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  1. Comment on The actual danger from AI is mostly not what is getting talked about in ~tech

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    Too bad people still don't care :\ But also if you haven't seen what awesome things a computer can do with data I don't see why anyone would care.

    Too bad people still don't care :\ But also if you haven't seen what awesome things a computer can do with data I don't see why anyone would care.

  2. Comment on How to kill a decentralised network (such as the Fediverse) in ~tech

  3. Comment on I, like many of you came from Reddit. But what brought you to Reddit? in ~tech

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    Haha my friend in highschool told me about it while we were trying to draw FFUUUU memes to pass the time. I'd just go on 4chan and when I first used reddit I remember being mad that to see an...

    Haha my friend in highschool told me about it while we were trying to draw FFUUUU memes to pass the time. I'd just go on 4chan and when I first used reddit I remember being mad that to see an image I had to leave the page I was on or open in a new tab... Yeah I was used to just scrolling and seeing the dumb memes on the same page. I think it wasn't for another few months until I went back to try it again and... I was whoring out for karma before I knew it. The novelty accounts back then were so much cooler :\ poem_for_your_sprog if you read this ur awesome :D

  4. Comment on Weight obsession is ruining everyone’s health in ~health

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    BMI is an attempt to estimate the distribution of mass. Any article or guide on BMI worth their salt will say it's meant as a guide, so calling it bogus doesn't even make sense.. To be honest...

    BMI is an attempt to estimate the distribution of mass. Any article or guide on BMI worth their salt will say it's meant as a guide, so calling it bogus doesn't even make sense..

    To be honest though maybe he pivots to another point in the actual vid but like the other guy said I'm not watching an hour of that lol

    21 votes

  5. Comment on Mark Zuckerberg announces that there has been over five million signups to Meta's Threads in the first four hours in ~tech

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    SAGE stupid sexy meta

    SAGE

    stupid sexy meta

  6. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~talk

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    I'll tell ya where. Literally anywhere. Where there is porn there is userbase. There are enough open source projects to glue together what's essentially a cloud storage with a user frontend. If...

    I'll tell ya where. Literally anywhere. Where there is porn there is userbase. There are enough open source projects to glue together what's essentially a cloud storage with a user frontend. If the content creators are smart they'd band together and create their own website.

    25 votes

  7. Comment on Weight obsession is ruining everyone’s health in ~health

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    Whoever told them 1200 calories is enough should touch grass. Even the most strict health nuts know that does far more damage than good.

    Whoever told them 1200 calories is enough should touch grass. Even the most strict health nuts know that does far more damage than good.

    8 votes

  8. Comment on How to kill a decentralised network (such as the Fediverse) in ~tech

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    Some guy posted this link on lemmy in a thread about instagram adopting ActivityPub standards, i.e. their new platform speaking the feddi lingo and being able to x-post and share feeds, comments,...

    Some guy posted this link on lemmy in a thread about instagram adopting ActivityPub standards, i.e. their new platform speaking the feddi lingo and being able to x-post and share feeds, comments, users, pm's, etc.

    The article is about the times a similar approach has been attempted by various tech giants, but he says it's a ruse to stop out the competition.

    What do you guys think? I'm personally very OK with meta staying in their meta world and it's looking like a bad omen that mastadon's immediate, knee-jerk impulse reaction isn't to defederate.

    Anyway the strategy seems to be: As soon as potential competition rises above sea-level, invite the crew on-board and burn their ship down. I'm also curious if you guys have whitnessed this strategy outside of big tech.

    edit: oh, and this was linked here once before, a few weeks back when the article was first posted, here's the link to that thread.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Any Tildes android app? in ~tildes

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    I'm with you there buddy. I have to admit though I will give props to both ios and android for adding finer-tuned controlls to what apps have access to. Ios did great with the choose which pics...

    I'm with you there buddy. I have to admit though I will give props to both ios and android for adding finer-tuned controlls to what apps have access to. Ios did great with the choose which pics this app can see and android did pretty well with both work profiles and sanboxing app-data from other apps.

    But at the end of the day, I will always feel much safer in a web browser because there's just a lot less security concerns.

    With browsers it's basically an exploit needs to be found to gain unaithorized access... with apps, I have to trust each and every individual app developer to not try anything shady.

    It's a pretty clear choice: would I rather risk giving access to my files to a browser, or all the apps on my phone? The exploits found on browsers are extremely rare and kept very low key because they can be patched overnight, and the people commissioned to find them are likely after specific targets.

    If the trust for the developer is there though like with a bank's app or something, I'll place my bet on the app being more secure though. I just didn't like the whole forcing everyone to use apps phase that companies tried to push on everybody.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Any Tildes android app? in ~tildes

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    I've never bothered with those shortcuts. I just download a fork of Firefox like fennec if I want it to be for browsing something specific. For everything tildes and lemmy related I have 1 browser...

