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Corgana

@ Corgana @startrek.website

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/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021

Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website

  • Is This How Reddit Ends?

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  • The moderator to user ratio on the fediverse is orders of magnitude higher than commercial platforms. Even Lemmy.world (a large, loosely moderated Lemmy instance) has again, orders of magnitude more eyes on its content than reddit.

    This means that even if a chatbot gets invented that is impossible to distinguish form a human, mods will more readily be able to tell if it is pushing a narrative/shilling products.

  • Debian is Ditching X (Twitter) Citing These Reasons

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  • Honestly I had the same thought. But on the other hand, internet outrage talking points have also become extremely formulaic...

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    How to Be Bad at YouTube

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  • Thank you Microsoft, for the final push

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  • Bitwarden

    Do you mean Bitdefender (the antivirus)? Bitwarden is free.

    Before anyone well ackhuallys me yes, there is a very cheap $0.80/mo plan if you want an authenticator.

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    In which I post a graph showing some impact of disinformation on Lemmy, a propagandist disagrees, and someone else summons mods and gets the whole thing removed

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    In which I post a graph showing some impact of disinformation on Lemmy, a propagandist disagrees, and someone else summons mods and gets the whole thing removed

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  • Can you explain more about your data methodology? Like how did you scrape it? Specifically I'm curious which instances were and weren't included in your study.

  • CNET: Fed Up With Instagram? How to Move Your Photos to Pixelfed

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  • What bugs have you encountered lately? I've been playing around with it (only a couple of days now) and it's overall been very smooth experience for me.

  • Knowing less about AI makes people more open to having it in their lives – new research

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  • If the article doesn't define what "AI" means then the article doesn't actually mean anything. Market research studying what people know about a vague and undefined term like "AI" can ultimately only produce undefined results.

    It's like asking people their feelings on "woke" or "god". If everyone is talking about something different then nobody can have more or less understanding of it.

  • "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence

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    Kickstarter for Pixelfed and Loops

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  • Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

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  • Is something finally going to federate with bluesky?

  • How do you handle "disable your adblock" type sites?

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  • SimpleX > Signal; Matrix for privacy and anti-censorship

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  • Haha, Ulrich I noticed you on several threads the past few days correcting misinformation, thank you for your service.

  • Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users

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  • In my book a single data point (a phone number) is not "vast amounts of metadata". Again, I have never seen someone describing Signal as a “paragon of privacy and security”, Signal itself certainly does not say that (It's presented as an improvement over SMS).

  • Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users

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  • Signal is an excellent alternative if you're looking for an E2E encrypted SMS replacement your grandmother can use.

  • Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users

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  • Where did you read that they are collecting vast amounts of metadata? Not challenging your claim just that I have been trying to find more info and came up empty. Signal says "we don’t collect analytics or telemetry data" but that's about it.

  • Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users

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  • I'd be curious to hear your criticisms of Signal! While I haven't seen anyone describing it as a "paragon of privacy and security" I do think it is a highly accessible SMS replacement that is also open source, end-to-end encrypted, and operated by a nonprofit.

  • Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard

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  • From an e-waste perspective not having a battery is really cool. The article doesn't mention this, but the plastic appears recycled too. I wonder how it types?

  • Is strictly negative participation in a community healthy for lemmy?

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  • The purpose and shape of a community should be up to the moderator. If someone wants to grow a "community" full of complaining and whining (and there are absolutely people who do) that should be up to the mods.

    That said, I think downvote abuse is super annoying, not healthy for "Lemmy in general" and would personally prefer it banned in communities I participate in.

  • I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost

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  • I'm surprised nobody has yet jail-broken Samsung and LG TVs and made a custom Tizen ROM