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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This could be a Goosebumps cover if it had slightly different styling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Is this related to the new laws in Europe? I remember seeing something about Facebook introducing a paid tier

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Taking a look at the current sidebar, it might be nice to reorganize the stats section completely

What I'm thinking is:

By default it will only show some stats, where users can select what stats they want displayed in the settings. This way I can hide the stuff I don't care about, instead of having to look through the already busy list.

**Statistics:**                       [✏️edit]

- Monthly Active Users: 4,000
- Total Subscribers: 30,000

[ v see all v ]

Then expanding the box will give the full list of stats:

[ ^ collapse ^ ]


**Statistics:**

Active Users: 

- By day: 800
- By week: 1,200
- By month: 4,000
- By year: 24,100

Subscribers:

- Total: 30,000
- Local: 12,000

Comments: 
- Total: 81,000
- Today: 510
- This week: 1,315

[... etc]

It opens up the possibility of including more items in that list. We could also replace the expand option with a link to a full statistics dashboard page.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Creating a bunch of accounts possibly to manipulate votes

Looking from the admin level, doesn't happen that often. Vote manipulation is already something we keep an eye out for, and usually it's done to highlight certain content (ex. pushing some political angle) rather than boosting one community over another.

you can stop seeing by adjusting your "Show Bot Accounts" setting

I like some bots, but I only subscribe to a bot-only community if the volume of posts is reasonable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Alternatively, I think both metrics are helpful in different ways

  1. Quality over Quantity: MAU counts lurkers equally with active participants. PCM focuses on actual engagement.
  1. True Reflection of Activity: A community with 1000 MAU but only 10 posts/comments is less vibrant than one with 100 MAU and 500 posts/comments.

I'd say votes are also an important part of engagement. It helps differentiate between good and bad content. I'm more likely to join a community with a few good posts a day (or even a week) than a bot community with many posts a day. Going by how the subscribers counts change over time, I'd say this is a common experience.

  1. Spam Resistance: Creating multiple accounts to inflate MAU is easy. Generating meaningful posts and comments is harder.

While any abuse is bad, spam posts and comments are a bigger concern right now. AI generated spam / link spam is obnoxious and we deal with it often (as admins/mods). While someone could make lots of accounts to inflate MAU, it only really affects the community ranking against other communities and not day to day usage. Lemmy is already considering removing the trending section, and admins usually step in if a bunch of similar accounts are created at once.

  1. Easier to Track: No need for complex user tracking. Just count posts and comments.

I'm not sure I understand this point. Are the vote/comment/post calculations very resource intensive?

All that being said

  • I don't see any downside to listing the info in the places you mentioned
  • If people want such a sorting option, then sure why not. Give people options
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder what happens if a comment is deleted

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe Fossify Gallery?

I see this issue requesting Ultra HDR instead of regular HDR

https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery/issues/166

So it might have regular HDR?

[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The article also linked to this Mastodon post where someone has been sharing their findings

https://digipres.club/@foone/113313513964826090

One potential concern is

the fact that Redbox machines contain a file that has “a complete list of titles ever rented, and the email addresses of the people who rented them, and where and when.” She also found that the first six and last four digits of credit card information was logged. She said that the records on the particular unit that she was looking at contained 2,471 different transactions and had records on it dating back to 2015.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

hope the mods don’t mind

Not a mod here, but I sure don't mind. Cat looks very cozy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

This is good feedback, and I agree. I try my best to limit moderation to content that needs removing, and simply vote on the rest.

One thing I find is that mods are more likely to remove/nuke a thread when they're stretched thin or there is a wave of rule breaking content. Bringing on more active mods can help so that each mod can spend more time scrutinizing each post.

The other great thing about the Fediverse is that you can make your own version of a community if you disagree with how one is being run. I've joined a few communities with different styles of moderation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What communities do you check that are more quiet now?

 

There are so many out there, with varying benefits, risks, and ethics. I'd like to know what to recommend when asked, and also what I could use for myself.

Some areas that could be good for discussion:

  • Locally hosted models (both for low and high powered devices)
  • Open source models (also calling out "open source" models that aren't actually open source)
  • Privacy friendly tools/frontends (ex. DuckDuckGo's AI chat for anonymous use of some "free" models)
  • Unified interfaces for multiple models, or 'pay as you go' platforms instead of paying for individual subscriptions
 

ShinyHunters posted on Tuesday night in a hacking forum that it obtained data from Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, including customers’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and order details, Cyber Daily wrote. The group is reportedly attempting to sell the stolen data for $500 million.

From this other link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-29/ticketmaster-hack-allegedlyshinyhunter-customers-data-leaked/103908614

It said 1.3 terabytes of customer data possessed by Ticketmaster including names, addresses, credit card numbers, phone numbers and payment details is up for sale.

 

There are so many out there, a few that I came across include:

Having a giant comparison table for this might be nice

 

I'm slowly switching to rechargeable ones (Ikea Ladda ones), but we still have lots of other batteries around.

Do you have a favourite device to test them with? Ideally it could test many different types (regular, coin), but I'm ok with just AA/AAA if there is a cheap/reliable option.

When I did a search just now, I saw recommendations both for and against multimeters/voltmeters. Some said it was easier, and others said that it wasn't accurate because of testing under load.

Thanks :)

 

Or rather, homelabs and home labs?

Labrador (image from Wikimedia)

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21700185

The article is short so I recommend reading it. I started adding the key points below, but ended up including almost the entire article:

Number 16 (c. 1974 – 2016), also known as #16, was a wild female trapdoor spider (Gaius villosus, family Idiopidae) that lived in North Bungulla Reserve near Tammin, Western Australia. She lived an estimated 43 years and became the longest-lived spider on record, beating a 28-year-old tarantula who previously held the title. When Number 16 finally died in 2016, it was not of old age but from a parasitic wasp sting.


On March 1974, Australian arachnologist Barbara York Main began a long-term study of spider families. [...] Main returned to the site annually, sometimes more frequently, for more than four decades.

Like other trapdoor spiders, Number 16 spent her entire life in the same burrow, subsisting off the edible insects that walked on her burrow's trapdoor-like silk roof.

For her 40th birthday, research assistant Leanda Mason wanted to give the spider a mealworm, but Main denied the request since it would interfere with the study

Because of Number 16, Main's project took far longer than she had expected. She continued to work into her late 80s, but she "began to look forward to the project's end," The Washington Post reported. Finally, when Main's own health declined before the spider's, she passed the project on to Leanda Mason.

On 31 October 2016, researcher Leanda Mason discovered Number 16's burrow in disrepair. The spider was gone. Evidence suggested she was killed by a parasitic spider wasp

“She was cut down in her prime [...] It took a while to sink in, to be honest," said Mason

After retiring, Barbara York Main moved to a care facility for Alzheimer's. Leanda Mason, who kept in contact with her mentor, said in 2018 that Barbara "remembers No. 16" but "forgets that she’s died."

 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21419360

The channel has excellent visuals for the different steps

 

The channel has excellent visuals for the different steps

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