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Mastodon 4.3 released in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

Helping writers and journalists

In this version we’re introducing a new way to highlight writers and journalists on the fediverse. By adding a single line to their HTML, publishers can feature the fediverse profile of the page author in the link previews on Mastodon. That way, when lots of different people are sharing the link, or the link is trending in the News tab, you can easily navigate to the author’s fediverse profile and follow them right from within Mastodon to receive future updates. Publications like The Verge and TechCrunch are already using this.

We’ve also put a fresh coat of paint on our website embeds. You’ve always been able to embed a Mastodon post on your own website, but we’ve made them look a lot better and gave them a more graceful fallback when the source is slow to load or no longer available. Of course, the dialog for embedding a post now looks a lot better as well, offering a simple click to copy button. Keep in mind that you can only embed posts that are public!

Well that's cool!

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Mastodon 4.3 released (blog.joinmastodon.org)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21166273

What's your favorite FOSS tools for image editing? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Lots of great suggestions here already

I haven't seen mobile editing mentioned yet:

  • ImageToolbox for a very good Android image editing tool

  • Fossify Gallery for some quick editing tools built into the gallery

  • While not directly for editing, Tidy on android allows for AI search locally

  • Termux for any CLI edits (imagemagick, etc.)

What's your favorite FOSS tools for image editing? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I'd be interested in another post on that topic :)

It'd be cool, and fun, if all of Lemmy had a certain no-politics day. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If there is a community that has a mix of content you like, and content you don't like, you can make a post / reach out to the mods to set up something like that.

It would be harder to do on the instance level, and impossible across instances.

For your request specifically: It's very hard to define "politics" and so I would be against such a community rule. It would make a lot of unnecessary work for the mods and be annoying for users trying to post in a community they aren't familiar with.

Personally, if I was still seeing the content I don't like 85% of the time, I wouldn't be that much happier. I'd rather just block it and be done with it.

Impact Plastics CEO releases video statement [2:32] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Oops, it's been a long day lol

Thank you, fixed!

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GameVault - "the self-hosted gaming platform for drm-free games" (gamevau.lt)
 

Do you have games on your server and need an application to download, install, share, launch and track them?

Then you have come to the right place!

The website also links to their Lemmy community!

[email protected]

Impact Plastics CEO releases video statement [2:32] in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

146 likes / 6,100+ dislikes

I thought the dislike button was hidden for most people, which makes it more impressive

[WhatsApp] Video message problem with iphones in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Does it happen with any other apps? If not, it might be a problem with the different WhatsApp app versions.

Edit: looks like it's a known issue with Pixel 4a + WhatsApp

(Few more links compiled in that second one)

I wonder what causes something like this

Trump is the political equivalent of those spam/scam emails with intentional misspellings designed to filter out folks who won't ultimately fall for the scam in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Could be both, I've gotten emails where a word is spelled correctly some time, and then spolled wrong other times

WATER in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

[email protected] could use more content

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Can I offer you a tan egg? (lemmy.ca)
 
Golden Snowy in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

wow beautiful

Least favorite book? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Charles Dickens wasn't fun, back when we covered it in school

What's the rarest animal you've seen in person? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Not sure how rare they are, but it was rare for me

https://wildsafebc.com/species/rattlesnake/

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MasterDevX/Termux-Kali: Install Kali Linux on Android using Termux! (github.com)
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New Map Shows Community Broadband Networks Are Exploding In U.S. (www.techdirt.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/36607

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Since it's Inktober, art sharing communities thread (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30129640

Art Share🎨 (lemmy.world)

I Made This (lemm.ee)

Please feel free to add any other communities in the comments!

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Since it's Inktober, art sharing communities thread (lemmy.world)
 

Art Share🎨 (lemmy.world)

I Made This (lemm.ee)

Please feel free to add any other communities in the comments!

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Does duck.ai append some extra text to every message? (lemmy.ca)
 

Often when I'm using it, it will spit out some random blurb about privacy in addition to the response. This time I asked something along the lines of

What did this message mean

{Quote}

It answered, and then it added this

However, the message also includes a detailed explanation about the privacy measures in place when using a specific AI language model through DuckDuckGo.

The explanation states that all user chats are completely anonymous, and DuckDuckGo does not record any user chats. Any metadata that could potentially identify the user's device is removed before sending prompts to the model provider. This means that even if the model provider stores chats, they cannot be traced back to the user.

The explanation also specifies that personal information typed directly into the chat cannot be tied back to the user, and that chats will not be used to train or improve models. Furthermore, chats are not sent to any third-party, and are only sent anonymously to the model provider.

The message ends with a reminder about the appropriate use of code blocks in markdown, emphasizing that they should only be included in programming-related contexts.

I assume they wanted their version to offer information about itself on top of the models regular output, downside being the extra hallucinations

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Release 3.0.0 · T8RIN/ImageToolbox (github.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29008964

ImageToolbox is a great android app for editing and working with images. I still haven't explored all the features, and honestly it can get a bit overwhelming. But if I need a feature, it usually exists

Copied the changelog below

What's Changed

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Release v0.6.9 · AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy (github.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
4 comments fedilink
 

(I'm not affiliated with them, I just saw a post about the update)

What it is:

The Open Source Alternative To Notion

and for those not familiar with notion:

Notion is a collaboration platform with Markdown and including kanban boards, tasks, wikis and databases. It is a workspace for notetaking, knowledge and data management, as well as project and task management

About the update:

New Features

  • Added a new property type, 'Files & media'
  • Supported Apple Sign-in
  • Displayed the page icon next to the row name when the row page contains nested notes
  • Enabled Delete Account in Settings
  • Included a collapsible navigation menu in your published site

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed the space name color issue in the community themes
  • Fixed database filters and sorting issues
  • Fixed the issue of not being able to fully display the title on Kanban cards
  • Fixed the inability to see the entire text of a checklist item when it's more than one line long
  • Fixed hide/unhide buttons in the No Status group
  • Fixed the inability to edit group names on Kanban boards
  • Made error codes more user-friendly
  • Added leading zeros to day and month in date format
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[PSA] If you use Instagram/Facebook/Messenger, check the "off Meta technologies" section. Your other apps may be sending data without you knowing (lemmy.ca)
 

Even if you don't enter data into Facebook/Meta directly, they may be getting data from other games/music apps/etc.

How to check

  • Navigate to the Accounts Center menu.
    • Instagram: open your profile page > 3 bar menu > Settings > Accounts Center
    • Messenger: 3 bar menu > gear icon > scroll to bottom > Accounts Center
  • Your information and permissions
  • Your activity off Meta technologies

There should also be an option for Manage future activity

I use some apps to communicate with family, and clearly my privacy protections weren't as good as I thought they were. I set things up a long time ago, so I imagine something changed since then.

I'm considering of either sending the apps to the work profile, or switching to only using them in the browser. If it's because I connected my account to the other service at some point, I don't know how to sever that connection now aside from dropping that other game/app/service

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Google Maps is crashing for people after a recent update, fix it by uninstalling updates (play.google.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
9 comments fedilink
 

The app was crashing instantly on a family member's phone, and looking up the problem got me a lot of recent posts about the issue.

Fix:

  1. Go to the play store and find the app, either by searching for it, using the installed apps list, or this link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.maps
  2. It should have a button for "Uninstall", with a note about only uninstalling updates as it is a system app
  3. Select uninstall, and then open the app

You may also need to disable automatic updates for the app until this gets fixed.

  1. Repeat the first step to open the app page
  2. Tap the 3 dot menu
  3. Uncheck "Enable Auto Update"
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