Zak

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Windows Mobile was already commercially available in phones when the iPhone came out. Android was well on its way.

Both changed in response to the iPhone, but I think evolution would have led to a similar place without it. Trends like the loss of physical keyboards were driven by improvements to capacitive touchscreens.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 24 points 13 hours ago

His board repair videos were outstanding. I don't especially enjoy his rants. He's usually right, but I don't really care to listen to how mad he is about it. I can get mad on my own.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Facebook was a mostly-harmless multimedia blog site before smartphones. Both its addiction algorithm and being in everyone's pocket contribute to its current harms, but both would have happened even if Apple hadn't made a phone.

Smartphones resembling what we have now would have come out of a likely Windows/Android rivalry. They might even still have headphone jacks.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 27 points 21 hours ago

I'm not going to tell you what to do. I am going to point out the red flags you cited and ask what you would say to a friend who was considering dating someone who behaves like this.

he kept talking about... that i should’ve ditched my bf for him

In other words, he did not respect your relationship when you were in one.

badmouthed not only his gf of a few years

He handles struggles in a relationship by badmouthing his partner to others,

he left her bc she showed signs of schizophrenia

and uses an armchair diagnosis as an excuse to get out of a relationship instead of just saying it's not working for him anymore like an adult.

he kept guilttripping me when i said i didn’t want to be his gf

He doesn't care about your preferences, and tries to manipulate you when they don't match his.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 159 points 1 day ago

Any time I'm required to use an app for something that could be a website, I leave the app a one star review.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Contributing to that Kinderficker changes my opinion of Publix.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You do qualify by virtue of having commented on the last giveaway I did, and you are in fact the winner this time around.

Please DM me a shipping address ASAP.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry I'm late on this. Things came up.

comments = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('ul.comments li .person-listing span'))
names = comments.map((x) => x.textContent)
names[Math.floor(Math.random() * names.length)]
"@kubusikan@feddit.org" 

However, @kubusikan@feddit.org has never posted or commented here before and is not eligible to win.

names[Math.floor(Math.random() * names.length)]
"fistac0rpse" 

@fistac0rpse@fedia.io is also not eligible to win, which is probably why they deleted their comment.

names[Math.floor(Math.random() * names.length)]
"@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com" 

@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com commented that they don't think they qualify, but actually did comment on the previous giveaway, which does qualify.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It doesn't exist, and some people get really mad whenever someone tries to make one.

https://cathode.church/fedi-scraper-counter.html

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The basic way an airplane works actually is simple and intuitive: it meets the air at an angle and deflects it downward. The equal and opposite reaction to accelerating that mass of air is an upward force on the wing.

There is, of course a whole lot of finesse on top of that with differences in wing design having huge impacts on the performance and handling of aircraft due to various aerodynamic phenomena which are anything but simple or intuitive. A thin, flat wing will fly though, and balsa wood toy airplanes usually use exactly that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force)#Simplified_physical_explanations_of_lift_on_an_airfoil

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The individual will (be) banned for life from all NFL stadiums and events

Fine. That's a normal response from a business to a hired performer making an off-script political display.

law enforcement is working to determine applicable charges in this incident

WTF?

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Seems to me the solution to this is registering protocol handlers for URLs, which Mastodon tried and gave up on because they weren't happy with how web browsers handled it.

 

In honor of !flashlight@lemmy.world reaching 3000 members (yes, I know that was a couple weeks ago), I'm giving away this Acebeam T35 swapped to a 3000 Kelvin, 95 CRI Luminus SFT40. While not as bright as the original 5000K, low-CRI LED, it's sure to satisfy anyone who misses the incandescent look, but likes LED power.

Only accounts that have made a post or comment to !flashlight@lemmy.world prior to this post may enter. You should have a shipping address in the USA or EU, which can be a package forwarding company if necessary. Entry ends on Februrary 14 2025 at 20:00 UTC.

To enter, leave a top level comment on this post. I will select the winning entry using a random number generator next Friday.

 

I don't actually want to do this right now, but I do want to know if it's really decentralized yet. Completely looks like it means each of:

  • A client ✅
  • A personal data server ✅
  • A relay ❓
  • Labelers ✅
  • Feed generators ✅

It looks like the relay might be the bottleneck. If I'm understanding the protocol correctly, a relay could consume less than the whole network so it doesn't have to be ridiculously expensive to operate, but I'm not finding examples of people doing it.

 

I fear if I carry anything else today, I'll lose it or cut myself with it.

 
  • Old leather wallet
  • Flashlight (Skilhunt H150)
  • Knife (Spyderco UKPK)
  • Pepper spray (Sabre Red, with a pocket clip from a random flashlight)
  • Phone (Pixel 4A)
  • Keys, and another flashlight (Skilhunt EK1)
  • Flash drive (Sandisk 128gb)
  • 1.38€
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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Zak@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

I've been self-hosting email with Maddy for a bit, but haven't shared any of the addresses widely yet in part because I haven't set up a spam filter. I'm pleased with Maddy; there's much less to learn to get a server up and running with sane default behavior than with the email software of old.

Ideally, I'd like to go beyond just spam filtering and have something with arbitrary categories like newsletters and password resets. I would prefer that it learn categories when I move messages to IMAP folders from a mail client. Maddy can feed messages into arbitrary programs and pick a destination folder based on their output.

Web searches turn up a ton of classification programs, most of which seem to be more interested in playing accuracy golf with well-known corpora than expanding functionality beyond simple spam filtering.

 

I often use a commercial VPN service, which I suspect is not rare among Lemmy users. Most of the time, I'm able to post to lemmy.world, but on occasion I am not. The default web UI provides zero feedback, just a spinning submit button forever, but if I look in the browser dev tools, I can see it's being blocked.

I understand that some limitations are necessary to prevent spam and other abuse, however this is a very blunt instrument. The fact that I have a 10 month old account with consistent activity should outweigh any IP address reputation issues.

Perhaps the VPN limitations could be narrowed in scope to cover only account creation and posts from young accounts.

 

If I want to quickly pitch "you should follow X, Y, and Z using RSS because [problems with social media]" to people who have never heard of RSS, what readers should I recommend?

I want at least web (not self-hosted), Android, and iOS options. Native apps for Mac and Windows would be nice as well. Linux users probably already know what RSS is.

There absolutely must be a free option good for at least 25 feeds because unfamiliar tech is a hard enough sell without having to pay. I'll grudgingly accept ads if that's the tradeoff for something beginner-friendly.

 

When I attempt to upload images to lemmy.world via the desktop web UI, I get the following error message:

SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data

Looking at network traffic in dev tools, I see that I'm getting a 403 page from Cloudflare saying:

Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access lemmy.world Why have I been blocked? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks....

I also get error messages when trying to upload images using Connect and Sync on an Android device. I successfully uploaded images in the past.

 

We just hit 2000 subscribers! I’d like to thank everyone for showing up here to create a new community, and what better way than giving stuff away?

I’m giving away the Nitecore MH10 v2 I reviewed. I can ship it anywhere in the USA or EU, but EU winners will have to wait until mid September. This is a basic, beginner-friendly flashlight that can accept almost all 18650 and 21700 batteries.

To enter, leave a top-level comment on this post before midnight UTC on Sunday, August 27, 2023. Only accounts that have posted or commented on /c/flashlight prior to this being posted are eligible to win.

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