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otter, 16 dni temu

This reminds me of that scene from Winter Soldier (excellent movie and it gets more relevant every year)

Jasper Sitwell: Zola’s algorithm is a program…for choosing Insight’s targets

Steve Rogers: What targets?

Jasper Sitwell: You! A TV anchor in Cairo, the Undersecretary of Defense, a high school valedictorian in Iowa city. Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, anyone who’s a threat to HYDRA! Now, or in the future.

Steve Rogers: The Future? How could it know? [Sitwell laughs]

Jasper Sitwell: How could it not? The 21st century is a digital book. Zola taught HYDRA how to read it. Your bank records, medical histories, voting patterns, e-mails, phone calls, your damn SAT scores. Zola’s algorithm evaluates people’s past to predict their future.

Steve Rogers: And what then?

Jasper Sitwell: Oh, my God. Pierce is gonna kill me.

Steve Rogers: What then?!

Jasper Sitwell: Then the Insight Helicarriers scratch people off the list. A few million at a time.

otter, 15 dni temu

It’s one of my favourites for sure

I loved the one big scene in Endgame, but all of Winter Soldier was great

otter, 16 dni temu

Sounds like a really spammy and annoying way to promote an app. I assume someone else who has your phone number signed up on their app and gave access to all their contacts. Then the app sends out spam texts to get you to sign up.

Depending on where you are located, you might be able to report it. Otherwise just drop them a bad review, or name and shame them here

edit, I assume it’s this: slickapp.co

otter, 16 dni temu

If the community for this doesn’t have enough use to be sustainable, you could also ask in [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected]

otter, 17 dni temu

Canadian geese, Australian Emus, sounds like there’s some interesting AI image ideas here

otter, 17 dni temu

they really don’t seem like they want to exist

Alternatively, they’re at peace and content with their existence. At least that’s what it seems like to me, goals really

otter, 17 dni temu

Oh noo, I love them both :(

I got distracted by the wrong aspect of that comment lol

I was picturing Canadian Geese and Australian Emus working together on… providing aid or something. Maybe not waging war

otter, 18 dni temu

A solution could be to have it run on request. Reddit doesn’t even have that, it could be a cool new tool

Run an open source translation engine, and have a 'translate to account language’s button. It could do one of

• run locally on your machine (like Firefox’s translations), you have to redo it if you load the page again. Doesn’t need any server reconfiguration
• runs on the server, and the result is cached. Anyone looking for that language for that comment in the future can get it instantly
• runs on all content on the server, for a preset selection of languages. Might be more efficient in the long run

otter, 17 dni temu

Fair enough, maybe a checkbox section in the settings for which languages to list?

otter, 18 dni temu

I’m not familiar with how I’d set that up. I usually find an existing RSS feed and follow it

edit: haven’t used Google Alerts in a while. Looks like you can have it send an email without tying it to your account. That should work fine

otter, 19 dni temu

Consider swapping the link with one that doesn’t have a tracker

twitter.com/CryptoTweetie/…/1725885211823468839

Alternatively link to a Twitter frontend

otter, 19 dni temu

Yea some of the communities I’m helping with just didn’t exist before we spun them up in the past few months. They’re new and fairly niche

There are other niche communities that I’m curious about and would like to see more from, but I don’t have experience in those areas to know what’s interesting/ relevant. I post what I can, but there are probably others that can do it better

otter, 19 dni temu

I agree there is more discussion on Reddit

Some of the Lemmy communities need some promo too. Maybe the few people subscribed don’t use those accounts anymore

Over time as you post more stuff, people subscribe from ALL or from the crossposted communities. You can also promote the community by talking about it in tangently related posts, or [email protected] type places

otter, 19 dni temu

It’s getting worse too. Recently I’ve noticed Reddit links from friends looking like:

reddit.com/r/example/s/1234567

Which then redirects to the actual reddit.com/r/example/post/comments/1938473

I believe Spotify and Tiktok do short tracker-filled links like that too. If you’re on android, URLCheck can wrangle those links to find the actual content without the trackers. I’ve set it to intercept all clicked links so I can modify as needed.

On web / iOS, I’m not sure

otter, 19 dni temu

I’ve been meaning to look into how the URL expansion works. If it happened on the device then I guess it doesn’t help much, but if it happens elsewhere it might fix the tracking?

It might also limit how much identifying information is attached to it. If the original link opens in my app, then they can tie accounts together. If it’s wrangled by a third party app, then I open the clean link, they just get my IP address

otter, 20 dni temu

Is there a reason why that water can’t be reused?

I always assumed it was for cooling

otter, 20 dni temu

I’d love to follow more of them :)

Some communities like [email protected]

Photography: I follow a few on Pixelfed, I find them through the explore feed with styles that I like.

Comics Some have accounts on Lemmy/Mastodon (or both)

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• @MrLovenstein *edit
• @oatmeal

otter, 20 dni temu

whOOPs

Not sure how I did that, thanks for catching it 😆

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/4a51e913-3078-40ca-b7da-cb2fd4fb7477.png

otter, 20 dni temu

The biggest thing for me right now is backups

I can’t comfortably recommend it to people that will lose access if they lose their phones / upgrade without following the process perfectly

otter, 20 dni temu

The process is a bit involved on mobile. Setting up a backup location, using a third party app to sync updates and deletions etc. It could be simplified by integrating with common cloud storage services (the encrypted file)

Also iOS doesn’t have backups at all last I checked. If you lose your phone the messages are toast

otter, 20 dni temu

Well sure, but encrypted backups are still secure. What’s not secure (or private rather) is someone realizing they can’t have a backup of important chats and going back to Facebook Messenger.

