SkepticElliptic

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Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Pihole hasn't worked with YouTube in almost a decade. They changed their ad service to their own domain, so there isn't any way to distinguish between an ad and a regular video on the domain level that pihole uses.

Peertube's moment might come soon in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

If you have a bunch of people guess how many M&M's are in a jar you can average the guesses and you'll come very close to the correct amount. A recommendation system can be very democratic in that way. When reddit still had their public API I would take advantage of this fact and use it to decide if something was a "deal" or not on PC parts. I was tracking the prices of computer ram at the time as an experiment. It worked very well. If they are federated properly, then their content can be filtered and appear on an instances front page.

What’s something on your mind lately that nobody else would understand? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

You can't borrow the money?

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[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The RIAA tried to get the original YouTube dl taken down a few years ago. That is why it's called YouTube dlp now.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Illinois recent AWB has carveouts for police.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $3.5 Billion for Largest Ever Investment in America’s Electric Grid, Deploying More Clean Energy, Lowering Costs, and Creating Union Jobs in c/climate@slrpnk.net
[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Carbon "sequestration"

Mastodon Is the Good One in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can definitely see certain brands doing well with their own forums. Sports teams would be a very good niche for hosting their own instances. Another one would be the entertainment industry. It's just not feasible for companies that aren't interesting to talk about. Like there won't be a Coca-Cola instance worth a lot of users.

France has banned pro-Palestinian protests and vowed to protect Jews from resurgent antisemitism in c/news@beehaw.org
[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

The easiest way to deflect criticism is to claim it's racism or antisemitism. China does the exact same thing. It's obvious and lazy. I can't believe people still fall for it. Israel is not the representative of Judaism. They have a far right militant dictator running their country right now who is killing many innocent people. The fact that they are still recognized as a country is beyond reason at this point.

How do you feel about financing a genocide? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I think most people are qualified to say that killing is bad regardless of the reasons or intent. If the goal of Israel is to put a stop to Hamas attacks then they certainly aren't going to get there by killing random Palestinians regardless. That is only going to create more people who hate Israel in the long run.

How do you feel about financing a genocide? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Israel is retaliating against civilians for an attack carried out by Hamas. This is what America did in Afghanistan after the attack on the world trade center in 2001. It was dumb and it's dumb now.

How do you feel about financing a genocide? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

It's giving me Iraq war vibes, except my friends aren't getting involved. The escalation doesn't make sense at all unless you consider Netanyahu needed to distract from his aspirations of becoming a dictator.

Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn’t understand the concept of fun in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago

"Metaverse" was the idea that you would use only Meta services instead of the wider Internet. Much like AOL and Yahoo tried back in the 90s and 00s.

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Does anybody else have an old house? (beehaw.org)
 
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I can't even go to the bathroom in peace! (beehaw.org)
 
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I finally got around to putting up some trellis for the cucumbers! (beehaw.org)
 

We live around the corner from the farm/home store. They sell 8ft sections of this livestock fencing, they had a pile of damaged pieces for half off!

I just carried it home, I passed a guy who was working on his yard and I said, "just out walking the fence!"

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The unofficial Beehaw playlist. (www.youtube.com)
 

It has be(e)gun

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I created a Lemmy instance! (beehaw.org)
 

I can't get email working and I federation doesn't seem to work either, but it's up!

I created an instance for the town I live in as the main form of communication is a fb page. Once I get these issues fixed I will promote it and hopefully get people using it.

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Not getting new sign up notifications on new instance. (beehaw.org)
 

Installed on Ubuntu Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS Using Ansible. Site is up and running, I have an admin account. I can go through the sign up process, email is required, question is required, no captcha. I don't receive any notifications about new signups.

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Is there any way to mark posts as read without clicking them? (beehaw.org)
 

I have "show read posts" unchecked, so posts I've clicked no longer show in my feed. I'd like to hide posts I'm not interested in seeing without clicking on them.

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Act casual (beehaw.org)
 

[photo description: a black cat looks at the camera while lying on the floor behind a large pink dinosaur balloon]

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What would a federated/ activity pub selling platform look like? (beehaw.org)
 

I sell stuff on eBay and FB marketplace. In the vein of platforms that you love to hate. What would it take to build software on the fediverse for the purpose of selling things?

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Where's my beehaw? (beehaw.org)
 

I used the "add to home screen" feature in firefox android 115.0b7. now instead of my beeboy it says "Lemmy" with a mouse! A flippin mouse! I want my bee baby back. 🐝

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I switched to Cellular home Internet, here are my mods so far. (beehaw.org)
 

I live in a semi-rural community with few internet options.

T-mobile become an option so I decided to give it a shot. It's a decent price/performance option between DSL and cable internet.

As you can see I've made a fully custom hanging shelf with a piece of scrap 1/4" plywood and twine for optimal placement.

I then cracked open the unit and installed external antenna adapters. I placed a directional antenna on the roof.

I kept experiencing complete connection dropouts which became worse over time. After some research I found that other users said that the problem was the unit overheating.

I placed a 120mm fan on top. I wired up a barrel jack so it can be plugged into a normal 12v adapter and it just stays on all the time. I might clean this up and use a temperature controller in the future. It's currently held to the unit with scotch tape.

Everything has been stable for now. Maybe I'll find some more ways to tweak it to get better performance.

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I like that this is a general instance. (beehaw.org)
 

see a lot of discussion about adding more specific communities on this instance and I feel as if it will dilute the community too much.

I personally see Lemmy instances as somewhat similar to old forums, many of those did so well because the community came together under a shared experience.

Lemmy is decentralized after all and instances based around interests will get created and discussion will get focused on certain instances for certain topics. Those instances will be moderated by the people who have passion and understanding for those topics.

Of course the great thing about Lemmy is that we're (mostly) free to visit other instances and if there are redundant communities it is not difficult to participate in them.

I do think it's nice to have a place to call home, a "hive" if you will. Where users can discuss their shared experience on the fediverse.

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