Three young children were among five people injured in a knife attack in Dublin on Thursday that sparked riots in the city centre and which police have not yet ruled out any motive over, including whether it could be terror-related....
Today somebody in a group I’m in which has some accessibility issues was yet again complaining that their Dragon Speaking software was not playing nice with Firefox, which led me to see if there was an alternative, and surprisingly i found none workable at the plain user level beyond Dragon, and upgrading for that person might...
I’ve never seen Star Trek TOS so I don’t know for sure if this is explained anywhere. Does anyone know why they made the switch from red shirts to yellow shirts between commanding officers and security between TOS and TNG?
I spent an incredible amount of time over the past few days unf*cking the fedia.io database. It should be clean now and that should both dramatically improve performance and fix all or most all of the remaining error 500’s
The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing...
I’m trying to degooogle my personal email address and replace it with a different email that doesn’t collect my data and its secure as well. Any suggestions for that?
If you click on the "more" button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I'm not sure if this a...
Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
Strictly speaking, he's correct that it's a minority of moderators because there's a lot of zombie subreddits on there which didn't take part in the protest. Still not a good look to be picking fights with your biggest contributors.
There's a button when creating a thread which says "OC" with no further explanation. I've seen "OC" noted to the left of thread titles, presumably because somebody has ticked "OC". What does it mean??!
Hello fellow Lemmings! I hope this is the right place to ask this. I don't understand how web domains work. Let's say I want to buy the domain "abcdefghi.net". I can go to a domain provider like haruba or godaddy and just buy it. but how can they, a private, sell me these domains? I'm not talking about the hosting, but just the...
I’m a bit confused with my options here. I am looking at Reddit alternatives and see a lot of people flocking to lemmy but it seemed like kbin was the more centrist option?...
fedia's Terms of Use and Privacy Policy are blank, so who knows who runs it and what their political views are? I'm testing it but I'm not supercomfortable recommending it yet.
Ireland: Riots erupt in Dublin after children stabbed (www.reuters.com)
Three young children were among five people injured in a knife attack in Dublin on Thursday that sparked riots in the city centre and which police have not yet ruled out any motive over, including whether it could be terror-related....
Is there any FOSS full speech recognition user friendly software yet?
Today somebody in a group I’m in which has some accessibility issues was yet again complaining that their Dragon Speaking software was not playing nice with Firefox, which led me to see if there was an alternative, and surprisingly i found none workable at the plain user level beyond Dragon, and upgrading for that person might...
Are there any Piped based Youtube Music client for just audio playback?
Other than Libretube? Available on fdroid? I want proxied interaction with google apis....
Question about "redshirts" (izzydata.xyz)
I’ve never seen Star Trek TOS so I don’t know for sure if this is explained anywhere. Does anyone know why they made the switch from red shirts to yellow shirts between commanding officers and security between TOS and TNG?
We’re back (fedia.io)
I spent an incredible amount of time over the past few days unf*cking the fedia.io database. It should be clean now and that should both dramatically improve performance and fix all or most all of the remaining error 500’s
Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
Blocked by Cloudflare (jrhawley.ca)
The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing...
Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. (arstechnica.com)
Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks. (blog.beeper.com)
I was on the beta testing team and have been using Beeper for a little over two years now....
Twitter Turning Into X Is Set to Kill Billions in Brand Value (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
An estimated $4 to $20 billion in value, what is he thinking?
Attackers find new ways to deliver DDoSes with “alarming” sophistication (arstechnica.com)
FOSS email providers?
I’m trying to degooogle my personal email address and replace it with a different email that doesn’t collect my data and its secure as well. Any suggestions for that?
PSA: every interaction you make with various posts on kbin is viewable to everyone.
If you click on the "more" button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I'm not sure if this a...
Giro d'Italia stage 1 canceled due to torrential rain and hail (velo.outsideonline.com)
Some riders were able to get out before the rain began but the stage had to be called off.
Reddit CEO slams protesters, says he'll change site rules (www.nbcnews.com)
Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
Typo in magazine description (fedia.io)
We have an addiction to fossil fuels, not an addition.
What is "OC"? (fedia.io)
There's a button when creating a thread which says "OC" with no further explanation. I've seen "OC" noted to the left of thread titles, presumably because somebody has ticked "OC". What does it mean??!
Question about how web domains work
Hello fellow Lemmings! I hope this is the right place to ask this. I don't understand how web domains work. Let's say I want to buy the domain "abcdefghi.net". I can go to a domain provider like haruba or godaddy and just buy it. but how can they, a private, sell me these domains? I'm not talking about the hosting, but just the...
Killing Community (www.marginalia.nu)
Great writing on the current Reddit saga. The author put down in words a lot of things in my mind I couldn't find the right words.
Reddit CEO: We’re sticking with API change, despite subreddits going dark (www.pcmag.com)
lemmy Vs kbin? (mstdn.social)
I’m a bit confused with my options here. I am looking at Reddit alternatives and see a lot of people flocking to lemmy but it seemed like kbin was the more centrist option?...