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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)
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There is also !localllama@sh.itjust.works :)
crossposting between the communities can help grow both
Otter@lemmy.cato Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternativesEnglish6·10 days agoBeing able to compare between options would help me pick which one I want to use :)
Alternatively, a way to filter the full list would be helpful. That way I can select the items that I need and see everything that has what I need.
This for example:
Otter@lemmy.cato Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternativesEnglish12·10 days agoIt would be cool if there was a table to compare them with, since right now you’d have to open each of them to check.
Thank you for putting it together though!
Otter@lemmy.cato Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I've been working on a guide to Pocket alternativesEnglish2·10 days agoYou can add an image to the thumbnail field to get the best of both options :)
Otter@lemmy.cato Programming@programming.dev•Github has started charging me on the free tier?English6·11 days agoEspecially if no bank account is attached and if it isn’t tied to anything on here
@mesamunefire@piefed.social does anything show up when you log in to GitHub and check billing?
Otter@lemmy.caOPto Open Source@lemmy.ml•Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is BornEnglish5·17 days agoOrganic Maps was on iOS, my guess is that it’ll take time to get a new app approved on the iOS store
Since the PieFed API was only enabled recently, there aren’t that many apps out yet. !interstellar@kbin.earth is the one that people recommend right now. Voyager has plans to add it.
As more people use it, hopefully more apps will support it :)
Someone else already gave a decent explanation :)
Can you try these two guide pages and see if they help? They have some diagrams
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started
https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview
So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then
They are two separate platforms, made by different teams. The feeds look different for a few reasons
- piefed.ca is brand new and so it is missing a lot of the content. As people start using it, the default logged out feed will start to look closer to other instances
- An instance only pulls the content that its users are subscribed to. When you make an account on an instance and you are the first person to subscribe to a community, hitting subscribe will tell your instance to start pulling in those posts. That is why every instance will be slightly different regardless.
I’m not really clear on how communicating freely between them works
Unlike Lemmy and Mastodon, which are somewhat different formats (posts in communities) vs. short text posts on a user’s profile), Lemmy and PieFed are more or less the same. So it should be a lot closer in experience. Whatever you can subscribe to, comment on, or vote on within lemmy.ca, you should be able to do the same on piefed.ca
Especially because we are running both instances, and so they will have similar block lists.
It’s nice timing! Looking forward to seeing you and your instance in the world of pie :)
Otter@lemmy.cato Privacy@lemmy.ml•Recent commits suggest Signal is preparing a paid subscription for backups.English111·26 days agoI commented this in the other thread, sharing it here as well
I’ve been waiting for this feature for a while actually 😅
When I last saw people talking about it, there were rumors that there would be a reasonable free backup (ex. up to 1 Gb) with relatively cheap paid options above that. I scrolled through the GitHub link and couldn’t confirm or deny if this is still/actually the case.
Backups are the #1 pain point for friends that tried to switch to Signal, especially for those on iOS. I have a local backup + sync setup for my own phone, but it’s a lot to expect for the average casual user to set up.
Whatsapp has backups to Google Drive, which is better than nothing but not ideal. It’s time Signal had a reliable backup method for casual users
Otter@lemmy.cato Privacy@lemmy.ml•I made a chart to help choose a password manager. Please mind the clunkiness, I made it on mobileEnglish21·1 month agoWhat did you make the chart with? It’s nice for something done on mobile
Otter@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.English771·1 month agoI believe Waymo has a better set of sensors (Lidar + Radar+ Cameras instead of just cameras), more processing power, and more research / time / resources spent on it compared to Tesla.
So it’s not that we aren’t ready for self driving taxis, but rather about which cars are ready to provide that service
Otter@lemmy.cato Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.@lemmy.ml•What's your plan to allow family access to important materials on your servers upon your death? What about for materials you don't want them to access?English5·1 month agoThere are a few self hosted dead man’s switches which might work in this case.
Easiest might be to give passwords to a trusted friend with technical experience and a list of the important things that you want done.
Otter@lemmy.caOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD siteEnglish10·1 month agoA big part of this site’s pitch to its clients, including the “hyperscale” customers with gigantic data centers nearby, is that each device is labeled, tracked, and inventoried for its drives—both obvious and hidden—and is either securely wiped or destroyed. The process, commonly called ITAD, is used by larger businesses, especially when they upgrade fleets of servers or workers’ devices. ITAD providers ensure all the old gear is wiped clean, then resold, repurposed, recycled, or destroyed.
Otter@lemmy.cato Programmer Humor@programming.dev•You can't "skill issue" yourself out from every situationEnglish811·1 month agoThere’s a quote along the lines of “User error is not a thing, the system allowed for the error through bad design”
Which can be true depending on how far you stretch it. I’d say that if a chunk of the user base is having a problem, it’s a design problem
Otter@lemmy.cato Programming@programming.dev•Has anyone created an AI tarpit for images yet?English9·1 month agoIt might be easier to make a few images with some anti-AI patterns, and then give them randomly generated file names and paths. If needed, you could do some subtle transformations each time but generating a new image each time might be more effort than its worth
Otter@lemmy.caOPto Technology@lemmy.world•This blog is hosted on a Nintendo Wii [2025-04-21]English4·1 month agoWe haven’t hugged the Wii to death yet
Here is a list
https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Bookmarks
Karakeep (formerly Hoarder) is another popular one, although I haven’t tried it yet
Otter@lemmy.cato Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft bans words like "Palestine", "Gaza" and "Genocide" in all company emails and fires the employee who protested Microsoft during event.English38·1 month agoI saw this on another post earlier: https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email
I think they’re looking for local “AI” anyway. Since those work directly on your machine, there’s no concern around trust (nothing leaves your device) and the resource cost is whatever your hardware uses, or was already using.
There are some concerns still with local models, such as any biases in the training data that was used, but for image classification it wouldn’t be that bad.