Don’t whatabout me. If you’re going to criticize a company because you don’t like the founder, then at least own up to your faulty generalization.

I love how you completely disregard the people who actually work there and the people who actually run Thorn.

I’m a 15-year user of Reddit. Lemmy right now is very similar to very early Reddit. Reddit’s users were more technical back then, too. I’m betting the early adopters of places like this are usually the technical types.

Another nice thing about Lemmy is that a lot of the low-effort, casual users on Reddit haven’t gotten here yet. Interaction here is definitely a lot more pleasant.

The USA hasn’t resembled anything near democratic for a bit

What fantasy land are you living in?

Designate your DMCA contact, pay your $6, set up a clear infringement policy, and rest easy. Full details in this EFF Fediverse Legal Primer.

Regardless of whether or not any of the titles do or do not contain said content, ChatGPT’s varying responses highlight troubling deficiencies of accuracy, analysis, and consistency. A repeat inquiry regarding The Kite Runner, for example, gives contradictory answers. In one response, ChatGPT deems Khaled Hosseini’s novel to contain “little to no explicit sexual content.” Upon a separate follow-up, the LLM affirms the book “does contain a description of a sexual assault.”

On the one hand, the possibility that ChatGPT will hallucinate that an appropriate book is inappropriate is a big problem. But on the other hand, making high-profile mistakes like this keeps the practice in the news and keeps showing how bad it is to ban books, so maybe it has a silver lining.

This absolutely made my day. I love stuff like this, and I had never even heard of a crash blossom.

I had to get all the way in here to realize that this woman’s remains weren’t buried in an Amazon package. I really need my morning coffee.

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I just up-voted this post after click. No change on Safari for iPad OS.

Now this has some potential! I have something for my nighttime reading list! Great post!

I just want to make sure I understand.

The docker containers need to be set to the same time zone as the docker host. Is that right?

Our docker host has been set to America/Denver for weeks, but the containers have been UTC, and we haven’t had any unusual behavior.

I did set the postgres container’s time zone to America/Denver a few hours ago and also saw no strange behavior.

I took a snapshot before I did that, so I can roll back, but I’m wondering what bad things would happen that I should look out for.

Most people pick an instance by collecting a list of instances that are physically close to them, and then reviewing the /instances page to see how big the block list is. Lemmyverse.net can tell you how many users are on those blocked instances.

Heck yeah! I can’t believe how popular that game was. Every time I bring up this era, everyone talks about it.

I was a big Tradewars 2002 fan, myself. You can still play it, which is what made me start to think about connecting it to Lemmy somehow. That, and Nethack.

As a site admin, I really wish it was easier to modify the content on the front page. We’ve had some interesting ideas over here, like linking to some simple online games and posting high scores for the site, or maybe just adding some analytics boxes to the site. But for us that’s difficult.

A lot of our ideas come from a shared experience in BBSes from the 90s, where they had game doors, ascii art, and other fun site-specific elements. Technology has changed, but there are modern equivalents to all of those things that we wish we could implement.

The Plex Pass unlocks hardware transcoding, which is a huge benefit alone. As others have said, it unlocks things like skip intro, credits detection, playing trailers before movies. It also unlocks the DVR feature, allowing you to attach an inexpensive antenna to your network and start recording over-the-air channels. It is very worth it.

Gotta love that prominent pin-up girl pasted to the front of the terminal in the training video. Sideburns knows his priorities!

The problem is most likely that nobody on lemmy.ml has ever searched for the songaweek community before. That means that the !songaweek@lemmy.world “shorthand” URL will not work. This is a big problem for smaller or younger instances. The problem is so pervasive on Lemmy right now that Lemmy.ninja voted to recommend people use the full URL when linking to communities in our communitysearchtips community.

Excellent! This is good to know! I bet other users who aren’t admins/mods can’t see the post at all when it’s removed. I’ll avoid purging from now on.

However, I’m surprised to still see my posts there. I would have thought you deleting them on your instance would propagate out to my instance.

Well, I purged them from the database. Maybe if I had removed the post instead of purging, that would have propagated. Right now the posts don’t exist in our database at all.

But I bet the more likely scenario is that once a post gets propagated, it persists forever on the instance it gets propagated to unless someone purges it there.

Assuming I am correct, this could end up being a bit of a problem. That means, users on my instance could go about spamming the fediverse, and I would never see reports of their activity unless they are spamming communities on my instance. The only way I have to know that they’re being bad users is if I notice we get defederated, if an admin of another instance specifically reaches out to me, if another user on my instance reports them, or if I manually monitor my users.

This is actually consistent with something that happened to us in the early days of lemmy.ninja. We had a few thousand bot accounts get created on our site. Some other sites defederated from us, but it took us weeks to notice that this happened. One of them happened to be a Mastodon instance, and that person indicated a ban reason that indicated that a user was an edgelord. Well, this was back in the beginning of our site, so we knew all of our users personally. If we had not been really on top of things and really plugged in to what was happening across a lot of the Lemmy instances, we would never have known that the bot users interacted with anyone. We still don’t know how many posts or comments they made before we deleted them all.