redundant boilerplate code when building a federated server app, so that you can focus on your business logic and user experience.

The key features it provides currently are:

  • Type-safe objects for Activity Vocabulary (including some vendor-specific extensions)
  • WebFinger client and server
  • HTTP Signatures
  • Middleware for handling webhooks
  • NodeInfo protocol
  • Node.js, Deno, and Bun support

If you're curious, take a look at the Fedify website! There's comprehensive docs, a demo, a tutorial, example code, and more.

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Early Access Federation for Self-Hosters | Bluesky (docs.bsky.app)
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/5484255

February 22, 2024 Bluesky writes:

Up until now, every user on the network used a Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server) to host their data. We’ve already federated our own data hosting on the backend, both to help operationally scale our service, and to prove out the technical underpinnings of an openly federated network. But today we’re opening up federation for anyone else to begin connecting with the network.

The PDS, in many ways, fulfills a simple role: it hosts your account and gives you the ability to log in, it holds the signing keys for your data, and it keeps your data online and highly available. Unlike a Mastodon instance, it does not need to function as a full-fledged social media service. We wanted to make atproto data hosting—like web hosting—into a fairly simple commoditized service. The PDS’s role has been limited in scope to achieve this goal. By limiting the scope, the role of a PDS in maintaining an open and fluid data network has become all the more powerful.

We’ve packaged the PDS into a friendly distribution with an installer script that handles much of the complexity of setting up a PDS. After you set up your PDS and join the PDS Admins Discord to submit a request for your PDS to be added to the network, your PDS’s data will get routed to other services in the network (like feed generators and the Bluesky Appview) through our Relay, the firehose provider. Check out our Federation Overview for more information on how data flows through the atproto network.

Read Early Access Federation for Self-Hosters

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How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance? - PieFed (join.piefed.social)
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/5391072

February 20, 2024 piefedadmin writes:

For a very small instance with only a couple of concurrent users a CDN might not make much difference. But if you take a look at your web server logs you’ll quickly notice that every post / like / vote triggers a storm of requests from other instances to yours, looking up lots of different things. It’s easy to imagine how quickly this would overwhelm an instance once it gets even a little busy.

One of the first web performance tools people reach for is to use a CDN, like Cloudflare. But how much difference will it make? In this video I show you my web server logs before and after and compare them.

Read How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance?

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How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance? - PieFed (join.piefed.social)
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/5391072

February 20, 2024 piefedadmin writes:

For a very small instance with only a couple of concurrent users a CDN might not make much difference. But if you take a look at your web server logs you’ll quickly notice that every post / like / vote triggers a storm of requests from other instances to yours, looking up lots of different things. It’s easy to imagine how quickly this would overwhelm an instance once it gets even a little busy.

One of the first web performance tools people reach for is to use a CDN, like Cloudflare. But how much difference will it make? In this video I show you my web server logs before and after and compare them.

Read How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance?

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Changing PieFed's appearance with themes - PieFed (join.piefed.social)
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/4986083

As of today, PieFed includes a ‘theme engine’ which makes it easier for people with low or no Python skills to change how PieFed looks and behaves.

PieFed is a lemmy/kbin clone written in Python with Flask.

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Announcement of Sublinks (discuss.online)
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/4522403

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Sublinks, a groundbreaking Link Aggregation Social Network, joining the Fediverse. This innovative platform is designed to revolutionize how we share and discover online. Our dedicated team of volunteer contributors has worked tirelessly, utilizing technologies like Java, Go, TypeScript, and HTML to bring this vision to life. Sublinks promises a user-friendly interface and robust features that cater to diverse online communities. Stay tuned for our launch date, and get ready to experience a new era of social link sharing!

Sublinks will have a fully compatible API with Lemmy so all current Lemmy apps will also work with Sublinks. In fact, discuss.online will switch to Sublinks to fully replace Lemmy once we reach our Parity Milestone.

For more information, visit GitHub - Sublinks and sublinks.org.

Stay tuned for more regular updates as we progress.