Backups are a thing on Android, and they’re planned for iOS. It just hasn’t happened yet. People can choose what they want to backup and when they want disappearing messages turned on.

otter, 21 dni temu

Yea that’s a bad title

Offshoot

Was it initially a spin off or something?

otter, 21 dni temu

theverge.com/…/firefox-review-checker-fakespot-fe…

Oh cool, didn’t know about this

otter, 22 dni temu

In terms of health, it doesn’t matter I don’t think. You’re not going to be deficient in an important nutrient by going a day from eating it (but weeks or months is another story)

So I think if you don’t want to eat them at the same time, you could just eat more of each on alternating days?

Unless I misunderstood the question

otter, 22 dni temu

It makes me happy to hear that :)

Also, I love seeing posts from [email protected], I’ve forwarded a few posts from there to friends that knit

otter, 22 dni temu

That’s cool to hear!

Would you be able to share more on the safety related stuff that came up? I’m curious mostly

I’ll check out the other thread :)

otter, 23 dni temu

Other communities to subscribe to for more of this

[email protected] (for new users to ask any questions, including communities)

[email protected] (same purpose as this post)

[email protected] (for brand new communities as they’re made)

Edit: oops you already linked some of this, thanks for making the post!

otter, 23 dni temu

I think that would be a security nightmare, so they probably won’t (and they’ll probably be forced to not do it if they try)

otter, 24 dni temu

This one is recommended by Mozilla

addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/…/languagetool/

It DOES still need to send data somewhere to check

Your privacy is important to us: By default, this extension will check your text by sending it to languagetool.org over a securely encrypted connection. No account is needed to use this extension. We don’t store your IP address. See languagetool.org/privacy/ for our privacy policy.

I don’t want to confirm details I don’t know, so someone else should probably explain more on if this is good/bad

otter, 25 dni temu

Were you also cleaning? 🚿

otter, 25 dni temu

Oh wow that’s cool, I was wondering how this would be different from Lemmit. Really cool

How does 2 way mirroring work? How are you planning to fund / keep the instance stable?

otter, 25 dni temu

Sounds cool, looking forward to seeing it in action

otter, 26 dni temu

I’m looking into some of them (in Canada), curious about your experiences

Not worried about calories (if anything, more might be better…)

otter, 26 dni temu

Which brand / type do you get?

otter, 26 dni temu

This is really cool, I was looking for an alternative to things like Calm

I think it should get reviewed and listed on Mozilla’s PrivacyNotIncluded page for mental health apps. That’s where I checked, and I imagine others do as well.

I’ll try submitting it later unless someone else gets to it first :)

otter, 26 dni temu

I primarily use lemmyverse.net with related terms till I find something. Otherwise I might create it myself till I can hand it off to someone.

Here’s the guide from [email protected]:

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A great way to find lesser known communities is to look at the /communities page on an instance. For example: lemmy.ca/communities

🌐 Instances to look through

• pangora.social (NEW): Great way to find instances related to a particular topic. This is also great for picking an instance when first making an account/moving accounts.
• awesome-lemmy-instances: not that organized, but it

---

🔎 Search pages

• lemmyverse.net/communities
• browse.feddit.de (run by feddit.de)

---

🔥 Apps and Browser Extensions

• Instance Assistant: Browser extension with tools to help you redirect & search for communities
• Voyager Migrator: Tool to help you migrate Subreddits
• Other apps: lemmyapps.netlify.app

---

🙌 Communities for discovering new communities:

• [email protected]: You’re here right now
• [email protected]: Daily posts with the trending communities from across the threadiverse
• [email protected]: Find out about new communities

Here are some other communities, some of which are less active:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]

Remember, you can also post questions about finding new communities right here!

---

👽 Coming from Reddit?

• sub.rehab: You can sort by official replacements & sister communities
• redditmigration.com: List from the migration
• quippd.com: Another list created by a user during the migration

otter, 26 dni temu

Huh, I’m surprised I hadn’t heard of Affinity before. I explored some FOSS photoshop alternatives, but they didn’t really do what I was used to. I’d love to pay for something once instead of the subscription bs.

Did you move from the Adobe products and how did you find the learning curve (how different was it)? I’m ok with putting in the time, just curious

I’ll try to remember to check them out closer to the day :)

otter, 26 dni temu

Yep, I heard that some items on Amazon now play with the coupon to do the same thing without it showing up on price trackers

I was hoping for this post to help surface the few legitimate deals that might come up

otter, 26 dni temu

Saving this, thank you!

otter, 26 dni temu

This is a comment from a random user, not the pinned explanation on that link, but I thought it was funny

CBC can’t be trusted. Propaganda state media for the Liberals.

lol what

otter, 23 dni temu

Unfortunately I don’t, I tried finding the video again but it’s gone

otter, 22 dni temu

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