For anyone that has friends that can be convinced to move off snapchat:

• it doesn’t actually delete things after the timer goes out, it just hides it from view. Sometimes the app bugs out and that data will be accessible again
• signal has stories and the same format of disappearing messages
• everything else that’s good about signal

If what they want is the “One weird trick your doctor is hiding from you” style content on the discover page, then I got nothing.

I end up using some blog post when that happens because the forums make no sense

Ah any reason why Firefox decided not to include WebSerial?

Maybe you don’t want to buy the Station, or you left it at home. In either event, you can simply plug the iron into your computer and configure it via WebSerial.

You’ll need a browser based on Chrome to pull this trick off, as Mozilla has decided (at least, for now) to not include the capability in Firefox. In testing, it worked perfectly on both my Linux desktop and Chromebook.

Unfortunately, plugging the iron into your phone won’t work, as the mobile version of Chrome does not currently support WebSerial. But given the vertical layout of the interface and the big touch-friendly buttons, I can only assume that iFixit is either banking on this changing soon or has a workaround in mind. Being able to plug the iron into your phone for a quick settings tweak would be incredibly handy, so hopefully it will happen one way or another.

The WebSerial interface not only gives you access to all the same settings as plugging the iron into the Power Station does, but it also serves as the mechanism for updating the firmware on the iron.

Unfortunately that seems to be the case for a handful of Foss apps. Fdroid might not be a priority for them yet

I found this

https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/issues/4909

they seem to be leaning into the AI stuff, anyone try it out recently?

1. The platform needs an incentive to get rid of bots.

Bots on Reddit pump out an advertiser friendly firehose of “content” that they can pretend is real to their investors, while keeping people scrolling longer. On Fediverse platforms there isn’t a need for profit or growth. Low quality spam just becomes added server load we need to pay for.

I’ve mentioned it before, but we ban bots very fast here. People report them fast and we remove them fast. Searching the same scam link on Reddit brought up accounts that have been posting the same garbage for months.

Twitter and Reddit benefit from bot activity, and don’t have an incentive to stop it.

2. We need tools to detect the bots so we can remove them.

Public vote counts should help a lot towards catching manipulation on the fediverse. Any action that can affect visibility (upvotes and comments) can be pulled by researchers through federation to study/catch inorganic behavior.

Since the platforms are open source, instances could even set up tools that look for patterns locally, before it gets out.

It’ll be an arm’s race, but it wouldn’t be impossible.

An older but related article:

Why freemium software has no place in our classrooms

What is something Linux related that you’ve learned recently?

As a meta question, could this work as an additional (or alternate) recurring discussion question? It felt similar in intent, to encourage people to keep learning / asking questions and chances are that if someone learned something then others will benefit from the information (or correct them)

Did you use Twitter much before then? Some people just don’t like the format. I use it to get updates on some things, but I don’t use it as much as Lemmy (or Reddit before that).

If you did use Twitter, perhaps the content you followed back then still didn’t make its way to Mastodon (or it went to bluesky/threads?)

Last thing you could try is following more people. I find that fediverse platforms need you to seek out content more actively, while old profit driven social media platforms were constantly seeking engagement. On top of that there just isn’t as much content on any of the new platforms compared to the older ones.

That all being said, the quality of the content is equal or better every time

The bit in the square brackets in the title was mine, because that’s what I went into the article to look for. If you’re on Mastodon and interested in that content:

• https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram

• https://pixelfed.eu/ruth_mottram

The text from the article:

Glaciologist Ruth Mottram had more than 10,000 followers on Twitter but left in February and joined an alternative scientists’ forum powered by Mastodon -– a crowdfunded, decentralised grouping of social networks founded in 2016.

“It’s really been a revelation in many ways. It’s a much quieter and more thoughtful platform,” she told AFP.

On Mastodon, “I haven’t had any abuse at all or even people questioning climate change. I think we’d become far too used to it on Twitter… I had blocked loads of accounts over on the birdsite (Twitter),” she said.

I’ve used the term “threadiverse” for a while and it’s been in use from before Meta threads was widely advertised, but I agree that it can be confusing now

It would be nice to have a descriptor for the format. For example, Mastodon & Misskey are ‘Microblogging’ platforms. Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed, and Sublinks are _____ platforms.

Another term I seen in the context of healthcare is alert fatigue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue

Alarm fatigue or alert fatigue describes how busy workers (in the case of health care, clinicians) become desensitized to safety alerts, and as a result ignore or fail to respond appropriately to such warnings.[1] Alarm fatigue occurs in many fields, including construction[2] and mining[3] (where vehicle back-up alarms sound so frequently that they often become senseless background noise), healthcare[4] (where electronic monitors tracking clinical information such as vital signs and blood glucose sound alarms so frequently, and often for such minor reasons, that they lose the urgency and attention-grabbing power which they are intended to have), and the nuclear power field. Like crying wolf, such false alarms rob the critical alarms of the importance they deserve. Alarm management and policy are critical to prevent alarm fatigue.

While cool, this article is a bit old

Published on June 17, 2024

No problem with sharing it again, this is more for anyone else who was wondering if new details were released

We get posts here too, and on Reddit

The posts here get reported and removed very quickly, sometimes within minutes of the account being created or the first post.

I searched Reddit for the website they were linking and saw the spam posts on Reddit have been up for months.

Few possible differences:

• We have a better ratio of users/moderation, where the lower volume of posts means everything can go through human moderators

• Our users are more actively trying to keep the platform good by reporting spam

• The incentive here is to create a good online platform. The inventive there is profit. The priorities are different as a result

The problem is that a lot of people will use it for the entire process, like the research papers that got published with “as a large language model I don’t have access to patient data but I can…” buried inside

I’ll include a note in the post about making a backup first, sorry about that!

Very cool! Any thoughts on getting this on fdroid?

You could also post this on !android@lemdro.id and other places

Some thoughts so far:

• it might help to be able to import multireddits
• the subscribe button feels a bit hidden

Otherwise really cool :)

What are some recommendations for putting Ventoy on your main USB (with other contents instead of just ISOs)? I need to find the guide I saw, it mentioned some configurations to prevent it from searching every directory for ISOs

Also the linked website can be subscribed to from here :)

!veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube

!veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube

You may have posted this to the wrong thread :)