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Huge LEGO Star Trek 'Deep Space Nine' Model has Over 75,000 Pieces (www.belloflostsouls.net)
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Conda is moving to Mastodon & LinkedIn | conda.org/blog (conda.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/4110869

Conda (@[email protected]) writes:

Conda is moving our social media presence from Twitter/X to Mastodon and LinkedIn at the start of 2024. It's past time to move into spaces that are welcoming and more in line with our community values. Going forward, you can find us at 🐘 @[email protected] (https://fosstodon.org/@conda) 🔗 Conda Community on LinkedIn

Read Conda is moving to Mastodon & LinkedIn | conda.org/blog

Conda (Software)

Conda provides package, dependency, and environment management for any language.

Using conda provides a streamlined approach to package management, platform compatibility, environment isolation, and access to an extensive package ecosystem. It is particularly beneficial for data scientists, researchers, and developers working with diverse software requirements across different projects.

Conda Community

The "conda" community is made up of millions of users, packaging maintainers and tool developers. Conda is not a single organization but rather a concerted effort of many different organizations, all devoted to the mission of providing easy access to various types of free software regardless of the operating system or programming language.

We firmly believe that everyone belongs in open-source, and we want to start by thanking you for taking the time to read this page. What follows is a high level summary of all the projects and organizations which make up the conda community with links provided where you can learn more or get involved yourself. The many meanings of "conda"

Traditionally associated with the Anaconda distribution, nowadays the term "conda" refers to more than just a package manager or a software repository. Its many definitions also encompass community packaging efforts like conda-forge and bioconda, as well as new tools developed in the Mamba and conda-incubator organizations. All these efforts show that the conda ecosystem is no longer defined by a single actor and continues to grow and thrive.

Organizations on GitHub include:

Some tools you might be familiar with are conda or conda-build themselves but also community efforts like mamba, boa, setup-miniconda, conda-lock or conda-tree, among many more.

Read more about the conda community.

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Conda is moving to Mastodon & LinkedIn | conda.org/blog (conda.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/4110869

Conda (@[email protected]) writes:

Conda is moving our social media presence from Twitter/X to Mastodon and LinkedIn at the start of 2024. It's past time to move into spaces that are welcoming and more in line with our community values. Going forward, you can find us at 🐘 @[email protected] (https://fosstodon.org/@conda) 🔗 Conda Community on LinkedIn

Read Conda is moving to Mastodon & LinkedIn | conda.org/blog

Conda (Software)

Conda provides package, dependency, and environment management for any language.

Using conda provides a streamlined approach to package management, platform compatibility, environment isolation, and access to an extensive package ecosystem. It is particularly beneficial for data scientists, researchers, and developers working with diverse software requirements across different projects.

Conda Community

The "conda" community is made up of millions of users, packaging maintainers and tool developers. Conda is not a single organization but rather a concerted effort of many different organizations, all devoted to the mission of providing easy access to various types of free software regardless of the operating system or programming language.

We firmly believe that everyone belongs in open-source, and we want to start by thanking you for taking the time to read this page. What follows is a high level summary of all the projects and organizations which make up the conda community with links provided where you can learn more or get involved yourself. The many meanings of "conda"

Traditionally associated with the Anaconda distribution, nowadays the term "conda" refers to more than just a package manager or a software repository. Its many definitions also encompass community packaging efforts like conda-forge and bioconda, as well as new tools developed in the Mamba and conda-incubator organizations. All these efforts show that the conda ecosystem is no longer defined by a single actor and continues to grow and thrive.

Organizations on GitHub include:

Some tools you might be familiar with are conda or conda-build themselves but also community efforts like mamba, boa, setup-miniconda, conda-lock or conda-tree, among many more.

Read more about the conda community.

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Sociology of Social Media Platforms (universeodon.com)
 

I thought that the people here might find this thread on universeodon.com interesting.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/3236065

An explanation of two problems inherent to social media platforms from @[email protected]

scale has social effects. Most technical people know that scale has technological effects. Same thing's true on the social side, too.

difference in perspective between the governance parties and the end users

Explanation starts

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