    I've never bothered with those shortcuts. I just download a fork of Firefox like fennec if I want it to be for browsing something specific. For everything tildes and lemmy related I have 1 browser just for that. If you are on ios you won't have as much browsers to choose from but there's plenty there for that purpose.

  11. Comment on Any Tildes android app? in ~tildes

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    lol I have news.ycom zoomed in at 150% on my browser.

    lol I have news.ycom zoomed in at 150% on my browser.

  12. Comment on Any Tildes android app? in ~tildes

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    Idk why anyone would be against apps, but I'm definitely for the web layout. I like opening links in another tab. I just installed a random firefox fork on F-Droid and that's my tildes app! Like...

    Idk why anyone would be against apps, but I'm definitely for the web layout. I like opening links in another tab. I just installed a random firefox fork on F-Droid and that's my tildes app! Like the only reason I used an app for reddit is because their mobile-friendliness isn't even an after-thought, for Tildes it pretty much behaves like a native app. Until an app comes out, I suggest you try out either Iceraven or Firefox Nightly just to hold you over, so you don't have random Tildes tabs open mixed with your regular browsing.

    7 votes

  13. Comment on Google updates its privacy policy to clarify it can use public data for training AI models in ~tech

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    It should absolutely be noindex'd. AI is death.

    It should absolutely be noindex'd. AI is death.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on Boost for Lemmy has been listed in Play Store in ~tech

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    ye oath protects more against a 3rd-3rd party trying to snoop in

    ye oath protects more against a 3rd-3rd party trying to snoop in

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Elon Musk announces new daily Twitter limitations as thousands of users report problems accessing site in ~tech

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    kinda turns it into a drug or candy, you cherish each and every shitpost a twitter user shits out of their low hanging ass hole. I'm still triggered that the webster's dictionary declared "tweet"...

    kinda turns it into a drug or candy, you cherish each and every shitpost a twitter user shits out of their low hanging ass hole. I'm still triggered that the webster's dictionary declared "tweet" a word all those years back.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on Free and/or open-source software alternatives for churches in ~tech

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    So Here's my two cents, and I mean this with the intent to help you though it may come off as insulting: I'd stay away from anything labeled as "for a church" [¹]. Looking at the software you...

    So Here's my two cents, and I mean this with the intent to help you though it may come off as insulting: I'd stay away from anything labeled as "for a church" [¹]. Looking at the software you mentioned it just looks like rebranding, like if I just got a broom and sold it to you as a special church broom.

    [¹] Very common bad faith (no pun intended) marketing strategy in creating a pseudo-niche that takes advantage of marketing something generic as something specific. Not always the case, but it's a rule of thumb to consider.

    Now with that aside, I took a look at Choyr. Looks like they use stripe, so Choyr doesn't actually take a fee for payments, that's just Stripe (and that one pretty popular in general). Their privacy policy doesn't seem to have any red flags either. I am actually surprised this service exists for free, so if I were you I'd dig deeper into it. If they try and say it truly is completely free either there's actually a little pocket of humanity trying to do good, or they are making good use of having access to opinions of all the churches on their platform.

    The pro presenter one leaves a bad taste in my mouth.[²] They glued together some video and image editor and slapped together a user interface.

    [²] Although for $300 that's honestly not bad at all. Given that they had enough glue for android, apple, and mac, but based on reviews it looks like they ran out of glue mid way for windows.

    All in all, for presentation you could easily learn the native video editors on either mac or windows which comes for free and there isn't that much of a learning curve. Sounds like it would be a lot less work than pro presenter.

    As far as social networking, Choyr seems OK, other than all your messages being stored on their servers (again find out how they are paying for their servers.. looks too good to be true) But really it's just based on the members of your church. It looks like a simplified stripped down version of facebook (this is a huge compliment).

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Guy makes an actual functioning camera inside of his Blender world in ~creative

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    Vid title is misleading for how hilariously awesome this project is, it's just titled "Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated" but what he does is neat and I don't even know anything about...

    Vid title is misleading for how hilariously awesome this project is, it's just titled "Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated" but what he does is neat and I don't even know anything about blender.

    12 votes

  19. Comment on Free and/or open-source software alternatives for churches in ~tech

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    Are you looking for like.. a website or something? I don't think managing personnel and schedules is outside of the range of something like libreoffice (though I'd use Excel, but you said foss)....

    Are you looking for like.. a website or something?

    I don't think managing personnel and schedules is outside of the range of something like libreoffice (though I'd use Excel, but you said foss).

    As far as communication with visitors you don't need to be a programming savant to type up an html website in notepad.

    Are you looking for something specific?

    8 votes

  20. Comment on What password management solution do you use and why? in ~tech

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    yall crazy I've been using the same password for the last 10 years. I just affix extra symbols based on a few factors like subject and some surface level stuff (e.g. first letter) and voilá,...

    yall crazy I've been using the same password for the last 10 years. I just affix extra symbols based on a few factors like subject and some surface level stuff (e.g. first letter) and voilá, unique and not prone to password dumps.